Resist, Elections Officers, Resist!

Have a little attempted voter suppression with your lunch. Kobach asked the Connecticut secretary of state’s office to provide the commission with all publicly available voter roll data, including the full names of all registered voters along with their addresses, dates of birth, the last four digits of their Social Security numbers, voting history and …

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Three wins for voting rights today!

In Wisconsin: Laws that limited in-person absentee voting to one location, limited early voting hours and eliminated weekend voting are unconstitutional, Peterson ruled. The 2013 law limiting hours for in-person absentee voting “intentionally discriminates on the basis of race,” Peterson wrote in a 119-page decision. “I reach this conclusion because I am persuaded that this …

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