Tag: Voting Rights
Reaching Out to Voters in the Justice System
Many people lose their right to vote while incarcerated and don’t regain it after their sentences are over. There are many more people involved in the justice system who can vote but don’t know it. Communities could increase their political power if they could reach these voters.
Shelter Shorts, The Week in Community Development—June 15
History In San Francisco | Confusing, But Good News From Carson’s HUD | An Eviction Program Disguised As Public Safety | A National Health + Housing Model Is Completed | More...
Losses and Wins in Supreme Court: How Does It Affect You?
All eyes have been on the Supreme Court this week, as it handed down decisions on the Voting Rights Act,...
Don’t Just Investigate, Apply the ACORN Rule
When ACORN, a community organizing anti-poverty group, was stripped of federal funds after (false) accusations of voter fraud were pushed...
Countering the Lies
As a parent, I try to teach my children that “I told you so” is rude, and generally unhelpful in...
Get Back the Vote
The United States has made slow, deliberate progress throughout its history to increase the voting franchise. But now, for the second time in our history, the nation is in real danger of moving backward.
Big News for Pennsylvania Voting Rights
You can add Pennsylvania to the list of states to have a voter ID law shelved, at least for now....
Good News for Voting Rights
A three-judge panel blocked Texas's voter ID law today, stating the law would curb voter turnout and would foist “strict,...
What We Talk About When We Talk About Voting Machines
I suppose post-election time is as good a time as any to talk about voting machine flaws, particularly following a...
The Vote Rocked Me
I arrived at my polling place this morning, not knowing what kind of scene to expect.
After days of TV images of snaking lines,...
Too Young to Vote, But Not Too Young to Engage
The Obama campaign headquarters were bustling five days before the election and two high school journalism students I brought there to report for their...
DOJ Passes on Ohio
Well, not so fast. After a report in The Washington Post last weekend indicated that the White House had requested that the Justice Department...
It’s The Great Election, Charlie Brown
Halloween approaches and, as always, we’re found waiting for the Great Pumpkin, er, Election.
Immediately following the...
Doesn’t Voter Fraud Require Actual Voting?
John McCain’s peculiar, over-the-top attacks on ACORN were initially a little hard to take seriously. Even when he kept on, it just left us...
Uncage the Voters!
Here at Rooflines, we’ve been tracking recent reports from key swing states uncovering a coordinated GOP election strategy for suppressing votes of foreclosure victims....
Frayed Democratic Fabric? Try Tissue of Lies
In his post today on Rooflines, my colleague Matthew Hersh lays out the “What If” scenarios aswirl in the zeitgeist in the weeks leading...
The “What If” Scenario
At the third and final presidential debate, when John McCain proclaimed that, Acorn, the darling target of conservative advocacy groups like FOXNews, could have...
Got a House? Cast Your Vote.
Sounds scary, right?
With the foreclosure crisis ushering over a million people into homelessness in the last two years, we’re seeing, again, political machinery...
DOJ Keeps An Eye On Michigan
Following reports out of Michigan earlier this month as outlined on this Rooflines post that state Republicans there were planning to use a list...