North Carolina’s Rev. Dr. William Barber slams voter ID bill and proposed changes to voting process
“The only way they can win an election is to rig it.” —Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II watch video
Topic: Voting
The Nation’s Ari Berman: The GOP fight to suppress the vote continues despite the lessons of 2012
“We essentially have one party that by and large is supporting expanding the right to vote, and another party that’s done everything possible that it could to restrict the right to vote.” —Ari Berman watch video
Eliot Spitzer urges Supreme Court to protect Voting Rights Act of 1965
“It is just because we have a Voting Rights Act that hundreds of thousands of voters were able to cast the votes necessary to re-elect President Obama.” —Eliot Spitzer watch video
GOP shock at Romney’s loss reveals how Republicans have ‘denied reality for quite a long time’
“This is a major exposure of the right-wing noise machine’s failure to deliver information rather than propaganda.” —Baratunde Thurston watch video
Will superstorm Sandy’s power outages impact access to vote?
“As we restore access, we want it to be done fairly and equitably across the board so that no communities get left behind and that the impact of some communities being left behind is not disproportionate to poor communities and [...] watch video
The GOP’s ‘demonization of the Latino community’ has Latino voters fired up
“[Latinos] are not going to be dissuaded from the polls — to the contrary, they’re going to fight for their rights and they’re going to vote in large numbers.” —Arturo Carmona watch video
What momentum? Team Romney may boast, but swing states favor Obama
“Republicans always act like they’re 10 points ahead. Democrats always think that they’re 10 points behind even when they’re 20 points ahead.” —Tina Dupuy watch video
‘Shame on the Republican Party’: Evidence of voter fraud has been found — within the GOP
“The fact that they’ve been saying that this voter fraud — and there’s been no proof of it in large-scale numbers — that we see it happening with the Republicans in 10 counties in Florida is very clear evidence that [...] watch video
Eliot Spitzer: Will the divided Supreme Court find a way forward?
“The court … has been mired in what often seems to be little more than ideological and partisan bickering.” —Eliot Spitzer watch video
No excuses: Early voting is a good thing
“To Minnesota, Alabama and New York, as well as the 15 other states that haven’t adopted no-excuses early voting, what’s your excuse for that?” —Eliot Spitzer read post
