#voting barriers

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Ohio Voters in Limbo, Outcome of Purge Unknown

COLUMBUS, Ohio – With just 21 days until the November election, tens of thousands of Ohio voters' registrations are in limbo. A federal court recently ruled the purge of names from the voting rolls was in violation of the Voting Rights Act. And last week, Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted recommended in a court filing that voters removed in 2015 be allowed to cast provisional ballots. ...

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Texas’s Voter-Registration Laws Are Straight Out of the Jim Crow Playbook

At 10 am on a Tuesday morning in September, Babatunde Adeleye, a 33-year-old naturalized US citizen from Nigeria, arrived at the Bexar County Elections Department in San Antonio.

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DENVER – As the presidential race tightens, voter turnout could play a decisive role, and a new study warns that some Americans may have a harder time casting ballots than others. Spencer Overton, president of the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, says data from the last presidential election points to serious shortcomings in how polling is managed in communities of color. "African-Americans, on average, waited up to twice as long as whites to vote,” he points out. " ...