This year’s Primary Election was impacted by a variety of unusual circumstances. Most notably, the Maryland Motor Vehicle Administration (MVA) technical errors that affected thousands of Montgomery County residents. The MVA issues caused delays and, in some cases, lost or failed voter registrations ...
had backed out. A COVID-19 outbreak at Montgomery County’s largest manufacturer — less than a mile from the West Main Street pantry — caused the woman to reconsider. This rural New York county of 50...
Voter file maintenance, which is required by the National Voter Registration Act of 1993, is a four-year process which uses a two-step mailing program to identify voters who may have moved. The first mailer was sent to every single registered voter in the State of Alabama. ...
Today, the ubiquity of voter registration blinds us to its impact. It is a price we all pay for voting and so no longer think of as a price at all. But nineteenth-century Americans understood the costs. Registering in person months before the election minimized the chance of fraud but dou...
Civic participation is not a pre-requisite for having your civil liberties and human rights respected by police. Officer Wilson didn’t check if Mike Brown had his voter registration card before chasing him down the street and firing at him 11 tines. Only about 17% of White voters are turnin...
The legislation signed by McCrory and approved last month by state lawmakers requires voters to present government-issued photo IDs at the polls and shortens early voting by a week, from 17 days to 10. It also ends same-day registration, requiring voters to register, update their address or...