by MCDC | Feb 15, 2015 | 2016 General Election, Action Alerts, Virginia, Voter Rights
Marjorie Hrouda, right, clerk of the House Priveieges and Elections committee, counts the votes of committee chairman Del. Mark L. Cole, R-Spotsylvania, 2nd from right, and others on HB1280 dealing with primary dates in June, during a meeting of the committee at the...
by MCDC | Feb 4, 2015 | Action Alerts, Civil Rights, Virginia, Voter Rights
RICHMOND — The Speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates has intervened in a federal lawsuit that alleges his chamber’s legislative districts were gerrymandered to dilute African-American influence. Howell believes politicians have the right to pick their voters when...
by MCDC | Dec 1, 2014 | 2016 General Election, Action Alerts, Civil Rights, Voter Rights
Based on the Crosscheck lists, officials have begun the process of removing names from the rolls — beginning with 41,637 in Virginia alone. Yet the criteria used for matching these double voters are disturbingly inadequate.. There are 6,951,484 names on the target...
by MCDC | Nov 26, 2014 | 2016 General Election, Action Alerts, Voter Rights
After losing the popular vote in 5 of the last 6 Presidential elections, Republicans know they can’t win in a fair election – so their latest plan is to steal the Presidency by rigging the Electoral College around their gerrymandered Congressional...
by MCDC | Nov 1, 2014 | Citizens United, Satire, Voter Rights
NEW YORK (The Borowitz Report)—The billionaire Koch brothers have approved a controversial plan to shoot cash from cannons directly at voters heading into polling places on Election Day. The plan, which Koch insiders have privately referred to as Operation Money Shot,...
by MCDC | Oct 30, 2014 | 2016 General Election, Virginia, Voter Rights
What’s the big deal about getting an ID? You need one, after all, to participate in society in all kinds of other ways — to drive, to get married, to buy beer. Surely the requirement to show an ID on Election Day can’t be that burdensome. This is a common...
