by MCDC | Mar 31, 2016 | 2016 General Election, Civil Rights, News, Voter Rights
21 States, including Virginia, have new voting restrictions since the 2010 election. None of them are intended to make voting any easier. View this document on...
by MCDC | Jul 7, 2015 | 2015 General Election, 2016 General Election, 2017 General Election, Action Alerts, Civil Rights, Virginia, Voter Rights
Download report This is the least understood and least reported big issue in Virginia. Our state government is an all-powerful disaster zone. The normal checks and balances on a state legislature are: 1. Federal government. 2. State judiciary. 3. Local government....
by MCDC | Mar 18, 2015 | 2016 General Election, Action Alerts, Civil Rights, Discrimination, News, Voter Rights
The Nashville Student Organizing Committee and a group of nine students from Fisk University and Tennessee State University, both historically black colleges, filed a lawsuit in early March against the state, alleging that excluding student IDs from the acceptable...
by MCDC | Feb 26, 2015 | 2015 General Election, 2016 General Election, Madison County, Virginia, Voter Rights
Because elections are locally administered in the United States, voter suppression varies among jurisdictions. At the founding of the country, most states limited the right to vote to property-owning white males. Over time, the right to vote was formally granted to...
