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Courts block Voter ID schemes in Texas and Wisconsin

October 10, 2014 By Will Weissert And Todd Richmond

A federal judge likened Texas' strict voter ID requirement to a poll tax meant to suppress minority voter turnout and struck it down less than a month before Election Day.

Voter ID laws tossing hundreds of thousands off rolls

October 9, 2014 By Mark Gruenberg

Exclusion from the voting rolls this fall may affect countless close and key political races, such as the neck-and-neck Wisconsin gubernatorial battle.

Wisconsin moving to stop as many as 300,000 from voting

October 7, 2014 By Mike Hall

Gov. Scott Walker and corporate extremist backers could suppress 300,000 registered voters.

Arizona voters dump two right-wingers

September 2, 2014 By Joe Bernick

The majority of Arizonans were delighted to see the state's incumbent attorney general, Tom Horne, and Superintendent of Public Instruction, John Huppenthal, defeated.

NAACP blasts court refusal to halt voter restrictions in North Carolina

August 11, 2014 By Special to People’s World

A federal judge denied attempts by North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory and his administration to have the NAACP's legal challenge to the massive voter suppression law dismissed.