Category: Voter ID

Why is the GOP Against Election Day Voter Registration?

Posted on by Michael Minkoff, Jr. · Leave a comment

Only eleven states in America allow voters to register to vote all the way up to election day. And apparently many politicians are against election day voter registration. But why? What surprised me the most about this debate, if you can call it that, is that GOP politicians are particularly against election day voter registration. […]

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Should Poor People be Allowed to Vote?

Posted on by Michael Minkoff, Jr. · Leave a comment

Recent proposed legislation concerning Voter IDs has led some critics to claim that such laws restrict the poor from voting. In an article in the Atlantic, this restriction on the voting rights of the poor is called a “hoary American tradition”: In 2010, Tea Party Nation President Judson Phillips observed that “The Founding Fathers … […]

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