The countdown is over. The only thing left for us to do is compel citizens to vote and make their voices heard. However, we realize it is not as simple as that. As we have explored these past 21 days, there are still many barriers Americans face in exercising their constitutional right to vote. In […]
1 Day Remaining Election Day is tomorrow. The date that has dominated conversations and the headlines for over two years is finally upon us. November 3rd, 2020, is a landmark day, no matter which candidates you support to take their respective offices. There is much at stake in this historic presidential election, and this does […]
2 Days Remaining With only two days remaining until the 2020 Presidential election, it is time to turn our focus from the past, to looking at building a better future. It takes the votes of many for our collective voices to be heard. Unfortunately, apathy runs rampant today amidst an increasing distrust of politics. In […]
3 Days Remaining There is a clear generational divide between older and younger voters. Although The Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE) at Tufts University produced a widely quoted report estimating that young Americans’ turnout had risen to the highest level it had ever recorded, further research and statistics show […]
4 Days Remaining During this 21 day countdown, we have covered many important conversations surrounding voter access and the complicated history behind the right to vote. Today, we build off of the discussion on polling places and the impacts surrounding the case of Shelby County v. Holder. The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights […]
5 Days Remaining While we would like to think that our elections and the administrators that oversee these processes are fair and unbiased, the reality is not as simple as that. As with most of the other topics we have covered in our special feature, “Countdown to November 3rd: Reflections on Voter Access,” the issue […]
6 Days Remaining Between 2014 and 2016, states removed almost 16 million voters from the rolls, or the list of persons who are eligible to vote in a particular jurisdiction. These numbers are shocking when you think of all of the people who were mistakenly removed and thus unable to vote in their local or […]
7 Days Remaining While the word “gerrymandering” may sound familiar to many thanks to high school civics class, there is still confusion about what it means exactly, and what its effects are. Gerrymandering is defined by Merriam Webster as: “the practice of dividing or arranging a territorial unit into election districts in a way that […]
8 Days Remaining Voter ID laws are an incredibly contentious issue. These laws require that a voter must show some form of identification to be able to vote. What constitutes a credible form of identification varies widely from state to state, leading to much confusion amongst potential voters. Indiana was the first state to pass […]
9 Days Remaining Citizens have the right to vote. It is their prerogative to make their own decision as to whether they want to exercise that right during local and federal elections. However, the decision has been made for so many throughout our nation’s history, which is antithetical to the words Abraham Lincoln so famously […]
