voter suppression

Voter ID Is Not About Fraud; It Is About Voter Suppression

On January 16, Gene Berardelli wrote an article for IVN titled, “Hard evidence supports the need for Voter ID laws.” While this is a common…

Free Webinar: Time to Fight Back Against Discriminatory Voter ID Laws

Time to fight back against discriminatory Voter ID laws
Women and people of color are widely acknowledged to be the communities most adversely impacted by…

In NC, Voter Suppression Hits Women & People of Color Hardest.

It’s 2014, and North Carolina’s Monster Voter Suppression bill is beginning to go into effect. While people are NOT required to show a photo ID…

Five much-needed reforms that could make our politics matter again

Five Much-Needed Reforms That Could Make Our Politics Matter Again (via Moyers & Company) This post originally appeared at The Nation. “We have frequently printed…

Voter ID–The Disproportionate Impact on Women

SCSJ has been closely monitoring the issue of voter suppression among women due to newly implemented voting restrictions in North Carolina. The Washington Post recently…

The war on women voting in North Carolina

Brentin Mock, Institute for Southern Studies
It is well-documented that the heaviest burdens under strict photo voter ID laws fall on African Americans, Latino Americans…

Votes Not Counted: Mat's Story

Each post in SCSJ’s “Votes Not Counted” series tells the story of a person qualified to vote before the passage of North Carolina’s Monster Voter…

Voter ID – the major impact on women of color

The Southern Coalition for Social Justice has conducted a review of the 318,644 registered North Carolina voters from the 2012 elections who did not have…

Concerns Over Voter Suppression Continue in NC

Concerns Over Voter Suppression Continue in NC Public News Service – NC | November 2013 | Download audio Citizenship/Representative Democracy Civil Rights Human Rights/Racial Justice…

SCSJ files federal lawsuit challenging NC's new Voter Suppression Law

August 12, 2013

The Southern Coalition for Social Justice, American Civil Liberties Union, and ACLU of North Carolina Legal Foundation today filed a lawsuit challenging…

SCSJ Welcomes DOJ intervention to Stop NC Voter Suppression Law

September 30, 2013
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) today filed a federal lawsuit seeking to prevent North Carolina from implementing voter suppression  measures  recently…

SCSJ client Montravias King featured on Rachel Maddow Show (twice)

On August 15, 2013 the Rachel Maddow Show dedicated a lengthy segment to evolving voter suppression efforts in North Carolina. One of the featured examples…