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Voting Rights and Voter Suppression

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Women Voter Convention, San Francisco, California, 1915

Women Voter Convention, San Francisco, California, 1915

 

Topics on the Page

 

Voting Rights and Voter Suppression

 

History of Voting Rights

 

Teaching Resources

 

Gerrymandering

 

Poll Taxes

 

Literacy Tests

 

Voter Restriction Laws

 

Supreme Court Decisions on Voting Rights

 

Click here for the text of the Proposed New Right to Vote Amendment to the Constitution

 

  • At present there is no right to vote explicitly set forth in the Constitution.

 

 

Voter Rights and Voter Suppression

  

Voter suppression is a strategy used to influence the outcome of an election by discouraging or preventing specific groups of people from voting.

Voting Rights Advocates Raise Concerns about New Restrictions at the Ballot Box 

 

 

 

 

Voting Rights Video

 

 

 

 

 

 

History of Voting Rights

 

 

 

Polling Place, New York City, 1912

Polling Place, New York City, 1912

15th Amendment to the Constitution

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

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Gerrymandering

Elbridge Gerry from Massachusetts

 

Gerrymandering is named for Elbridge Gerry from Massachusetts who attended the Constitutional Convention but did not sign the Constitution was later the fifth Vice-President of the United States.

 

 

  Gerrymandering ExplainedThe Washington Post (2017)

 

 

The Man Who Rigged America's Election Maps tells the story of Republican mapmaker Thomas Hofeller who died in 2018.

 

 

Poll Taxes

 
Poll Tax History is an interactive overview of the rise of poll taxes after the Civil War

The 24th Amendment Ended the Poll Tax, January 23, 1964

White Only: Jim Crow in America discusses ways African Americans were denied the vote


Literacy Tests

Can You Pass a Literacy Test?


Literacy Tests and the Right to Vote

 

  • Connecticut was the first state to require a literacy test
    • It was intended to keep Irish immigrants from voting

 

 

New Hampshire Sign, 2013

New Hampshire Sign, 2013


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Voter Restriction Laws


New Voting Restrictions in Place for 2016 Presidential Election, Brennan Center for Justice, New York University School of Law

 

  • Includes an interactive map to see state-by-state restrictions, including voter ID laws, photo ID requirements, and reduction of early voting times and days

 

After Stunning Democratic Win, North Dakota Republicans Suppressed the Native American Vote, The Nation (May 2, 2018)

 

  • Federal Court found voter identification laws were disproportionately burdensome to Native Americans

 

 

Voter Identification Requirements, National Council of State Legislatures


Oppose Voter ID Legislation: Fact Sheet, American Civil Liberties Union

How Controversial Voter ID Laws are Affecting Voters from PBS Newshour

Some Republicans Acknowledge Leveraging Voter ID Laws for Political Gain, The New York Times (September 16, 2016)

The Truth About Voter Fraud, Brennan Center for Justice, New York University School of Law

 

 

Barriers to Voting, Pennsylvania Bar Association

 

 

Who Gets to Vote?  Washington State Legislature

 

 

Voter Fraud?  Or Voter Suppression?  Morningside Center for Teaching Social Responsibility

 

The Supreme Court at Night

The Supreme Court at NightSupreme Court Decisions on Voting Rights

 

Here Is What Is Happening in the Battle for Voting Rights, Mother Jones (August 3, 2016)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Virginia Minor

Virginia Minor      

 

    • Virginia Minor challenged voting restrictions against women during 1872 Presidential election

 

    • The Supreme Court ruled that the Constitution did not grant women the right to vote

 

 

 

 


Leser v. Garnett (1922)

 

  • Decision by the Supreme Court reaffirmed the 19th Amendment that women had the right to vote

 

 

 

 

Resources for Identifying Current Political Issues

 

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