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Race and Voter ID Laws: A Review
Overcoming “Stigmas”: Lesbian and Gay Districts and Black Electoral Empowerment
Black Women and Voter Suppression
Native Voting Power: Enhancing Tribal Sovereignty in Federal Elections
Race-Conscious Independent Redistricting Commissions: Protecting Racial Minorities' Political Power Through Rules-based Map Drawing
Race-Status, Directions, Elections (10/29/2022) (ThinkTech Hawaii)
Post-Pandemic, but Not Post-Racial
The Work Is Not Done: Frederick Douglass and Black Suffrage
We Shall Overcome Some Day ... but Not Today: Brnovich V. Democratic National Committee and the 21st Century Version of Jim Crow
Mass Incarceration & the Minority Vote: the Case for a Federal Ban on Felon Disenfranchisement
Criminal Disenfranchisement in State Constitutions: A Marker of Exclusion, Punitiveness, and Fragile Citizenship
How Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act and One Civil Rights Lawyer Transformed the Electoral Success of Native Americans and Chicanos in New Mexico
Partisan Gerrymandering as a Threat to Multiracial Democracy
Circuit Circus: Defying Scotus and Disenfranchising Black Voters
Policing the Body Politic
Barred for Life: How State Felony Disenfranchisement Laws Ban Elderly Ex-cons from the Voting Booth
Where's My Ballot?: Why Congress Should Amend House Bill H.r.1 to Include a National Mandate of Drop Boxes for Federal Elections to Help Protect the Black Vote
The Coming of the Fifteenth Amendment: The Republican Party and the Right to Vote in the Early Reconstruction Era
“Unpacking” the Problem: The Need to Broaden the Scope of Vote Dilution Claims under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act
“This Lawsuit Smacks of Racism”: Disinformation, Racial Coding, and the 2020 Election
The Battle for an Undiluted Black Vote in Louisiana: Recollections of a White Southern Civil Rights Lawyer
Election Laws Disproportionately Disadvantaging Racial Minorities, and the Futility of Trying to Solve Today's Problems with Yesterday's Never Very Good Tools
Twin Flames: A Story of Racial Gerrymandering and Partisan Gerrymandering
Calculated Discrimination: Exposing Racial Gerrymandering Using Computational Methods
Election Laws Disproportionately Disadvantaging Racial Minorities, and the Futility of Trying to Solve Today's Problems with Yesterday's Never Very Good Tools
Federalizing the Voting Rights Act
Voter Identification Requirements as Denying or Abridging Right to Vote on Account of Race or Color Under § 2 of Voting Rights Act, 52 U.S.C.A. § 10301
Noncitizen Voting: A Case Study of Oregon
The Political (Mis)representation of Immigrants in Voting
Not Your Mule? Disrupting the Political Powerlessness of Black Women Voters
Voting Rights, Democracy & Minority Rule (April 2. 2021) (ThinkTech Hawaii)
The Blinding Color of Race: Elections and Democracy in the Post-Shelby County Era
Models, Race, and the Law
COVID-19 Related Litigation: Challenges to Election and Voting Practices During COVID-19 Pandemic
From Suffrage to Substantive Human Rights: The Continuing Journey for Racially Marginalized Women
“Not as a Favor, Not as a Privilege, but as a Right”: Woman Suffragists, Race, Rights, and the Nineteenth Amendment
Reconstructing Racially Polarized Voting
Voting in 2020: Strengthening the Asian American Electorate
Whatever Happened to the Voting Rights Act? Or, Restoring the White Privilege
20 Reasons Not to Vote
Purcell v. Gonzalez, Principle and Problem--Native American Voting Rights in the 2018 North Dakota Elections
How the Native American Vote Continues to Be Suppressed
The “Welfare Queen” Goes to the Polls: Race-based Fractures in Gender Politics and Opportunities for Intersectional Coalitions
A Uniform Approach to Felon Disenfranchisement: Is the Multi-state System an Artifact of Slavery?
Following the Blueprint: How a New Generation of Segregationists Is Advancing Racial Gerrymandering
America's Quiet Legacy of Native American Voter Disenfranchisement: Prospects for Change in North Dakota after Brakebill V. Jaeger
Race Obliviousness and the Invisibility of Whiteness: The Court's Construction of Race (1995)
Effects of the Voting Rights Act on Reapportionment and Hispanic Voting Strength in Texas
Slouching Toward Universality: A Brief History of Race, Voting, and Political Participation
The Need for Federal Legislation to Address Native Voter Suppression
Validity of Laws that Restrict Voting Rights of Felons
#Blacklivesmatter and Voting Disenfranchisement
Disparate Impact and Voting Rights: How Objections to Impact-based Claims Prevent Plaintiffs from Prevailing in Cases Challenging New Forms of Disenfranchisement
LDF filed suit in federal court challenging the Pence/Kobach Election Integrity Commission
The Poll Tax Before Jim Crow
Cooper, Governor of North Carolina, et al. v. Harris, et al. (Synopsis)
How Second-Generation Discriminatory Voting Barriers Harm
Race or Party?: How Courts Should Think about Republican Efforts to Make it Harder to Vote in North Carolina and Elsewhere
The Right Choice for Elections: How Choice Voting Will End Gerrymandering and Expand Minority Voting Rights, from City Councils to Congress
The Development of Voter Identification Laws
The First Amendment, Equal Protection, and Felon Disenfranchisement: a New Viewpoint
Intentional Discrimination in Farrakhan V. Gregoire: the Ninth Circuit's Voting Rights ActStandard “Results In” the New Jim Crow
Has Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act Run Its Course?
Debunking an Urban Legend: Death of Voting Rights
Race and Election Irregularites on November 7 2000
Felon Disenfranchisement: the Modern Day Poll Tax
Voting Rights Act and Indians
Reconstruction, Felon Disenfranchisement, and the Right to Vote:
Reaffirmation or Requiem for the Voting Rights Act?
Political Gerrymandering and Racial Justice (Video)
Abbott v. Perez (2018)
Reevaluate and Protect the Fundamental Right to Vote Against Racial Targeting
Race-based Political Exclusion and Social Subjugation: Racial Gerrymandering as a Badge of Slavery
Partisan Gerrymandering, the First Amendment, and the Political Outsider
Equal Voting Rights Require Removing Race and Partisan Discrimination from Elections and Legislative Gerrymandering
Rucho v. Common Cause (2019)

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