Right2VoteNH

*November 2016 will be the first election in 50 years without the full protections of the Voting Rights Act.

There's never been a more crucial time to be discussing this unprecedented assault on voting rights. Why?

 Because in the span of 12 hours last week, courts upheld Iowa’s felon-disenfranchisement law; a voter purge in Ohio; and proof-of-citizenship laws in Kansas, Alabama, and Georgia.

Seventeen states from one side of the country to the other have new voting restrictions in place for the first time in a presidential election, from photo-ID requirements to registration restrictions and other new regulations that make it harder for average Americans to cast their vote.

While the media treats this election like a horserace, very few people truly understand the scope of the problem, and fewer are doing anything about it.

*From an email from The Nation, currently fundraising to help defray the cost of FOIA document requests and to support the people who're working to expose these problems. If you have a few spare dollars, they could use a little help.