voter disenfranchisement

5 reasons to lower the voting age by Yanebi Blanco @Skidmore College

posted on March 30, 2018 by Yanebi Blanco Bayona

Skidmore College Tagged With: American Democracy, March for Our Lives, voter disenfranchisement, voting rights

Last Saturday, March 24, 2018, I experienced first hand what I am convinced will be a defining event in United States history: the 'March for our lives' rally in Washington DC. As I was standing among …

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Criminal Justice Reform is Necessary for Equality by Oluwabomi Fagbemi @ University of Pennsylvania

posted on March 18, 2018 by Oluwabomi Fagbemi

University of Pennsylvania Tagged With: prisons, United States, voter disenfranchisement

I attended #ReformPhilly: Bringing Injustice to Light, an event organized by Roc Nation in conjunction with the University of Pennsylvania’s Political Science department and student activist groups …

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Voter Identification: How Voter Suppression Could Be Indicative of Democratic Erosion by Matthew Graff @ The University of Pennsylvania

posted on February 25, 2018 by Matthew Graff

University of Pennsylvania Tagged With: voter disenfranchisement, Voter Identification, Voter Turnout

Voter identification laws have become a source of extreme partisan debate in the United States. The Republican party, which is decidedly mono-racial and mono-ethnic, tends to support strict voter …

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It’s not all Trump’s fault: democratic erosion’s recurring presence in the United States by Isabela Karibjanian @ Brown University

posted on October 11, 2017 by Isabela Karibjanian

Brown University Tagged With: constitutional reversion, executive power, gerrymandering, Trump, United States, voter disenfranchisement

President Donald Trump’s presidency is not the start of democratic erosion in the United States – it’s the continuation of several long and often normalized trends. According to Juan J. Linz’s The …

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