MAP: States With New Voting Restrictions in Place for the 2016 Presidential Election
MAP: States Where Convicted Felons Can't Vote
The Fight to Vote: America's Turbulent Voting Rights History [Interactive Timeline]
Ballot Battles: A Cartoon History of Voting Rights (with Lesson Plan)
50 Years after "Bloody Sunday," Still Miles to Go in March for Voting Rights
Demystifying California's Top-Two Primary System
A Cartoon History of the Voting Rights Act [Part 1]
How the Supreme Court Stripped the Voting Rights Act of its Muscle [Part 2]
A New Era of Voter Suppression [Part 3]
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Better check again before heading to the polls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Depending on the state you live in, those rules may have gotten a good deal more restrictive since the last time you voted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 14 states, this is the first presidential election with new voting restrictions in place, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.brennancenter.org/voting-restrictions-first-time-2016\" target=\"_blank\">Brennan Center for Justice\u003c/a>, a nonprofit law and policy institute that advocates for more inclusive voting policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.brennancenter.org/voting-restrictions-first-time-2016\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-24428\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2016/04/VoterIDmap.jpg\" alt=\"voteridmap\" width=\"951\" height=\"675\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/26/2016/04/VoterIDmap.jpg 951w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/26/2016/04/VoterIDmap-160x114.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/26/2016/04/VoterIDmap-800x568.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/26/2016/04/VoterIDmap-768x545.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/26/2016/04/VoterIDmap-240x170.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/26/2016/04/VoterIDmap-375x266.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/26/2016/04/VoterIDmap-520x369.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 951px) 100vw, 951px\">\u003c/a>The new voting laws have been mostly instituted in states with Republican-led legislatures, with the ostensible intention of reducing voter fraud. The changes, which snowballed after a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/tag/voting-rights-act/\" target=\"_blank\">2013 Supreme Court ruling \u003c/a>scaling back the Voting Rights Act, range from photo ID requirements and \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/2014/02/26/felon-voting\" target=\"_blank\">felon voting restrictions\u003c/a> to shorter registration windows and limited early voting periods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among these, voter identification requirements remain the most controversial. Because certain kinds of government-issued ID, particularly photo IDs, often require administrative fees and waiting times, opponents say these requirements hearken back to the poll taxes of the Jim Crow South, a blatant effort to prevent entire communities from voting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>32 states currently require voters to show some form of identification at the polls, according to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ncsl.org/research/elections-and-campaigns/voter-id.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">National Conference of State Legislatures\u003c/a>. Seven of them have strict voter ID requirements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roughly 11 percent of eligible voters don't have government-issued photo IDs, according to the Brennan Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>North Carolina's 2013 voter ID law was recently struck down by a federal appeals court, which found that the law was intentionally aimed at the black vote. Two separate court rulings this summer scaled back new voting restrictions in Texas and Wisconsin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.ncsl.org/research/elections-and-campaigns/voter-id.aspx\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-24429\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2016/04/voteridmap2.jpg\" alt=\"voteridmap2\" width=\"771\" height=\"580\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/26/2016/04/voteridmap2.jpg 771w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/26/2016/04/voteridmap2-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/26/2016/04/voteridmap2-768x578.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/26/2016/04/voteridmap2-240x181.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/26/2016/04/voteridmap2-375x282.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/26/2016/04/voteridmap2-520x391.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 771px) 100vw, 771px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Voting rights advocates argue that stricter voting laws disproportionately suppress turnout among students, African-Americans and low-income voters, groups that traditionally lean Democratic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most new voting laws haven't been in place long enough to accurately measure their impact on participation. But several studies predict that these laws could thwart hundreds of thousands of otherwise eligible voters from voting. In \u003ca href=\"http://pages.ucsd.edu/~zhajnal/page5/documents/voterIDhajnaletal.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">one recent study\u003c/a>, political scientists at the University of California, San Diego compared voter turnout from 2008 to 2012 in states that did and did not implement strict voter ID laws. In states that began enforcing these laws, voter participation decreased markedly, particularly among blacks, Hispanics and mixed-race groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proponents of stricter laws counter that voter fraud remains a serious threat that needs to be addressed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Our Republic flourishes when citizens are confident that their vote is free, fair, and secure,\" notes Catherine Engelbrecht, founder of the advocacy group \u003ca href=\"https://truethevote.org/aboutus\" target=\"_blank\">True the Vote\u003c/a>. But concern over election fraud, she adds \"jeopardizes our entire system of government, eroding our trust in elected leaders and undermining our confidence in the system by which they govern - beginning at the polls and rising up through the highest offices in the land.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even though a majority of Americans \u003ca href=\"http://www.people-press.org/2012/10/11/broad-support-for-photo-id-voting-requirements/\" target=\"_blank\">favor voter ID requirements\u003c/a> numerous non-partisan studies of voting records show that voter fraud is exceptionally rare and statistically insignificant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one recent investigation, Loyola Law School professor Justin Levitt found only \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/08/06/a-comprehensive-investigation-of-voter-impersonation-finds-31-credible-incidents-out-of-one-billion-ballots-cast/?tid=a_inl\" target=\"_blank\">31 credible incidents of voter impersonation\u003c/a> out of a sample of more than 1 billion votes cast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's really not one America when it comes to voting,\" Judith Brown-Dianis of the Advancement Project explains in the documentary \u003ca href=\"http://electoraldysfunction.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Electoral Dysfunction.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, the text of the original Constitution doesn't actually include a single mention of voting rights; the founders left this to the discretion of states. Only subsequent amendments (namely, the 15th, 19th, 23rd and 26th) prevent voting rights from being denied to certain formerly disenfranchised populations (people of color, women, 18 to 20-year-olds). States, though, remain largely free to determine their own voting procedures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The Constitution, at the nation's birth, made no mention of voting rights whatsoever,\" Harvard University History Professor Alex Keyssar notes in the documentary. \"[The Founders] were unsure, in fact, whether voting was a right or a privilege. And if it was a right, they weren't sure who the right actually belonged to.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's an ambiguity that continues to play out today: voting laws vary drastically from one state to the next, helping to determine who's allowed to participate and who gets stuck watching from the sidelines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/UMl0MHFGhE8\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>Additional resources\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.eac.gov/voter_resources/contact_your_state.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Links to official election resources for all 50 states\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.brennancenter.org/student-voting\" target=\"_blank\">Brennan Center: state-by-state student voting guide\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://electoraldysfunction.org/classroom/\" target=\"_blank\">Electoral Dysfunction (film) educator resources \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://truethevote.org/\" target=\"_blank\">True the Vote \u003c/a>(advocates for stricter protections against voter fraud)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.propublica.org/article/voting-rights-by-state-map\" target=\"_blank\">ProPublica: Everything that's happened since the Supreme Court's Voting Rights Act decision \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":null,"status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1478649783,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":26,"wordCount":784},"headData":{"title":"MAP: States With New Voting Restrictions in Place for the 2016 Presidential Election | KQED","description":"","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"MAP: States With New Voting Restrictions in Place for the 2016 Presidential Election","datePublished":"2016-11-08T22:00:44.000Z","dateModified":"2016-11-09T00:03:03.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"disqusIdentifier":"14543 http://blogs.kqed.org/lowdown/?p=14543","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/2016/11/08/how-to-navigate-americas-perplexing-patchwork-of-voting-laws/","disqusTitle":"MAP: States With New Voting Restrictions in Place for the 2016 Presidential Election","path":"/lowdown/14543/how-to-navigate-americas-perplexing-patchwork-of-voting-laws","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->Think you know your state's voting rules? Better check again before heading to the polls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Depending on the state you live in, those rules may have gotten a good deal more restrictive since the last time you voted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 14 states, this is the first presidential election with new voting restrictions in place, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.brennancenter.org/voting-restrictions-first-time-2016\" target=\"_blank\">Brennan Center for Justice\u003c/a>, a nonprofit law and policy institute that advocates for more inclusive voting policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.brennancenter.org/voting-restrictions-first-time-2016\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-24428\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2016/04/VoterIDmap.jpg\" alt=\"voteridmap\" width=\"951\" height=\"675\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/26/2016/04/VoterIDmap.jpg 951w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/26/2016/04/VoterIDmap-160x114.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/26/2016/04/VoterIDmap-800x568.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/26/2016/04/VoterIDmap-768x545.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/26/2016/04/VoterIDmap-240x170.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/26/2016/04/VoterIDmap-375x266.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/26/2016/04/VoterIDmap-520x369.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 951px) 100vw, 951px\">\u003c/a>The new voting laws have been mostly instituted in states with Republican-led legislatures, with the ostensible intention of reducing voter fraud. The changes, which snowballed after a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/tag/voting-rights-act/\" target=\"_blank\">2013 Supreme Court ruling \u003c/a>scaling back the Voting Rights Act, range from photo ID requirements and \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/2014/02/26/felon-voting\" target=\"_blank\">felon voting restrictions\u003c/a> to shorter registration windows and limited early voting periods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among these, voter identification requirements remain the most controversial. Because certain kinds of government-issued ID, particularly photo IDs, often require administrative fees and waiting times, opponents say these requirements hearken back to the poll taxes of the Jim Crow South, a blatant effort to prevent entire communities from voting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>32 states currently require voters to show some form of identification at the polls, according to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ncsl.org/research/elections-and-campaigns/voter-id.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">National Conference of State Legislatures\u003c/a>. Seven of them have strict voter ID requirements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roughly 11 percent of eligible voters don't have government-issued photo IDs, according to the Brennan Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>North Carolina's 2013 voter ID law was recently struck down by a federal appeals court, which found that the law was intentionally aimed at the black vote. Two separate court rulings this summer scaled back new voting restrictions in Texas and Wisconsin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.ncsl.org/research/elections-and-campaigns/voter-id.aspx\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-24429\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2016/04/voteridmap2.jpg\" alt=\"voteridmap2\" width=\"771\" height=\"580\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/26/2016/04/voteridmap2.jpg 771w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/26/2016/04/voteridmap2-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/26/2016/04/voteridmap2-768x578.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/26/2016/04/voteridmap2-240x181.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/26/2016/04/voteridmap2-375x282.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/26/2016/04/voteridmap2-520x391.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 771px) 100vw, 771px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Voting rights advocates argue that stricter voting laws disproportionately suppress turnout among students, African-Americans and low-income voters, groups that traditionally lean Democratic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most new voting laws haven't been in place long enough to accurately measure their impact on participation. But several studies predict that these laws could thwart hundreds of thousands of otherwise eligible voters from voting. In \u003ca href=\"http://pages.ucsd.edu/~zhajnal/page5/documents/voterIDhajnaletal.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">one recent study\u003c/a>, political scientists at the University of California, San Diego compared voter turnout from 2008 to 2012 in states that did and did not implement strict voter ID laws. In states that began enforcing these laws, voter participation decreased markedly, particularly among blacks, Hispanics and mixed-race groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proponents of stricter laws counter that voter fraud remains a serious threat that needs to be addressed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Our Republic flourishes when citizens are confident that their vote is free, fair, and secure,\" notes Catherine Engelbrecht, founder of the advocacy group \u003ca href=\"https://truethevote.org/aboutus\" target=\"_blank\">True the Vote\u003c/a>. But concern over election fraud, she adds \"jeopardizes our entire system of government, eroding our trust in elected leaders and undermining our confidence in the system by which they govern - beginning at the polls and rising up through the highest offices in the land.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even though a majority of Americans \u003ca href=\"http://www.people-press.org/2012/10/11/broad-support-for-photo-id-voting-requirements/\" target=\"_blank\">favor voter ID requirements\u003c/a> numerous non-partisan studies of voting records show that voter fraud is exceptionally rare and statistically insignificant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one recent investigation, Loyola Law School professor Justin Levitt found only \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/08/06/a-comprehensive-investigation-of-voter-impersonation-finds-31-credible-incidents-out-of-one-billion-ballots-cast/?tid=a_inl\" target=\"_blank\">31 credible incidents of voter impersonation\u003c/a> out of a sample of more than 1 billion votes cast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's really not one America when it comes to voting,\" Judith Brown-Dianis of the Advancement Project explains in the documentary \u003ca href=\"http://electoraldysfunction.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Electoral Dysfunction.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, the text of the original Constitution doesn't actually include a single mention of voting rights; the founders left this to the discretion of states. Only subsequent amendments (namely, the 15th, 19th, 23rd and 26th) prevent voting rights from being denied to certain formerly disenfranchised populations (people of color, women, 18 to 20-year-olds). States, though, remain largely free to determine their own voting procedures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The Constitution, at the nation's birth, made no mention of voting rights whatsoever,\" Harvard University History Professor Alex Keyssar notes in the documentary. \"[The Founders] were unsure, in fact, whether voting was a right or a privilege. And if it was a right, they weren't sure who the right actually belonged to.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's an ambiguity that continues to play out today: voting laws vary drastically from one state to the next, helping to determine who's allowed to participate and who gets stuck watching from the sidelines.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/UMl0MHFGhE8'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/UMl0MHFGhE8'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003ch4>Additional resources\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.eac.gov/voter_resources/contact_your_state.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Links to official election resources for all 50 states\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.brennancenter.org/student-voting\" target=\"_blank\">Brennan Center: state-by-state student voting guide\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://electoraldysfunction.org/classroom/\" target=\"_blank\">Electoral Dysfunction (film) educator resources \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://truethevote.org/\" target=\"_blank\">True the Vote \u003c/a>(advocates for stricter protections against voter fraud)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.propublica.org/article/voting-rights-by-state-map\" target=\"_blank\">ProPublica: Everything that's happened since the Supreme Court's Voting Rights Act decision \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/lowdown/14543/how-to-navigate-americas-perplexing-patchwork-of-voting-laws","authors":["1263"],"categories":["lowdown_2498","lowdown_466"],"tags":["lowdown_2337","lowdown_539","lowdown_218"],"featImg":"lowdown_24428","label":"lowdown"},"lowdown_11897":{"type":"posts","id":"lowdown_11897","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"lowdown","id":"11897","score":null,"sort":[1478296806000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"map-felon-voter-disenfranchisement-by-the-numbers","title":"MAP: States Where Convicted Felons Can't Vote","publishDate":1478296806,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The Lowdown | KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"lowdown"},"content":"\u003cp>Roughly 6.1 million voting-age American citizens who have been convicted of crimes are restricted from voting in next week's presidential election because of felon disenfranchisement laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's about 2.5 percent of the total U.S. voting-age population – 1 of every 40 adults – that can't vote because of a current or previous felony conviction, according to \u003ca href=\"http://www.sentencingproject.org/publications/6-million-lost-voters-state-level-estimates-felony-disenfranchisement-2016/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">recent analysis\u003c/a> by the Sentencing Project, a criminal justice reform group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of this population is not currently incarcerated. In fact, convicted felons in prison and jail today represent less than 25 percent of the disenfranchised population, according to the report. The vast majority are out of prison and living back in their communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than half of this total disenfranchised population lives in 12 mostly conservative states with the most stringent restrictions. In nine of these states, voting rights are routinely denied to convicted felons who have completed their post-sentence supervision (probation or parole).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Florida, a major swing state, more than 10 percent of the voting age population is disenfranchised. Felon voting rights are only restored through a governor's executive action or a court order. Similar rules apply in Alabama, Iowa, Kentucky, Mississippi and Virginia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This map shows state felon disenfranchisement rates and related voting restrictions. Note that for the most restrictive states, voting can only be reinstated through the governor's pardon or a court order. Arizona and Nevada offer exceptions for first-time offenders convicted of less serious crimes. And in Wyoming, rights are restored for non-violent felon upon completion of their sentences. A complete description of current rules is listed \u003ca href=\"http://www.ncsl.org/research/elections-and-campaigns/felon-voting-rights.aspx#1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe title=\"Felon Disenfranchisement by State\n\" aria-label=\"Map\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-Mn69z\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/Mn69z/1/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border: none;\" width=\"800\" height=\"590\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The United States has among the world's most restrictive felon disenfranchisement laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These state prohibitions disproportionately affect African-Americans, particularly black men: one of every 13 African-Americans of voting age -- more than 7 percent nationally -- is disenfranchised, according to Sentencing Project's analysis. In some of the strictest states, more than 20 percent of the African American population is disenfranchised, the report found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Conversely, Maine and Vermont, both overwhelmingly white, are the only two states without any felon voting restrictions; even inmates can vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Fundamentally it’s a question of democracy and how we define who can participate,” said Marc Mauer, executive director of the Sentencing Project. \"When people are convicted of felonies, they should receive the appropriate punishment, but we don't normally take away their fundamental rights of citizenship.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Convicted felons, he notes, even those who are still incarcerated, retain many of their individual rights, including the ability to get married and divorced and to buy and sell property. The First Amendment right to free speech is also mostly preserved for felons (an inmate can write a letter-to-the-editor, for instance), with limitations generally only having to do with to security-related concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters of felon disenfranchisement laws defend their constitutionality and argue that it's ultimately for individual states to determine. Some insist that committing a serious crime indicates a strong lack of moral character and trustworthiness, which they say is ample justification for denying the right to vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://felonvoting.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourceID=000283\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here\u003c/a> to read a selection of pro and con arguments on the issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the growth of the disenfranchised population, several states have started to re-examine their policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mostly recently, the Maryland legislature moved to \u003ca href=\"https://www.brennancenter.org/analysis/voting-rights-restoration-efforts-maryland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">automatically restore voting rights\u003c/a> to felons after their release from prison. The change, which went into effect in March, impacts an estimated 40,000 people who will be able to participate in the upcoming national election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In April, Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe, a Democrat, \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/virginias-mcauliffe-to-announce-restoration-of-voting-rights-to-13000-felons/2016/08/20/590b43ee-6652-11e6-96c0-37533479f3f5_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">issued an executive order\u003c/a> restoring voting rights to more than 200,000 felons who had completed their sentences. The move, however, was struck down in July by the state Supreme Court, which ruled that the governor had overstepped his authority by restoring rights all at once rather than on a case by case basis. In response, McAuliffe announced that his administration would individually process applications for 13,000 felons so could have the opportunity to vote in November.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":null,"status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1603930177,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":true,"iframeSrcs":["https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/Mn69z/1/"],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":19,"wordCount":693},"headData":{"title":"MAP: States Where Convicted Felons Can’t Vote - The Lowdown","description":"Roughly 6.1 million voting-age American citizens who have been convicted of crimes are restricted from voting in next week’s presidential election because of felon disenfranchisement laws. That’s about 2.5 percent of the total U.S. voting-age population – 1 of every 40 adults – that can’t vote because of a current or previous felony conviction, according","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"MAP: States Where Convicted Felons Can't Vote","datePublished":"2016-11-04T22:00:06.000Z","dateModified":"2020-10-29T00:09:37.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"disqusIdentifier":"11897 http://blogs.kqed.org/lowdown/?p=11897","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/2016/11/04/map-felon-voter-disenfranchisement-by-the-numbers/","disqusTitle":"MAP: States Where Convicted Felons Can't Vote","customPermalink":"2014/02/26/felon-voting/","path":"/lowdown/11897/map-felon-voter-disenfranchisement-by-the-numbers","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Roughly 6.1 million voting-age American citizens who have been convicted of crimes are restricted from voting in next week's presidential election because of felon disenfranchisement laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's about 2.5 percent of the total U.S. voting-age population – 1 of every 40 adults – that can't vote because of a current or previous felony conviction, according to \u003ca href=\"http://www.sentencingproject.org/publications/6-million-lost-voters-state-level-estimates-felony-disenfranchisement-2016/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">recent analysis\u003c/a> by the Sentencing Project, a criminal justice reform group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of this population is not currently incarcerated. In fact, convicted felons in prison and jail today represent less than 25 percent of the disenfranchised population, according to the report. The vast majority are out of prison and living back in their communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than half of this total disenfranchised population lives in 12 mostly conservative states with the most stringent restrictions. In nine of these states, voting rights are routinely denied to convicted felons who have completed their post-sentence supervision (probation or parole).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Florida, a major swing state, more than 10 percent of the voting age population is disenfranchised. Felon voting rights are only restored through a governor's executive action or a court order. Similar rules apply in Alabama, Iowa, Kentucky, Mississippi and Virginia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This map shows state felon disenfranchisement rates and related voting restrictions. Note that for the most restrictive states, voting can only be reinstated through the governor's pardon or a court order. Arizona and Nevada offer exceptions for first-time offenders convicted of less serious crimes. And in Wyoming, rights are restored for non-violent felon upon completion of their sentences. A complete description of current rules is listed \u003ca href=\"http://www.ncsl.org/research/elections-and-campaigns/felon-voting-rights.aspx#1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe title=\"Felon Disenfranchisement by State\n\" aria-label=\"Map\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-Mn69z\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/Mn69z/1/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border: none;\" width=\"800\" height=\"590\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The United States has among the world's most restrictive felon disenfranchisement laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These state prohibitions disproportionately affect African-Americans, particularly black men: one of every 13 African-Americans of voting age -- more than 7 percent nationally -- is disenfranchised, according to Sentencing Project's analysis. In some of the strictest states, more than 20 percent of the African American population is disenfranchised, the report found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Conversely, Maine and Vermont, both overwhelmingly white, are the only two states without any felon voting restrictions; even inmates can vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Fundamentally it’s a question of democracy and how we define who can participate,” said Marc Mauer, executive director of the Sentencing Project. \"When people are convicted of felonies, they should receive the appropriate punishment, but we don't normally take away their fundamental rights of citizenship.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Convicted felons, he notes, even those who are still incarcerated, retain many of their individual rights, including the ability to get married and divorced and to buy and sell property. The First Amendment right to free speech is also mostly preserved for felons (an inmate can write a letter-to-the-editor, for instance), with limitations generally only having to do with to security-related concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters of felon disenfranchisement laws defend their constitutionality and argue that it's ultimately for individual states to determine. Some insist that committing a serious crime indicates a strong lack of moral character and trustworthiness, which they say is ample justification for denying the right to vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://felonvoting.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourceID=000283\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here\u003c/a> to read a selection of pro and con arguments on the issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the growth of the disenfranchised population, several states have started to re-examine their policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mostly recently, the Maryland legislature moved to \u003ca href=\"https://www.brennancenter.org/analysis/voting-rights-restoration-efforts-maryland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">automatically restore voting rights\u003c/a> to felons after their release from prison. The change, which went into effect in March, impacts an estimated 40,000 people who will be able to participate in the upcoming national election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In April, Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe, a Democrat, \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/virginias-mcauliffe-to-announce-restoration-of-voting-rights-to-13000-felons/2016/08/20/590b43ee-6652-11e6-96c0-37533479f3f5_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">issued an executive order\u003c/a> restoring voting rights to more than 200,000 felons who had completed their sentences. The move, however, was struck down in July by the state Supreme Court, which ruled that the governor had overstepped his authority by restoring rights all at once rather than on a case by case basis. In response, McAuliffe announced that his administration would individually process applications for 13,000 felons so could have the opportunity to vote in November.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/lowdown/11897/map-felon-voter-disenfranchisement-by-the-numbers","authors":["1263"],"categories":["lowdown_391","lowdown_242","lowdown_2391","lowdown_2372","lowdown_466"],"tags":["lowdown_2337","lowdown_474","lowdown_218"],"featImg":"lowdown_943","label":"lowdown"},"lowdown_23300":{"type":"posts","id":"lowdown_23300","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"lowdown","id":"23300","score":null,"sort":[1472191938000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"the-fight-to-vote-a-history-of-voting-rights-in-america","title":"The Fight to Vote: America's Turbulent Voting Rights History [Interactive Timeline]","publishDate":1472191938,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The Lowdown | KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"lowdown"},"content":"\u003cp>The United States prides itself as a beacon of democracy on the world stage. But universal suffrage has been elusive throughout its history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\u003cb>\u003cspan>Teach with the Lowdown\u003c/span>\u003c/b>\u003cbr>\n\u003cimg class=\"alignnone wp-image-22868\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2016/07/hands-e1469568663680-400x143.jpg\" width=\"340\" height=\"122\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/26/2016/07/hands-e1469568663680-400x143.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/26/2016/07/hands-e1469568663680-800x286.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/26/2016/07/hands-e1469568663680-768x274.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/26/2016/07/hands-e1469568663680.jpg 957w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 340px) 100vw, 340px\">Nonfiction analysis, writing/discussion prompts and multimedia projects. Browse our entire lesson plan collection \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/category/lesson-plans-and-guides/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>.\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2016/08/Voting-rights-lesson-plan.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Voting rights history lesson plan (PDF)\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>From the early years of the republic, when voting was almost exclusively reserved for propertied white men, the right to vote has very gradually grown more inclusive, expanding to an ever broader cross-section of the American public. But this progress has almost always been hard fought.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scroll thorough this timeline to learn about some of the key moments in America's long struggle for voting rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv style=\"width:100%\">\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://cdn.knightlab.com/libs/timeline3/latest/embed/index.html?source=1YVRHsHPjqxad11TL7QC2LAq7jXYH45sOjh-ahB0nfaU&font=Default&lang=en&initial_zoom=2&height=650\" height=\"700\" width=\"100%\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":null,"status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1566586600,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":true,"iframeSrcs":["https://cdn.knightlab.com/libs/timeline3/latest/embed/index.html"],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":5,"wordCount":119},"headData":{"title":"The Fight to Vote: America's Turbulent Voting Rights History [Interactive Timeline] | KQED","description":"The United States prides itself as a beacon of democracy on the world stage. 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Browse our entire lesson plan collection \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/category/lesson-plans-and-guides/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>.\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2016/08/Voting-rights-lesson-plan.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Voting rights history lesson plan (PDF)\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>From the early years of the republic, when voting was almost exclusively reserved for propertied white men, the right to vote has very gradually grown more inclusive, expanding to an ever broader cross-section of the American public. 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href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2015/03/vote_pic_selma.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-16555\" title=\"\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2015/03/vote_pic_selma-640x431.jpg\" alt=\"Selma to Montgomery march, 1965. (Bruce Davidson/Magnum) \" width=\"590\" height=\"397\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Selma to Montgomery march, 1965. (Bruce Davidson/Magnum)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Thousands of marchers joined President Obama and other leaders this weekend in the small city of Selma, Alabama, where 50 years ago police violently attacked peaceful demonstrators demanding the right to vote.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In what became known as Bloody Sunday, the nationally televised sparked widespread outrage as viewers around the country watched shocking footage of white state troopers and a sheriff's posse ruthlessly beating hundreds of mostly black demonstrators trying to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge (named for a Grand Dragon of the Alabama Ku Klux Klan) . As the new film \u003ca href=\"http://www.selmamovie.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Selma\u003c/a> dramatically recounts, the event was pivotal in strengthening public support for the Civil Rights Movement and persuading President Lyndon Johnson to push for voting rights legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/tVymzWrBTww\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A year after passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, blacks throughout the South -- and other regions -- were still blatantly denied the right to vote. Discriminatory state sanctioned tactics including intimidation and virtually impossible to pass \u003ca href=\"http://www.crmvet.org/info/la-littest2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">voter literacy tests\u003c/a> continued to prevent the vast majority of eligible black voters from registering. Of Selma's voting age black population, roughly 2 percent were registered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one scene from the film, during a fictionalized account of a meeting with Johnson at the White House, Martin Luther King, Jr. attempts to win the president's support for voting rights legislation by framing it as key to a host of other racial equality issues. Voting protections, he argued, would allow southern blacks to influence and change a political structure and justice system that had long been designed to suppress their rights. King realized that voting was a critical element in the fight for racial equality, a visible and tangible entry point that people could easily rally around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A week after Bloody Sunday, President Johnson \u003ca href=\"http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6336/\" target=\"_blank\">addressed a joint session of Congress\u003c/a> in a live televised event, imploring the passage of a voting rights act:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cem>\"We cannot, we must not, refuse to protect the right of every American to vote in every election that he may desire to participate in. And we ought not and we cannot and we must not wait another 8 months before we get a bill. We have already waited a hundred years and more, and the time for waiting is gone ...\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>But even if we pass this bill, the battle will not be over. What happened in Selma is part of a far larger movement which reaches into every section and state of America. It is the effort of American Negroes to secure for themselves the full blessings of American life. Their cause must be our cause too. Because it is not just Negroes, but really it is all of us, who must overcome the crippling legacy of bigotry and injustice. And we shall overcome.\"\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/MxEauRq1WxQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later that month, King and other leaders of the movement successfully led thousands of marchers from Selma to the state capitol in Montgomery, protected along the way by the National Guard on Johnson's orders. By August 1965, just five months after Bloody Sunday, Johnson had signed the Voting Rights Act, one of the most significant pieces of civil rights legislation in U.S. history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The law banned discriminatory voting practices, authorizing the deployment of federal election monitors and requiring specific states and counties with a history of discrimination to seek explicit approval from the Justice Department before making any changes in local election rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The results were dramatic and immediate: More than 27,000 African-Americans in Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi successfully registered to vote in the first three weeks after the law's passage. Within the first two years, In Mississippi alone, registration among eligible black voters jumped from 6.7 percent of the state's eligible black voters to nearly 60 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>History, though, rarely comes packaged in neatly wrapped happy endings. And celebrated rights, no matter how hard they've been fought for, tend to erode if not vigilantly defended.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2013, the Supreme Court \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/26/us/supreme-court-ruling.html\" target=\"_blank\">struck down\u003c/a> the heart of the Voting Rights Act. The court's conservative majority ruled that the time's had changed and the law's safeguards were no longer necessary. The decision stripped the law of its primary enforcement mechanism requiring federal oversight of jurisdictions with a history of voter discrimination -- including most of the South.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"xzD83LFStBVA4kYqg4vWuQJbFVuW1049\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Almost immediately after the decision, Texas and North Carolina, freed from restrictions, introduced controversial voter photo ID legislation. Many of the other previously monitored states have followed suit, enacting laws restricting voting access, including strict voter ID requirements and limitations on early voting and absentee ballots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although conservative proponents defend the new rules as necessary in preventing voter fraud, the changes have a disproportionately negative impact on poor, minority voters who are more likely lack photo identification and often depend heavily on more flexible voting options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"story-body-text story-content\">During the ceremonies in Selma this weekend, a succession of speakers beseeched the nation to wage a renewed battle for voting rights protections as the best way to honor the legacy of the protesters who risked their lives half a century ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"story-body-text story-content\">\"We have witnessed over the last few years, the worst assault on voting rights since the Voting Rights Act was passed in 1965,\" Rev. Raphael Warnock, of Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, told \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2015/03/05/selma-50th-anniversary-voting-rights-obama/24404741/\" target=\"_blank\">USA Today\u003c/a>\u003c/em>. \"Come this weekend we'll see a parade of politicians make their way to Selma. Our message to those politicians is that you cannot celebrate the lessons of history while sitting on the wrong side of history.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/U4XtZ-tIzIA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Obama echoed this sentiment in his address Saturday in front of the Edmund Pettus Bridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Right now, in 2015, 50 years after Selma, there are laws across this country designed to make it harder for people to vote,\" he said. As we speak, more such laws are being proposed. Meanwhile, the Voting Rights Act, the culmination of so much blood, so much sweat and tears, the product of so much sacrifice in the face of wanton violence, stands weakened, its future subject to political rancor. How can that be? The VRA was one of the crowning achievements of our democracy, the result of Republican and Democratic efforts ... If want to honor this day (let Congress) pledge to make it their mission to restore that law this year. That's how we honor those on this bridge.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Obama also criticized the strikingly low rate of voter turnout across the country in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If every new voter suppression law was struck down today, we would still have, here in America, one of the lowest voting rates among free people,\" he added. \"What's our excuse today for not voting? How do we so causally discard the right for which so many fought. How do we so fully give away our power, our voice in shaping America's future?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Robert Bentley of Alabama, a Republican, also spoke on Saturday, noting that he hoped the occasion would show how much Alabama had changed since those tumultuous days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want people in America and the world to realize that Alabama is a different place and a different state than it was 50 years ago,” Bentley told the\u003cem> \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/08/us/obama-in-selma-for-edmund-pettus-bridge-attack-anniversary.html\" target=\"_blank\">New York Times\u003c/a>\u003c/em>. “It has become probably as much of a colorblind state as any state in the country, and we’re very proud of the advancement we've made.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"story-body-text story-content\">The stats suggest otherwise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"story-body-text story-content\">Alabama began enforcing strict voter photo ID rules last year. The state is one of the poorest in the nation. More than \u003ca href=\"http://www.census.gov/prod/2013pubs/acsbr11-17.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">30 percent of black and Latino residents live in poverty\u003c/a>. Meanwhile, the state and its school systems remain starkly segregated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"story-body-text story-content\">Take Selma. In 1965, the city's population was nearly evenly divided. But after a half century of white flight, about 80 percent of its 20,000 residents today are black and the town's infrastructure is literally crumbling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"story-body-text story-content\">However, the Selma Country Club still does not have a single black member, the \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/fifty-years-after-bloody-sunday-march-struggles-linger-in-selma/2015/03/05/8ed7a9c6-c348-11e4-ad5c-3b8ce89f1b89_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Post\u003c/a>\u003c/em> reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"story-body-text story-content\">Dallas County, where Selma is located, was ranked poorest in the state last year, with one of the highest child poverty rates in the nation and unemployment hovering above 10 percent -- almost twice the national average. 40 percent of Selma's families, and about two-thirds of its children, live below the poverty line, with a violent crime rate roughly five times the state average, according to U.S. Census figures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"story-body-text story-content\">Early in his speech on Saturday, Obama noted these persistent disparities. Although praising the tremendous gains in equality that have come about as a result of the sacrifices demonstrators here made 50 years ago, the president rejected the notion that racism has been defeated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"story-body-text story-content\">“We don’t need the Ferguson report to know that’s not true,” he said. “We just need to open our eyes and our ears and our hearts to know that this nation’s racial history still casts its long shadow upon us. We know the march is not yet over. We know the race is not yet won. We know reaching that blessed destination where we are judged, all of us, by the content of our character requires admitting as much, facing up to the truth.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/WyIx1qan3v8?list=PLJ8cMiYb3G5df0hNFQxY_CKa8wrUERh-u\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":null,"status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1432149643,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":true,"iframeSrcs":["http://www.youtube.com/embed/tVymzWrBTww","http://www.youtube.com/embed/MxEauRq1WxQ","http://www.youtube.com/embed/U4XtZ-tIzIA","http://www.youtube.com/embed/WyIx1qan3v8"],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":27,"wordCount":1577},"headData":{"title":"50 Years after \"Bloody Sunday,\" Still Miles to Go in March for Voting Rights | KQED","description":"Thousands of marchers joined President Obama and other leaders this weekend in the small city of Selma, Alabama, where 50 years ago police violently attacked peaceful demonstrators demanding the right to vote.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"50 Years after \"Bloody Sunday,\" Still Miles to Go in March for Voting Rights","datePublished":"2015-03-10T01:02:15.000Z","dateModified":"2015-05-20T19:20:43.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"disqusIdentifier":"16497 http://blogs.kqed.org/lowdown/?p=16497","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/2015/03/09/how-far-weve-come-how-far-we-still-have-to-go-50-years-after-bloody-sunday-in-selma-still-miles-to-go-in-fight-for-racial-equality/","disqusTitle":"50 Years after \"Bloody Sunday,\" Still Miles to Go in March for Voting Rights","path":"/lowdown/16497/how-far-weve-come-how-far-we-still-have-to-go-50-years-after-bloody-sunday-in-selma-still-miles-to-go-in-fight-for-racial-equality","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_16555\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 590px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2015/03/vote_pic_selma.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-16555\" title=\"\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2015/03/vote_pic_selma-640x431.jpg\" alt=\"Selma to Montgomery march, 1965. (Bruce Davidson/Magnum) \" width=\"590\" height=\"397\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Selma to Montgomery march, 1965. (Bruce Davidson/Magnum)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Thousands of marchers joined President Obama and other leaders this weekend in the small city of Selma, Alabama, where 50 years ago police violently attacked peaceful demonstrators demanding the right to vote.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In what became known as Bloody Sunday, the nationally televised sparked widespread outrage as viewers around the country watched shocking footage of white state troopers and a sheriff's posse ruthlessly beating hundreds of mostly black demonstrators trying to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge (named for a Grand Dragon of the Alabama Ku Klux Klan) . As the new film \u003ca href=\"http://www.selmamovie.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Selma\u003c/a> dramatically recounts, the event was pivotal in strengthening public support for the Civil Rights Movement and persuading President Lyndon Johnson to push for voting rights legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/tVymzWrBTww\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A year after passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, blacks throughout the South -- and other regions -- were still blatantly denied the right to vote. Discriminatory state sanctioned tactics including intimidation and virtually impossible to pass \u003ca href=\"http://www.crmvet.org/info/la-littest2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">voter literacy tests\u003c/a> continued to prevent the vast majority of eligible black voters from registering. Of Selma's voting age black population, roughly 2 percent were registered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one scene from the film, during a fictionalized account of a meeting with Johnson at the White House, Martin Luther King, Jr. attempts to win the president's support for voting rights legislation by framing it as key to a host of other racial equality issues. Voting protections, he argued, would allow southern blacks to influence and change a political structure and justice system that had long been designed to suppress their rights. King realized that voting was a critical element in the fight for racial equality, a visible and tangible entry point that people could easily rally around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A week after Bloody Sunday, President Johnson \u003ca href=\"http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6336/\" target=\"_blank\">addressed a joint session of Congress\u003c/a> in a live televised event, imploring the passage of a voting rights act:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cem>\"We cannot, we must not, refuse to protect the right of every American to vote in every election that he may desire to participate in. And we ought not and we cannot and we must not wait another 8 months before we get a bill. We have already waited a hundred years and more, and the time for waiting is gone ...\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>But even if we pass this bill, the battle will not be over. What happened in Selma is part of a far larger movement which reaches into every section and state of America. It is the effort of American Negroes to secure for themselves the full blessings of American life. Their cause must be our cause too. Because it is not just Negroes, but really it is all of us, who must overcome the crippling legacy of bigotry and injustice. And we shall overcome.\"\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/MxEauRq1WxQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later that month, King and other leaders of the movement successfully led thousands of marchers from Selma to the state capitol in Montgomery, protected along the way by the National Guard on Johnson's orders. By August 1965, just five months after Bloody Sunday, Johnson had signed the Voting Rights Act, one of the most significant pieces of civil rights legislation in U.S. history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The law banned discriminatory voting practices, authorizing the deployment of federal election monitors and requiring specific states and counties with a history of discrimination to seek explicit approval from the Justice Department before making any changes in local election rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The results were dramatic and immediate: More than 27,000 African-Americans in Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi successfully registered to vote in the first three weeks after the law's passage. Within the first two years, In Mississippi alone, registration among eligible black voters jumped from 6.7 percent of the state's eligible black voters to nearly 60 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>History, though, rarely comes packaged in neatly wrapped happy endings. And celebrated rights, no matter how hard they've been fought for, tend to erode if not vigilantly defended.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2013, the Supreme Court \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/26/us/supreme-court-ruling.html\" target=\"_blank\">struck down\u003c/a> the heart of the Voting Rights Act. The court's conservative majority ruled that the time's had changed and the law's safeguards were no longer necessary. The decision stripped the law of its primary enforcement mechanism requiring federal oversight of jurisdictions with a history of voter discrimination -- including most of the South.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Almost immediately after the decision, Texas and North Carolina, freed from restrictions, introduced controversial voter photo ID legislation. Many of the other previously monitored states have followed suit, enacting laws restricting voting access, including strict voter ID requirements and limitations on early voting and absentee ballots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although conservative proponents defend the new rules as necessary in preventing voter fraud, the changes have a disproportionately negative impact on poor, minority voters who are more likely lack photo identification and often depend heavily on more flexible voting options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"story-body-text story-content\">During the ceremonies in Selma this weekend, a succession of speakers beseeched the nation to wage a renewed battle for voting rights protections as the best way to honor the legacy of the protesters who risked their lives half a century ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"story-body-text story-content\">\"We have witnessed over the last few years, the worst assault on voting rights since the Voting Rights Act was passed in 1965,\" Rev. Raphael Warnock, of Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, told \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2015/03/05/selma-50th-anniversary-voting-rights-obama/24404741/\" target=\"_blank\">USA Today\u003c/a>\u003c/em>. \"Come this weekend we'll see a parade of politicians make their way to Selma. Our message to those politicians is that you cannot celebrate the lessons of history while sitting on the wrong side of history.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/U4XtZ-tIzIA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Obama echoed this sentiment in his address Saturday in front of the Edmund Pettus Bridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Right now, in 2015, 50 years after Selma, there are laws across this country designed to make it harder for people to vote,\" he said. As we speak, more such laws are being proposed. Meanwhile, the Voting Rights Act, the culmination of so much blood, so much sweat and tears, the product of so much sacrifice in the face of wanton violence, stands weakened, its future subject to political rancor. How can that be? The VRA was one of the crowning achievements of our democracy, the result of Republican and Democratic efforts ... If want to honor this day (let Congress) pledge to make it their mission to restore that law this year. That's how we honor those on this bridge.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Obama also criticized the strikingly low rate of voter turnout across the country in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If every new voter suppression law was struck down today, we would still have, here in America, one of the lowest voting rates among free people,\" he added. \"What's our excuse today for not voting? How do we so causally discard the right for which so many fought. How do we so fully give away our power, our voice in shaping America's future?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Robert Bentley of Alabama, a Republican, also spoke on Saturday, noting that he hoped the occasion would show how much Alabama had changed since those tumultuous days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want people in America and the world to realize that Alabama is a different place and a different state than it was 50 years ago,” Bentley told the\u003cem> \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/08/us/obama-in-selma-for-edmund-pettus-bridge-attack-anniversary.html\" target=\"_blank\">New York Times\u003c/a>\u003c/em>. “It has become probably as much of a colorblind state as any state in the country, and we’re very proud of the advancement we've made.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"story-body-text story-content\">The stats suggest otherwise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"story-body-text story-content\">Alabama began enforcing strict voter photo ID rules last year. The state is one of the poorest in the nation. More than \u003ca href=\"http://www.census.gov/prod/2013pubs/acsbr11-17.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">30 percent of black and Latino residents live in poverty\u003c/a>. Meanwhile, the state and its school systems remain starkly segregated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"story-body-text story-content\">Take Selma. In 1965, the city's population was nearly evenly divided. But after a half century of white flight, about 80 percent of its 20,000 residents today are black and the town's infrastructure is literally crumbling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"story-body-text story-content\">However, the Selma Country Club still does not have a single black member, the \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/fifty-years-after-bloody-sunday-march-struggles-linger-in-selma/2015/03/05/8ed7a9c6-c348-11e4-ad5c-3b8ce89f1b89_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Post\u003c/a>\u003c/em> reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"story-body-text story-content\">Dallas County, where Selma is located, was ranked poorest in the state last year, with one of the highest child poverty rates in the nation and unemployment hovering above 10 percent -- almost twice the national average. 40 percent of Selma's families, and about two-thirds of its children, live below the poverty line, with a violent crime rate roughly five times the state average, according to U.S. Census figures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"story-body-text story-content\">Early in his speech on Saturday, Obama noted these persistent disparities. Although praising the tremendous gains in equality that have come about as a result of the sacrifices demonstrators here made 50 years ago, the president rejected the notion that racism has been defeated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"story-body-text story-content\">“We don’t need the Ferguson report to know that’s not true,” he said. “We just need to open our eyes and our ears and our hearts to know that this nation’s racial history still casts its long shadow upon us. We know the march is not yet over. We know the race is not yet won. We know reaching that blessed destination where we are judged, all of us, by the content of our character requires admitting as much, facing up to the truth.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/WyIx1qan3v8?list=PLJ8cMiYb3G5df0hNFQxY_CKa8wrUERh-u\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/lowdown/16497/how-far-weve-come-how-far-we-still-have-to-go-50-years-after-bloody-sunday-in-selma-still-miles-to-go-in-fight-for-racial-equality","authors":["1263"],"categories":["lowdown_245","lowdown_2390","lowdown_1","lowdown_457","lowdown_466"],"tags":["lowdown_590","lowdown_589","lowdown_420"],"featImg":"lowdown_16554","label":"lowdown"},"lowdown_13145":{"type":"posts","id":"lowdown_13145","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"lowdown","id":"13145","score":null,"sort":[1401841714000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"a-last-minute-guide-to-californias-top-two-primary-system","title":"Demystifying California's Top-Two Primary System","publishDate":1401841714,"format":"aside","headTitle":"The Lowdown | KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"lowdown"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_2034\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 292px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2012/05/ope_ACGov1.png\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-2034 \" title=\"ope_ACGov\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2012/05/ope_ACGov1-300x212.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"292\" height=\"206\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">acgov.org\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch4>How it works\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>The top-two system made its debut in 2012 after voters approved Proposition 14 two years earlier. But this is the first primary where the new rules take effect in statewide races.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The basic gist: you can vote for any candidate in a particular race regardless of political party affiliation. That’s because every candidate from every party is lumped together in one big political crock pot (yes, that's crock, not crack). And for most state races, any voter can choose a candidate from any party.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two candidates – from any party - that get the most votes in the primary will then face each other in the general election in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_2021\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 229px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2012/05/LAO_ballot.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-2021 size-medium\" title=\"LAO_ballot\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2012/05/LAO_ballot-300x392.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"229\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Part of a sample ballot (California Legislative Analyst's Office)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>These new rules apply to all legislative and state races, but not the presidential race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So for some races this year, you may have noticed a surprisingly long list of candidates on your ballot. That’s because you’re going to see the names of everyone from every party who’s running for that office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For instance:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If two Republicans, two Democrats, and one Libertarian are all running in a primary election for a state assembly seat in your district, you can now vote for any candidate you want, regardless of your own party affiliation. And no matter how many different candidates from different parties are in the primary race, only two candidates will make it to general election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the interesting potential outcomes of this new system is that some primary races could result in two candidates from the same party facing each other in the general election (if they respectively get the first and second highest amount of votes in the primary).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And unlike the old system, third party candidates who aren't within the top two in the primary, won't be on the ballot in November. The new rule also eliminates the possibility of adding on write-in candidates in the general election (again, with the exception of the presidential election).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>For more on how the process works, \u003ca href=\"http://www.acgov.org/rov/documents/TopTwoPresentation.pdf\">Alameda County\u003c/a> provides a good explanation with visuals.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>\u003cstrong>What's the point of this?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>Prop 14 was championed by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger as a means of reforming California’s bitterly divided political system and breaking the gridlock in Sacramento. With a war chest of nearly $5 million, proponents of the measure made the case that an open primary process would force candidates to appeal to voters across party lines and reach a larger swath of the public, resulting in a less divided class of elected officials. Backers also argued that increasing the number of choices on the ballot would boost voter turnout and give more political voice to California’s growing contingent of independent voters (who make up about 20 percent of the electorate).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other side of the debate, both the state’s Republican and Democratic party leaders, as well as a number of smaller parties and big labor unions, strongly denounced the measure on grounds that it would make primary campaigns significantly more expensive (because candidates would need to appeal to voters across party lines) and thus benefit the richest candidates with the most name recognition. Opponents also argued that it would decimate the authority of individual political parties and all but eliminate opportunities for third party candidates to advance to the general election (remember that in the old system, one candidate from every party running in the primary was was guaranteed a spot in November).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the end, though, nearly 54 percent of voters approved the measure, an indication of the public’s growing discontent with California’s political establishment. Some analysts, however, suggested that many of the voters supporting the measure may not have fully understood what they were voting for. And interestingly, San Francisco and Orange County, on opposite ends of California’s political spectrum, were among the only counties to oppose it.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>\u003cstrong>Déjà vu?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>No -- just California politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1996, voters approved Proposition 198, which instituted the “blanket primary.” The system was similar, in that voters could choose any candidate regardless of party affiliation. But it still resulted in one candidate from each party advancing to the general election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The system was challenged in federal court and ultimately struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court in a 7-2 decision on the basis that it violated a political party's First Amendment right of association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More recently, another attempt to institute open primaries in California appeared on the 2004 ballot, but got the smack-down.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":null,"status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1462888948,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":19,"wordCount":787},"headData":{"title":"Demystifying California's Top-Two Primary System | KQED","description":"How it works The top-two system made its debut in 2012 after voters approved Proposition 14 two years earlier. 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But this is the first primary where the new rules take effect in statewide races.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The basic gist: you can vote for any candidate in a particular race regardless of political party affiliation. That’s because every candidate from every party is lumped together in one big political crock pot (yes, that's crock, not crack). And for most state races, any voter can choose a candidate from any party.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two candidates – from any party - that get the most votes in the primary will then face each other in the general election in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_2021\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 229px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2012/05/LAO_ballot.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-2021 size-medium\" title=\"LAO_ballot\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2012/05/LAO_ballot-300x392.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"229\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Part of a sample ballot (California Legislative Analyst's Office)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>These new rules apply to all legislative and state races, but not the presidential race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So for some races this year, you may have noticed a surprisingly long list of candidates on your ballot. That’s because you’re going to see the names of everyone from every party who’s running for that office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For instance:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If two Republicans, two Democrats, and one Libertarian are all running in a primary election for a state assembly seat in your district, you can now vote for any candidate you want, regardless of your own party affiliation. And no matter how many different candidates from different parties are in the primary race, only two candidates will make it to general election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the interesting potential outcomes of this new system is that some primary races could result in two candidates from the same party facing each other in the general election (if they respectively get the first and second highest amount of votes in the primary).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And unlike the old system, third party candidates who aren't within the top two in the primary, won't be on the ballot in November. The new rule also eliminates the possibility of adding on write-in candidates in the general election (again, with the exception of the presidential election).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>For more on how the process works, \u003ca href=\"http://www.acgov.org/rov/documents/TopTwoPresentation.pdf\">Alameda County\u003c/a> provides a good explanation with visuals.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>\u003cstrong>What's the point of this?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>Prop 14 was championed by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger as a means of reforming California’s bitterly divided political system and breaking the gridlock in Sacramento. With a war chest of nearly $5 million, proponents of the measure made the case that an open primary process would force candidates to appeal to voters across party lines and reach a larger swath of the public, resulting in a less divided class of elected officials. Backers also argued that increasing the number of choices on the ballot would boost voter turnout and give more political voice to California’s growing contingent of independent voters (who make up about 20 percent of the electorate).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other side of the debate, both the state’s Republican and Democratic party leaders, as well as a number of smaller parties and big labor unions, strongly denounced the measure on grounds that it would make primary campaigns significantly more expensive (because candidates would need to appeal to voters across party lines) and thus benefit the richest candidates with the most name recognition. Opponents also argued that it would decimate the authority of individual political parties and all but eliminate opportunities for third party candidates to advance to the general election (remember that in the old system, one candidate from every party running in the primary was was guaranteed a spot in November).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the end, though, nearly 54 percent of voters approved the measure, an indication of the public’s growing discontent with California’s political establishment. Some analysts, however, suggested that many of the voters supporting the measure may not have fully understood what they were voting for. And interestingly, San Francisco and Orange County, on opposite ends of California’s political spectrum, were among the only counties to oppose it.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>\u003cstrong>Déjà vu?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>No -- just California politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1996, voters approved Proposition 198, which instituted the “blanket primary.” The system was similar, in that voters could choose any candidate regardless of party affiliation. But it still resulted in one candidate from each party advancing to the general election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The system was challenged in federal court and ultimately struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court in a 7-2 decision on the basis that it violated a political party's First Amendment right of association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More recently, another attempt to institute open primaries in California appeared on the 2004 ballot, but got the smack-down.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/lowdown/13145/a-last-minute-guide-to-californias-top-two-primary-system","authors":["1263"],"categories":["lowdown_2361","lowdown_466"],"tags":["lowdown_500","lowdown_115"],"featImg":"lowdown_3634","label":"lowdown"},"lowdown_10384":{"type":"posts","id":"lowdown_10384","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"lowdown","id":"10384","score":null,"sort":[1386186989000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"ballot-battles-a-history-of-the-voting-rights-act-infographic","title":"A Cartoon History of the Voting Rights Act [Part 1]","publishDate":1386186989,"format":"aside","headTitle":"The Lowdown | KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"lowdown"},"content":"\u003cp>The U.S. Supreme Court in June struck down a key part of the landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965. In the first of his three-part illustrated series on voting rights in America, comic journalist Andy Warner tells the story of the Voting Rights Act. Scroll through the slideshow or read it as a single image graphic below.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2016/08/VRA1_Fullsize_corrected.gif\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2016/08/VRA1_Fullsize_corrected.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"3853\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-30736\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Sources\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n1 & 2: \u003ca href=\"http://faculty.washington.edu/mbarreto/courses/law/davidson_briefhistory.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">The Voting Rights Act: A Brief History\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n(http://faculty.washington.edu/mbarreto/courses/law/davidson_briefhistory.pdf)\u003cbr>\n \u003cbr>\n3: \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/717244-supreme-court-decision-in-shelby-county-v-holder.html\" target=\"_blank\">Supreme Court decision in Shelby v. Holder\u003c/a>\n\u003c/p>\u003cdiv>(https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/717244-supreme-court-decision-in-shelby-county-v-holder.html)\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cstrong>Additional references\u003c/strong>\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n- \u003ca href=\"http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?doc=100&page=transcript\" target=\"_blank\">Voting Rights Act text\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n(http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?doc=100&page=transcript)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>- \u003ca href=\"http://www.socsci.uci.edu/~bgrofman/40%20Grofman-Handley-Impact%20of%20VRA%20on%20representation.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Impact of VRA on southern states\u003cbr>\n\u003c/a>(http://www.socsci.uci.edu/~bgrofman/40%20Grofman-Handley-Impact%20of%20VRA%20on%20representation.pdf)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>- Garrow, David J. \u003cem>Protest at Selma: Martin Luther King and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.\u003c/em> Binghamton, NY: Yale University, 1978\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-9829\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2013/10/SelfPortrait-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"SelfPortrait\" width=\"82\" height=\"82\">\u003cem>Andy Warner's comic journalism has been published by Symbolia, Slate, \u003ca href=\"http://popsci.com/\" target=\"_blank\">popsci.com\u003c/a>, American Public Media, Campus Progress and more. You can see more of his work at: \u003ca href=\"http://andywarnercomics.com/\" target=\"_blank\">andywarnercomics.com\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://andywarnercomics.tumblr.com/\" target=\"_blank\">andywarnercomics.tumblr.com\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":null,"status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1524512438,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":8,"wordCount":206},"headData":{"title":"A Cartoon History of the Voting Rights Act [Part 1] | KQED","description":"The U.S. Supreme Court in June struck down a key part of the landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965. In the first of his three-part illustrated series on voting rights in America, comic journalist Andy Warner tells the story of the Voting Rights Act. 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In the first of his three-part illustrated series on voting rights in America, comic journalist Andy Warner tells the story of the Voting Rights Act. Scroll through the slideshow or read it as a single image graphic below.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2016/08/VRA1_Fullsize_corrected.gif\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2016/08/VRA1_Fullsize_corrected.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"3853\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-30736\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Sources\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n1 & 2: \u003ca href=\"http://faculty.washington.edu/mbarreto/courses/law/davidson_briefhistory.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">The Voting Rights Act: A Brief History\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n(http://faculty.washington.edu/mbarreto/courses/law/davidson_briefhistory.pdf)\u003cbr>\n \u003cbr>\n3: \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/717244-supreme-court-decision-in-shelby-county-v-holder.html\" target=\"_blank\">Supreme Court decision in Shelby v. Holder\u003c/a>\n\u003c/p>\u003cdiv>(https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/717244-supreme-court-decision-in-shelby-county-v-holder.html)\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cstrong>Additional references\u003c/strong>\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n- \u003ca href=\"http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?doc=100&page=transcript\" target=\"_blank\">Voting Rights Act text\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n(http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?doc=100&page=transcript)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>- \u003ca href=\"http://www.socsci.uci.edu/~bgrofman/40%20Grofman-Handley-Impact%20of%20VRA%20on%20representation.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Impact of VRA on southern states\u003cbr>\n\u003c/a>(http://www.socsci.uci.edu/~bgrofman/40%20Grofman-Handley-Impact%20of%20VRA%20on%20representation.pdf)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>- Garrow, David J. \u003cem>Protest at Selma: Martin Luther King and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.\u003c/em> Binghamton, NY: Yale University, 1978\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-9829\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2013/10/SelfPortrait-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"SelfPortrait\" width=\"82\" height=\"82\">\u003cem>Andy Warner's comic journalism has been published by Symbolia, Slate, \u003ca href=\"http://popsci.com/\" target=\"_blank\">popsci.com\u003c/a>, American Public Media, Campus Progress and more. You can see more of his work at: \u003ca href=\"http://andywarnercomics.com/\" target=\"_blank\">andywarnercomics.com\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://andywarnercomics.tumblr.com/\" target=\"_blank\">andywarnercomics.tumblr.com\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/lowdown/10384/ballot-battles-a-history-of-the-voting-rights-act-infographic","authors":["7506"],"categories":["lowdown_391","lowdown_256","lowdown_588","lowdown_457","lowdown_466"],"tags":["lowdown_50","lowdown_218","lowdown_420"],"featImg":"lowdown_10392","label":"lowdown"},"lowdown_10596":{"type":"posts","id":"lowdown_10596","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"lowdown","id":"10596","score":null,"sort":[1386079204000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"10596","title":"How the Supreme Court Stripped the Voting Rights Act of its Muscle [Part 2]","publishDate":1386079204,"format":"aside","headTitle":"The Lowdown | KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"lowdown"},"content":"\u003cp>The U.S. Supreme Court's decision in June to strike down a key part of the Voting Rights Act significantly weakens the federal government's authority to prevent voter discrimination in state and local elections. In the second of his three-part illustrated series on voting rights in America, Andy Warner explains the court's decision and the immediate implications of the ruling (see\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/2013/11/05/voting-rights\" target=\"_blank\"> part 1 here\u003c/a>). View the full graphic below the slideshow.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2016/08/SupremeCourt_2_full_typocorrect1.gif\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2016/08/SupremeCourt_2_full_typocorrect1.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"3822\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-30737\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sources\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1. \u003ca href=\"www.census.gov/hhes/www/socdemo/voting/publications/p20/2012/tables.html\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. Census data on voting rates\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>2. \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/717244-supreme-court-decision-in-shelby-county-v-holder.html\" target=\"_blank\">Shelby v. Holder decision \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-9829\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2013/10/SelfPortrait-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"SelfPortrait\" width=\"82\" height=\"82\">\u003cem>Andy Warner's comic journalism has been published by Symbolia, Slate, \u003ca href=\"http://popsci.com/\" target=\"_blank\">popsci.com\u003c/a>, American Public Media, Campus Progress and more. You can see more of his work at: \u003ca href=\"http://andywarnercomics.com/\" target=\"_blank\">andywarnercomics.com\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://andywarnercomics.tumblr.com/\" target=\"_blank\">andywarnercomics.tumblr.com\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":null,"status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1524512488,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":8,"wordCount":129},"headData":{"title":"How the Supreme Court Stripped the Voting Rights Act of its Muscle [Part 2] | KQED","description":"The U.S. Supreme Court's decision in June to strike down a key part of the Voting Rights Act significantly weakens the federal government's authority to prevent voter discrimination in state and local elections. 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In the second of his three-part illustrated series on voting rights in America, Andy Warner explains the court's decision and the immediate implications of the ruling (see\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/2013/11/05/voting-rights\" target=\"_blank\"> part 1 here\u003c/a>). View the full graphic below the slideshow.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2016/08/SupremeCourt_2_full_typocorrect1.gif\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2016/08/SupremeCourt_2_full_typocorrect1.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"3822\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-30737\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sources\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1. \u003ca href=\"www.census.gov/hhes/www/socdemo/voting/publications/p20/2012/tables.html\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. Census data on voting rates\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>2. \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/717244-supreme-court-decision-in-shelby-county-v-holder.html\" target=\"_blank\">Shelby v. Holder decision \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-9829\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2013/10/SelfPortrait-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"SelfPortrait\" width=\"82\" height=\"82\">\u003cem>Andy Warner's comic journalism has been published by Symbolia, Slate, \u003ca href=\"http://popsci.com/\" target=\"_blank\">popsci.com\u003c/a>, American Public Media, Campus Progress and more. You can see more of his work at: \u003ca href=\"http://andywarnercomics.com/\" target=\"_blank\">andywarnercomics.com\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://andywarnercomics.tumblr.com/\" target=\"_blank\">andywarnercomics.tumblr.com\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/lowdown/10596/10596","authors":["7506"],"categories":["lowdown_391","lowdown_256","lowdown_588","lowdown_457","lowdown_466"],"tags":["lowdown_86","lowdown_420"],"featImg":"lowdown_10601","label":"lowdown"},"lowdown_10784":{"type":"posts","id":"lowdown_10784","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"lowdown","id":"10784","score":null,"sort":[1385992811000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"ballot-battles-part-3-a-new-generation-of-voting-barriers","title":"A New Era of Voter Suppression [Part 3]","publishDate":1385992811,"format":"aside","headTitle":"The Lowdown | KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"lowdown"},"content":"\u003cp>Almost immediately after the Supreme Court's decision last June to strike down a key oversight provision in the Voting Rights Act, a handful of states enacted controversial new voting rules that had previously been barred. In the third part of his illustrated series (see \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/2013/11/05/voting-rights\" target=\"_blank\">part 1\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/2013/11/15/supreme-court-voting-rights\" target=\"_blank\">part 2\u003c/a>), Andy Warner explains some of these changes. View the full graphic below the slideshow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2016/08/TheStates_full_revision.gif\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2016/08/TheStates_full_revision.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"4260\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-30738\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":null,"status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1524512570,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":4,"wordCount":66},"headData":{"title":"A New Era of Voter Suppression [Part 3] | KQED","description":"Almost immediately after the Supreme Court's decision last June to strike down a key oversight provision in the Voting Rights Act, a handful of states enacted controversial new voting rules that had previously been barred. 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In the third part of his illustrated series (see \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/2013/11/05/voting-rights\" target=\"_blank\">part 1\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/2013/11/15/supreme-court-voting-rights\" target=\"_blank\">part 2\u003c/a>), Andy Warner explains some of these changes. 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