Category Archives: Voting Rights

Voter Intimidation: Do not let your right to vote be discouraged.

Voter Intimidation Voter intimidation involves putting undue pressure on or trying to coerce a person or group to suppress votes or to vote a certain way. There is an ugly history of voter intimidation targeting low-income and minority voters.  More recently, deceptive election practices have become more widespread, taking the place of historical state-sanctioned discrimination in voting like  literacy tests and

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Know your voting rights: What are Deceptive Practices?

Deceptive practices are the dissemination of false or misleading information about elections and the voting process in order to alter the outcome of the election and to prevent eligible voters from casting their ballots. American history is peppered with examples of individuals, political operatives and organizations using these misleading and intimidating tactics to prevent voters from participating in the electoral

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