voting rights

Active-duty U.S. service members are complaining that the Pentagon has not given them enough absentee ballots to vote in time for Election Day, prompting three Republican congressmen to demand answers from Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin.

During an interview aired on Friday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace,” Biden 2024 Co-Chair Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC) defended President Joe Biden urging the DNC to move South Carolina ahead of Iowa and New Hampshire in the

The Labour Party is reportedly set to campaign on the promise to expand voting rights to millions of EU citizens and 16 and 17-year-olds.

President Joe Biden is suggesting support for allowing foreign nationals, including diplomats of foreign countries like China and Russia, to vote in local Washington, DC elections.

A group of Senate Republicans is hoping to pass a joint resolution that will overturn a new law, approved by Democrats on the Washington, DC, City Council, that extends municipal voting rights to illegal aliens.

A handful of black Americans, residing in New York City, have filed a federal lawsuit against the city’s Board of Elections for a local law that would allow nearly a million foreign nationals to vote in citywide elections. 

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) heads into the November midterm election against Trump-endorsed Kelly Tshibka having voted with Senate Democrats nine times in the last two years.

A San Francisco, California, law that allowed illegal aliens and other foreign nationals to vote in some local elections was struck down in court late last week.

During a Wednesday appearance on Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show,” Georgia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams argued the Democrats’ efforts to loosen voting rights laws in the United States was akin to the war in Ukraine in which Russia invaded the Eastern European country.

Black Americans in New York City, New York have filed a lawsuit against the city for giving municipal voting rights to nearly a million foreign nationals. 

During an interview on this week’s Fox News Channel broadcast of “Sunday Night in America,” Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) slammed the notion of “voter suppression.”

Arizona’s Democrat Party on Saturday formally censured Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) for blocking the party’s voting-rights legislation. 

White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Friday on ABC’s “The View” that “pissed off” voting rights advocates should “go to kickboxing class, have a margarita” before resuming their fight.

Thursday on CNN’s “New Day,” Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC) agreed with President Joe Biden questioning the legitimacy of the 2022 midterm elections depending on the passage of voting rights legislation.

Senate Republicans blocked consideration of two “voting rights” bills on Wednesday night, setting the stage for Democrats to try remove the legislative filibuster.

While speaking to reporters on Tuesday, Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) stated that there are already laws and rules in place to ensure people “have the right to vote. We have that.” And even though people “act like we’re going to

Republicans are on the the side of Martin Luther King, while Biden and Democrats are on the side of George Wallace, Rep. Drew Ferguson said.

Senator Ed Markey (D-MA) said Tuesday on MSNBC’s “Hallie Jackson Reports” that it was the Republican Party’s “business plan to suppress black and brown votes in order to gain an electoral advantage in 2022.”

Tuesday on “CNN Newsroom,” Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs pushed for the passage of voting rights legislation to preserve the United States’ “democracy.”

Democratic strategist Paul Begala on Monday reacted to Arndrea Waters King, the daughter-in-law of Martin Luther King, Jr. saying President Joe Biden has put more effort in getting infrastructure legislation passed than voting rights legislation.

During a Tuesday interview with CBS’s “Mornings,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) claimed that GOP-led state legislatures across the United States are trying to prevent “black people, brown people, college students” and “people who live on tribal reservations” from voting.

For the left, no holiday is off-limits for shameless political flacking. On Monday, Hollywood celebrities used Martin Luther King Day to push the Democrats’ “voting rights” bills that are designed to seize election oversight power from states and roll back measures including voter identification requirements.

Senator Raphael Warnock (D-GA) said Monday on ABC’s “The View” that Republican lawmakers not supporting the Democrats’ voting legislation were “anti-American.”

Senator Tim Kaine (D -VA) said Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation” that Senate Democrats had “a couple of different paths” to pass voting legislation without Republican support.

House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-SC) backed President Joe Biden and said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week” that Republican state legislature passing voting legislation was “Jim Crow 2.0.”

Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA) said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that there has been too much scrutiny on red states voting legislation when several blue states have restrictive laws.

House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-SC) said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that former President Donald Trump and those who “showed up” at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021 were “domestic enemies.”

House Democrats this week blocked a plan that would have required states to remove foreign nationals from voter rolls. 

On Thursday, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) pushed back against President Joe Biden’s voting legislation.

Vice President Kamala Harris said Wednesday in a preview clip of her interview with NBC’s “Today Show” that she would “not absolve” any senators from the responsibility of passing the Democrats voting legislation, including Sens. Joe Manchin (D-WA) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ).

Psaki admitted that Biden’s speech “clearly struck a nerve” but pointed to Republican support for election integrity laws as evidence that they were opposed to voting rights.

Wednesday, Sen. Steve Daines (R-MT) criticized President Joe Biden’s voting rights legislation that would federalize elections.

CNN anchor Jake Tapper pointed out Tuesday on his show “The Lead” that Democrats were only complaining about voting restrictions in red states, while blue states like New Jersey and Delaware did not allow ballot harvesting.

President Biden repeated a false claim that the new Georgia voting law denies voters access to food and drink in line, when it specifically provides for water.

Host Whoopi Goldberg said Tuesday on ABC’s “The View” that black people were “where we were under the Emancipation Proclamation” while discussing voting rights with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY).

Tuesday on FNC’s “Fox & Friends,” Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) weighed in on the Democrats’ push to pass voting rights legislation that would federalize elections.