Justice
October 30, 2008 -
The following voting rights index appeared in the latest issue of our Facing South e-newsletter. If you're not already receiving that, please go to the form in the upper-righthand corner of this page and sign up.
October 28, 2008 -
The St. Petersburg Times reports that more than 12,000 voters are now on Florida's "no match" list -- meaning their identities have not been verified and their votes could be uncounted on Election Day:
October 28, 2008 -
The Southern Poverty Law Center offers new information today on one of the two white supremacists who allegedly hatched a plot
October 27, 2008 -
It's a classic voter-suppression strategy: send out misinformation to voters about the day of the election.
October 27, 2008 -
Federal agents have broken up a plot allegedly hatched by two neo-Nazi skinheads from Tennessee and Arkansas to assassinate Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, the Associated Press reports.
October 27, 2008 -
Some pundits would like to see the Voting Rights Act done away with -- particularly its provisions mandating special oversight of most Southern states because of their history of racially motivated vote
October 24, 2008 -
The federal appeals court in Atlanta today stayed the execution of Troy Davis, who was scheduled to be put to death by lethal injection Monday evening.