voter id

FREE SPEECH ZONE | The Little Engine that Could: How Minnesotans Beat the Voter ID Amendment

By Free Speech Zone

Sherri Knuth is Policy and Outreach Manager for League of Women Voters Minnesota.

“Victory has a thousand fathers,” President John F.

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Income, geography, and the amendments: A look at the association between income and voting

By Sally Jo Sorensen, Bluestem Prairie

There's much map-posting going on about votes on the amendments that were on Minnesota's ballots, with some expressing surprise that the voter restriction amendment fared so poorly in Greater Minnesota.

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Bluestem Prairie

Interesting differences between Voter and Marriage restriction amendment votes

By Joe Bodell, Minnesota Progressive Project

You may have heard that Minnesota rejected two conservative-backed constitutional amendments yesterday. But how and why turn out to be very interesting questions.

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Minnesota Progressive Project

Winona Co $1 million voter restriction bill would suck up money better spent on real problems

By Sally Jo Sorensen, Bluestem Prairie

Since mid-summer, Bluestem has been reading reports in Greater Minnesota newspapers detailing the concerns of local officials about the potential costs of the voter restriction amendment.

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Bluestem Prairie

Voting this election can be a complicated matter for Native Americans

By Allison Herrera, The Uptake

Native American voters may be in the minority across the country. But, in Minneapolis, Minnesota which has one of the highest concentration of Native Americans in the country, their votes on local issues and candidates add up, and politicians are paying attention.

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“I have a bullet in my foot from trying to vote!”: Voter ID and the value of the vote

By Michele Garnett McKenzie, The Advocates for Human Rights

I’m sitting in my office, catching up with a former client. A member of the political opposition who fled Cameroon and sought asylum nearly a decade ago, she had stopped by to show me her new U.S. passport. Our talk turned to the November elections—she was so proud to finally be an American citizen and to be voting for the first time in the United States.

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The Advocates for Human Rights
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