#righttovote — Public Fediverse posts

Today is the anniversary of the right to vote for Women in the United States.

Christian nationalists, whose ideas are powerful in the Trump administration, want to repeal women’s right to vote. They say that voting should be by household and that women must defer to men.

Hard to believe, but true - the right of women to keep the vote is at stake in these midterm elections.

#USPOL #RightToVote

Antisemitism and Anti-Zionism aren't the same thing in the same way that misogyny and anti-suffragism aren't the same thing.

#Antisemitism #Antizionism #RightToVote #Democracy

Feb 26-27: Free Black History Month Screenings of "Vigilantes Inc." in Georgia

Join MAJ Gamaliel W. Turner Sr. (RET.) for two special Black History Month screenings of Greg Palast’s award-winning documentary,

"Vigilantes Inc.: America’s New Vote Suppression Hitmen",

narrated by Rosario Dawson and introduced by Martin Sheen.

26th FEB @ 6:00 PM
Mt. Pleasant Missionary Baptist Church
3601 Youmans Street, Columbus, GA
Sponsored b y Rev. Mahundis Brice

27th FEB @ 6:00PM
New Bethel AME Church
3404 Victory Drive, Columbus, GA
Sponsored by Rev. Robyn Lynn Burnett

https://www.gregpalast.com/feb-26-27-free-black-history-screenings-of-vigilantes-inc-in-ga/

#Election2026 #Election2028 #ElectionIntegrity #VoterSuppression #ProtectTheVote #RightToVote #BlackVotersMatter #BlackHistoryMonth #BlackHistoryMonthEvents #GeorgiaEvents

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/31/save-act-voting-arwa-mahdawi

The SAVE Act would force voters to show original citizenship documents matching their CURRENT name. Many people lack originals, and married women who changed names often don’t have updated birth certificates

#SaveAct #vote #Equality #Equalrights #Civilrights #RightToVote

#Women #Voting #RightToVote #SAVEAct

https://open.substack.com/pub/meggietravinski/p/out-of-reach?r=20nwza&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

"The fact that so many men on the right are more determined than ever to silence women’s voices and strip women of their votes is strong proof that the impact of women is, as they feared, existential to their extremist worldview.

Their panic, which has now led them to bizarrely call for a world without empathy, confirms that women are leading us along the correct path and must continue to press ahead, no turning back."

#women #WomenVoters #19thAmendment #RighttoVote #patriarchy
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"Increasingly, for many in MAGA, the move to overturn the 19th Amendment poses an existential question. Prominent voices in the white Christian nationalist movement—one now deeply enmeshed with MAGA—view the repeal of women’s right to vote as more than about winning an election. It is a means to return to Biblical principles and a necessary step toward creating a theocracy in the United States."

#women #WomenVoters #19thAmendment #RighttoVote #patriarchy #MaleEntlitlement #MaleDomination
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"According to last week’s exit polls, women—particularly young women—broke strongly for Democrats and were arguably directly responsible for the Republican rout that we saw on November 4."

~ Todd Beeton

#women #WomenVoters #19thAmendment #RighttoVote #patriarchy #MaleEntlitlement #MaleDomination #Republicans
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https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/repeal-19th-amendment-christian-nationalism

"Not sure which is more disturbing: that so many men want to turn back the clock on women’s suffrage or that they are so willing to post such regressive beliefs proudly and publicly.

Either way, it’s clear that this move to repeal women’s voting rights has taken hold in corners of the conservative movement."

#MAGA #Republicans #women #WomensRights #RighttoVote #19thAmendment #patriarchy #MaleEntitlement #MaleDomination
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"In the aftermath of last week’s blue wave election rout, the 19th Amendment has been trending on X. Turns out, some MAGA men are sick and tired of women driving Democratic electoral victories. As a remedy, they are openly calling for the repeal of the 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote upon its ratification in 1920."

~ The Big Picture

#MAGA #Republicans #women #WomensRights #RighttoVote #19thAmendment #patriarchy #MaleEntitlement #MaleDomination
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https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/week-big-picture-november-12

A Republican and an Unaffiliated Voter join forces at Saturday morning's "No Kings" protest in Lewistown. #nokings #nokingsprotest #protest #protestmarch #protestrally #lewistown #mifflincounty #voters #voting #righttovote #votingrights #democracy #civilrights #exercisingrights

#VisuallyImpaired #voters sue #NewHampshire over changes to #Absentee #BallotAccess

The plaintiffs say the new law will deter some voters with #disabilities from participating in the democratic process at all, even after they have registered to vote

By Steven Porter Globe Staff, Updated August 21, 2025, 9:30 a.m.

"Three people with visual impairments are suing New Hampshire officials to challenge the constitutionality of a law that will soon tighten #PhotoID requirements for voters seeking an #AbsenteeBallot.

"The plaintiffs — Adele Robertson of #ExeterNH, Daniel Frye of #ConcordNH, and Regina Wilson of #BrentwoodNH — allege the new law, known as #SenateBill287, will impose a significant burden on every #AbsenteeVoter statewide.

" 'And, in some cases, these burdens will entirely prevent voters from exercising their #RightToVote,' their lawsuit states.
Under the new rules imposed by #SB287, voters will be required to either bring a photo ID to their local election officials to request an absentee ballot in person, or submit a copy of their ID or a notarized signature along with their application.
While proponents said the legislation will better protect election integrity, critics said the changes will add barriers that disproportionately impact #seniors, voters with #disabilities, and those living in #rural parts of the state."

Read more:
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/21/metro/nh-blind-disabilities-voters-absentee-ballots/

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/DWXKG

#VoterDisenfranchisement #DisabilityRights #USPol #NHPol #AbsenteeVoting #USElections

A quotation from Franklin Roosevelt

Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves — and the only way they could do this is by not voting.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945) American lawyer, politician, statesman, US President (1933-1945)
Radio Broadcast (1944-10-05)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/roosevelt-franklin-d…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #fdr #franklinroosevelt #franklindroosevelt #America #apathy #democracy #righttovote #selfdefeating #vote #voting #votingrights

Secretary of Defense #PeteHegseth, who oversees about 3 million #military service members and #civilian employees, reposted a video last week advocating repealing the #19th #Amendment, which #guarantees #women the #righttovote. The video is an excerpt from CNN anchor Pamela Brown's interview with Christian nationalist pastor Doug Wilson, who Brown reports believes "women shouldn't be able to vote." https://apnews.com/article/women-hegseth-defense-secretary-religion-d962f472910fb47a0c66cd37b01f550d #christian #nationalism

All big changes came from the people not politicians.
#AbolitionofSlavery
#FreeSpeech
#TradeUnions
#RightToVote
#WorkersRights
#WomensSuffrage
#EndofApartheidinSouthAfrica

We will win. Palestine will be free

@usa See source post for details! #TheGriffinList #NorthCarolina #Ballot reverification.
#RightToVote

The Griffin List

What Is A #PollTax? Definition and Examples

By Robert Longley, July 27, 2022

Excerpt: "In the United States, the origin of the poll tax—and the controversy surrounding it—is associated with the agrarian unrest of the 1880s and 1890s, which culminated in the rise of the Populist Party in the Western and the Southern states. The Populists, representing low-income farmers, gave Democrats in these areas the only serious competition that they had experienced since the end of Reconstruction. The competition led both parties to see the need to attract Black citizens back into politics and to compete for their vote. As the Democrats defeated the Populists, they amended their state constitutions or drafted new ones to include various discriminatory disfranchising devices. When the payment of the poll tax was made a prerequisite to voting, impoverished #BlackPeople and often #PoorWhitePeople, unable to afford the tax, were denied the #RightToVote.

"During the post-Civil War Reconstruction Era in the United States, the former states of the Confederacy repurposed the poll tax explicitly to prevent formerly enslaved #BlackAmericans from voting. Although the #14thAmendment and #15thAmendment [s] gave Black men full #citizenship and #VotingRights, the power to determine what constituted a qualified voter was left to the states. Beginning with Mississippi in 1890, #SouthernStates quickly exploited this legal loophole. At its 1890 constitutional convention, Mississippi imposed a $2.00 poll tax and early registration as a requirement for voting. This had catastrophic results for the Black electorate. Whereas approximately 87,000 Black citizens registered to vote in 1869, representing almost 97% of the eligible voting-age population, fewer than 9,000 of them registered to vote after the state’s new constitution took effect in 1892.

"Between 1890 and 1902, all eleven former #Confederate states imposed some form of a poll tax to deter Black Americans from voting. The tax, which ranged from $1 to $2, was prohibitively expensive for most Black sharecroppers, who earned their wages in crops, not currency. Beyond the cost, voter registration and tax payment offices were usually located in public spaces designed to intimidate potential voters, like courthouses and police stations.

"The southern states also enacted #JimCrowLaws intended to reinforce #RacialSegregation and restrict Black voting rights. Along with the poll tax, most of these states also imposed literacy tests, which required potential voters to read and interpret in writing sections of the state constitution. So-called 'grandfather clauses' allowed a person to vote without paying the poll tax or passing the literacy test if their father or grandfather had voted before the abolition of slavery in 1865; a stipulation that automatically precluded all formerly enslaved persons. Together, the grandfather clause and the literacy tests effectively restored voting rights to poorer White voters who could not pay the poll tax, while further suppressing the Black vote.

"Poll taxes of varying stipulations lingered in Southern states well into the 20th century. While some states abolished the tax in the years after World War I, others retained it. Ratified in 1964, the #24thAmendment to the #USConstitution declared the tax unconstitutional in federal elections.

"Specifically, the 24th Amendment states:

'The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice President, for electors for President or Vice President, or for Senator or Representative in Congress, shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any state by reason of failure to pay any poll tax or other tax.'

"President Lyndon B. Johnson called the amendment a 'triumph of liberty over restriction.' 'It is a verification of people's rights, which are rooted so deeply in the mainstream of this nation's history,' he said.

"The #VotingRightsAct of 1965 created significant changes in the voting status of Black Americans throughout the South. The law prohibited the states from using literacy tests and other methods of excluding Black Americans from voting. Before this, only an estimated twenty-three percent of voting-age Black citizens were registered nationally, but by 1969 the number had jumped to sixty-one percent.

"In 1966 the U.S. Supreme Court went beyond the Twenty-fourth Amendment by ruling in the case of Harper v. Virginia Board of Elections that under the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, states could not levy a poll tax as a prerequisite for voting in state and local elections. In two months in the spring of 1966, federal courts declared poll tax laws unconstitutional in the last four states that still had them, starting with Texas on February 9. Similar decisions soon followed in Alabama and Virginia. Mississippi's $2.00 poll tax (about $18 today) was the last to fall, declared unconstitutional on April 8, 1966."

https://www.thoughtco.com/poll-tax-definition-and-examples-5443130
#VoterDisenfranchisement #USPol #USHistory #TwentyFourthAmendment #FourteenthAmendment #FifteenthAmendment #VoterRights #LiteracyTests #USElections #VoterSuppression #BlackAmericans

Thank you #HeatherCoxRichardson for putting things into perspective...
" On August 6th, Dr. King and Mrs. Boynton were guests of honor as President Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Recalling the outrage of Selma, Johnson said, this right to vote is the basic right without which all others are meaningless. It gives people, people as individuals, control over their own destinies."
Let's not forget that of all the rights Americans enjoy, the #RightToVote is the most consequential!
#LyndonJohnson #BloodySunday #GOPVoterSuppression
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-7-2025-06b?utm_source=podcast-email&publication_id=20533&post_id=158663199&utm_campaign=email-play-on-substack&utm_content=listen_now_button&r=2hbrmw&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email