While Norah covers the the end (maybe) of the Jim Crow era of voter disenfranchisement, I’ll take a look at the fresh new era of voter disenfranchisement: electronic voting machines gone predictably amuck. This week, the State of California completed its investigation into why their electronic voting machines quietly deleted 197 ballots in the November…
More than forty years after the Voting Rights Act of 1965, can the United States Justice Department trust voting jurisdictions with long histories of discrimination to make their own laws? As the Supreme Court prepares to hear a case involving Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, The New Yorker’s Jeffery Toobin discusses the modern…
Each year, after the publication of the Global Integrity Report, we ask our field staff — some 274 researchers and journalists located around the world — what they thought about our online collaboration and methodology. This is what they said, unedited and anonymous. Global Integrity is the field staff – they’re 95 percent of the…