An election in which people have to wait 10 hours to vote, or in which black voters wait in the rain for hours, while white voters zip through polling places, is unworthy of the world's leading democracy.

Supporters of tough voter ID laws are not afraid of vote fraud - they are afraid of democracy.

Some of my favorite things are the white jackets with the black zippers, that just zip and that's it.

Some of my favorite things are the white jackets with the black zippers, that just zip and that's it,

Federal law should hold organizations like the League of Women Voters harmless if they make good-faith mistakes while registering people.

Republicans and blacks had an unlikely alliance around 'max black' after the 1990 census. By concentrating black voters in some districts, the strategy elected a record number of black congressmen in 1992. But the remaining 'bleached' districts were more likely to elect white Republicans.