Voter Suppression

Most of the people arrested had received voter ID cards and thought they were eligible to vote, according to court documents.

Earlier this month the Florida Gulf Coast University Library Archives and Special Collections’ hosted a virtual panel discussion in conjunction with their current digital exhibition titled, “Fight for the Ballot: Voting Rights in the 20th Century.”The panel discussion called, “The Right to Vote – Under Attack Again!” was moderated by WGCU’s John Davis and included legal and voting rights experts C. Ronald Ellington, Howard Simon and Jennifer Scuteri all discussing voter suppression, gerrymandering and the impact of elections.With just over a week until the Nov. 3 General Election, we present that panel discussion.

Today is National Voter Registration Day, the largest one-day effort to register voters in the U.S. Local registration events were hosted this morning by…