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Virginia, voting rights, and the removal of the preclearance requirement

Dustin Cable
June 26, 2013

The recent Supreme Court decision on the Voting Right Act will have wide repercussions, particularly for Virginia, a state which was previously held to the preclearance requirement that was just struck down on Tuesday.For those who are unfamiliar with the…

New Demographic Data on the 2012 Presidential Election

Dustin Cable
June 5, 2013

The recent release of the Census Bureau’s Voting and Registration data from the Current Population Survey finally allows us to look deeper into the population that turned out to vote this last November. And the results are quite astonishing.For the first…