Voter Stories

I called the Registrar's office in January of this year to make sure I was still properly registered. I was assured that I was.

However, during our conversation, he mentioned

I walked into the polling place along with my wife and handed the poll worker my card and they went through the rolls and told me that I wasn't in

I turned 18 in 2000. In Hampton, Va., I attempted to vote for the first time. However, I was not educated on voting rights. I was turned away from voting because

In Cleveland, Ohio, with the recent voter ID law changes, provisional ballot rules. This led to a large number of people's votes not counting in recent elections.

I recruited several homeless people to put voting education material on cars parked outside a local grocery store. We had pre-approval from the grocery store. Nevertheless, police gave one of my

I was able to vote, but had issues with my address despite having updated it. At my polling place, I had to stand off to the side for 30 minutes

The first time that my friends attempted to vote, they encountered many people that attempted to discourage them from voting. They were provided with an enormous amount of false information.

Thousands of voters will be purged from the roster within the next three months. Our NAACP branch is working on alerting those individuals.

During a recent national election at the voting site, the pollsters were asking people for identification before they were able to vote. We had to complain regarding mandating identification prior to

In Texas voter suppression is real, this year I met a young black man who was denied the ability to vote due to him not having an ID. He didn’t