Electoral Manipulation
The Electoral Manipulation capture lane traces 425 verified events documenting this mechanism of institutional capture.
Activity over time
Events per year
| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008-01-01 | Hans von Spakovsky Joins Heritage Foundation to Lead Voter Suppression Infrastructure Development Hans von Spakovsky · Heritage Foundation · American Legislative Exchange Council · Council for National Policy · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2007-06-25 | DOJ Voting Section Politicization: Bush Administration Weaponizes Civil Rights Division for Voter Suppression Alberto Gonzales · Hans von Spakovsky · Bradley Schlozman · John Tanner · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2006-12-07 | Bush Administration Fires 9 U.S. Attorneys for Political Reasons Alberto Gonzales · Karl Rove · David Iglesias · Carol Lam · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2006-07-27 | Voting Rights Act Reauthorization of 2006: 25-Year Extension Passes with Bipartisan Supermajority Before Conservative Legal Assault George W. Bush · U.S. Congress · James Sensenbrenner · John Lewis · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2005-12-16 | New York Times Exposes NSA Warrantless Surveillance Program James Risen · Eric Lichtblau · New York Times · George W. Bush · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2005-08-25 | Hans von Spakovsky Overrules DOJ Career Staff to Approve Georgia Voter ID Law Targeting Black Voters Hans von Spakovsky · Department of Justice Civil Rights Division · Georgia Legislature · Harold Murphy · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2005-05-23 | Trump Launches "Trump University" Real Estate Seminars Without Academic License or Accreditation Donald Trump · Michael Sexton | confirmed | |
| 2004-11-02 | Diebold Voting Machine Irregularities in Ohio 2004 Presidential Election Walden O'Dell · John Conyers · Kenneth Blackwell · Matt Damschroder | confirmed | |
| 2004-11-02 | Ohio Evangelical Turnout Delivers Bush Reelection: "Values Voters" Become the Decisive Electoral Bloc George W. Bush · Ken Blackwell · Rod Parsley · Russell Johnson | confirmed | |
| 2004-06-24 | Supreme Court Protects Cheney Energy Task Force Secrecy Dick Cheney · U.S. Supreme Court · Anthony Kennedy · Antonin Scalia · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2004-06-04 | Stewart v. Blackwell Applies Bush v. Gore Equal Protection Precedent to Ohio Voting Disparities Sixth Circuit Court · Ohio Secretary of State · Ken Blackwell · Stewart v. Blackwell plaintiffs · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2003-01-01 | State Policy Network Organizational Profile: Coordinating 66 State Think Tanks for Synchronized Corporate Capture State Policy Network · Thomas A. Roe · Bradley Foundation · DonorsTrust · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2002-10-29 | Help America Vote Act Signed: Provisional Ballots, Voter ID, and Electronic Voting Vulnerabilities George W. Bush · U.S. Election Assistance Commission | confirmed | |
| 2002-09-15 | Major Network News Divisions Integrate WHIG Messaging Guidelines White House Iraq Group · Dick Cheney · Karl Rove · Condoleezza Rice · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2001-10-26 | Bush Signs PATRIOT Act After 45-Day Rush with Minimal Debate George W. Bush · Russ Feingold · Tom Daschle · Jim Sensenbrenner · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2000-12-12 | Supreme Court Delivers Partisan Bush v. Gore Decision with Corporate Legal Team Involvement George W. Bush · Al Gore · William Rehnquist · Sandra Day O'Connor · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2000-12-09 | Supreme Court Grants Bush Emergency Stay with Scalia's "Irreparable Harm" Logic Antonin Scalia · Supreme Court Conservative Majority · William Rehnquist · Clarence Thomas · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2000-11-26 | Katherine Harris Certifies Bush Victory While Serving as Campaign Co-Chair Katherine Harris · George W. Bush · Jeb Bush · Mac Stipanovich · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2000-11-08 | James Baker Coordinates Bush Supreme Court Election Strategy from Day One James Baker III · Katherine Harris · George W. Bush · Mac Stipanovich · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2000-01-01 | CNP and Federalist Society Coordination - Leonard Leo Links Judicial and Political Networks Council for National Policy · Federalist Society · Leonard Leo · Clarence Thomas | confirmed | |
| 2000-01-01 | Florida Disenfranchises 1.4 Million Citizens Through Felony Voting Bans, Highest Rate in Nation Florida Legislature · The Sentencing Project | confirmed | |
| 1998-02-07 | James Dobson Threatens to Lead Evangelical Exodus from GOP: Focus on the Family Demonstrates Political Leverage James Dobson · Focus on the Family · Republican Party | confirmed | |
| 1997-10-04 | Promise Keepers' "Stand in the Gap" Rally Fills National Mall: Masculine Christianity as Political Infrastructure Bill McCartney · Promise Keepers | confirmed | |
| 1997-01-01 | Felon Disenfranchisement Expansion: States Tighten Voting Bans as Prison Population Explodes State Legislatures · American Legislative Exchange Council · The Sentencing Project · Republican Governors | confirmed | |
| 1996-07-03 | Oligarchs Bankroll Yeltsin Re-election Victory: 'Seven Bankers' Control 50-70% of Russia's Economy Through Loans-for-Shares Deal Boris Yeltsin · Boris Berezovsky · Mikhail Khodorkovsky · Vladimir Gusinsky · +4 | confirmed | |
| 1996-06-18 | Chinese Military Intelligence Funnels Campaign Donations Through Johnny Chung Johnny Chung · Ji Shengde · Bill Clinton · Democratic National Committee · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1995-04-01 | IMF Approves $6.8 Billion Russia Loan With Structural Adjustment Conditions: Second Largest Loan in IMF History Fails to Stabilize Economy International Monetary Fund · Boris Yeltsin · Bill Clinton · G-7 · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1994-11-08 | California Proposition 187 Passes 59-41, Galvanizes Latino Voter Mobilization Pete Wilson · California voters · Latino civil rights organizations · American Civil Liberties Union | confirmed | |
| 1994-11-08 | Republicans Win Historic Midterm Election with Contract with America Newt Gingrich · Dick Armey · Richard Mellon Scaife · Joseph Coors · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1994-01-01 | Jack Abramoff Joins Preston Gates - Launches Tribal Lobbying Practice Jack Abramoff · Preston Gates & Ellis · Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians · Nell Rogers · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1993-05-20 | National Voter Registration Act (Motor Voter): Expands Registration Access Despite Republican Opposition and Implementation Resistance Bill Clinton · U.S. Congress · Republican Governors · ACORN · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1993-01-01 | Grover Norquist Wednesday Meetings Begin - Conservative Coordination Hub Grover Norquist · Americans for Tax Reform · Republican Congressional Leadership · K Street Lobbyists | confirmed | |
| 1992-01-01 | Christian Coalition Distributes 40 Million Voter Guides Through Churches: Electoral Infrastructure Embedded in Religious Institutions Pat Robertson · Ralph Reed · Christian Coalition | confirmed | |
| 1990-01-01 | Union Avoidance Consulting Industry Emerges as $400+ Million Annual Business Union avoidance consultants · Corporate employers · Labor Management Institute · National Labor Relations Board | confirmed | |
| 1988-09-21 | Bush Campaign Deploys Willie Horton Ad Weaponizing Racial Fear of Black Criminals George H.W. Bush · Lee Atwater · Roger Ailes · Larry McCarthy · +3 | confirmed | |
| 1987-01-01 | AIDS Death Toll Reaches 25,000: Reagan Administration Inaction Continues Ronald Reagan · AIDS patients · LGBTQ community · Public health officials · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1986-10-22 | Koop Releases AIDS Report After Five-Year Delay: Public Health vs Politics C. Everett Koop · Ronald Reagan · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services | confirmed | |
| 1985-01-01 | Council of Conservative Citizens Founded by Former White Citizens' Councils Members to Continue Segregationist Agenda Robert B. Patterson · Lester Maddox · Gordon Lee Baum · Council of Conservative Citizens · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1982-11-01 | RNC Signs Consent Decree Banning Voter Intimidation After Armed Ballot Security Task Force Republican National Committee · Democratic National Committee · Dickinson R. Debevoise | confirmed | |
| 1982-06-29 | Voting Rights Act Extension of 1982: Results Test Adopted, Section 2 Strengthened After Reagan Opposition Ronald Reagan · U.S. Congress · Bob Dole · Edward Kennedy · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1982-04-25 | Federalist Society Organizational Profile: Judicial Pipeline and Conservative Legal Movement Infrastructure Federalist Society · Leonard Leo · Steven Calabresi · David McIntosh · +10 | confirmed | |
| 1981-05-01 | Tim LaHaye Founds Council for National Policy: The Shadow Network That Coordinates the American Right Tim LaHaye · Paul Weyrich · Richard Viguerie · Howard Phillips · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1981-01-01 | Reagan Administration Muzzles Surgeon General Koop on AIDS for Five Years C. Everett Koop · Ronald Reagan · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services | confirmed | |
| 1980-11-04 | Ronald Reagan Elected President, Conservative Infrastructure Achieves Powell Memo Goals Ronald Reagan · Heritage Foundation · Paul Weyrich · Edwin Feulner · +3 | confirmed | |
| 1979-06-01 | Moral Majority Founded - Corporate Agenda Masked by Religious Cultural Warfare Paul Weyrich · Jerry Falwell · Richard Viguerie · Howard Phillips · +3 | confirmed | |
| 1978-11-07 | Business Roundtable Coordinates First Major Corporate PAC Election Strategy Business Roundtable · Reginald Jones · Corporate PAC Committee · Republican Party | confirmed | |
| 1978-04-26 | Powell delivers Bellotti decision establishing corporate First Amendment rights Lewis F. Powell Jr. · Supreme Court of the United States · First National Bank of Boston · Francis X. Bellotti · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1977-01-01 | National Association of Business PACs Founded to Coordinate Corporate Political Money National Association of Business Political Action Committees | confirmed | |
| 1975-08-06 | Voting Rights Act Extension of 1975: Expands Protection to Language Minorities Including Latino, Asian, and Native American Voters Gerald Ford · U.S. Congress · Barbara Jordan · Edward Roybal · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1975-04-14 | Federal Election Commission Begins Operations, Institutionalizing Corporate PAC Framework Federal Election Commission · President Gerald Ford | confirmed | |
| 1975-02-21 | Nixon Top Aides Haldeman, Ehrlichman, and Mitchell Sentenced to Prison for Watergate Cover-up H.R. Haldeman · John Ehrlichman · John N. Mitchell · John Sirica | confirmed | |
| 1974-10-15 | FECA Amendments Enable Corporate PAC Formation, Triggering 1,600% Growth U.S. Congress · Federal Election Commission | confirmed | |
| 1974-08-09 | Richard Nixon Becomes First U.S. President to Resign, Gerald Ford Sworn In as 38th President Richard Nixon · Gerald Ford · Spiro Agnew | confirmed | |
| 1974-01-01 | Weyrich Founds Committee for the Survival of a Free Congress, Expanding Infrastructure Paul Weyrich · Joseph Coors | confirmed | |
| 1970-06-22 | Voting Rights Act Extension of 1970: Nationwide Literacy Test Ban and Voting Age Lowered to 18 Richard Nixon · U.S. Congress · Emanuel Celler · Attorney General John Mitchell | confirmed | |
| 1970-01-01 | Richard Viguerie Pioneers Computerized Direct Mail, Revolutionizing Conservative Fundraising Richard Viguerie · Paul Weyrich · Howard Phillips · Terry Dolan | confirmed | |
| 1968-11-05 | Nixon Wins Presidency Using Southern Strategy Based on Racial Resentment Richard Nixon · Kevin Phillips · H.R. Haldeman · George Wallace · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1968-10-22 | Nixon Campaign Sabotages Vietnam Peace Talks Through Anna Chennault to Win Election - Johnson Calls It Treason Richard Nixon · Anna Chennault · H.R. Haldeman · John Mitchell · +3 | confirmed | |
| 1965-09-08 | Delano Grape Strike Launches UFW Movement, Challenges Agricultural Corporations United Farm Workers · Cesar Chavez · Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee · Delano Grape Growers | confirmed | |
| 1965-03-11 | Reverend James Reeb Dies After White Supremacist Attack in Selma, Killers Acquitted by All-White Jury James Reeb · Elmer Cook · William Stanley Hoggle · Namon O'Neal Hoggle · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1965-03-07 | Alabama State Troopers Attack Voting Rights Marchers on Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma Bloody Sunday John Lewis · Hosea Williams · Alabama State Troopers · Amelia Boynton · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1964-06-21 | Mississippi Burning Murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner During Freedom Summer Voter Registration James Chaney · Andrew Goodman · Michael Schwerner · Ku Klux Klan · +6 | confirmed | |
| 1964-01-23 | 24th Amendment Ratified Abolishing Poll Tax in Federal Elections After Decades of Voter Suppression U.S. Congress · State Legislatures · Civil rights movement | confirmed | |
| 1963-09-15 | KKK Bombs 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham Killing Four Young Girls Ku Klux Klan · Robert Chambliss · Thomas Blanton · Bobby Frank Cherry · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1963-08-28 | March on Washington Draws 250,000 for Jobs and Freedom as MLK Delivers I Have a Dream Speech Martin Luther King Jr. · Bayard Rustin · A. Philip Randolph · John F. Kennedy · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1963-08-01 | Business-Industry Political Action Committee Founded as First Corporate PAC Business-Industry Political Action Committee · National Association of Manufacturers · BIPAC | confirmed | |
| 1960-05-06 | Civil Rights Act of 1960: Voting Referees and Criminal Penalties Still Prove Inadequate Against Southern Resistance Dwight D. Eisenhower · U.S. Congress · Lyndon B. Johnson · Southern Democrats · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1960-02-01 | Greensboro Four Launch Sit-In Movement at Woolworth Lunch Counter Challenging Segregation Ezell Blair Jr. · David Richmond · Franklin McCain · Joseph McNeil · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1957-09-09 | Civil Rights Act of 1957: First Federal Voting Rights Law Since Reconstruction Passes Despite Southern Filibuster Dwight D. Eisenhower · Lyndon B. Johnson · Strom Thurmond · Richard Russell · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1956-03-29 | Mississippi Creates State Sovereignty Commission for Civil Rights Surveillance and Segregationist Funding Mississippi Legislature · Ross Barnett · Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission · White Citizens' Councils | confirmed | |
| 1955-08-28 | Emmett Till Murdered in Mississippi After Accusation from White Woman Roy Bryant · J.W. Milam · Mamie Till · Tallahatchie County Sheriff | confirmed | |
| 1954-12-02 | Senate Votes 67-22 to Censure Joseph McCarthy Ending Four Years of Terror Joseph McCarthy · Ralph Flanders · Arthur Watkins · Margaret Chase Smith | confirmed | |
| 1950-06-01 | Margaret Chase Smith Delivers Declaration of Conscience Against McCarthy Witch Hunt Margaret Chase Smith · Joseph McCarthy · Wayne Morse · George Aiken · +4 | confirmed | |
| 1947-06-23 | Anti-Communist Loyalty Oaths and Taft-Hartley Act Weaponized to Crush Labor Movement Robert A. Taft · Fred A. Hartley · CIO · AFL · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1944-04-03 | Smith v. Allwright: Supreme Court Strikes Down White Primaries, Opening Democratic Party to Black Voters U.S. Supreme Court · Stanley Reed · Thurgood Marshall · NAACP Legal Defense Fund · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1933-01-15 | Ferdinand Pecora Appointed Chief Counsel to Senate Banking Investigation Ferdinand Pecora · Senator Peter Norbeck · Senator Duncan Fletcher · U.S. Senate Committee on Banking and Currency | confirmed | |
| 1932-07-28 | MacArthur Uses Tanks and Tear Gas to Violently Suppress Bonus Army of 43,000 Veterans Douglas MacArthur · Herbert Hoover · Dwight D. Eisenhower · Walter Waters · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1926-08-06 | Gertrude Ederle Swims English Channel But Era Constrains Women's Progress Gertrude Ederle · Women's Sports Organizations | confirmed | |
| 1924-06-02 | Revenue Act of 1924 Continues Mellon Tax Cuts for Wealthy, Lowers Top Rate to 46% Andrew Mellon · Calvin Coolidge · U.S. Congress · Republican Party | confirmed | |
| 1920-08-18 | Tennessee Becomes 36th State to Ratify 19th Amendment as Women Win Right to Vote Harry T. Burn · Febb E. Burn · Tennessee General Assembly · Carrie Chapman Catt · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1919-06-04 | Senate Passes 19th Amendment Sending Women's Suffrage to States for Ratification U.S. Senate · U.S. House of Representatives · Woodrow Wilson · National American Woman Suffrage Association · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1918-01-09 | Wilson Reverses Position and Endorses Women's Suffrage Amendment After Prison Brutality Exposed Woodrow Wilson · Alice Paul · National Woman's Party · U.S. Congress | confirmed | |
| 1917-06-22 | First Suffragist Arrests Begin for White House Picketing as State Repression Escalates Alice Paul · Lucy Burns · National Woman's Party · Woodrow Wilson · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1916-01-01 | Corporate Interests Mobilize Systematic Opposition to Women's Suffrage to Protect Profits Liquor Industry · Textile Manufacturers · Railroad companies · National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage | confirmed | |
| 1915-06-21 | Guinn v. United States: Supreme Court Strikes Down Grandfather Clauses as Fifteenth Amendment Violation U.S. Supreme Court · Chief Justice Edward White · Oklahoma Legislature · NAACP | confirmed | |
| 1903-04-27 | Giles v. Harris: Supreme Court Refuses to Enforce Black Voting Rights Against Alabama Constitution U.S. Supreme Court · Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. · Jackson Giles · Alabama Legislature · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1901-05-21 | Alabama Constitutional Convention: White Supremacy Constitution Becomes Blueprint for Southern Disenfranchisement John Knox · Alabama Legislature · Democratic Party · Black Belt Planters | confirmed | |
| 1898-11-10 | Wilmington Massacre and Coup: Armed White Supremacists Overthrow Elected Government, Murder Black Citizens Alfred Moore Waddell · Furnifold Simmons · Red Shirts · Wilmington Black Community · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1897-07-24 | Dingley Tariff Enacts Highest Protective Rates in History - Corporate Shield William McKinley · Nelson Dingley Jr. · Republican Party · Industrial trusts · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1896-07-09 | William Jennings Bryan's Cross of Gold Speech - Populist Challenge to Corporate Power William Jennings Bryan · Democratic National Convention · Populist Party · Eastern banking interests · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1895-01-01 | J.P. Morgan Railroad Reorganizations Create Consolidated Monopoly Systems J.P. Morgan · J.P. Morgan & Company · Southern Railway · Erie Railroad · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1893-11-07 | Colorado Voters Approve Women's Suffrage Through Referendum in Historic First Colorado voters · Populist Party · Carrie Chapman Catt · Ellis Meredith | confirmed | |
| 1890-02-18 | National American Woman Suffrage Association Formed as Merger Heals 21-Year Split Alice Stone Blackwell · Elizabeth Cady Stanton · Susan B. Anthony · Lucy Stone · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1887-07-06 | Armed Militia Forces King Kalakaua to Sign "Bayonet Constitution," Stripping Hawaiian Sovereignty and Disenfranchising Native Hawaiians King Kalakaua · Hawaiian League · Sanford B. Dole · Lorrin Thurston · +5 | confirmed | |
| 1884-11-04 | Cleveland Election Marks Shift Toward Corporate Campaign Financing Grover Cleveland · James G. Blaine · U.S. Congress | confirmed | |
| 1877-02-26 | Compromise of 1877: Wormley Agreement Abandons Black Americans Rutherford B. Hayes · Southern Democrats · Northern Republicans · Disenfranchised Black Americans | confirmed | |
| 1876-07-08 | Hamburg Massacre: Red Shirts Murder Black Militia to Suppress Voting Red Shirts · Benjamin Tillman · Wade Hampton III · Matthew Butler · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1874-11-18 | Woman's Christian Temperance Union Founded Creating Alliance and Opposition to Suffrage Frances Willard · Annie Wittenmyer · Woman's Christian Temperance Union · Liquor Industry | confirmed | |
| 1874-09-14 | Battle of Liberty Place: White League Stages Armed Coup Against Louisiana Government White League · James Longstreet · William Pitt Kellogg · Ulysses S. Grant · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1869-12-10 | Wyoming Territory Becomes First in U.S. to Grant Women Full Voting Rights Wyoming Territorial Legislature · Esther Hobart Morris · William Bright · Wyoming Territory | confirmed |