Ari Berman is the national voting rights correspondent at Mother Jones. His stories have appeared in The Nation, The New York Times, The Guardian, and elsewhere, and he is a freque...view moreAri Berman is the national voting rights correspondent at Mother Jones. His stories have appeared in The Nation, The New York Times, The Guardian, and elsewhere, and he is a frequent guest and political commentator on MSNBC, C-SPAN, and NPR. He is the author of Herding Donkeys: The Fight to Rebuild the Democratic Party and Reshape American Politics and Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America. He lives in New York.view less