Voter Rights Advocates Commend Clear Channel for Removing Intimidating ...
WASHINGTON, D.C. --(ENEWSPF)--October 22, 2012. Civil and voting rights groups today commended Clear Channel Corporation for agreeing to take down a number of billboards placed in predominantly African-American and Latino neighborhoods in ...www.enewspf.com
Voting rights topic of NAACP Freedom Fund banquet
Ellison recounted that when the United States was founded, voting rights were restricted to white male property owners. Slowly but surely, often after intense and bloody struggles, the right to vote has been expanded to blacks, women and all those ...www.postbulletin.com
Commentary: Next election reform? Voting rights for children
The drastic increase in Americans' life expectancy over the past century has shifted the balance of power between the old and the young.www.palmbeachpost.com
League of Women Voters celebrates 100 years of voting rights for women
Lindsay Bell, chair of the Yavapai County Democratic Party and a former Prescott City Councilwoman, led off the panel discussion by pointing out that even after gaining the right to vote, women have continued to fight for rights. "I think there are ...www.dcourier.com
CityViews 10/23/12: Voting Rights Act/Hope & Tim
Thanks in large part to the Voting Rights Act of 1965, everyone today agrees that elections should be free and fair to all people.kcpw.org
Convicted murderer Michael Woodmansee causes controversy over voting rights
'Voting rights shall be restored to all Rhode Island residents who have been discharged from incarceration or who were never incarcerated following felony convictions, whether they were discharged or sentenced before or after the effective date of this ...www.examiner.com
Pa. ads create confusion and fear on voter ID, voting rights advocates say
Despite an Oct. 2 ruling by a Pennsylvania judge putting the state's new voter ID law on hold, a series of misleading ads and announcements is sowing confusion and fear among residents with just two weeks until Election Day, civil rights and union ...www.washingtonpost.com
If Americans cared as much about their voting rights as their gun rights, they ...
Yet those who would never tolerate any curtailment of gun rights have raised nary a peep about this assault on voting rights. Under the excuse of preventing "voter fraud," Republican state officials are vigorously pushing voter ID laws that will make ...www.salon.com
Roundtable discussion on voter rights Oct. 24
A roundtable discussion on voter rights, featuring Congressman James Clyburn and candidate David Gill, along with Faith Coalition for the Common Good clergy and community leaders, will be held from 1 to 2:30 p.m.www.sj-r.com
Think the Florida Recount Was Bad? Just Wait Until November 6
Folks, we are just a little more than two weeks away from Election Day, and we may well be the runaway train, barreling straight toward an election-night, voting-rights crash-and-burn which easily could be worse and more damaging to the nation than Bush v.www.theatlantic.com
Poll Tax Déjà Vu
In an editorial on September 22, 2012, the New York Times stated: "The Voting Rights Act of 1965 prohibits intimidation or interference in the act of voting, but the penalties are fairly light.www.independent.com
Turkmenistan Approves Law in Voting Rights Sphere
The Majlis (Parliament) of Turkmenistan of the fourth convocation approved the Law "On guarantees of voting rights of Turkmen citizens," which defines main guarantees of realization of constitutional right by Turkmen citizens to participate in ...www.turkishweekly.net
E-book now available on the voting amendment and Minnesota's role in the ...
With Minnesotans set to vote Nov. 6 on a voting amendment, the book is described as a "timely primer on Minnesota's role in the national 'voting wars,' highlighting the history of voting rights and voting integrity while also explaining the complexity ...www.minnpost.com
Voting rights, voter suppression and bullies at the ballotbox
From: "Daily Kos" Return to News Articles List. October 21, 2012 at 11:30:04 Permalink Voting rights, voter suppression and bullies at the ballotbox.www.opednews.com
Pew States: TX Challenges Part of Voting Rights Act
In appealing a lower court's ruling that its once-per-decade redrawing of political boundaries discriminated against minorities, the state is challenging the constitutionality of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, the 1965 law requiring states with a ...www.hispanicallyspeakingnews.com
John Lewis rocks the vote—Gangnam style
Now, the septuagenarian Georgia congressman—who was beaten on the Edmund Pettus bridge in Selma and attacked during the Freedom Rides—has taken on a new tactic in his ongoing crusade for voting rights: perfecting "Gangnam Style" dance moves.www.atlantamagazine.com
Plutocrats Want to Own Your Vote
So much for voting rights and the secret ballot at Murray Energy! Mike Elk also discovered that the Koch Brothers, David and Charles -- who have pledged to spend multimillions defeating President Obama -- have sent a voter information packet to the ...www.huffingtonpost.com
Senior European judge warns UK over prisoner voting rights
Europe's most senior judge has warned that the UK risks endangering human rights by barring prisoners from voting, and hit back at criticism over the role that Strasbourg has played in slowing high profile deportation cases. Nicholas Bratza, a former ...www.thebureauinvestigates.com
Abbott's Supreme Court appeal challenges Voting Rights Act
"The State of Texas is appealing this case because the lower court improperly extended the Voting Rights Act beyond the limits imposed by the Constitution and created new standards that have never been recognized by the U.S.www.mysanantonio.com
Mary Mueller: Don't restrict voting rights
There has been much discussion on the proposed voter ID amendment to the Minnesota State Constitution. Recently former U.S.www.winonadailynews.com
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