Monday, November 26, 2012

Voter disenfranchisement

  • Maltese one of six EU nationalities that face voter disenfranchisement for ...

    Only six EU member states including Malta have rules that disenfranchise voters who live abroad, but from a European Commission breakdown of the state of affairs across the bloc Malta appears to have the most draconian rules on the thorny issue ...

    www.independent.com.mt

  • Voter Disenfranchisement in South Florida

    After a sordid and chaotic early voting process yesterday, the international media is anticipating that Election Day here in Florida will be a spectacular debacle.

    www.vice.com

  • Appeals Court Stays Ruling, Potentially Allowing Ohio to Disenfranchise Voters ...

    Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted may get his wish of disenfranchisement after all. A three-judge panel of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals yesterday placed a stay on a lower court ruling that would allow voter disenfranchisement based on poll ...

    news.firedoglake.com

  • GOP in Arizona Attempts to Disenfranchise Latinos to Win Neck-and-Neck Race

    The National Republican Congressional Committee supports the move, using the party's line of being tough on ballot fraud to justify the obvious example of voter disenfranchisement. "We believe that every voter has the right to an election that is free ...

    www.alternet.org

  • Glitch in Florida's Voter Registration System Can Disenfranchise Absentee Voters

    This oversight that we stumbled upon has the potential to disenfranchise registered voters who mailed in absentee ballots from their counties of residence and then subsequently updated their voter registration addresses with new information to reflect ...

    www.huffingtonpost.com

  • Huizar's Vicious Circle of Disenfranchising Voters

    A few weeks before the election, Huizar, independent election administrator Terrence Gomes, ERNC leaders and a deputy city attorney (unnamed) openly conspired to disenfranchise voters who owned and worked at tax-paying marijuana dispensaries.

    www.boulevardsentinel.com

  • Readers Write: How to fight voter-ID disenfranchisement; What US must do ...

    How to fight voter-ID disenfranchisement. Regarding the One Minute Debate "Should states require voter ID?

    www.csmonitor.com

  • Tory MPs challenge claim of mass disenfranchisement due to misleading voter ...

    OTTAWA - Six Conservative MPs facing legal challenges of their 2011 election victories say there is no evidence a single person failed to cast a ballot because of misleading phone calls.

    www.edmontonjournal.com

  • MICHELLE MALKIN: Our disenfranchised troops deserve better

    M. Eric Eversole, director of the Military Voter Protection (MVP) Project and a former litigation attorney in the Voting Section of the U.S. Department of Justice, reported that "more than 17,000 military and overseas voters were disenfranchised in ...

    www.registercitizen.com

  • Disenfranchisement of Ex-Felons Bars 2 Million from Voting in Key Swing States ...

    The above graphic comes from the Prison Policy Initiative, and it shows the impact of summary disenfranchisement of adult-age ex-convicts in our political system, unique around the world.

    news.firedoglake.com

  • On the News With Thom Hartmann: Courts Help Disenfranchise Voters in Ohio

    In today's On the News segment: a man who's been lying to the American people for over a year is neck and neck in the polls to be President; courts are helping disenfranchise voters in Ohio; more than 74 Americans were killed in Hurricane Sandy; and more.

    truth-out.org

  • Did Florida Disenfranchise African-American Voters?

    Now, critics of the law are attempting to claim the change was intentionally made to disenfranchise minority voters.

    blog.acton.org

  • Court asked to halt order on voter IDs

    Top state Democrats, voter advocates, and state officials say a recent directive by Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted regarding provisional ballots gives the elections chief greater license to disenfranchise voters. They have asked a federal court to ...

    www.toledoblade.com

  • Voter ID Laws Don't Disenfranchise Minorities

    There are some claims that millions of minorities could be disenfranchised by voter ID laws. But they are based on studies that imagine "potential" and "possible" effects.

    news.investors.com

  • Voting law still ensures rights

    Congress approved the Voting Rights Act to stop officials in all or parts of 16 states with a history of discrimination from disenfranchising minority voters through a variety of tactics, such as putting polling places in locations inconvenient to ...

    www.philly.com

  • Aiming Smart Phones at Disenfranchisement

    Aiming Smart Phones at Disenfranchisement. The presidential contest isn't the only story this campaign season: Concern about voter disenfranchisement is another. One group will be employing a specially designed app to prevent any miscarriage in the ...

    www.citylimits.org

  • Disenfranchised doyenne fumes at dark side of democracy

    The biggest issue of voter turnout is that American citizens are literally being disenfranchised. This is the first presidential election that I can vote in, and I am keen to exert my right.

    georgetownvoice.com

  • Potential Disenfranchisement on Long Island: Election Officials Reject Voters ...

    Unfortunately these voters risk being wrongfully disenfranchised in tomorrow's election without immediate corrective action from election officials.

    www.enewspf.com

  • Voting Limits Caused Less Chaos This Year Than Epic Lines

    There was confusion about a voter ID law in Pennsylvania, widespread use of provisional ballots in Ohio and problems for college students voting in Florida on Election Day.

    tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com

  • Joe Volz:?You could disenfranchise yourself by voting early

    By voting early, you, in effect, disenfranchise yourself in the event of any last-minute development. Suppose Obama makes a blunder in foreign policy?

    www.gazette.net

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