Voting Rights

Source: news.yahoo.com --- 1 day ago
WASHINGTON - Congressman Keith Ellison wants to make sure the people in his district know their Voting Rights. Ellison is holding a forum Monday night at Powderhorn Park in Minneapolis. The Minnesota Democrat will also talk about legislation he has sponsored to encourage voter participation. ...

Source: afroamhistory.about.com --- 2 days ago
When Martin Luther King Jr. came to Selma, Alabama to lead an assault against discriminatory voter registration practices, it could hardly be predicted that the nation would witness the brutal attack on peaceful demonstrators in what came to be called Bloody Sunday. It was this same brutality, however, that led President Johnson and Congress to one conclusion—it was time to pass Voting Rights legislation and give black citizens the same Voting Rights as whites. ...

Source: www.nytimes.com --- 22 days ago
Overhauls of felony disenfranchisement laws have loosened enough in some states to make it worth the time to try to track down former felons in indigent neighborhoods. ...

Source: www.latimes.com --- 35 days ago
Barack Obama's candidacy is one of many signs that the U.S. has turned a page. We've come to the end of a remarkable journey. In the early 1960s, most Southern blacks were barred from Voting. Yet today, just over four decades later, blacks and whites from across the country have selected an African American man as the presidential nominee of the Democratic Party. ...

Source: www.news24.com --- 5 days ago
Tired of empty promises from their politicians, inhabitants of a Bosnian town have offered to sell their Voting Rights. ...

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Source: www.sos.mo.gov --- 1 day ago
State law sides with those facing foreclosures JEFFERSON CITY, MO - Secretary of State Robin Carnahan is taking steps to protect Missourians facing foreclosures by educating the public about their Voting Rights. These individuals are no different than any other Missourian nor should their fundamental Rights be jeopardized. "These folks are hurting. The lives they built have been turned upside down because they can no longer provide a home for their families," said Carnahan. "This is the most crucial time to vote and the possibility of losing that right should be the last thing they worry about." There are approximately 27,000 foreclosed homes throughout Missouri. This number continues to increase, leaving more Missourians feeling less secure about their ability to vote when going to the polls. "There is no place in our state for targeting those in foreclosure proceedings and questioning their right to vote," said Carnahan. "I will not stand for partisan games that aim to prevent eligible voters from participating in this election." Secretary Carnahan will continue to protect the Rights of Missourians facing this issue and inform the public that the law is on their side. Any individual who still resides at the address where they are currently registered to vote is still eligible to vote. Foreclosure is about ownership, not residence, and simply because a home is on a public foreclosure notice, does not mean the individual must leave th ...

Source: www.aclu.org --- 4 days ago
NEW YORK – A report released today by the American Civil Liberties Union and the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law reveals widespread misunderstanding among state elections officials of laws governing the right to vote of citizens with felony convictions. ...

Source: www.ad-hoc-news.de --- 35 days ago
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Source: www.stateline.org --- 19 days ago
Partisan tensions over Voting rules and Rights are escalating as Election Day nears. In the latest dispute, the Obama campaign filed a lawsuit Monday to limit the ability of Republicans to challenge the eligibility of voters in Michigan. ...

Source: wamu.org --- 25 days ago
Both presidential candidates are courting young voters. But students in several states, including Virginia, are getting mixed signals about whether it's safe for them to register to vote from their campus addresses. We discuss how murky guidelines are likely to affect youth voter registration across the country. ...

Source: www.northcountrygazette.org --- 22 days ago
NEW YORK—As the presidential election approaches, the New York Civil Liberties Union today announced it has launched an intensive statewide campaign to help New Yorkers with criminal records reclaim their right to vote. The campaign, which runs through the voter registration deadline on Friday, Oct. 10, features bus advertisements in New York City, train advertisements [...] ...

Source: www.annistonstar.com --- 22 days ago
With a black man running as a major party's nominee for president and black faces at most levels of government, some say there's no longer a need for the 40-year-old Voting Rights Act — legislation that guarantees everyone the right to vote, regardless of race or gender. ...

Source: www.firstcoastnews.com --- 26 days ago
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Keshia Anderson took her 7-year-old son along when she voted in Virginia's Democratic presidential primary. He got an eyeful, she recalled: scant parking, hundreds standing in line and news that there were no more Democratic ballots. ...

Source: www.bignewsnetwork.com --- 23 days ago
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) -- Convicted felons in Mississippi are denied their constitutional right to vote in presidential elections, the American Civil Liberties Union alleges in a federal lawsuit filed Fr... ...

Source: southernstudies.org --- 26 days ago
With Election Day only 53 days away -- and early Voting meaning that the first votes will be cast even sooner -- here are some Voting Rights issues coming up around the South: * Florida continues controversial "no match, no vote" rule: The Miami Herald reports that Florida will resume a policy from last year that requires voters to present ID which matches how they're listed in the state election database. As the Herald reports: The result is that voters whose identification doesn't match with state files on Election Day will be given a provisional ballot and two days to prove their identity for their ballot to count. Voting Rights activists, who had unsuccessfully challenged the constitutionality of the law, blasted the decision, saying it allows the state to rely on what they consider error-prone databases in the month before voter registration ends on Oct. 6. * Virginia primary problems highlighted in Senate hearing: As the AP reports : Keshia Anderson took her 7-year-old son along when she voted in Virginia's Democratic presidential primary. He got an eyeful, she recalled: scant parking, hundreds standing in line and news that there were no more Democratic ballots. Then came a vision straight out of the painful past: a separate line of whites flowing past hundreds of blacks to vote, Anderson said. So went hearings held by the Senate Judiciary Committee this week, calling on the Department of Justice to better monitor polling ...

Source: legaltimes.typepad.com --- 5 days ago
As the Nov. 4 election approaches, some fear that unfair confusion could exist about the Voting eligibility of people with criminal records. According to a report released by the Sentencing Project and two studies by the American Civil Liberties Union,... ...