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Vote Suppression
All about the organized efforts to keep qualified voters from voting.
Organizing ResourcesMonitor Provisional & Absentee Ballot ProcessingProvisional ballots are not counted on election night, but must first go through a qualification process to determine whether or not the voter was eligible 1) to vote at all, and 2) to vote in all races on the ballot that was cast. . . . Observing this process can increase the chances that it is conducted fairly, in part by providing a deterrent to biased decision-making. Voter Bill of RightsFrom unreliable electronic voting machines and millions of uncounted ballots, to partisan election officials and 10-hour waits at the polls, it is clear that our electoral system is in dire need of an overhaul. To build a more just, secure, and robust democracy, please support the following 10-point Voter Bill of Rights . . . NewsNATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD: Philippine Elections Rife with Violence, Irregularities and Voting System MalfunctionsDate: May 20, 2010ACLU Defends Local Democracy ActivistDate: March 18, 2009PSN: Supreme Court Limits Redistricting Provision of Voting Rights ActDate: March 12, 2009Take ActionSupport Benton Harbor leader now!source: Rev. Pinkney Support CommitteeColorado: Call upon Secretary of State Mike Coffman to reinstate voterssource: SquareState.netVideo the Votesource: VideotheVote.orgEventsExtending Democracy w/The Progressive, Manski, Farsetta, Gray, Wellstone(May 1, 2009 - May 2, 2009)Major speakers include Robert Redford, Amy Goodman, Naomi Klein, Barbara Ehrenreich, Rev. Jesse Jackson, and the editorial staff of the Progressive Magazine. Liberty Tree's Ben Manski, together with various members of Liberty Tree's Board of Directors and Board of Advisors -- John Nichols and Robert McChesney, among them -- will also be speaking at this exciting event. Democracy Track at the U.S. Social ForumThe Democracy Track is a series of sessions and community spaces at the U.S. Social Forum in Atlanta, Georgia, June 27-July 1, 2007. The purpose of these sessions is to centralize democracy in all of our everyday struggles. U.S. Social Forum II(June 22, 2009 - June 26, 2010)Another World is Possible! Another U.S.A. is necessary! Publications & TalksNICHOLS: Special Report on the 2008 Elections(November 5, 2008)"A great democracy that is home to a very busy people ought not ask citizens to wait up to eight hours to cast their ballots, But that is precisely what America has done during the course of this most volatile and critical of election seasons." Alabama Citizens for Constitutional Reform introduce new film on 1901 constitutional convention(February 28, 2010)Open Secret is a filmed re-enactment of Alabama's 1901 constitutional convention, which produced the constitution which Alabama currently operates under. Delegates to the convention openly discussed ways to disenfranchise black and poor white voters, and dismiss women's right to vote. Brennan Center for Justice: Voter Purges(September 30, 2008) |
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