A Citizen's Guide to Understanding the Voting Rights Act
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Total Pages | : 108 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : African Americans |
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Total Pages | : 108 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : African Americans |
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Author | : Steven Rosenfeld |
Publisher | : Alternet Books |
Total Pages | : 140 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Political Science |
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Count My Vote is a hands-on voter's guide to navigating every possible voting situation one might encounter in the upcoming elections. The extended primary and caucus season in early 2008 has shown that in state after state, numerous problems face voters -- problems that may be the beginning of a larger issue poised to surface on November 4, 2008. Count My Vote prepares the voting public to cast their ballots with confidence. Voters will learn how to deal with new voting technology and will get tips on avoiding problems at the polls in all 50 states. The guide analyzes reports by activists, public interest lawyers, and voter demographics across America, and provides suggestions on what voters should be aware of before heading to the polls. Count My Vote also offers a state-by-state description of voting procedures and deadlines and lists important resources.
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Total Pages | : 100 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : African Americans |
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Author | : Garrine P. Laney |
Publisher | : Nova Publishers |
Total Pages | : 94 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9781590336717 |
By passing the Voting Rights Act of 1965, Congress challenged the widespread evidence of disfranchisement of black citizens in certain southern states. This Act protects citizens' right to vote by forbidding covered states from using any tests that would determine eligibility to vote, by requiring these states to obtain federal approval before enacting any election laws and by assigning federal officials to monitor the registration process in certain localities. In 1970, Congress extended the Voting Rights Act for an additional 5 years and its coverage to other jurisdictions when evidence presented at congressional hearings revealed continued racial discrimination in voting. Throughout the next three decades, further legislation was added to the Act, to more wholly protect the individual citizen of this country. This book delves into the history of the Voting Rights Act as well as the current challenges and issues that face Congress. Contents: Introduction; The Voting Rights Act of 1965; The Voting Rights Amendments of 1970; The Voting Rights Amendments of 1975; The Voting Rights Amendments of 1982; The Voting Rights Amendments of 1992; Current Major Provisions of the Act; Presiden
Author | : Costas Panagopoulos |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Democracy |
ISBN | : 9781138858794 |
This book provides an overview of the basic features that characterize elections in the United States, including levels of current voter turnout and decision-making, money in elections, and the role of parties and the media, for both presidential and congressional races. It then outlines some of the most important problems and challenges that exist within the current system. Although citizens regularly complain about many of the features of our electoral system, they actually already have the tools at their disposal to fix the things they dislike. As a call to action, each chapter features potential solutions to the problems and challenges that exist in U.S. elections.
Author | : Benjamin E. Griffith |
Publisher | : American Bar Association |
Total Pages | : 420 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Election law |
ISBN | : 9781590319727 |
This book is a snapshot of America's voting and electoral practices, problems, and most current issues. The book addresses a variety of fundamental areas concerning election law from a federal perspective such as the Help America Vote Act, lessons learned from the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections, voter identification, and demographic and statistical experts in election litigation, and more. It is a useful guide for lawyers as well as law school professors, election officials, state and local government personnel, and election workers.
Author | : Kevin J. Coleman |
Publisher | : CreateSpace |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 2015-01-02 |
Genre | : Election law |
ISBN | : 9781505554328 |
The Voting Rights Act (VRA) was successfully challenged in a June 2013 case decided by the U.S. Supreme Court in Shelby County, Alabama v. Holder. The suit challenged the constitutionality of Sections 4 and 5 of the VRA, under which certain jurisdictions with a history of racial discrimination in voting-mostly in the South-were required to "pre-clear" changes to the election process with the Justice Department (the U.S. Attorney General) or the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The preclearance provision (Section 5) was based on a formula (Section 4) that considered voting practices and patterns in 1964, 1968, or 1972. At issue in Shelby County was whether Congress exceeded its constitutional authority when it reauthorized the VRA in 2006-with the existing formula-thereby infringing on the rights of the states. In its ruling, the Court struck down Section 4 as outdated and not "grounded in current conditions." As a consequence, Section 5 is intact, but inoperable, unless or until Congress prescribes a new Section 4 formula.
Author | : Lisa Manheim |
Publisher | : Manheim & Watts, LLC |
Total Pages | : 178 |
Release | : 2018-01-10 |
Genre | : Executive power |
ISBN | : 9780999698808 |
This one-of-a-kind guide provides a crash course in the laws governing the President of the United States. In an engaging and accessible style, two law professors explain the principles that inform everything from President Washington's disagreements with Congress to President Trump's struggles with the courts, and more. Timely and to the point, this guide provides the essential information every informed civic participant needs to know about the laws that govern the president-and what those laws mean for those who want to make their voices heard.
Author | : Jonah Winter |
Publisher | : Anne Schwartz Books |
Total Pages | : 41 |
Release | : 2015-07-14 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0385390300 |
An elderly African American woman, en route to vote, remembers her family’s tumultuous voting history in this picture book publishing in time for the fiftieth anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. As Lillian, a one-hundred-year-old African American woman, makes a “long haul up a steep hill” to her polling place, she sees more than trees and sky—she sees her family’s history. She sees the passage of the Fifteenth Amendment and her great-grandfather voting for the first time. She sees her parents trying to register to vote. And she sees herself marching in a protest from Selma to Montgomery. Veteran bestselling picture-book author Jonah Winter and Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award winner Shane W. Evans vividly recall America’s battle for civil rights in this lyrical, poignant account of one woman’s fierce determination to make it up the hill and make her voice heard. "Moving.... Stirs up a potent mixture of grief, anger, and pride at the history of black people’s fight for access to the ballot box." —The New York Times "A much-needed picture book that will enlighten a new generation about battles won and a timely call to uphold these victories in the present." —Kirkus Reviews, Starred "A valuable introduction to and overview of the civil rights movement." —Publishers Weekly, Starred "An important book that will give you goose bumps." —Booklist, Starred
Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights |
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Total Pages | : 692 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Education |
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Testimony concerning amendments to the Voting Rights Act of 1965 addresses, specifically, the provisions for language assistance for Alaskan native, Asian-American, Hispanic, and Native American citizens in order that they be able to exercise effectively their right to vote. The proposed legislation would extend coverage of Section 203 of the amendments for an additional 15 years. Testimony includes the transcribed and written statements, and supporting documentation, of: legislators (Solomon P. Ortiz, Jose E. Serrano, Patsy T. Mink, Bill Emerson, Henry J. Hyde) and scholars, attorneys, and representatives of voting rights, language, and educational organizations (John A. Garcia, Jeannette Wolfley, Kevin J. Lanigan, P. George Tryfiates, Faith Roessel, Margaret Fung, Josephine J. Wang, Philip Riggin, Andrew Hernandez, Yvonne Y. Lee, Luis C. Caban, Vanessa Dixon, Eugene W. Hickok, Jr., John R. Dunne, M. Faith Burton, Frank R. Parker, Abigail Thernstrom, Theodore M. Shaw, Joaquin G. Avila, and Timothy G. O'Rourke). Supporting materials submitted for the hearings are appended. (MSE)