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VOTING RIGHTS (Update)

The Voting Rights Act, Shelby County, and Redistricting: Improving Estimates of Racially Polarized Voting in a Multiple Election Context

The Voting Rights Act, Shelby County, and Redistricting: Improving Estimates of Racially Polarized Voting in a Multiple Election Context

... a voting rights “carrot” that incentivizes states to voluntarily improve their election procedures, à la Race to the Top, seems much more likely to pass Congress and could reach state and local election ...

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Dog Whistles and Discriminatory Intent: Proving Intent Through Campaign Speech in Voting Rights Litigation

Dog Whistles and Discriminatory Intent: Proving Intent Through Campaign Speech in Voting Rights Litigation

... Felon Voting, W ALL S T ...civil rights organizations, on behalf of ten Floridians, filed a lawsuit to challenge the ...Civil Rights Groups Sue Florida over ‘Poll Tax’ Law To Restore Felon Voter ...

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Understanding the Paradoxical Case of the Voting Rights Act

Understanding the Paradoxical Case of the Voting Rights Act

... The Voting Rights Act overcomes this low risk of override through the sunset ...the voting rights gains of the last forty-one years warrant expiration of the coverage ...

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Quick and Dirty: The New Misreading of the Voting Rights Act

Quick and Dirty: The New Misreading of the Voting Rights Act

... In two other states, courts seem to bear the primary blame for demographic shortcuts of a different, albeit related, nature. In Arkansas, the politician commission charged with drawing state legislative lines seemed to ...

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Voting Rights   Ownership of Property No Longer a Valid Qualification

Voting Rights Ownership of Property No Longer a Valid Qualification

... Voting Rights Ownership of Property No Longer a Valid Qualification SMU Law Review Volume 23 | Issue 5 Article 16 1969 Voting Rights Ownership of Property No Longer a Valid Qualification C R W hite Fo[.] ...

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The Bench and the Ballot: Applying the Protections of the Voting Rights Act to Judicial Elections

The Bench and the Ballot: Applying the Protections of the Voting Rights Act to Judicial Elections

... The discriminatory impact of at-large elections for local govern- mental bodies has been the subject of voting rights litigation for many years, again particularly in t[r] ...

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Competing Interests in State Supreme Courts: Justices' Votes and Voting Rights

Competing Interests in State Supreme Courts: Justices' Votes and Voting Rights

... To test hypotheses on the effects of various factors on voting rights decision-making on state high courts, I develop a model of individual jus- tices’ votes in ballot access cases. Typically, ballot access ...

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Alabama’s DMV Closures Reinforce Need to Restore the Voting Rights Act

Alabama’s DMV Closures Reinforce Need to Restore the Voting Rights Act

... landmark Voting Rights Act (VRA) in March 1965, six months after the haunting images of police brutality against nonviolent protesters on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, on Bloody ...

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Unmistakably Clear: Human Rights, the Right to Representation, and Remedial Voting Rights of People of Color

Unmistakably Clear: Human Rights, the Right to Representation, and Remedial Voting Rights of People of Color

... the Voting Rights Act should be a disappointment to rights advocates: by creating a majoritarian right in States to decide how States allow for suffrage (until such time as Congress extends equal ...

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Securing felons' voting rights in America

Securing felons' voting rights in America

... Particularly in the United States, but in other jurisdictions as well, felons’ voting rights are inextricably caught up in racial issues. It is not news that the incarceration rate of some racial ...

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Unteachable: Shelby County, Canonical Apostasies, and a Way Forward for the Voting Rights Act

Unteachable: Shelby County, Canonical Apostasies, and a Way Forward for the Voting Rights Act

... Unteachable Shelby County, Canonical Apostasies, and a Way Forward for the Voting Rights Act SMU Law Review Volume 67 | Issue 1 Article 2 2014 Unteachable Shelby County, Canonical Apostasies, and a Wa[.] ...

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African-American Legislators Post-Katrina: Race, Representation, and Voting Rights Issues in the Louisiana House

African-American Legislators Post-Katrina: Race, Representation, and Voting Rights Issues in the Louisiana House

... Overby and Cosgrove (1996) advance a similar argument. In their study of the voting behavior of white U.S. House incumbents following the 1992 redistricting cycle, they found that changes in the racial ...

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The Work of the Civil Rights Division in Enforcing Voting Rights Under the Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1960

The Work of the Civil Rights Division in Enforcing Voting Rights Under the Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1960

... ** Managing Partner, Doar Devorkin & Rieck, New York City. Member of the California, Wisconsin, and New York state bars. A.B., Princeton University, 1944; LL.B., Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, ...

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Eighty Years of Indian Voting: A Call to Protect Indian Voting Rights

Eighty Years of Indian Voting: A Call to Protect Indian Voting Rights

... Significant to many Indian communities, Congress added protections from voting discrimination for minority-language citizens. 5 5 Congress required jurisdictions to provi[r] ...

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Civil Rights Movement up to Voting Rights Act GAI.pdf

Civil Rights Movement up to Voting Rights Act GAI.pdf

... “most segregated city in the United States.” -Martin Luther King Jr. In order to hold a march or a protest, the city had to issue a permit, which they refused to do March still held, [r] ...

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The Nineteenth Amendment Enforcement Power (But First, Which One is the Nineteenth Amendment, Again?)

The Nineteenth Amendment Enforcement Power (But First, Which One is the Nineteenth Amendment, Again?)

... minorities’ voting rights in violation of Section 2 of the Voting Rights ...the Voting Rights Act] ...a Voting Rights Act § 2 claim against Arizona’s voter ID law), ...

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Blind v. Colorblind: The Injustice of State Felon Disenfranchisement Schemes

Blind v. Colorblind: The Injustice of State Felon Disenfranchisement Schemes

... The modern practice of felon disenfranchisement con- tinues to rely on this archaic framework for its foundation, though the practice has undergone judicial scrutiny several times. The four cases that have been heard in ...

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Third amendment to the proposal for a Fifth Council Directive based on Article 54 of the EEC Treaty concerning the structure of public limited companies and the power and obligations of their organs. COM (91) 372 final, 20 November 1991

Third amendment to the proposal for a Fifth Council Directive based on Article 54 of the EEC Treaty concerning the structure of public limited companies and the power and obligations of their organs. COM (91) 372 final, 20 November 1991

... - 5 - Whereas the pos1tion of sha:reholders rega.rd.ing the exerc1se of their voting rights should be strengthenai in order to ensure a wide measure of participation in the life of the c[r] ...

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Impact of Military Expenditure on Inflation in Nigeria1980 2012

Impact of Military Expenditure on Inflation in Nigeria1980 2012

... 1965 Voting Rights Act, the state of Virginia requires that for a person to cast a ballot who registered via mail, the stated adheres to the federal requirement of being required to show identification when ...

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Report from the Commission on the citizenship of the Union. COM (93) 702 final, 21 December 1993

Report from the Commission on the citizenship of the Union. COM (93) 702 final, 21 December 1993

... Parliament asked the Commission to act immediately19, and in 1988 the Commission submitted a proposal for a directive on voting rights for Community nationals in local · elections in the[r] ...

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