Forty-eight states disenfranchise people who are incarcerated; 34 disenfranchise people who are out of prison but are on parole or probation.
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Those laws have been shown to disproportionately disenfranchise minority voters.
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But it would disenfranchise the very people it claims to champion.
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First, it does away with registration deadlines that disenfranchise potential voters.
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Johnson accused Democrats of trying to "disenfranchise" voters who elected Trump.
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These were voting requirements and literacy tests designed to disenfranchise city dwellers.
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Literacy tests were used to disenfranchise racial minorities as late as 1970.
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The results, they say, could bring widespread confusion or even disenfranchise voters.
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Trump is "in cahoots with the Republican Party to disenfranchise voters." pic.twitter.
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The real purpose of these laws is to disenfranchise voters of color.
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Using rules to disenfranchise voters has a long history in the United States.
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Iowa and Kentucky are the only remaining states that permanently disenfranchise former felons.
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Of course conservative whites, especially in the South, still hope to disenfranchise blacks.
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Almost immediately, the committee looked like an effort to disenfranchise Democratic-leaning voters.
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It just so happened that the Democrats they wanted to disenfranchise were black!
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Some judges have found that stricter voting rules do not necessarily disenfranchise people.
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What's next: Iowa and Kentucky are the only remaining states that disenfranchise ex-felons.
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Critics argued that this decision would disenfranchise black voters ahead of the midterm elections.
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Sessions stood by his support for voter ID laws, which liberals say disenfranchise minorities.
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Or when Twitter didn't initially block attempts to disenfranchise voters on its service in 2016.
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The bottom line is that laws are being written to disenfranchise and target queer Americans.
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In Virginia, one of four states to permanently disenfranchise individuals with felony convictions, Democratic Gov.
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In Chris Lewis's May 2013 Atlantic article, Does Michigan's Emergency-Manager Law Disenfranchise Black Citizens?
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These measures taken by this administration have the potential to further disenfranchise already marginalized individuals.
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On a straight party line vote, 53-42 Republican lawmakers to just disenfranchise 29 voters.
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The Republican establishment never wanted Trump, but they also didn't want to disenfranchise his supporters.
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In fact, the RNC carried out a coordinated political plot to systematically disenfranchise nonwhite voters.
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But at this point, only Florida, Iowa and Kentucky disenfranchise former felons across the board.
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Then, once Trump won, they led an effort to disgrace him and disenfranchise his voters.
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Florida, Iowa, Kentucky and Virginia are the only states that permanently disenfranchise convicts with felons.
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If you try to further disenfranchise and marginalize people of color, we will fight you.
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It's a direct admission that voter restrictions are politically motivated attempts to disenfranchise black voters.
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People who are oppressed can feel that solidarity about attempts by mainstream culture to disenfranchise them.
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Republicans in places such as North Carolina are trying to disenfranchise black voters with surgical precision.
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"On what basis does Stein seek to disenfranchise the voters of the Keystone state?" it read.
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Yet, as illustrated, in a historically crowded primary, thresholds could potentially disenfranchise the majority of voters.
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Democrats in North Carolina have been fighting other efforts they believe are intended to disenfranchise blacks.
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Many of them are victims of laws enacted in Southern states specifically to disenfranchise African-Americans.
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"It's tremendously undemocratic in a democratic society when you deliberately disenfranchise thousands of people," he said.
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Legislatures and elected officials in the South and elsewhere immediately embarked on efforts to disenfranchise voters.
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With these restrictions eliminated, states were free to make unfettered changes that would virtually disenfranchise thousands.
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But the growing tide against felon disenfranchisement raises a related question: Why disenfranchise felons at all?
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The state of North Dakota has repeatedly said that it isn't trying to disenfranchise Native American voters.
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Requiring voters to present government-issued photo identification could disenfranchise a full 11% of the American electorate.
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That individual will either empower voters or disenfranchise them, protect their right to vote or undermine it.
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One genre of false theories suggests the attack was orchestrated to disenfranchise the group of angry men.
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For years the leaders of the G.O.P. have striven to disenfranchise voters they fear might oppose them.
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There are various reasons for that, including general disillusionment, laws that disenfranchise people and restrictive identification requirements.
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Yet it is joined in its efforts to disenfranchise citizens by the immensely more powerful Justice Department.
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Democrats reject those efforts as voter suppression tools, arguing that they predominantly disenfranchise poor and minority voters.
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North Carolina Republicans were not only unapologetic, they were proud of their work to disenfranchise black voters.
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He was talking about having a plan to effectively disenfranchise the voters who elected Trump, should Trump win.
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Progressive advocacy groups worried that it could enshrine specific religious viewpoints as policy and systematically disenfranchise LGBT people.
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As Politico notes, some longtime Democratic Party officials fiercely opposed the overhaul, saying it would disenfranchise party insiders.
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It equates being aroused by something weird with noxious policy platforms that seek to oppress and disenfranchise people.
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Twitter just informed me that attempting to disenfranchise voters is not a violation of their Terms of Service.
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Both then and now, these hateful forces sought to disenfranchise and exclude minorities and women from modern society.
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She said Congress enacted the National Voter Registration Act specifically to fight state efforts to disenfranchise these communities.
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Opponents of the law claimed it would "disenfranchise tens of thousands of minority voters," but it never happened.
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The New Hampshire voter suppression law is intended to disenfranchise college students from exercising their right to vote.
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Common Cause and the state's Democratic Party claim the new maps were drawn in order to disenfranchise Democrats.
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"It doesn't disenfranchise anyone," Lee Saunders, the president of the powerful union AFSCME, told the delegates on Saturday.
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These states cannot be left off the hook for the hundreds of thousands of residents whom they disenfranchise.
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The agreement will divide the country into a collection of tribes and disenfranchise minorities in each tribal homeland.
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Nevertheless, older people who'd voted religiously all their adult lives are suddenly encountering barriers that effectively disenfranchise them.
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One court found that Texas' law could disenfranchise up to 600,000 valid voters and would disproportionately harm minority populations.
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Sticking to ballots received only by Tuesday, as Trump is insisting, would disenfranchise military service-members and Americans abroad.
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DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz said Republicans are using "every legal loophole" to try to disenfranchise voters, especially minorities.
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"States may not disenfranchise voters simply because they have failed to exercise their right to vote in the past."
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Critics of the voter ID law say such requirements disenfranchise poor and minority voters, who face difficulties obtaining IDs.
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And regulation is central because it will help define whether AI and Big Data liberate customers, or disenfranchise them.
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By 1900, many states were implementing Jim Crow laws, meant to disenfranchise newly freed African-Americans and prevent integration.
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"As a black woman I will never vote to disenfranchise any member," former interim DNC Chairwoman Donna Brazile said.
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Many politicians fear the political power of the Rising American Electorate, whom these restrictive regulations are designed to disenfranchise.
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All 49 Senate Democrats voted against Farr's nomination, saying he supported measures that they say disenfranchise African-American voters.
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It wasn't that long ago that nativists were trying disenfranchise Catholic schools and lower the number of Catholic immigrants.
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He upheld a South Carolina law that the Obama administration said would disenfranchise tens of thousands of minority voters.
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That claim was used as a pretext to disenfranchise citizens, robbing the opposition of an electoral path to victory.
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Take a look at the entries for gnarled and disenfranchise — both from the Word of the Day — as examples.
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Rather than improving election security, they said, removing some registrations before November would mostly confuse and disenfranchise eligible voters.
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" "This is a small example," he added, "of what's happening across Georgia to disenfranchise African Americans and minority voters.
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Take a look at the entries for gnarled and disenfranchise— both from the Word of the Day — as examples.
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Similarly, North Dakota chose to disenfranchise its voters by holding no presidential vote and electing delegates at a convention.
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"There's so many things about the whole process that are intentionally made to be difficult to disenfranchise people," she said.
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Activists, organizers, and community members worry that Kemp's voter purge will disenfranchise Black voters and steal a win from Abrams.
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Sotomayor said the policy could further disenfranchise people who find it more difficult to vote, including minorities and the homeless.
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Overall, the law could disenfranchise about 70,000 North Dakota residents who lack adequate addresses for voting, according to court documents.
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Critics of the reforms argued that it would disenfranchise party leaders and create tension between Democratic lawmakers and their constituents.
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Modern voting restrictions are no more than revisions of Jim Crow laws and intimidation tactics meant to disenfranchise whole communities.
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It's trying to disenfranchise a group of Americans that some Americans don't want to be a part of this country.
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By this time many states were implementing Jim Crow laws, meant to disenfranchise newly freed African Americans and prevent integration.
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Lower turnout helps Republicans win elections, and the central criticism of these laws is that they systemically disenfranchise minority voters.
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Coupled with a citizenship test, observers worry the policies will disenfranchise India's 200 million Muslims, 14 percent of the population.
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Mark Harris will be the congressman, and any effort not to do that would disenfranchise hundreds of thousands of voters.
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They can seek to disenfranchise one class of Americans, and get away with it from the safety of gerrymandered seats.
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He has supported Hillary Clinton and Beto O'Rourke and fought pro bono in Texas against efforts to disenfranchise Latino voters.
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They are drawing districts that disenfranchise and dilute the vote of communities more likely to vote for a particular party.
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And not only that, but they're willing coalition partners to the Republicans in continuing to disenfranchise voters in the state.
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At the time, not everyone bought the argument that it was necessary to disenfranchise women in order to secure ratification.
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No matter who stands to accept the nomination, it will disenfranchise someone taking an interest in the primary this year.
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Under Mr Obama it vigorously upheld voting rights when, for instance, state voter-ID laws threatened to disenfranchise some minority citizens.
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God created everyone just the way they are and never intended for the church to disenfranchise an entire group of people.
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Francys Johnson, state president of the Georgia NAACP, echoed Rosenberg, saying the interpretation of the Georgia law serves to disenfranchise Georgians.
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It is a tactic to disenfranchise people in the opposition's urban strongholds, said one man who didn't want to be named.
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However, many have raised concerns that the Trump administration and potential future Attorney General Jeff Sessions seek to disenfranchise eligible voters.
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Marion County, which endorsed voter ID laws now used by Republicans to disenfranchise the poor, the elderly, students, and minority voters.
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But it should be noted that Alabama is doing its very best to disenfranchise as many of those voters as possible.
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But opponents of the changes said they were intended to disenfranchise black and Hispanic voters, an assertion they repeated on Monday.
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Civil rights groups warned that the plan, if implemented, would disenfranchise thousands of voters, particularly from lower-income and disadvantaged communities.
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In this case, the Court's signal was clear: No matter how much partisan gerrymanders disenfranchise voters, the Court will not interfere.
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The requirements instead disenfranchise valid voters who simply do not have the required ID or would suffer significant hardship in obtaining one.
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As a reaction to this expanding electorate, some states and political parties used rules and administrative procedures to disenfranchise newly eligible voters.
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Flashback: The Obama administration had blocked the South Carolina law, saying it would disenfranchise thousands of black voters and violate the VRA.
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But what it's actually about is the mechanisms, new and old, that disenfranchise and discourage people — particularly people of color — from voting.
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" He added because "the law threatens to disenfranchise an individual's right to vote, the only viable remedy is to enjoin its enforcement.
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Mr. Trump: A federal judge in Ohio has enjoined a series of Republican-backed voting restrictions, finding that they would disenfranchise minorities.
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Democrats see restrictions as an attempt to disenfranchise populations that move frequently and sectors of the community lacking the necessary official documents.
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Cuts to ARC will further disenfranchise these communities, and they should therefore concern any progressive with an interest in reducing wealth inequality.
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Far from protecting electoral integrity, the commission threatened to disenfranchise legitimate voters, particularly African Americans, Latinos and members of other racial minorities.
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Unfortunately, some are not equal to the task and disenfranchise voters through incompetence, poor training, and even willful violation of the law.
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"If they try to steal this nomination or disenfranchise the voters, it would be the end of the Republican Party," he said.
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International observers like the OSCE also regularly chide the US for state and local policies that functionally disenfranchise millions, especially marginalized groups.
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If we continue to disenfranchise, it will be to our own national economic demise as demography shifts over the next two decades.
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The rapid contraction of suffrage rights witnessed in early-20th-century America is now mimicked by Republican attempts to disenfranchise nonwhite voters.
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A similar dynamic unfolded in North Dakota, where a new law threatened to disenfranchise many people who live on Native American reservations.
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GOP reality check: As FBI dust settles, Hillary still controls destiny Supporters of early voting say limiting it would "disenfranchise" minority voters.
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"The claim seems to be that if one person in a jurisdiction gets in trouble you disenfranchise the entire community," said Rep.
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Voting laws that disenfranchise communities of color, political gerrymandering and the toxic influence of money in politics don't only happen during election season.
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From superdelegates to caucuses that unintentionally disenfranchise parents, shift workers, disabled communities and the elderly, we have become insular and out of touch.
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Perhaps most concerning of all is the potential for computational psychiatry to join the long, notorious list of sciences used to disenfranchise people.
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The laws will likely disenfranchise valid voters -- at least in their strictest application before any judicial softening -- without providing any fraud-reducing benefit.
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On Monday, Family First Party Senator Bob Day launched a challenge to those reforms in Australia's High Court, arguing they would disenfranchise voters.
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"These Virginians are qualified to vote and they deserve a voice, not more partisan schemes to disenfranchise them," the spokesman, Brian Coy, said.
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But Democrats and election experts, citing numerous studies, argue that rampant voter fraud does not exist and the measures will disenfranchise minority voters.
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" He said: "Every time I speak with a company I say the same thing: Don't disenfranchise me if I ask you a question.
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Democrats are asking the courts to extend some of the deadlines, however, as they challenge state elections practices that they say disenfranchise voters.
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That some lawyers may game the system to contribute on behalf of their clients is unfortunate but should not disenfranchise the entire profession.
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Although "exact match" lacks the explicit racial animus of Jim Crow, its execution nonetheless betrayed its true purpose to disenfranchise voters of color.
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Trump does not, himself, have the power to launch fraudulent investigations of nonexistent voter fraud and then use the results to disenfranchise voters.
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He backed a lawsuit from plaintiffs arguing the March primary would disenfranchise them because they wouldn't be able to participate over health concerns.
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With GOP attempts to disenfranchise voters, w/o full protections of VRA, we need an aggressive DNC effort that'll fight voter suppression 85033.
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Brett Kavanaugh wrote opinion upholding South Carolina voter ID law that Obama Justice Department said would disenfranchise "tens of thousands" of minority voters.
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Gun rights advocates, though, view the code as a way for overzealous cops or medical professionals to disenfranchise gun owners of their rights.
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"We believe the negative consequences would... entrench ineffective company managers and disenfranchise institutional investors," the ICGN wrote in a letter to Kamp last month.
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Although we claim to be a beacon of democracy for the world, we're in the minority in regards to the way we disenfranchise convicts.
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Otherwise, a "Jim Crow law designed specifically to disenfranchise black voters" would go unprobed as long as it didn't mention African Americans by name.
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His main rival, former vice president Atiku Abubakar, said on Saturday that Buhari's administration hoped to disenfranchise the country's electorate by delaying the vote.
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Last year, the website crashed shortly before the deadline for registration for the U.K. referendum, which threatened to disenfranchise thousands of would-be voters.
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When changes were made in 2011, the Obama administration blocked the law from taking effect, alleging it would disenfranchise thousands of South Carolina voters.
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We cannot let the government disenfranchise millions of Americans by pre-empting their ability to engage in the policy debates that affect their lives.
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Abortion bans are one of many strategies the right is employing in a much larger project to disenfranchise poor people and people of color.
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Republican secretaries of state like Kris Kobach and Brian Kemp haven't bent over backwards to disenfranchise as many likely Republican voters as Democratic ones.
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Six years earlier, Mississippi had become the first state to contrive laws to disenfranchise black voters, rather than rely solely on terror and fraud.
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That means tearing down the barriers that Democrats and Republicans create to limit competition and disenfranchise Independent voters, who now represent 42% of Americans.
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Ohio lawmakers have extended mail voting in the state's primaries until April 28, though civil rights groups warn the plan could disenfranchise large groups.
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But the evidence increasingly shows that the voter fraud the laws target is vanishingly rare, and these laws really target and disenfranchise minority voters.
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Thus Labour suspects the plans are designed to disenfranchise its supporters, who are twice as likely as Conservative voters to lack a driving licence.
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" The Trump campaign's ongoing effort to stop Republican primaries from taking place next year, Walsh said on CNN, is an effort to "disenfranchise voters.
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Perhaps the most closely watched is in North Carolina, where the courts have ruled that a voting measure was devised specifically to disenfranchise minorities.
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When conducted improperly, however, it can disenfranchise voters who are removed in error and not notified until it's too late to ameliorate the problem.
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Their understanding of the world — their "deep story" — is that government, and American social elites, is in collusion with nonwhite voters to disenfranchise whites.
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A plan that would disenfranchise black voters in Georgia quickly fails; lawmakers across Asia call for an investigation into the Rohingya genocide in Myanmar.
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I also encourage people to fight against any efforts to disenfranchise voters, which have grown in popularity since the gutting of the Voting Rights Act.
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Intersectionality is about more than recognizing multiple identities at once, it's about acknowledging how multiple systems of oppression are working simultaneously to disenfranchise certain groups.
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Clinton on Saturday blasted voter restriction laws in 17 states that she says disenfranchise African Americans, Latinos, low-income people, young people and the disabled.
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Other reforms would establish open primary elections to limit the disproportionate power of extreme partisans in low turnout and closed primaries that disenfranchise political independents.
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The show tackles the ways in which cultures are more alike than different, especially in defiance to narratives that disenfranchise certain groups more than others.
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She did it by unseating State Representative Randy Boehning, the primary sponsor of the very voter ID law Native Americans had feared would disenfranchise them.
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Witnesses at Subcommittee hearings in Georgia, Ohio, North Carolina, Florida, Alabama, Arizona and Washington, D.C. provided troubling testimony of removal practices that persistently disenfranchise voters.
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The practice, in which private citizens in Ohio challenged the eligibility of African-American voters, was widely seen as a Republican strategy to disenfranchise minorities.
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Second, conservatives who want black Americans to give their policies a new hearing should repudiate policies that on the margins tend to disenfranchise black voters.
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"The response to the president's behavior is not to disenfranchise nearly 63 million Americans and remove him from the ballot," Lisa Murkowski of Alaska said.
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The same America whose structural racism allowed the Supreme Court to strike down a key part of the Voting Rights Act and disproportionately disenfranchise minorities.
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Democrats saw the practice, in which private citizens challenge the eligibility of African-American and other voters, as an intentional Republican strategy to disenfranchise minorities.
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Simplified voter registration has also become a national cause for Democrats, who are concerned about what they perceive as Republican efforts to disenfranchise minority voters.
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This situation gets worse when some of the states disenfranchise voters, in particular, those who would vote for the opponents of the politicians in power.
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But it has been hard to match the force with which North Carolina Republicans have used various machinations to disenfranchise voters who tend to favor Democrats.
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If a foreign state were to eliminate registration records for a particular group of Americans immediately before an election, they could very likely disenfranchise those Americans.
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A solidly Republican Supreme Court will continue to act as a matador for voter suppression efforts by Republican state legislatures, which will disenfranchise more minority voters.
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Virginia's Democratic governor is restoring the voting rights of 29,210 convicted felons, reversing a Civil War-era law he said was intended to disenfranchise African-Americans.
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"The last thing we need to do is marginalize and disenfranchise young people," said Acevedo, who emigrated to the United States from Cuba as a child.
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Voter ID laws in particular often disenfranchise thousands of otherwise eligible voters because they can't meet onerous or time-consuming criteria to exercise a basic right.
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Only Kentucky and Florida, which also disenfranchise felons for life, have a higher share of African-Americans whose felony convictions deny them the right to vote.
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Civil rights leaders have said that just conducting such an inquiry could disenfranchise or intimidate black voters, and have called for the federal government to intervene.
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Word of the Day : deprive of voting rights _________ The word disenfranchise has appeared in 40 New York Times articles in the past year, including on Aug.
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Civil rights groups sued, saying the move threatened to disenfranchise tens of thousands of legal voters, and Congress opened up an investigation into possible voter suppression.
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Civil rights organizations call the move a naked attempt to disenfranchise the county's population, which is 61% black, according to census data, and mostly low income.
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The early primary date will disenfranchise wide swaths of voters who aren't used to voting by mail and will have trouble navigating the process, they say.
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Gail: That leads me to one of my constant preoccupations: the way this country is organized to disenfranchise urban voters and empower people from rural areas.
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In Georgia, a group backing Democratic candidate Stacey Abrams sued the state this week, alleging the elections were rigged to disenfranchise black and other minority voters.
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As an appellate judge, he upheld a strict voter-ID law in South Carolina, which the Obama administration found would disenfranchise minority voters more than others.
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The first began around 1900, amid the period in which states were enacting Jim Crow laws to disenfranchise the newly freed African Americans and re-segregate society.
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You can look to Trump's past to see what he will do for women in this country: bully them, sexually assault them, degrade them, and disenfranchise them.
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It's a pointed reminder that now more than ever, you can't separate Hamilton's multicultural artistry from political attempts to disenfranchise the real people who make America great.
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As German Lopez notes in a thorough examination of the issue, the kinds of voting restrictions that Sessions and other Republicans typically support disproportionately disenfranchise minority voters.
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It's widely thought that this law will disenfranchise elderly voters, students, non-white voters, and underpaid workers who do not easily have access to photo IDs; Gov.
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Trump won the nomination outright by any metric—stopping him would surely disenfranchise a substantial portion of the Republican electorate—but that hasn't stopped many from dreaming.
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When many of those offenders are freed, state laws that disenfranchise felons ensure they are unable to vote for the politicians who will decide future drug laws.
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If your vote did not matter, then wealthy interests would not try and buy it, and other sinister elements would not try to gerrymander or disenfranchise it.
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And state officials who are not busy trying to disenfranchise people should be following Mr. McAuliffe's example, and working to make it easier for people to vote.
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Just this week, a federal circuit court in Missouri rejected a civil rights challenge alleging that the state's voter ID law was designed to disenfranchise minority voters.
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Members of the party fear that its exclusion from rallies and other peaceful political events will further disenfranchise Kurds and push them toward the extremist Kurdish cause.
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Since she registered to vote when she was 19, Rosanell Eaton, 95, a lifelong resident of North Carolina, has navigated around efforts to disenfranchise and intimidate her.
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Both sides of the aisle should feel confident enough that their ideas can appeal to the majority without having to disenfranchise those who might vote against them.
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According to speculation, the practice under scrutiny — in which private citizens in Ohio challenged the eligibility of African American voters — was a Republican strategy to disenfranchise minorities.
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Democrats have accused Republicans of taking a variety of steps at the state level to disenfranchise black and other minority voters who tend to back Democratic candidates.
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We have heard complaints that closed primaries somehow disenfranchise voters, but this is only because we've convinced ourselves that "people voting" is the same thing as democracy.
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Then she seemed to endorse voter suppression (again, likely a poorly phrased "joke") in the state that pioneered Jim Crow laws to disenfranchise black voters after Reconstruction.
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One of the most closely watched cases is in North Carolina, where the courts have ruled that a state voting measure was designed specifically to disenfranchise minorities.
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"It's no secret that North Dakota's hyper-partisan voter ID laws target and disenfranchise student and Native communities," Heitkamp communications director Julia Krieger said in a statement.
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Over the past few decades, dozens of lawsuits have been filed to block redistricting plans on the ground that they disenfranchise one party's voters or the other's.
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The widespread suspicion was that the administration was pushing this review, in combination with the citizenship law, to disenfranchise Muslims, though Mr. Modi has vehemently denied that.
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"Yes, it does disenfranchise a lot of African Americans, but it disenfranchises a lot of white people who would be voting as Republicans as well," she said.
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And even though Democrats often condemn gerrymandering as another way to disenfranchise voters, they have occasionally used gerrymandering themselves when it would advantage them to do so.
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In 2014, the Arkansas Supreme Court struck down the state's 2013 voter ID law for violating the state's constitution, ruling that to enforce the law would disenfranchise voters.
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ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria opposition candidate Atiku Abubakar on Saturday said, without giving evidence, that President Muhammadu Buhari's administration hoped to disenfranchise the country's electorate by delaying the election.
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It is "woke" to revile Republicans' attempt to disenfranchise as many black people as possible on the basis of a fallacious concern with virtually non-existent voter fraud.
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At Saturday's meeting, former DNC chair Don Fowler argued that eliminating superdelegates would in particular "disenfranchise" some 200 black superdelegates, 100 Latino superdelegates, and dozens of LGBT superdelegates.
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Electing a candidate like that is dangerous and would be a disservice, not just to the Puerto Rican Americans he would disenfranchise, but to all freedom-loving Americans.
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Not holding them, she argued, would disenfranchise tens of thousands of voters who have not been represented since December, when two Republicans resigned to work for the governor.
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For another, the Senate refused to back President Trump's nominee for US district judge in North Carolina following accusations that the judge backed measures to disenfranchise black voters.
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The impact of foreign disinformation on social media pales in comparison with these homegrown structural hindrances, which dramatically dilute the impact of citizens' votes or disenfranchise them altogether.
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But in this case, what Republicans are trying to do to achieve that — disenfranchise voters, particularly on the basis of their race and party affiliation — is inherently bad.
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Iowa reduced the early voting period, restricted same-day registration, and ordered would-be voters to show an ID at the polls—moves that will disproportionately disenfranchise Democrats.
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They claimed the question would disenfranchise minority residents who are not citizens and lead to underrepresentation in Congress and unfair allocation of federal funds to communities of color.
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It's the same response Kansas Secretary of State Kobach gives when questioned over the impact of his own state's strict voter ID laws and whether they disenfranchise voters.
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One witness invited to speak to the commission proposed making every voter pass the background check used for gun purchases, which would disenfranchise millions of otherwise eligible voters.
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Less publicly touted was the newfound ability to disenfranchise illiterate voters, like, for instance, many of the former slaves who had been granted Constitutional voting rights in 1870.
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The same principle informed the "grandfather clauses" of the Jim Crow era, which exempted most white voters from literacy tests and poll taxes designed to disenfranchise black voters.
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Trump has refused to condemn violent white supremacists, and he has repeatedly made false allegations of widespread voter fraud, perpetuating a myth used to disenfranchise Americans of color.
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The Confederate flag and monuments were erected at the height of civil rights tensions in America, during the Jim Crow era to further intimidate and disenfranchise African-Americans.
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It is relatively easy, however, to advocate for actions that disenfranchise others, but quite another to call for measures which will restrict the privileges of the activists themselves.
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But the concern is that unsupported allegations will create an environment in which politicians use the frenzy of election hacking claims to push through measures that will disenfranchise voters.
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But health authorities had repeatedly said the outbreak would not prevent the vote from going ahead, and locals say it is being used as a pretext to disenfranchise them.
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They claim the purported mission of the commission is a sham, and that its true goal is to introduce stringent qualifications on voting that would mainly disenfranchise minority voters.
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Critics say the decision may lead to a free-for-all in which parties in power will disenfranchise thousands of voters by drawing congressional district lines to favor themselves.
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For all intents and purposes, we are now back at square one with this shit, with historically racist states free to enact new laws that could potentially disenfranchise blacks.
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These states, which are all either already under Democratic governance or could be after 2018, disenfranchise hundreds of thousands of individuals who are currently on parole or on probation.
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Faced with a rapid-fire succession of legal challenges, judges have refused to strike down or roll back laws Democrats argue were designed to disenfranchise minorities and the poor.
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Atlantic City's mayor and some other city officials said they supported the measures because they believed handing over authority to the state would disenfranchise the voters of Atlantic City.
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Seating Jones any earlier to be a part of the tax reform vote would "disenfranchise military voters because their ballots won't even be counted until December 19th," he said.
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The administration also argued before the Supreme Court that the citizenship question would help protect Hispanic voters; Hofeller's emails reveal that the citizenship question was designed to disenfranchise them.
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Across the country, we have seen a wave of restrictive laws that do nothing to make our elections more secure, but have managed to disenfranchise millions of American citizens.
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They will be establishing a precedent whereby states seek to disenfranchise those with dual citizenship whenever they are deemed problematic, creating buck-passing problems for international law and security.
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"Passage of the reforms in their current form would disenfranchise elected officials for no substantive reason and would create unnecessary competition between those elected and their constituents," Richmond wrote.
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Because the system as it presently stands has lots of royals and hangers-on and businessmen who are feeding at the trough and will never agree to disenfranchise themselves.
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" Nelson argued that another issue is the "constant attempts to disenfranchise voters and make it more difficult for every American to have their voice heard at the ballot box.
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So when you look at how someone wins public office and they try to disenfranchise voters in the process, then it really undermines the legitimacy of that person's position.
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Democrats contend fraud is exceedingly rare and the real intention is to disenfranchise racial minorities, who typically support Democrats and are also less likely to have the required identification.
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"By instigating this postponement, the Buhari administration hopes to disenfranchise the Nigerian electorate in order to ensure that turnout is low on the rescheduled date," he said on Twitter.
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But, if in the process they forcibly silence or disenfranchise those who oppose their views, they will wind up destroying the very civil liberties and democratic ideals they cherish.
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In tandem with the growing movement to end mass incarceration, there is a building consensus that these laws disenfranchise huge swaths of the population from participating in representative politics.
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It's the who—the almost sacred relationship between librarian and patron—that inspires these librarians to resist a status quo that aims to further disenfranchise the people they serve.
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Mr. Mueller's investigation aims to "destroy" the Trump presidency "for partisan political purposes and to disenfranchise millions of American voters," the Fox News host Jesse Watters claimed on Saturday.
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Despite Republican-controlled state legislatures' recent attempts to pass voter-ID laws that explicitly aim to disenfranchise minority voters, U.S. voting history is one of ever-increasing democratization and transparency.
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He upheld a restrictive voter ID law in South Carolina, despite no evidence of voter fraud and explicit evidence that the law was racially motivated to disenfranchise African American voters.
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One estimate suggests it could disenfranchise as many as 840,000 Floridians—a significant total given that last year's gubernatorial election came down to a margin of just over 30,000 votes.
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Exactly what questions that you have where you seek to turn this country upside down and disenfranchise the over 60 million people who voted for this president of United States?
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ABUJA, Feb 16 (Reuters) - Nigeria opposition candidate Atiku Abubakar on Saturday said, without giving evidence, that President Muhammadu Buhari's administration hoped to disenfranchise the country's electorate by delaying the election.
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Election officials in nearly two dozen North Carolina counties have approved reductions in early-voting hours ahead of November's elections, cuts that Democrats warn could disenfranchise many low-income voters.
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By that year, Southern efforts to disenfranchise black men had been brutally effective, and no African-American would represent a Southern state in Congress again for more than 2200 years.
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" We are not alone in our condemnation of Farr, whom the Congressional Black Caucus places "at the forefront of an extended fight to disenfranchise African American voters in North Carolina.
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Whether willfully or not, such a strategy is not just an affront to basic democratic principles, it would also serve to disenfranchise the growth demographics powering the modern Democratic Party.
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Prior to the Supreme Court's decision, the federal government could oversee state and local governments' decisions to shut down polling places to ensure they weren't meant to disenfranchise minority voters.
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"While this policy does not specifically target LGBTQ people, it does appear to disenfranchise many Americans who represent this nation overseas," Aaron C. Morris, Executive Director of Immigration Equality, said.
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Brasher sought to prevent previously incarcerated persons from exercising their voting rights in a state notorious for discriminatory laws that disenfranchise all those convicted of a felony involving moral turpitude.
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Brian Kemp (R), who as secretary of state oversaw an election in which he was running in spite of complaints of improper voter purges and efforts to disenfranchise some voters.
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And this isn't just about Maryland — just like voter ID laws, which disenfranchise poor and minority voters who lack the right government IDs, aren't just about Texas or North Carolina.
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New Hampshire has a storied history of voter intimidation of students, having once attempted to disenfranchise students who did not promise to continue to reside in the state after graduation.
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" In a statement, Trump campaign spokeswoman Kayleigh McEnany called the probe "yet another attempt by Democrats to disenfranchise the American people by removing a duly elected President that they disdain.
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" Voting rights Sessions described the seminal Voting Rights Act of 1965, enacted to prevent state and local officials from imposing barriers to disenfranchise black voters, as a "piece of intrusive legislation.
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As a result, the department has been able to block hundreds of voter-suppression attempts, like literacy tests and photo ID laws, that could disenfranchise marginalized communities, according to Harris' campaign.
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But without Sabrina's connection to something bigger — her sense that there's a looming system in place working to disenfranchise her and others — the show wouldn't have much of a driving conflict.
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In a series of tense speeches, some longtime DNC members argued that disempowering superdelegates in the nominating process — a priority for Bernie Sanders supporters — would effectively "disenfranchise" some 200 black superdelegates.
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"I think there's been a tendency in the party to drift a little too far left and I think that's going to disenfranchise a large section of the country," Reihm said.
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Exactly what questions that you have, where you seek to turn this country upside-down and disenfranchise the over 60 million people who voted for this president of the United States.
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A federal judge on Monday barred North Dakota from enforcing the state's strict voter identification-card law, adding to several recent federal court rulings that such laws may disenfranchise minority voters.
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In an era of hotly contested races and razor thin margins, voter suppression tactics remain a primary tool used to disenfranchise minority voters, hobble vulnerable communities and obstruct fair election results.
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Some states permanently disenfranchise felons; others require that they complete their prison sentence and any term of probation or parole; only Maine and Vermont let all citizens vote, imprisoned or not.
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The case is one of a number of lawsuits accusing Republicans of taking steps at the state level to disenfranchise black and other minority voters who tend to back Democratic candidates.
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The banner reminded me of the numerous signs carried around at the Keystone XL Pipeline protests that reignited public recognition of how modern governments continue to disenfranchise and ignore indigenous peoples.
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The decision is a win for civil rights groups who argued that the addition of the question onto the decennial survey, which is used to apportion congressional districts, would disenfranchise minority groups.
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"The law delivered a clear winner, yet House Republicans chose to disenfranchise voters for political gain," Ouida Meruvia, a spokeswoman for the Mississippi Democratic Party, said in an email after the vote.
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I will be conscious of my consumerism and criticism of music because the value of a talented man is no longer worth all the women it means we lose, isolate, and disenfranchise.
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Virginia is one of four states whose constitutions permanently disenfranchise felons but allow the governor to restore voting rights, according to the Brennan Center for Justice, a non-partisan civil liberties group.
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But to claim that electors who vote in faithful accordance with the Constitution and the founders' intent are "faithless" and "disenfranchise" millions of voters is, at best, disingenuous, and at worst, deceptive.
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"Passage of the reforms in their current form would disenfranchise elected officials for no substantive reason and would create unnecessary competition between those elected and their constituents," Richmond wrote in the letter.
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Social-justice advocates point to another consequence of the off-cycle schedule: it can disenfranchise citizens when lawmakers move in and out of city government, often as the result of term limits.
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The state's voter ID law, which was challenged in federal court, threatened to disenfranchise at least 222,2748 registered voters, many of them black or Hispanic, according to the N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense Fund.
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It also would prohibit voter-roll purges, a technique employed by states to prune outdated registrations but one that voting rights advocates say has been used to disenfranchise eligible voters, especially minorities.
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"We are urging the court to immediately block this law that would disenfranchise thousands of eligible voters who live on rural reservations," Alora Thomas-Lundborg, ACLU staff attorney, said in a statement.
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In between, "Reconstruction" enlists a host of academics to detail key events of the postwar years and connect policies designed to disenfranchise African-Americans to tactics that are still being widely employed.
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It makes no sense that states have the power to make their own rules and requirements with regard to federal elections that could change the outcome, disenfranchise, confuse, prevent or discourage voting.
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But the troubling reality is this: West Virginia Senate Bill 451 is a subtle and manipulative attempt by state legislators to disenfranchise the voices of the community they were elected to amplify.
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Civil rights activists warned that the measures could disenfranchise up to 300,000 voters ahead of the primary, many of them students, the elderly, low-income voters, and minorities — all typically Democratically-leaning electorates.
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Among their most serious complaints are that a purge of the voter rolls in New York was intended to disenfranchise Sanders supporters, Arizona's disorganized primary benefitted Clinton, and that Sanders actually won California.
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If Israel chose to annex the territories, it would be obliged either to disenfranchise their Palestinian inhabitants, making Israel undemocratic, or extend the vote and watch Israel's Jewish majority turn into a minority.
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Much of the agitation was motivated by a belief that Trump's administration will foster racism and push the courts and other political institutions to disenfranchise minority voters, says James Anderson, editor of ItsGoingDown.
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In blue states Democrats simplify voting; in red states Republicans suppress it with a long inventory of machinations: purge the rolls, convolute registration procedures, disenfranchise felons and cut back polling times and places.
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Netanyahu's ideal post-two-state scenario would be to permanently subjugate and disenfranchise these Palestinians by annexing as much of their land as feasible while devolving to them as little power as possible.
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Income inequality is at its highest level in more than half a century, 85003 has produced more mass shootings than days on the calendar and voter suppression continues to disenfranchise millions of Americans.
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They're worried that this essentially is going to disenfranchise a bunch of genuine citizens who simply are either too poor or come from the wrong community to be able to justify their existence.
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The rise of ransomware — which typically locks a system until victims pay the attackers in a cryptocurrency like Bitcoin — has given another weapon to attackers looking to sow chaos and digitally disenfranchise voters.
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In 2013, North Carolina lawmakers passed a measure requiring residents to present photo identification to vote, but critics slammed it as an effort to disenfranchise poor and minority voters and those with disabilities.
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I became increasingly aware of how large, inflexible bureaucracies with a "good enough" approach to infrastructure and services can disenfranchise citizens with disabilities, many of whom cannot bridge these gaps on their own.
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"Your answers don't provide me comfort, as a justice of our nation's highest court, that you will fairly take into account the barriers that continue to disenfranchise minority voters," Booker said on Wednesday.
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Critics of the laws, which Republicans have advocated in state legislatures around the country, argue they could disenfranchise voters who are less likely to have driver's licenses, such as seniors, students and the poor.
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Countries which, like the United States, disenfranchise certain classes of incarcerated criminals for the duration of their prison sentence assume a proactive role in assisting former inmates with the restoration of their voting rights.
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"The secretary of state has decided to disenfranchise people who are 17 but will be 18 by the day of the general election," Sanders campaign manager Jeff Weaver told reporters in Detroit Tuesday afternoon.
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Between now and then, Trump's DOJ and his sham election-integrity commission will seek to disenfranchise as many Democratic voters as possible, while the president himself beseeches further foreign interference aimed at Democratic candidates.
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"We're taking and replicating strategies in mass incarceration that were used to lock up of people of color to disenfranchise them and here doing it to physically exclude people from the U.S.," she said.
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The party ran a fierce campaign to disenfranchise millions of Muslim immigrants from neighboring Bangladesh, long an emotive issue with Assam's Hindus who say they have taken away jobs and enjoy government welfare programs.
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Agency head Thomas Haldenwang said Hoecke's faction was "a threat to the liberal democratic principles of Germany's constitution," citing its repeated downplaying of Nazi crimes, along with its efforts to disparage and disenfranchise minorities.
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In that meeting, Tassin said the Trump officials assured him they would not sue the party or seek to disenfranchise the unbound delegates, as the real estate mogul and campaign have threatened to do.
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They have no real interest whatsoever in addressing the concerns of African-Americans and continue to support measures that disenfranchise people of color in most of the South and states like Wisconsin and Texas.
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The state is currently being sued by several civil and voting rights groups who argue that the law effectively functions as an unconstitutional poll tax that will primarily disenfranchise black Floridians with felony convictions.
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It seems to me the fate of the DACA database will not only give us clues about whether the Trump administration intends to use data as a weapon to further disenfranchise the already disenfranchised.
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When tech-savvy bad actors manipulate machine-learning tools to create false video footage of political candidates doing or saying something that would disenfranchise or encourage voters, it is difficult for us to notice.
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Many worry that Mr. Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party, or B.J.P., plans to disenfranchise Muslims in its quest to remake India as a homeland for Hindus, who make up about 80 percent of the population.
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It began a successful statewide Democratic campaign to regain control of the state government, disenfranchise African-Americans, and create a legal system of segregation which persisted into the second half of the twentieth century.
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Lott argued that Democratic concerns that the commission will be used to disenfranchise voters would be satisfied by his proposal, since most Democrats are on the record supporting the background check system for guns.
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That would deprive Republican-controlled state governments from using that false rationale to justify ever more restrictive voter ID laws, which are, in truth, designed to disenfranchise minorities who historically tend to vote Democratic.
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Republicans have become increasingly comfortable violating these norms, rhetorically painting Democrats as existential threats to the nation and changing a variety of electoral rules to suppress the Democratic vote and even disenfranchise Democratic constituencies altogether.
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However, there is a case to be made that the LME's relatively high-cost structure, overlaid with a steady tightening of credit credentials for participation, has served to disenfranchise all but the largest industrial users.
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The same monitors that were so critical of Russia's election noted that while the US elections were free, laws and practice conspire to disenfranchise millions of voters, like DC residents and people with criminal records.
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Among Kavanaugh's multiple disqualifiers was his D.C. Circuit decision upholding South Carolina's photo ID law, which the Department of Justice had rejected on the grounds it would disenfranchise tens of thousands of voters of color.
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" The group maintains that it's nonpartisan, and that its only goal in monitoring the election is "to counter actions of any political party or criminal gang that attempts to disenfranchise the citizens of our nation.
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But it only began to impact large numbers of people in the wake of the Civil War, when several Southern states used it to disenfranchise black men who had recently gained the right to vote.
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To the Editor: Eliminating the Electoral College would remove the injustice of a candidate receiving almost half a state's votes while gaining none of its electors, but it would disenfranchise large segments of our country.
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Her opponent, Mr. Pate, has followed the lead of Republicans nationally who work to disenfranchise minority, poor and elderly voters by putting obstacles in front of them like voter ID requirements and reduced voting periods.
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Russia's "managed democracy" provides a vivid illustration of how institutions and practices that originally emancipated citizens from the whim of unaccountable rulers can be refashioned to effectively disenfranchise citizens (even while allowing them to vote).
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Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, in a dissent joined by Justice Elena Kagan, warned that the ruling could disenfranchise tens of thousands of voters in a state where the voting-age population is only about 600,000.
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JALESWAR, India (Reuters) - Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has vowed to disenfranchise millions of Muslim immigrants in Assam, waging a polarising election campaign in a bid to form its first government there.
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First come the unverified tales of fraud; then come the urgent calls to tighten voter registration rules and increase "ballot security," which translate into laws that disenfranchise tens or hundreds of thousands of qualified voters.
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A divisive election, the growing use of arcane rules that disenfranchise the minority party and a chaotic White House have combined to create one of the least productive opening acts by Congress in recent memory.
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The Justice Department had told Ross in December 2017 it needed the question and a localized production of "citizen voting-age population data" to probe any legislative districts that may be drawn to disenfranchise minority voters.
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A new voter ID law in North Dakota will disenfranchise minority voters and seems aimed specifically at Native Americans, who often don't have residential address and thus won't be able to vote under the new law.
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If hackers were able to alter the recorded addresses of a few thousand voters with African-American family names, for example, they could disenfranchise these voters, whose identification documents would no longer match their listed addresses.
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Latino and Asian-American groups filed suit in May claiming that the question would disenfranchise minority residents who are not citizens, leading to underrepresentation in Congress and the unfair allocation of federal funds to minority communities.
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The board first proposed to close all but one of the county's 10 polling places, a move the N.A.A.C.P. and other minority advocates argued would disenfranchise rural blacks who could not travel long distances to vote.
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North Carolina's new Democratic governor on Tuesday moved to end a years-long legal battle over a package of election reforms that voting rights advocates charge would disenfranchise thousands of low-income and minority voters. Gov.
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The ruling is a blow to Democrats in the state who say the law could disenfranchise thousands of voters, especially in minority communities that rely upon neighbors and activists to collect and hand-deliver the ballots.
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Furthermore, any effort to disenfranchise American Muslims through legal ruses will hamper the integration of Muslims into the American mosaic and interfere with the salutary influence of American values on the mutual respect among religious groups.
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DAURA/YOLA, Nigeria (Reuters) - Nigerian authorities postponed Saturday's national election by a week, just hours before polls had been due to open, prompting the opposition candidate to accuse President Muhammadu Buhari of seeking to "disenfranchise" voters.
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"The DNC needs to get its act together so that it doesn't disenfranchise tens of thousands of Iowans," said Julian Castro, a Democratic presidential candidate and former federal housing chief, in a video here posted online.
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Leaders of the group told POLITICO they have already begun discussing strategies to deal with Trump and any policies they believe would disenfranchise African-Americans — from public school funding to low-income housing to voting restrictions.
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But the Fourth Circuit US Court of Appeals' unanimous decision to strike down the law Friday shows the law was an undeniable tactic used by the state's elected officials to not so subtly disenfranchise black voters.
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With the sports integration in some of my work, my aim is to show viewers that an unconventional context doesn't need to disenfranchise from the fine art realm, especially if it's executed in a thought-provoking manner.
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Many such studies have been conducted in the past several years as some Republicans have used the specter of fraud to justify voter ID laws that disproportionately disenfranchise black and Latino voters, who tend to vote Democratic.
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Ohio's method of purging voters must also be considered in the context of the broader trend of state and local efforts to disenfranchise minority voters, using tools like voter ID laws in states like Texas and Alabama.
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Ohio lawmakers have extended mail voting in the state's primaries until April 28 — but civil rights groups warn the plan could disenfranchise large groups of voters after coronavirus concerns delayed the state's original primary on March 303.
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Only 8 percent of Trump's confirmed judges in 2018 are people of color, the AFJ analysis found, and a number of problematic nominees have actually been called out for systematically trying to disenfranchise and discriminate against minorities.
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Mr. Pounds said that it was difficult not to consider that Mr. Kemp, who is white and bragged that he would round up "criminal illegals" in his campaign ads, might be acting to disenfranchise people of color.
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The ruling, coming two weeks before the Tar Heel State holds its presidential primaries on March 3, is a victory for civil rights groups and advocates who have argued the law would disenfranchise poor and minority voters.
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Some would surely object to this proposal as reviving the sorts of tests once used to disenfranchise racial minorities and the poor in the United States, and certainly we must ensure such discrimination does not occur again.
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Voter ID laws, rationalized by demonstrably fake concerns about election fraud, were used to disenfranchise thousands; others were discouraged by a systematic effort to make voting hard, by closing polling places in areas with large minority populations.
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Like Kentucky, Virginia bars felons from voting for life unless a governor restores their right, a decades-old restriction that, like similar measures in some other states, was designed at least in part to disenfranchise African-Americans.
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That is because a one-state solution that encompasses both Israel and Palestinian territories would have to systematically deny citizenship to and disenfranchise a large swath of the Palestinian population in order to maintain a Jewish majority.
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Clinton criticized efforts to disenfranchise voters, such as immigrants, the elderly and the poor, saying a key reason there's no immigration reform is that representatives who oppose it worry expanding the electorate would hurt their political prospects.
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"We've always been willing in principle to recognise the PPU, but we won't agree to their demand that we derecognise BALPA, and disenfranchise the hundreds of pilots who belong to this union," she said in an emailed statement.
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The Vietnam War was the major crisis that politicized Asian Americans, but events at home also became key battles that forced them to think of foreign and domestic policies as a unified attempt to disenfranchise people of color.
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"Where the law threatens to disenfranchise an individual's right to vote, the only viable remedy is to enjoin its enforcement," Presiding Justice Kenneth C. Brown wrote in his decision for the Hillsborough Superior Court Northern District in Manchester.
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A POLITICAL brain teaser: which party in which country has promised "punitive measures" against illegal immigration, has threatened to disenfranchise people who arrived half a century ago and has told migrants to "be prepared with their bags packed"?
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Opponents say the laws disenfranchise minority voters, but after Doug Jones' victory, researchers are trying to figure out whether the impact is overstated or whether African-American voters in Alabama were so motivated that the laws didn't matter.
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Washington (CNN)Democrats Stacey Abrams and Andrew Gillum are calling on the US Senate to reject President Donald Trump's nomination of a federal judge in North Carolina, saying he supported measures that they say disenfranchise African-American voters.
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The difference with Trump is that he seems not to believe in the fundamental role that a free press plays in a democracy and spends a good chunk of his time working to discredit and disenfranchise the media.
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"Congress enacted the NVRA against the backdrop of substantial efforts by states to disenfranchise low-income and minority voters, including programs that purged eligible voters from registration lists because they failed to vote in prior elections," Sotomayor wrote.
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It's part of the left's war on the right MORE, has done nothing to curtail efforts by Republican-majority state legislatures to suppress and disenfranchise minority voters through schemes like Voter ID and the cancellation of early voting.
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" He added: "If you disenfranchise those people and you say, well I'm sorry but you're 100 votes short, even though the next one is 500 votes short, I think you would have problems like you've never seen before.
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Encouraging young people to vote is a necessary service—but considering the still-ongoing efforts to disenfranchise minority voters in America, you can't help but wish that her get-out-the-vote message carried a bit more reach.
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Whether it was abusing the filibuster and stealing a Supreme Court seat, gerrymandering congressional districts to disenfranchise African Americans, or muzzling government climate scientists, Republicans were undermining American democracy long before Trump made it to the Oval Office.
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The failure to count people anywhere in the US would disenfranchise residents there from federal funding, and an undercount as low as 1.5% would impact the apportionment of congressional seats and delegates to the Electoral College, plaintiffs said.
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As we, and our allies, have shown time and again, such checks are not only prone to errors and likely to disenfranchise eligible citizens, they are based on wholly inaccurate beliefs about the prevalence of non-citizen voting.
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Even though the device doesn't tally actual vote results, and instead simply registers voters at a polling place, a compromised machine's lack of security could be used to disenfranchise tens or hundreds of thousands of voters on voting day.
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The report rejects the idea floated a year ago by the multi-faith Woolf Commission that a range of religions should get seats in the upper house; that would be unworkable and further disenfranchise non-religious people, it says.
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Indeed, in his book "Give Us the Ballot," Ari Berman has shown how for decades, allegations of voter fraud have been used as a political justification for voting restrictions that tend to disenfranchise groups who tend to vote Democratic.
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Latino and Asian-American groups filed the original suit in May claiming that the question would disenfranchise minority residents who are not citizens and lead to underrepresentation in Congress and unfair allocation of federal funds to communities of color.
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But with its disastrously complicated and laborious provisional ballots, Georgia has innovated a more effective and less newsworthy way to discourage voters, especially those who are young, underprivileged, or of color: require them to vote twice, or disenfranchise themselves.
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Instead of allowing state and local governments to erect hurdles that disenfranchise our citizens, we need to mandate that state and local governments take positive steps to ensure that those who are entitled to vote are able to vote.
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In 22022, the Democratic-primary race—between Hoke Smith, a former publisher of the Atlanta Journal , and Clark Howell, the editor of the Atlanta Constitution —became a competition over who would do more to disenfranchise the African-American population.
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"These incidents are even more concerning in the context of efforts within India to target and potentially disenfranchise Muslims across the country, in clear violation of international human rights standards," USCIRF Commissioner Anurima Bhargava said Wednesday following the riots.
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Separately, Judge Walker ruled early Thursday that a state law allowing county election officials to reject vote-by-mail and provisional ballots because voters' signatures do not match the ones on file threatens to unconstitutionally disenfranchise thousands of voters.
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He's spoken about the importance of Frederick Douglass and Martin Luther King Jr., while decrying voter fraud and creating an election integrity commission stacked with figures eager to pass stricter voting laws, which are often used to disenfranchise minorities.
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Since the moment he won the White House in November 2016, Trump has shown a willingness -- actually more of a proclivity -- to entertain the idea that there is some sort of broad conspiracy aimed at trying to disenfranchise conservative voters.
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Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive of Facebook, is among those to have suggested the idea of a "universal basic income"—an unconditional payment to all citizens—to deal with stagnating wages and automation; critics say that could further disenfranchise the less-skilled.
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" The study found that "many states disenfranchise former offenders after they have completed their sentences, and as a result, 7.7 percent of black adults are disenfranchised nationally, including 22 percent of black adults in Kentucky and 21625 percent in Florida.
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Virginia's voting ban, like most of the others that collectively disenfranchise about six million Americans, is a 19th-century relic rooted in racism — a direct reaction to the passage of the 15th Amendment, which guaranteed African-Americans the right to vote.
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And a defeat of Mr. Trump — which he has already darkly alluded to as part of a plot to disenfranchise his supporters — could further inflame those on the right whose goal all along has been to disrupt the country's political system.
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The five Republican justices on the Supreme Court aren't endorsing purges of the voting rolls because Trump forced them, and the North Carolina GOP didn't need Trump's inspiration to introduce yet another effort to disenfranchise voters via strict ID laws.
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But before the Supreme Court's 543 ruling, the D.O.J. had the power to ensure that state and local voting boards did not use "budget cuts or voter modernization as cover to disenfranchise people of color," the L.C.E.F. study points out.
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"If you disenfranchise those people, and you say, 'Well, I'm sorry, but you're 383 votes short, even though the next one is 500 votes short,' I think you would have problems like you've never seen before," the billionaire said last month.
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Meanwhile, critics of voter ID argue that they are disproportionately likely to disenfranchise students, low-income voters, and voters of color — groups that are less likely to have ID than the average voter, and that tend to favor Democrats over Republicans.
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They helped racists in the South circumvent the Fifteenth Amendment and disenfranchise blacks, and even in immigrant-rich New York a 1921 law required new voters to take a test if they couldn't prove that they had an eighth-grade education.
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Theoretical physicist Robert McNees collected a few examples on Twitter, most coming from an account that is known for posting racist, sexist, and homophobic tweets: Twitter just informed me that attempting to disenfranchise voters is not a violation of their Terms of Service.
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Depending on how they are run, they can unfairly disenfranchise the disabled, those in the military stationed out of state, those who have to work during caucus time, and those who might have a religious conflict with a caucus run on a Saturday.
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The authorship of the exhibition, which initially seems clear and dictated by the space, is flipped by the meanings and messages of the works on view, and those meanings effectively disenfranchise the strictness of both the space and the idea of authorship.
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So what the hell is the point of this whole thing, other than to set him up for impeachment because the Democrats and the media want to remove our president who was elected by over 60 million people to disenfranchise all of us?
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For instance, the authors spend considerable time on the dangers of Trump's Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity, which was formed to prove that Trump actually won the popular vote and seemed to foretell new, widespread efforts to disenfranchise voters of color.
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That means ending Voter ID provisions that disenfranchise eligible citizens, putting an end to partisan gerrymandering, and offering working people – who can't afford to take time off from their job on a Tuesday in November – more opportunities to vote early or by mail.
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The people Mr. Trump represents want to suppress and disenfranchise you-know-who; the big-money interests that support Ryan-style conservatism want to privatize and generally dismantle the social safety net, and they're willing to do whatever it takes to get there.
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But that incentive threatens to disenfranchise renters who have long used rent withholding as a way to force landlords to improve poor housing conditions, according to the National Consumer Law Center, a nonprofit that is an advocate for low-income and disadvantaged consumers.
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That's how Republican politicians can uniformly claim to abhor racism while enacting policies that disenfranchise and ruin black and brown people — because the right-wing political and pundit classes work furiously to muddy the public understanding of what racism actually looks like.
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Mr. Chakrabarti said the team was particularly on guard for posts that manifested "real-world harm," and planned to remove posts that tried to disenfranchise voters by giving incorrect polling data or spreading hoaxes like encouraging people to vote by text message.
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The lawsuit, filed by the nonprofit Disability Rights Advocates, alleges that the iPad touchscreens used to order food at Eatsa, as well as the restaurant's automated cubbyhole pick-up wall and mobile app, all lack accessibility features and thus disenfranchise visually impaired customers.
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By requiring people with felony convictions to pay legal obligations before registering to vote, the lawsuit's plaintiffs had argued, Florida legislators had effectively created a modern version of the notorious poll taxes used to disenfranchise African-Americans during the Jim Crow era.
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Dashing the hopes of Democrats who implored them to break party lines, moderate Senate Republicans held together and announced, one by one, that they would acquit Mr. Trump, contending that removal from office was an overly excessive punishment that would disenfranchise voters.
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Top allies of President Donald Trump are spreading groundless allegations of conspiracies and voter fraud in the Iowa caucuses, and the Republican official who heads the state's election commission has accused them of spreading "fake news" in a bid to disenfranchise Iowan voters.
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Mr. Chakrabarti said the team was particularly on guard for posts that manifest "real-world harm," and planned to actively remove posts that try to disenfranchise voters by giving incorrect polling data or spreading hoaxes like encouraging people to vote by text message.
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While the Supreme Court has ruled on many aspects of the districting process — banning state legislative districts with unequal populations and banning districts intended to disenfranchise black voters — it has issued muddled opinions on the question of whether partisan gerrymanders are unconstitutional.
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U.S. District Judge Tanya Walton Pratt ruled in a legal challenge brought by the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of Common Cause Indiana and other groups that the legislation violates the National Voter Registration Act and threatens to disenfranchise eligible voters.
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Chief Justice John Roberts said the court could not "ignore the disconnect" between the administration's justification for the question — enforcing the Voting Rights Act — and a wealth of evidence that suggested the citizenship question would be used to disenfranchise voters of color.
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We have seen surprise poll closures in predominantly black and brown communities, limits to early voting and same-day registration, changes designed to disenfranchise Native American voters, the purging of voter rolls, and a host of other restrictive laws at state and local levels.
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Supporters of removing inactive voters told the Journal-Constitution it will allow the state to keep up-to-date records, while opponents argue the move will disenfranchise voters who may not have participated in past elections but want to cast a ballot in 2020.
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Today however, they remain steadfast in their desire to disenfranchise unconventional reserves around the globe through dictating a price point for crude that even in the best of reservoirs would barely cover direct operating costs, much less provide returns on investment in new wells.
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The fake ads were spotted yesterday by Robert McNees, a physicist at Loyola University Chicago, who reported them to Twitter only to receive word back that the tweets didn't violate the site's terms of service, despite spreading false information and attempting to disenfranchise voters.
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What her experience signals to me is that she understands how companies work to disenfranchise the economic rights of individuals and knowing that she can work effectively to restore the balance of economic power in this country while preserving the better features of capitalism.
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The Trump White House labeled Sunday's general elections in Cambodia as a sham, lambasting the exclusion of the country's principal opposition party, "the government's choice to disenfranchise millions of voters" and cautioned that the U.S. will consider additional steps to respond to the contest.
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We are not just looking for thank you's or our bodies being exploited in the pages of glossy magazines, we are looking for a type of reparation from these businesses and people that have made billions from the magic, but disenfranchise and erase the magicians.
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What the administration is doing on one hand is putting a rule in place that would eventually prevent millions of immigrants who would become permanent residents and eventually citizens and eventually voters, so it's another way they are trying to disenfranchise communities of color.
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What we've seen instead are coups of a subtler form: takeovers or intimidation of the news media, rigged elections that disenfranchise opposing voters, new rules of the game that give the ruling party overwhelming control even if it loses the popular vote, corrupted courts.
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Ms. Rousseff, in a separate interview earlier in the week, said she saw the criminal case against Mr. da Silva — who was convicted of accepting $1.5 million in bribes in the form of a refurbished seaside apartment — as the latest effort to disenfranchise Brazilian voters.
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In late 21960, the Obama administration blocked a South Carolina law that required voters to show a photo ID before casting their ballots, finding that it could disenfranchise tens of thousands of minority voters, who were more likely than whites to lack such IDs.
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We could be witnessing already, in the GOP's efforts to disenfranchise African Americans in the South, the seeds of a resurgence in anti-black racism, particularly if the next Democratic administration is successful in expanding social programs aimed in part at addressing racial inequality.
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Mr. Johnson is one of the plaintiffs in a lawsuit filed last month by the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund alleging that rural Waller County has tried to disenfranchise students at the university over decades, most recently by curtailing early voting on campus.
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The next year, 210, the Democrats enacted Jim Crow laws like literacy tests and poll taxes to prevent black people from voting them out of power—the precursors to modern voter ID laws that similarly disenfranchise people who are already getting hosed by the system.
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In the five years since the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act, almost 20 percent more polling stations per capita have closed in jurisdictions freed from federal oversight — aimed at curbing policies that could disenfranchise minority voters — than in the rest of the country.
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In June 2017, civil rights groups including the American Civil Liberties Union and League of Women Voters of Missouri sued Missouri to prevent its new voter identification law from interfering with a special election for an alderman in St. Louis, saying the measure could disenfranchise voters.
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Ethics in machine learning is still a relatively new intersection of thought, and this bill appears aimed at forcing companies to think about the way their algorithms work, who they might harm or disenfranchise, and how they are actively working toward more fair, accurate, and just systems.
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Some liberal and civil rights groups have been working furiously to halt his nomination, claiming that as attorney general Sessions will seek to disenfranchise minority voters, strip the LGBT community of protections won during the Obama years, deport Dreamers and fill prisons with low-level drug offenders.
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"Taking Kurds out of politics and shutting down the political channels to resolve this conflict will only disenfranchise Kurdish youth further and push them toward a radical path in the fight toward great autonomy," said Kubra Demir, a Kurdish activist in the southeastern city of Sirnak.
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Facing growing anti-establishment sentiment in the provinces among people who feel that an urban alliance has conspired to disenfranchise them, the authorities have presided over a big rise in the law's use over the past decade, with imprisonments rising sharply after the 22001 coup (see chart).
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The fires of anger against, and distrust of law enforcement have been further fueled by the militant, Marxist Black Lives Matter movement that seeks to disenfranchise, diminish, defend and dissolve police who protect the public and our Democratic form of government by enforcing the Rule of Law.
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American democracy, already pushed to the brink by unlimited corporate campaign donations, by gerrymandering, by election hacking, and by efforts to disenfranchise poor, minority, and typically Democratic voters, now must contend with a system that favors the campaign with the best data and the best tools.
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Editorial The scurrilous campaign by Republican lawmakers in a number of states to disenfranchise qualified voters suffered another setback this week, when a federal judge ordered North Dakota to halt voter identification restrictions he said were blocking thousands of Native Americans from exercising their right to vote.
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"If you feel the system is set up in a way to disenfranchise people, and you feel that the wheels of government are turning in a way to make people less likely to participate, eventually you're going to have less trust in the system," Dr. Shufeldt said.
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The Brennan Center for Justice, a division of New York University School of Law that studies democracy and justice issues and helped draft Amendment 4, say the bills aim to undermine the referendum's intent and would disenfranchise voters who cannot afford to pay their financial obligations.
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"While the federal administration continues to look for new ways to disenfranchise voters across the country, in New York we are making monumental changes to break down more barriers to the ballot box and encourage more people to exercise this fundamental right," Cuomo said in an announcement.
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These voters can still vote in the election, as long as they bring an acceptable form of photo ID to the polls (like a driver's license), but voting rights advocates fear the move will confuse voters about whether they're allowed to vote and disenfranchise those without photo IDs.
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Meanwhile, the ProPublica Local Reporting Network funds and jointly publishes year-long investigative projects with 23 local news organizations across the U.S. The Electionland initiative reports on problems that disenfranchise eligible voters, like misinformation, changing voting laws and rules, voter harassment, equipment failures and long lines at the polls.
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He won't have the same earned media advantage against the president, and Sanders should say so, while promising to put the passionate young organizers behind his campaign to work registering voters in communities Republicans have worked hard to disenfranchise and that Democrats have done a poor job engaging.
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The illiberal populism of Donald Trump, Hungary's Viktor Orban or Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro, each of whom was more or less fairly elected, entails the cynical and reckless use of the mechanisms of democracy to disenfranchise political minorities, politicize the state, stigmatize immigrants and other "outsiders," and diminish civil liberties.
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He suggests a wide range of policies to fix this, ranging from practical ideas like universal automatic voter registration and a $100 "democracy coupon" for every voter, to more controversial ones, like scrapping the Electoral College and reducing federal funding for states like Georgia that disenfranchise their voters.
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Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, in a dissent joined by Justice Elena Kagan, warned that the ruling could disenfranchise tens of thousands of voters, including both Native Americans and non-Native Americans, in a state where the voting-age population is only about 600,000, citing a district court's findings.
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Each suit differs slightly in the exact argument used to oppose the state's new Amendment 193-related law, but all make the same basic claim: that the law is unconstitutional and will disenfranchise poor people and people of color with felony records, denying them the rights restored by the ballot amendment.
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It took a while, partly because—as is usual in resource-intensive countries—the state owns and regulates much of the economy, and also because white South Africa's history of using the state to impoverish and disenfranchise black people makes it hard for white businesspeople to oppose an elected black government.
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Each suit differs slightly in the exact argument used to oppose the state's new Amendment 4-related law, but all make the same basic claim: that the law is unconstitutional and will disenfranchise poor people and people of color with felony records, denying them the rights restored by the ballot amendment.
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At Dr. Barber's request, Rosanell and Armenta Eaton became lead plaintiffs in the lawsuit against a new North Carolina law that civil rights advocates called the most serious challenge in decades to the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which had prohibited a vast array of devices once used to disenfranchise minorities.
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" — JIMMY FALLON, paying tribute to William Shakespeare on his birthday by delivering the news in his style "I get why Bernie is concerned about slippery slopes — partly because America has a history of using imprisonment to disenfranchise minority voters, and partly because slippery things are every old man's worst nightmare.
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Combine this sort of thing with continuing efforts to disenfranchise or at least discourage voting by minority groups, and you have the potential making of a de facto one-party state: one that maintains the fiction of democracy, but has rigged the game so that the other side can never win.
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U.S. officials aren't only concerned about the spread of foreign-led disinformation — or "fake news" — to try to alter the outcome of the tally, but also threats facing election infrastructure, like hackers breaking into election websites to dissuade or disenfranchise voters from casting their ballot — or even stealing voter data.
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But they also overlap with two of the most heinous periods of racial terror in American history: the post-Reconstruction era, when white people moved decisively and violently to disenfranchise black Americans under Jim Crow, and the civil rights era, when white Southerners were desperate to keep that disenfranchisement in place.
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But then I began to wonder: What do the folks who opposed desegregation and still try their best to disenfranchise black voters; who opposed women's rights and still oppose equal pay; who want to spend trillions on foreign interventions and nothing on our crumbling infrastructure — what do these people really have to add?
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They are premised on faulty pseudo-science that lay people (often untrained) can somehow compare two signatures and determine if they match or not… these matching laws disenfranchise tens of thousands of eligible voters … worse, many states provide no notification to the affected voter or meaningful opportunity to 'cure' the rejected ballot.
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Conversely, though Wisconsin's voter ID law was invalidated after a finding that it would disproportionately disenfranchise working-class Americans and minorities who could not afford photo IDs, that decision was reversed by a federal appeals court just before the 2016 election, making it difficult for hundreds of thousands of Wisconsinites to vote.
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"While the current federal administration continues to advocate for policies that seek to disenfranchise and marginalize immigrant and refugee residents and communities, I firmly believe that our county government has a vital role in ensuring that King County is a welcoming and affirming place for all," Council Chair Joe McDermott said at the time.
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There is no compelling evidence that Russia successfully tampered with voter rolls or voting machines last November, but there is evidence that Russia attempted to access voter information in several states — raising the specter that in the future a foreign government might try to disenfranchise voters by altering voter rolls or tampering with voting equipment.
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While the meeting was undoubtedly provocative, the move by the prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, to adopt powers to banish the Arab MPs from parliament is seen by his critics as an assault on Israel's democracy and an attempt to disenfranchise Israel's Arab minority, who make up 20% of the population (excluding Palestinians in the territories occupied in 1967).
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On the 85033st anniversary of the signing of the Voting Rights Act, Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Anti-Trump vets join Steyer group in pressing Democrats to impeach Trump Republicans plot comeback in New Jersey MORE warned that the push to disenfranchise voters is on the rise.
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Each of these issues fueled their own series of lawsuits (several of them successful) in the weeks before and after the election, but this latest lawsuit cites them collectively to make a larger point: Georgia's current election system created an unconstitutional series of obstacles that are disproportionately likely to disadvantage, and in some cases completely disenfranchise, voters of color.
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This failure was delivered by the same Iowa Democratic Party officials who have said for the last four years they were "ramping up" their technology capabilities, convening seemingly endless security task forces to ensure foreign powers did not disenfranchise voters, and collaborating with federal agencies like the Department of Homeland Security to make sure everyone was in the loop on voting security.
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You cannot have what I&aposve been calling the silent coup take place where the left has tried to criminalize the election with Mueller, tried to politicize and reverse election with the phony impeachment issue, you cannot reverse the votes, disenfranchise over 60 million Americans and act like it&aposs no big deal and pretend there was a basis for it.
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Now, whether it ever finally gets ratified, I'm not sure, but it will be so divisive and it will rile up so much of our population, we will see the continuing efforts on the right to disenfranchise people, to roll back regulations that are good for our health and our environment and so much else, we will not recognize America.
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Jim SensenbrennerFrank (Jim) James SensenbrennerLive coverage: Mueller testifies before Congress Tech executives to take hot seat at antitrust hearing Big tech braces for antitrust crackdown MORE (R-Wis.), former chairman of the Judiciary Committee, said a 2202 Supreme Court decision gutting the 2628 Voting Rights Act (VRA) threatens to disenfranchise minority voters if lawmakers don't move quickly to update the law.
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Some activists have claimed, for instance, that the law is an effort to disenfranchise Rhode Island's large and growing Latino population; with demographic shifts threatening to upend the balance of power in the state, according to this narrative, conservative-leaning Democrats forged an alliance with black lawmakers to pass a law that would keep Hispanic voters away from the polls.
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The classic example is Hungary, where Fidesz, the white nationalist governing party, has effectively taken over the bulk of the media; destroyed the independence of the judiciary; rigged voting to enfranchise supporters and disenfranchise opponents; gerrymandered electoral districts in its favor; and altered the rules so that a minority in the popular vote translates into a supermajority in the legislature.
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"We do have a supermajority now of Republicans in the House, and that allowed us to be able to get the two-thirds margin that we needed," Lowery said, adding that he feels the new version of the law doesn't disenfranchise voters thanks to changes like a provision that allows people with photo IDs to cast provisional ballots after signing sworn statements confirming their identities.
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If we, however, are able to realize that centuries of policies and practices designed to oppress and disenfranchise black and brown people and unfairly privilege white people are responsible for the current state of our union, many of us may feel compelled to enact policies and practices aimed at undoing this harm (or at least cannot feel so smug about our current place in society).
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They said Ohio's policy is part of a larger campaign to disenfranchise voters — especially minorities and those disproportionately likely to oppose President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE.
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In states with strict voting laws that disenfranchise felons indefinitely — like Florida — increasing turnout would most likely make a difference in election outcomes, said Christopher Uggen, a professor of sociology at the University of Minnesota, who estimated that Democratic votes lost to felon disenfranchisement would have changed the outcome of seven Senate races since 1978, as well as the 2000 presidential election of George W. Bush.
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And [we'll keep discussing them] until we call a spade a spade, and say this problem is coming from conditions that we're creating, or allowing to happen, as a white group of people who hold a certain amount of power… One of the most revealing moments of their conversation came when Colbert asked whether there is a "systemic attempt" in the United States to disenfranchise and isolate poor and minority communities.
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Republicans argue that thousands of people who have changed addresses have not updated their voter registration status and should therefore be struck from the rolls to ensure election integrity, while Democrats and voting rights advocates say the move will unjustly disenfranchise swaths of the electorate … The six-person election commission had been split evenly along partisan lines, the Republicans voting in favor of the purge and the Democrats voting against it.
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