Mandatory disenfranchisement is unusual, and permanent disenfranchisement is even rarer.
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As an increasing number of states have enacted reforms to disenfranchisement policy, there is growing understanding of the ways in which felony disenfranchisement runs counter to public safety objectives.
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For the vast majority of the country — its women, slaves, American Indians — the difference between disenfranchisement in an independent America and disenfranchisement in a British-controlled colonial America was negligible.
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While disenfranchisement laws disproportionately affect black people, Meade told VICE Impact that it's important for people, and voters to realize that disenfranchisement affects people of all races, religions, and political affiliations.
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The disenfranchisement of former felons remained a widespread feature of American law until the civil rights era of the 1960s and '70s, when 17 states repealed their disenfranchisement provisions for former felons.
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In 2018, there is simply no excuse for voter disenfranchisement.
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The website is creating a system of exploitation and disenfranchisement.
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This is blatant voter disenfranchisement on the part of Facebook.
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The easing of felon disenfranchisement laws is a classic example.
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Disenfranchisement in the name of comity is no democratic solution.
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Democrats have claimed that voter disenfranchisement contributed to Abrams's loss.
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But the roots of its post–Civil War disenfranchisement laws linger.
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They also faced racial violence for attempting to organize against disenfranchisement.
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The disenfranchisement of people with mental illness also plays a role.
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But we have newer and more obscure forms of voter disenfranchisement.
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Bernie Sanders has advocated for a complete end to felon disenfranchisement.
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This video, originally published in October, examined disenfranchisement in the state.
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But John is much more than just an avatar for rural disenfranchisement.
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They promote the ideologies that have resulted in institutionalized racism and disenfranchisement.
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How rank-and-file Iranians will respond to the disenfranchisement is unclear.
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It will only increase feelings of marginalisation and disenfranchisement in Muslim communities.
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Another big problem with felon disenfranchisement laws is where they come from.
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Voter disenfranchisement could also have a very important partisan effect this election.
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A relationship where corruption, oppression, and systematic disenfranchisement is all too familiar.
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A "safety net" is necessary to "prevent the disenfranchisement of some voters".
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Disenfranchisement among those with felony convictions has fallen disproportionately on black voters.
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And that is also what voter disenfranchisement and Citizens United are about.
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Last November, Florida voters approved a constitutional amendment to end felon disenfranchisement.
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A sense of disenfranchisement and a hostility toward Obama pervade both halves.
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As your editorial mentions, criminal disenfranchisement was adopted to uphold white supremacy.
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Democrats have argued that the rejections are disenfranchisement, and lawsuits have followed.
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But neither is it simply a tale of dreams deferred and disenfranchisement.
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Felon-disenfranchisement laws are constitutional, but that doesn't mean they're any good.
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Meanwhile, the feeling of disenfranchisement is only likely to go one way.
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The judge's ruling will not affect the automatic voting disenfranchisement in place.
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To the Editor: There are several reasons we should question felony disenfranchisement.
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This kind of disparate disenfranchisement is what McAuliffe was trying to address.
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But Bondi has previously denied the policy amounts to racially motivated disenfranchisement.
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Audiences "are inundated with images of gangsters and thugs and disenfranchisement from slavery, the disenfranchisement from downtroddenness," said Mr. Harris, who created the show in 1999, and workshopped it for years in friends' living rooms across the city.
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Mason's plight touches on two hot-button issues: voter fraud and felon disenfranchisement.
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The history of people of color is marred by disenfranchisement, distortion, and disfigurement.
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Not aligning with whiteness in this country comes with consequences, like employment disenfranchisement.
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In theory a strong local government should help counter the sense of disenfranchisement.
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Historically, Chinese immigrants faced systematic disenfranchisement and racist abuse in the United States.
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Conservatives don't care whether any consistent theory of government underlies these disenfranchisement efforts.
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Disenfranchisement affects roughly six million United States citizens and disproportionately hits African-Americans.
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No, they are torn apart from within by the effective disenfranchisement of citizenry.
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But a number of states enacted felony disenfranchisement laws following the Civil War.
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"The risk of disenfranchisement is large," Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote in a dissent.
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Its disenfranchisement rate — 1.4 percent — is the highest in the Northeast after Delaware.
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For Palestinians, however, this anniversary is a painful reminder of their political disenfranchisement.
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But more baffling revelations were still coming to light, many concerning organizational disenfranchisement.
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Some have also suggested that not counting these votes amounts to voter disenfranchisement.
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Other groups who share the region now are wary of disenfranchisement or violence.
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Brian Kemp in an election marked by accusations of voter suppression and disenfranchisement.
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Felon disenfranchisement is also very key; those are the top priorities from my perspective.
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Racism involves the systemic and institutionalized disenfranchisement of certain groups based on their race.
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What happened in Arizona is part of a pattern of voter disenfranchisement by Republicans.
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The seven faithless electors roughly translates to the disenfranchisement of over 6900 million votes.
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There was a lot of intimidation and disenfranchisement, especially if you were a male.
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In Florida alone, around 1.5 million people can't vote because of regressive disenfranchisement policies.
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An essential component of this recovery process is working towards overcoming our political disenfranchisement.
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Today, America is experiencing a similar systematic disenfranchisement, except on a much wider scale.
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The scandal has brought the state's long-running issue of disenfranchisement to the forefront.
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Their long careers in politics were built on the systematic disenfranchisement of black Americans.
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Facing an existential crisis of democracy, Americans cannot resign ourselves to disenfranchisement and dismay.
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That is why there is such a push for voter restrictions, suppression and disenfranchisement.
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The result will be the disenfranchisement of a large section of South Sudan's population.
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It's not about power and my seat in Congress, it's about inequality and disenfranchisement.
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Nationwide, an estimated 2.6 million African-Americans cannot vote because of criminal disenfranchisement laws.
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By the turn of the century, black disenfranchisement was nearly complete in the South.
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These efforts at disenfranchisement have their pedigree in the states' rights arguments of old.
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Yang then tied this economic point into one about disenfranchisement from the political process.
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Both Tennessee and South Dakota have expanded felon disenfranchisement over the last 22020 years.
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Racial disparities in criminal enforcement and sentencing means disenfranchisement falls heaviest on black communities.
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"There is a huge hidden epidemic of loneliness and disenfranchisement from the human race."
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They can be complicit or catalysts in everything from microaggressions to overt discrimination and disenfranchisement.
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Western nations must assimilate their Islamic immigrants or bare the ongoing consequences of their disenfranchisement.
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But the largest issue at play in the Abrams-Kemp race is about voter disenfranchisement.
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In 22000, approximately 21.7 million people were unable to vote due to felon disenfranchisement laws.
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In 1976, approximately 1.17 million people were unable to vote due to felon disenfranchisement laws.
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They have been barred from political participation through disenfranchisement and disqualification from running for office.
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Radicals influence these vulnerable populations by tapping into the sentiments of hopelessness, disenfranchisement and fear.
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More important, using checklists on Election Day could lead to fewer lost votes or disenfranchisement.
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But the racist history of felon disenfranchisement laws should not get lost in the legalese.
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Despite these important reforms, felony disenfranchisement continues to have a major impact on democratic participation.
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It follows action by the state legislature in May easing Louisiana's own felony disenfranchisement law.
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"You have to pair that with the history of disenfranchisement among minority voters," he said.
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The Democratic Party should also take a principled stand against disenfranchisement in all its forms.
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I wasn't surprised to learn that addresses were being used as a tool for disenfranchisement.
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Fortunately, the court rejected the Democrats' efforts, saying there was no evidence of voter disenfranchisement.
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But I refuse to be a pawn, a conduit of their oppression, of their disenfranchisement.
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The text warns that "woman's degraded, helpless position" and disenfranchisement violated America's founding governmental principles.
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African-Americans, who favor the Democratic Party, have been disproportionately affected by felon voter disenfranchisement.
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Since black Americans are more likely to go to prison, this had a disproportionate impact on the African-American electorate: While the overall disenfranchisement rate didn't break 11 percent for any state, the black disenfranchisement rate topped 20 percent in Florida, Kentucky, and, notably, Virginia.
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Since black Americans are more likely to go to prison, this had a disproportionate impact on the African-American electorate: While the overall disenfranchisement rate didn't break 11 percent for any state, the black disenfranchisement rate topped 20 percent in Florida, Virginia, and Kentucky.
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Currently, over 6 million Americans are denied the right to vote because of criminal disenfranchisement laws.
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Whatever the reason, the result is disenfranchisement laws have a disproportionate impact on the black electorate.
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On October 18 it removed the net-short disenfranchisement language, among a number of other changes.
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"We thought it was so obvious this was voter disenfranchisement," Finn told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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Critics of felon disenfranchisement laws say that they disproportionately exclude minority voters from the political process.
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The racially charged category "unincorporated territory" is at the heart of the disenfranchisement of Puerto Rico.
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The disenfranchisement of wage and salaried employees can be reversed by installing permanent employee stakeholder trusts.
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Legalized discrimination and state-sanctioned brutality, murder, dispossession and disenfranchisement continued long after the war ended.
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And Garrett Epps argues in The Atlantic that felon-disenfranchisement laws have their roots in slavery.
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She did not concede, however, saying "disenfranchisement, disinvestment and incompetence" had kept voters from the polls.
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The threat of voter disenfranchisement will get worse if Judge Kavanaugh is confirmed to the court.
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India is in uproar, in protest, in ennui, in disenfranchisement, in pain, in anger, in suffering.
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Still, a total disenfranchisement of public shareholders has been a long time coming among technology companies.
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The nationwide Electoral Justice Project and BlackPAC movements were organized to join the war against disenfranchisement.
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The total disenfranchisement of public shareholders has been a long time coming in the technology sector.
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It would also help stanch the systematic disenfranchisement of people of color, who are disproportionately incarcerated.
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Instead, primaries became part of the Jim Crow-era disenfranchisement of newer members of the electorate.
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Between 1996 and 2008, seven states repealed lifetime disenfranchisement laws for at least some ex-offenders.
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Kentucky and Iowa are now the only states where lifetime disenfranchisement laws remain on the books.
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"Massive" voter disenfranchisement of the kind seen in the U.S. South after 1876 also won't happen.
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But the growing tide against felon disenfranchisement raises a related question: Why disenfranchise felons at all?
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Possible explanations for these patterns include a growing sense of economic disenfranchisement among working-class voters.
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There's still disenfranchisement; there's still problems that so many people have to overcome in order to succeed.
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And just like any good conspiracy theory, the systematic disenfranchisement of white guys makes it to Hollywood.
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Tomorrow, Floridians will have the option to do away with the disenfranchisement of people with felony convictions.
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"The question is whether the bipartisan forces for reform are faster than the partisan forces of disenfranchisement."
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Courts throughout the country last year required states to "soften" their laws to try to prevent disenfranchisement.
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"Facebook's disenfranchisement of black people on the platform mirrors the marginalization of its black employees," Luckie wrote.
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Baghdadi, then age 39, spurred a transformation by focusing on the enduring disenfranchisement felt by Iraq's Sunnis.
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" Luckie said that "disenfranchisement of black people on the platform mirrors the marginalization of its black employees.
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Courts should require plaintiffs to have actual evidence of potential disenfranchisement before ordering a later closing time.
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But the real story of gentrification and disenfranchisement in Chicago are heavily biased against people of color.
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And you make sure that everybody has the right to vote without disenfranchisement, you help all Americans.
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Perhaps they were so bewildered that the weakest of them began to see their disenfranchisement as irreconcilable.
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Foremost among these efforts is Florida's Amendment 4, which is aimed at the state's felon-disenfranchisement rules.
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According to the Sentencing Project, more than six million individuals cannot vote because of felon disenfranchisement laws.
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But we miss the point and sell ourselves short to interpret felony disenfranchisement reform as purely partisan.
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They are looking for "someone who will articulate the truth of their disenfranchisement," as Webb put it.
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Nationally, the disenfranchisement rate among black adults is three times that of the population as a whole.
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The Justice Department for decades took the position that failing to vote should not lead to disenfranchisement.
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"Facebook's disenfranchisement of black people on the platform mirrors the marginalization of its black employees," he wrote.
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How else could the gerrymandering, Citizens United, voter ID laws and other forms of disenfranchisement be justified?
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Snap has followed the natural evolution of this disenfranchisement, simply eliminating shareholder rights from the get-go.
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Furthermore, his positions on felon disenfranchisement and voter ID laws would almost certainly result in voter suppression.
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He masterfully played to voters' fears of disempowerment and disenfranchisement, feelings that historically leave people susceptible to paranoia.
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"It's Disenfranchisement 101," according to Carol Anderson, an Emory University historian and author of One Person, No Vote.
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And perhaps more importantly, the disenfranchisement people without a real I.D. suffer from goes way beyond voting rights.
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Do you think we would have the same problems today -- the increase in vitriol, racial tensions and disenfranchisement?
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They must wait for a formal request from voters who will suffer disenfranchisement because of whatever issue arises.
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We have to curb the power of money in our politics and end the systematic attempts at disenfranchisement.
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Florida's existing disenfranchisement law dates back to the post-Civil War era, when it was enacted in 1868.
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"The panoply of restrictions results in greater disenfranchisement," the ruling read, "than any of the law's provisions individually".
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He cited systemic discrimination, voter disenfranchisement and mass deportations of "Dreamers" as occurrences he may speak out about.
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That project's defeat in 1877 then ushered in 90 years of Redemption, mass disenfranchisement, and American racial apartheid.
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In February, a federal judge struck down Florida's felon-disenfranchisement system for violating the First and Fourteenth Amendments.
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They came out of the project with six general themes, ranging from raising teacher salaries to voter disenfranchisement.
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These 12 states' obscene levels of disenfranchisement have prompted nationwide efforts to restore the rights of former felons.
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Florida reversing the disenfranchisement of over a million voters could have a positive impact for decades to come.
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Voting rights for prisoners is "the next significant phase of this movement for disenfranchisement reform," Mr. Mauer added.
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"Proactive national measures to prevent disenfranchisement have all but been eliminated in the past five years," Newkirk writes.
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After all, if disenfranchisement is a punishment, why wouldn't it end with the conclusion of a person's sentence?
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This is not the first time the Bluegrass State has tried to address the harms of felony disenfranchisement.
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Of course, there's neither sound logic nor evidence to support the disenfranchisement of anyone with a criminal conviction.
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A report in 2016 showed that 6.1 million people were denied the right to vote under felony disenfranchisement laws.
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If anything, the latter would've been preferable, since at least women and minorities wouldn't be singled out for disenfranchisement.
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He has never lived in a woman's body and experienced the violence and disenfranchisement that can come with that.
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On Thursday, Sanders praised Stanton for his calls to a Justice Department to launch an investigation into voter disenfranchisement.
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In an interview before the latest shooting, March said Toronto's gun violence stems from the disenfranchisement of certain communities.
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McAuliffe has said his original order would move Virginia away from lifetime disenfranchisement that hits African-Americans particularly hard.
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This makes it difficult to fully understand how voter ID laws are interacting with overall disenfranchisement of disabled voters.
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But disenfranchisement of people with criminal records remained, and it is just beginning to attract the attention it deserves.
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When the governor was elected one of his first acts was to push forward laws that enabled voter disenfranchisement.
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You are right to point out the discriminatory effect of felony disenfranchisement laws and other restrictions on civil rights.
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After new laws narrowed the list of crimes requiring disenfranchisement, many felons regained their ability to vote in 2018.
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It does not address the core grievance of disenfranchisement and would instead accelerate the politicization of the Supreme Court.
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She has called out disenfranchisement and made critical voting rights reforms a part of her vision for the future.
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These efforts at voter suppression have inspired a new wave of activism aimed at nullifying the efforts toward disenfranchisement.
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But because of hundreds of years of voter suppression and disenfranchisement, Congress is still overwhelmingly pale, stale and male.
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"Voter disenfranchisement doesn't just show up when you put dogs on people or water hoses, or block entrances, that's not the only form of voter disenfranchisement," Mr. Gillum said at St. John, citing reports that some voters were turned away from polling sites because of discrepancies with their signatures on identification cards.
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And so the North Dakota voter ID law represents the potential wholesale disenfranchisement of a large minority in the state.
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Such evidence cannot support the stronger claim that Trump would have lost the state in 2016 but for criminal disenfranchisement.
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She says that, given the long history of disenfranchisement, it was hard to convince people here that their votes mattered.
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"Ultimately, you have kids susceptible to gang recruitment because of disenfranchisement and disconnection from society in Suffolk," Barrientos told me.
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Voting rights advocates equate felony disenfranchisement with other forms of voter suppression like voter ID laws, gerrymandering and voter purges.
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Restore felons' voting rights: A recent report by the Sentencing Project laid bare the urgency of countering felon disenfranchisement rules.
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The long-term consequences of this disenfranchisement are unpredictable, but will doubtless hinder the Chinese Communist Party's nation-building project.
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"This serves as an outright disenfranchisement and burden on the right to vote," Elias told reporters on a call Friday.
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Voters are treated as atomized participants in the democratic process, so that systemic disenfranchisement can be dismissed as mere supposition.
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One of the most ambitious bills, which Sisolak signed into law last month, rolled back the state's felon disenfranchisement laws.
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Still, the historical record offers glimmers of hope: previous eras of disenfranchisement or voter suppression have come to an end.
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We can take four simple steps to reduce the risk of disenfranchisement: Ramp up public education on voting by mail.
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Like most places in the United States, Santa Fe occupies indigenous lands and has a long history of systemic disenfranchisement.
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For Sydney James Harcourt, who plays Joe, the song's celebratory staging is pointedly at odds with its message of disenfranchisement.
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But they do not include purportedly progressive states like California, New Jersey and Washington, which have comparatively regressive disenfranchisement rules.
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In the absence of slavery, white people created new tools to maintain the color line, like sharecropping, and voter disenfranchisement.
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Still, for many people committed to demonstrating in the areas of unrest, their feelings of disenfranchisement transcend support for Odinga.
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The political disenfranchisement of Puerto Rico continues, evident in the United State's government's shameful post-hurricane treatment of the island.
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For his part, Mr. Cuomo spoke passionately on Wednesday against anti-Semitic acts, attributing them to economic disenfranchisement and xenophobia.
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"Pitchfork" Ben Tillman and his allies rewrote our state constitution to codify school segregation and the disenfranchisement of black voters.
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But, unfortunately, Ho noted, the timing of the court's ruling may "guarantee disenfranchisement of many Wisconsinites in this fall's election."
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For many communities it's been a response to widespread and long-term disenfranchisement—an outlet after years of waiting for one.
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Democrats have fought back against Republicans on these issues, but the Democratic efforts haven't included much advocacy on prisoner disenfranchisement laws.
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This article is part of our series Why I Didn't Vote, a collection of essays exploring personal stories of voter disenfranchisement.
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As Ms Bender says, the dual aim was to perpetuate the disenfranchisement of blacks and ensure a pool of cheap labour.
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Leveraging his blue-collar bona fides, he argued Clinton is intimately familiar with the economic disenfranchisement that helped power Trump's rise.
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Every weapon in Jim Crow's arsenal was deployed: The new constitution imposed literacy tests, poll taxes, criminal disenfranchisement provisions, and more.
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An Op-Ed article on July 19 about Virginia's felon disenfranchisement law misstated part of the history of Virginia's voting restrictions.
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He supports automatic voter registration, statehood for Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia, and ending felony disenfranchisement and partisan gerrymandering.
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Some committee members, including many who represent minority communities, argued excluding superdelegates on the first ballot was tantamount to voter disenfranchisement.
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The attacks placed the spotlight on France's multicultural society and worries over a lack of integration and disenfranchisement of immigrant communities.
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They would mostly affect people in upcoming elections, but the issue of disenfranchisement has certainly played a role in the race.
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Larry Hogan — is one of several major victories scored recently by advocates fighting to end voter disenfranchisement based on criminal records.
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The concept of disenfranchisement based on criminal records dates back to ancient Greece, as the National Conference of State Legislatures notes.
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This type of negative publicity escalates the disenfranchisement of minority populations in America, impugning their opportunities for gainful employment and respect.
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But beyond setting parameters to protect civil rights and prevent disenfranchisement, the federal government couldn't tell states how to run elections.
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To legislatively oppose abortion is to be, at best, indifferent to the disenfranchisement, suffering and possibly even the death of women.
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"I would just say this kind of disenfranchisement is unprecedented as so many things are in the Trump presidency," he said.
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The group argued that the new requirement would create "mass disenfranchisement" of minority voters who do not have a birth certificate.
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If not, we risk fueling a brutal cycle of poverty, incarceration and systemic disenfranchisement that can be nearly impossible to break.
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Florida voters will decide next week whether to end the disenfranchisement of felons, while 23 states have already loosened similar policies.
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The more we see other women of color breaking glass ceilings and knocking down doors of disenfranchisement, the more emboldened we feel.
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"I'm putting myself in a position that I know is going to create hate, anger, disenfranchisement from friends, from Democrats," he said.
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"The point is that mass production of those products as the standard is part of a greater problem of disenfranchisement," Halsey continued.
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American democracy alone has endured slavery, the national disenfranchisement of women, and a continuing track record of injustices committed against marginalized communities.
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And this disenfranchisement has seeped right into OPRF, where Black students are on the receiving end of microagressions and missed educational opportunities.
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Due to toothless legislation and Native Americans' economic and political disenfranchisement, counterfeiters continued to produce misleading goods despite attempts to strengthen laws.
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My worry is that race and identity politics will be critical to his success, and that will require voter suppression and disenfranchisement.
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The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is fighting all forms of voter suppression, including felony disenfranchisement through their Let People Vote Campaign.
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But they need look no further than the continued disenfranchisement of Ahmadi Muslims, including in the most recent elections held last week.
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"The point is that mass production of those products as the standard is part of a greater problem of disenfranchisement," she added.
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But the onerous registration process and split primaries are not the only tool of voter suppression and disenfranchisement that New York uses.
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Florida had been the national leader in felon disenfranchisement, so the amendment's success also bodes well for similar reforms in other states.
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EDITORIAL An Op-Ed article on July 24637 about Virginia's felon disenfranchisement law misstated part of the history of Virginia's voting restrictions.
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Kanye's solution to the problem of black disenfranchisement is not to commiserate with the poor — it is to help them become rich.
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Other states followed, although extralegal methods remained in use, and, by the end of the century, the work of disenfranchisement was complete.
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At least 10 percent of the adult population in Florida is banned from the ballot because of the state's felony disenfranchisement policy.
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Then there is the largest form of disenfranchisement: the combination of the imprisonment boom and state laws barring former prisoners from voting.
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Plenty of states all across the country -- including Florida, this past November through a ballot initiative -- have eased their felon disenfranchisement rules.
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In 2016, fake news, gerrymandering, voter suppression and disenfranchisement were "the mischiefs" employed by the Republican Party to propel Mr. Trump's campaign.
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Felon disenfranchisement is a destructive, pointless policy that hurts not only individuals barred from the ballot box, but American democracy at large.
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But a number of states are now considering whether to get rid of the disenfranchisement laws that block felons from the polls.
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This absence has allowed for the disenfranchisement of former felons, which has deeper roots than almost any other kind of voter suppression.
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This has been done to Black people through a robust prison industrial complex that feeds on their vilification, incarceration, disenfranchisement, and erasure.
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The dominance of the white political leader and the disenfranchisement of black Cubans have always been a part of the island's history.
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As a worker with the Native Alcohol Drug Abuse Program, Gabriel Fobister Jr. deals daily with these effects of poverty and disenfranchisement.
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We must recognize extremism is fueled through disenfranchisement and exclusion of populations in their home communities, not that they were born evil.
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To correct course, we need public officials to show some backbone by tackling our country's long history of voter suppression and disenfranchisement.
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Roy E. Barnes, the last Democrat to hold the office, mourned what he depicted as the disenfranchisement of the state's political center.
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The end of felon disenfranchisement in the Sunshine State marks a bright spot in a nation where voting rights remain under siege.
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"The party runs a volunteer-run 24/7 hotline voters can call with questions or to report incidents of voter disenfranchisement," said Bringman.
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"Iggy and the Stooges were making a deeper political statement that had to do with disenfranchisement and disconnection from the mainstream," Kramer said.
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But the fight over Grayeyes' candidacy, and the decades of disenfranchisement that led to it, encapsulates a concern that currently spans the nation.
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Phillips aligned the Joker with the (generally inaccurate) stereotype of the mentally ill, socially isolated loner whose disenfranchisement leads him to commit violence.
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Jakoby is the character that viewers are supposed to empathize with because of the constant discrimination and disenfranchisement he experiences as an orc.
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"Florida is one of the states with the harshest felon disenfranchisement laws," says Leah Aden, assistant counsel for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund.
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Unfortunately, if the state's long history of voter disenfranchisement is any indicator, the need to keep a close watch on Florida remains paramount.
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Every candidate -- in both parties -- has to take responsibility for the brokenness of national politics, and for the disenfranchisement of so many citizens.
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But if you look at the social media feeds of his core supporters, economic anger and feelings of financial disenfranchisement rule the day.
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Voters there approved Amendment 4 to end permanent felon disenfranchisement in the state (except for people convicted of murder or serious sexual offenses).
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There is, for one thing, the weight of being a black boy from Mississippi and grappling with the legacy of generations-long disenfranchisement.
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Florida's vote to end the state's harsh felon disenfranchisement statute was a crowning achievement of this Democracy Movement, no matter the GOP response.
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Critics of felony disenfranchisement argue that it's a form of voter suppression meant mainly to keep minorities from exercising their right to vote.
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Felony disenfranchisement laws vary widely by state, and the states with the most confusing laws take no proactive steps to educate the public.
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Today, as boxing's audience shrinks, professional sports such as football and basketball fulfill the idea that one can escape disenfranchisement with athletic talent.
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Today, felon disenfranchisement denies the right to vote to one in five black Floridians — and 10 percent of the state's total voting population.
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This would be done through a clause, known as "disenfranchisement", which excludes bondholders directly connected to the issuer of a bond from votes.
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The regulations, coupled with the lack of economic development, have led to a pervading sense of neglect and disenfranchisement among the tribal population.
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Like most felon-disenfranchisement laws, Florida's was a 19th-century relic drafted to keep newly freed black slaves from having a political voice.
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Richardson agrees with Zavell and Supernova that reparations should address the economic disenfranchisement of black and Latino communities created by the drug wars.
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A study led by sociologists at Northwestern University in 2003 found disenfranchisement policies likely impacted the outcomes of seven Senate races from 1970 and 1998 — and may have even swayed the close presidential race between George W Bush and Al Gore in 2000, particularly considering how hotly-contested Florida was, the state that has one of the highest disenfranchisement rates in the country.
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Since black Americans are much more likely to go to prison, this had a disproportionate impact on the African-American electorate: While the overall disenfranchisement rate didn't break 11 percent for any state in 2012, the black disenfranchisement rate topped 20 percent in Florida, Kentucky, and, notably, Virginia — three of the states with the most restrictive voting laws for felons.
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That estimate comes from a new report by the Sentencing Project, which looked at the effect of felony disenfranchisement laws on Americans' voting rights.
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When we leave out an entire sector of the community, and continue to not speak up about doing so, we contribute to their disenfranchisement.
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Washington (CNN)Indiana Democrats took responsibility Monday for a get-out-the-vote flub that left local officials looking into allegations of voter disenfranchisement.
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The 38-year-old queer city council member was known for her work that revolved around reproductive rights, gender equality, and socio-economic disenfranchisement.
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Milk rightly spoke on ending the disenfranchisement of oppressed groups in politics, and how we can't always be representative but we must be inclusive.
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As he worked in the community to bring awareness to disenfranchisement issues, he earned a law degree from Florida International University (FIU) in 2014.
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If passed, the amendment will change the disenfranchisement law in the state's constitution that dates all the way to the post-Civil War era.
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Whether we like it or not, Black people's ongoing, institutionalized disenfranchisement is a residual effect of our classifications as less than human during slavery.
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In terms of candidate or party you support, this election has gotten a lot of attention… But with millennials, there is this interesting disenfranchisement.
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To kick off the series, today we're addressing felony disenfranchisement — which affects 6.1 million Americans, according to criminal justice advocacy organization The Sentencing Project.
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From a purely democratic perspective this state of affairs highlights the disenfranchisement of 3.5 million American citizens and the urgent need to address it.
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Flint, in particular, has a majority black population, whose disenfranchisement has received international attention recently due to the poisoning of the city's water supply.
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The campaign claims the delay has led to a disenfranchisement of some 700,000 constituents in the 9th District, who are currently without a representative.
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It also maintains that the 14th and 15th Amendments do not allow states to use criminal disenfranchisement to strip black people of the vote.
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Bernie Sanders has become the most outspoken candidate on the issue, calling for the full end to felon disenfranchisement during a CNN town hall.
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Felony disenfranchisement laws affect about six million nationally, but Florida, which remains the most stringent, bans more people from voting than any other state.
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Historians typically date the Jim Crow era to the Mississippi Plan of 1890, which amended Mississippi's Constitution to allow the disenfranchisement of African-Americans.
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Redlining, school segregation and minority disenfranchisement long preceded debates over whether serving bad banh mi sandwiches in a college cafeteria amounts to cultural appropriation.
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That could pose a problem for 2020 Democrats who are interested in discussing disenfranchisement — or could just reflect the relative nascence of the conversation.
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While only 46 percent of Gen-Z-ers thought felons shouldn't vote, an overwhelming 82 percent of baby boomers supported voter disenfranchisement for felons.
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"This wrongly decided decision paves the way to mass disenfranchisement in Ohio and around the country," top House of Representatives Democrat Nancy Pelosi added.
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Anderson is a stinging polemicist; her book rolls through a condensed history of voting rights and disenfranchisement, without getting bogged down in legislative minutiae.
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Beyond the app, Malta and her team saw opportunities to help the Brazilian trans community, deal with systemic disenfranchisement through employment, housing, and education.
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Felon-disenfranchisement laws have had a huge and largely unnoticed impact on American politics, including possibly altering the outcome of the 2000 presidential election.
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Transgender people experience broad disenfranchisement across social institutions, from housing to employment, and Alvarez's organization clearly shows transgender people succeeding and leading in life.
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Voting rights efforts, like in Washington, are especially important considering the grave impacts disenfranchisement, voter suppression, and lack of representation have on people of color.
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Millions of Americans could not vote because of unfair felon disenfranchisement laws, a particular concern for minority communities given the disparate effect of these laws.
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Beverly doesn't elicit the same chuckles that Ally does because she represents a history of intersectional disenfranchisement, not a strong opinion against a political candidate.
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This disenfranchisement will be borne disproportionately by low-income individuals and racial minorities, due to longstanding and well-documented racial gaps in poverty and employment.
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Read: Florida could restore voting rights to more than a million convicted felons Florida had one of the harshest felon disenfranchisement laws in the country.
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This long-standing, racially motivated disenfranchisement "fundamentally calls into question whether or not we have the right to call ourselves a true democracy," Francois said.
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The filibuster is bad, disenfranchisement is bad, the Senate itself is bad, etc, because they are inherently antidemocratic, and majoritarian principle trumps the substantive stakes.
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International observers have documented the systematic disenfranchisement and discrimination Rohingyas have faced, including government restrictions on marriage, family planning, employment, education and freedom of movement.
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While obviously dealing with other more severe disenfranchisement issues, it's one of the reasons why sex workers have been disregarded when they've tried to participate.
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What draws them together is a sense of disenfranchisement -- a sense that the "system" is rigged against ordinary Americans and is only becoming more so.
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I certainly don't think Biebs's new look should consume more of your righteous indignation than the mass incarceration or voter disenfranchisement of people of color.
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He did not cost Clinton the election; her loss can be attributed to myriad campaign failures, Russian interference, voter disenfranchisement, and the infamous Comey letter.
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The issue has racial undertones as felony disenfranchisement primarily targets people of color—especially African-Americans, who have higher incarceration rates than their white counterparts.
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But its model -- based on cheap energy, urban sprawl, and political disenfranchisement [of minorities] -- does not seem like a recipe for the national long haul.
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Even if we successfully remove these barriers to democratic participation today, the effects of voter disenfranchisement they have created will be felt into the future.
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Their practical impact appears to be disproportionately excluding lower-income voters or those from disadvantaged communities, who may lack the resources to contest their disenfranchisement.
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The effect led to what the State Department called a "massive and targeted disenfranchisement," focusing not on race or gender but on one's political beliefs.
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Ramirez in 1974, which upheld felon disenfranchisement laws, a majority of the states placed a lifetime ban on voting for anyone convicted of a felony.
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Last November, voters in Florida approved a constitutional amendment overturning the state's disenfranchisement law for good, allowing around 1 million formerly disenfranchised residents to vote.
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Nevada had one of the harshest disenfranchisement regimes before a 2017 measure created mechanisms to restore voting rights for thousands of people with felony convictions.
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Yet this way of thinking becomes its own kind of trap, in which authenticity is inextricably (and confusingly) linked to disenfranchisement, and meals become polemics.
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Disenfranchisement and economic despair were facts of life for Chandler as he grew up in the poor, predominantly African-American town of Benton Harbor, Michigan.
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Tuca & Bertie finally takes advantage of these themes, satirizing the stressors that make up systematic disenfranchisement and honoring the friendships that make it all tolerable.
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"Nobody should have to choose between exposure to COVID-19 and disenfranchisement," Ben Wikler, chairman of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin, said in a statement.
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In a state that retained literacy tests until the 1970s, the potential for disenfranchisement of black voters is at the core of the continuing debate.
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Raad links this manicured version of cultural expression to the policy of permanent political disenfranchisement of many laborers subcontracted from abroad for the construction projects.
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"Nobody should have to choose between exposure to COVID-19 and disenfranchisement," Ben Wikler, the chair of the state Democratic Party, said in a statement.
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Do you think disenfranchisement and voting barriers play a big role when it comes to young people, especially young people of color, not turning out?
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MAGAZINE An article on Page 44 about felon disenfranchisement includes an erroneous description of Amendment 4, a Florida referendum to restore former felons' voting rights.
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For black Americans, the struggle of emancipation is riddled with its failures: sharecropping, lynching, segregation, disenfranchisement and brutal, unfair treatment by the criminal justice system.
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Many felony disenfranchisement laws in the United States were expanded at the end of the Civil War when black men received the right to vote.
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"What you are seeing is this widespread feeling of fear and disenfranchisement," said Brian Levin, the director of the center and a criminal justice professor.
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"With employee disenfranchisement and voluntary staff turnover on the rise, we believe talent strategy deserves the full attention of a bank's board," the report said.
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Harish Pullanoor, an editor at Quartz India, wrote in 2016 that India was "displaying classic signs that foreshadow fascism," including the disenfranchisement of religious minorities.
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But the legislation also expanded on a section of the Virginia Constitution that remains in place today: the total disenfranchisement of people with felony records.
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Incensed by their success and competition, white Americans laid waste to entire communities, salting the earth with lynchings, tax sales, predatory land speculation and disenfranchisement.
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"In very close elections won by Republican candidates, felon disenfranchisement could be decisive," said Christopher Uggen, a University of Minnesota professor who led the study.
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Despite voter suppression and disenfranchisement and gerrymandering, which are significant barriers for black voter participation, black women flip districts and make formerly "unwinnable" races highly competitive.
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Stevenson, who has spent his career fighting the legacy of racial disenfranchisement, told Amanpour that for those opposed to Trump's election, protesting will not be enough.
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"The results range from chilling effects and disenfranchisement to psychological and physical harm," reads an executive summary from Woolley and Katie Joseff, the lab's research director.
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More than an outburst against a random act of police brutality, the riots were a reaction to the heightened racial tensions and disenfranchisement in Los Angeles.
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We reflexively root electronic music and club culture in concrete grey world, furnished with the anxieties of alienation and disenfranchisement, punctuated by the release of hedonism.
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The end of Reconstruction gave way, however, to a period of disenfranchisement at the hands of Southern Democrats, with poll taxes, literacy tests and other measures.
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By midyear, feelings of disenfranchisement (and frustration over low wages) prompted action: On September 023, 013, some 003,211998 steel workers around the country called a strike.
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Not to mention felony disenfranchisement mainly affects people of color, particularly black people, who are disproportionately convicted, and wrongly convicted of crimes than their white counterparts.
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Systems of disenfranchisement menace African-American life everywhere in Milwaukee, but this old and half-empty basketball arena sits on the fault line of cultural inclusion.
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"In this time of voter purges, foreign meddling, voter suppression, and disenfranchisement, lawyers can help ensure that the vote is equally accessible to all," she said.
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Pushing all states to join the ranks of Maine and Vermont, which have no felon disenfranchisement, should be the long-term goal — and a high priority.
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They should support ways to make voting easier by advocating for automatic voter registration, early voting, the repeal of felon disenfranchisement and other democracy-enhancing rules.
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Since then, Trump's budget plans have aimed to cut funding for the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, potentially limiting monitoring of police abuse and voter disenfranchisement.
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This political disenfranchisement coupled with a lack of economic opportunity, especially among young people, has increased political apathy and a sense that things will never improve.
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" Mr. Sanders's campaign manager, Jeff Weaver, took a more partisan approach, saying, "What happened in Arizona is part of a pattern of voter disenfranchisement by Republicans.
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He admires it for giving voice to anger and disenfranchisement on "The Sopranos" (which, he calculates, averaged 82.788 swears per episode) and in James Kelman's fiction.
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"Dalit," which means "oppressed," refers to the caste of people who suffer the greatest violence, discrimination and disenfranchisement under India's caste apartheid that structures Hindu society.
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This musical cohort of women meets monthly in the city's main square to freestyle about issues like poverty, gender inequality and the disenfranchisement of indigenous communities.
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While felony disenfranchisement is determined by the states, the 2017 midterms in Virginia — one of four states that permanently ban felons from voting — are instructive. Gov.
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"The results suggest that reversing disenfranchisement causes citizens to increase their pro-democratic attitudes and behaviors — all of which are predictors of reduced recidivism," Shineman wrote.
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Some of these individuals, he found, were less trusting of educational institutions, which they saw as part of the system that contributed to their historical disenfranchisement.
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Jared Dearing, executive director of Kentucky's Board of Elections, confirmed to CNN that he'd turned over potential voter disenfranchisement posts to social media companies this election.
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Historians have shown, for example, that slavery, once abolished under law, continued by other means, not least of all as disenfranchisement, mass incarceration and forced labor.
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But again, those instincts have not, so far, produced massive voter disenfranchisement — just a voter fraud commission that went nowhere because it was run by incompetents.
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To my mind, though, the fragmentation that pervaded the show spoke to a sense of disenfranchisement artists feel in relation to art's more classically integrated importance.
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VICE talked to Joe Helle, a 32-year-old Ohioan who experienced his own bout of disenfranchisement from Ohio's law when he went to vote in 2011.
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Market watchers say they expect to see more unrest like that seen in France because of rising inequality and feelings of disenfranchisement among certain sections of society.
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District Court Judge Eleanor Ross argued that there was "a very substantial risk of disenfranchisement" if these voters were not allowed to cast ballots in the election.
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This eight-part series is as unsettling as it is alluring; in considering the overlapping spheres of disenfranchisement and violence, "American Crime Story" acts as a warning.
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" California Secretary of State Alex Padilla writes that "the ultimate goal of the commission is to enact policies that will result in the disenfranchisement of American citizens.
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During ensuing negotiations with the government, they began a worldwide media campaign, drawing attention to the plight of Chiapas' indigenous communities and their agrarian and social disenfranchisement.
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He endorsed segregation and black disenfranchisement in 1957; called for police to suppress the Selma marchers in 1965; and staunchly championed Apartheid-era South Africa in 1985.
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Meanwhile, a felony conviction in Florida, Iowa and Kentucky generally means permanent disenfranchisement, even after you've served your sentence, unless the government approves an individual's rights restoration.
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Florida, for instance, will vote on a major amendment to end felon disenfranchisement, a racially discriminatory practice that the U.S. Supreme Court has repeatedly upheld as constitutional.
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" He said the "corrupt political establishment" was trying to stop him so it could carry out a program of "radical globalization and the disenfranchisement of working people.
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We have seen time and again how low voter turnout results in disenfranchisement, frustration, civic apathy, and outcomes that are not truly representative of the general public.
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Now celebrating its 25th anniversary, this group presents "Kreatur," a stark, otherworldly work that takes place — timely enough — in a chaotic setting rife with disruption and disenfranchisement.
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We often talk about Jim Crow as the political disenfranchisement of African Americans, starting with the Mississippi Plan in 1890 [which disenfranchised black people in the state].
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But American history is replete with examples of patronage, ballot box stuffing, corruption, legislative chicanery and disenfranchisement on a societal scale, and somehow the Republic has survived.
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"But in moving to reform the tribal areas, they should be commended for taking a bold and long overdue step to remedy a history of egregious disenfranchisement."
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"We would not want to whitewash our history by pretending that Jim Crow and disenfranchisement or massive resistance to the civil rights movement never happened," he said.
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But the Divas Study led to other revelations: a web of systemic disenfranchisement across social institutions that contribute to the discrimination and oppression of Brazil's trans people.
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His selection as vice-chair is proof that the ultimate goal of the commission is to enact policies that will result in the disenfranchisement of American citizens.
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In Pakistan, Ahmadi Muslims face institutionalized religious repression, including criminal prosecution and imprisonment under anti-blasphemy and anti-terrorism laws, police torture, voter disenfranchisement, and publication bans.
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We have had to forgive slavery, segregation, Jim Crow laws, lynching, inequity in every realm, mass incarceration, voter disenfranchisement, inadequate representation in popular culture, microaggressions and more.
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But voting rights advocates say the bill would unfairly punish those who are unable to pay and undermine the central objective of the amendment: ending permanent disenfranchisement.
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Adopting policies to reduce disenfranchisement, make districting fairer, and make registration and voting easier and more accessible may hurt one or another party in the short-term.
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"This disenfranchisement will be borne disproportionately by low-income individuals and racial minorities, due to longstanding and well-documented racial gaps in poverty and employment," the suit says.
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As an Indian, I already knew that Dalits had long resided at the very bottom of the Indian social hierarchy and were continually subjected to discrimination and disenfranchisement.
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The 1965 law was intended to curb decades of disenfranchisement of black voters due in part to intimidation by the Ku Klux Klan and other domestic terrorist organizations.
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She also warned that years of disenfranchisement might have triggered radicalization of some elements of the Rohingya community, describing the Security Council meeting as a "classic prevention moment".
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The backdrop: Felony disenfranchisement laws affect about six million people nationally, but the Sunshine State remains the most stringent, banning more people from voting than any other state.
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"To continue to witness and be in the center of the systematic disenfranchisement of underrepresented voices, however unintentional, is more than I'm willing to sacrifice personally," Luckie writes.
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In 1961 worries about the disenfranchisement of black Americans led to a constitutional amendment allowing District residents to vote in presidential elections; Democrats remain exercised by such concerns.
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Yes, absolutely our goal is to get to a runoff but we can't do that without fighting against disenfranchisement and poor election management every step of the way.
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Like disenfranchisement and harassment from racist jerks on the eve of a Trump presidency, lupus affects Black, Latina, Asian, and Native American women significantly more than white women.
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Bernie Sanders supporters and Trump supporters have been rallying behind the issue of voter disenfranchisement, particularly when their candidate lost a state due to not winning enough delegates.
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Disenfranchisement in territories was originally a temporary step on the path toward statehood, but it has become a means to maintain the doctrine established by the Plessy v.
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Disenfranchisement can take many forms, and its most insidious manifestations are regrettably common: purging voter rolls, passing voter-identification requirements, understaffing or closing polling places, gerrymandering voting districts.
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A long history of disenfranchisement among minority Tamil groups, who are largely Hindu, at the hands of the Sinhalese Buddhists led to a civil war in the 1980s.
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Democrats are fuming over the disenfranchisement of Native voters now that a Senate seat is at stake, and reporters are descending on North Dakota to cover the problem.
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Gore case to ensure that the popular vote loser would take office regardless to his ruling in favor of large-scale disenfranchisement in South Carolina is very normal.
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Segregation and black disenfranchisement were state policy, and lynching was considered a form of justice — vigilante justice, extralegal justice, but justice all the same (it was very rarely prosecuted).
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Florida's disenfranchisement policy, which permanently strips the right to vote from anyone who has been convicted of a felony, is one of the harshest voting laws in the country.
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In a generation when youth disenfranchisement feels at an all time high, closing down centres only "makes young people feel like outsiders in their own communities", according to Jamie.
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Thus, queer men's readings get projected onto these women performers who become complicated stand-ins for their own feelings of disenfranchisement, particularly in terms of mainstream visibility and desirability.
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That's contributed to the belief that if Kemp beats Abrams by a narrow margin, it will be because Kemp has overseen the disenfranchisement of thousands of African American voters.
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One reason so many people stand to benefit from Amendment 4 is that Florida has one of the strictest disenfranchisement laws in the country for people convicted of felonies.
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Jobs. He heads up an organization aimed at job creation in inner city areas ... which he says is the key to ending the cycle of disenfranchisement in the hood.
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In four Southern states with severe disenfranchisement laws — Florida, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia — the share of disenfranchised black adults surpasses 22014 percent, more than double that of white adults.
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In the late 1950s, congressional hearings were part of the legislative process that addressed the American problem of disenfranchisement and preceded passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1957.
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"When you look at those laws and you look at the affect they have, they are not effective anti-fraud measures, what they are is disenfranchisement measures," he said.
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Democrats have suggested that current practices amount to voter disenfranchisement and have sought to cast the recount as an opportunity to ensure that every lawfully cast ballot is counted.
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This picture of disenfranchisement and missed opportunities is certainly not good news for these young women and men -- nor is it good news for the future of their communities.
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Le Pen has risen on the same populist politics, rooted in anger over immigration policies, globalization and middle class economic disenfranchisement, that ignited Donald Trump's presidential campaign last year.
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So it's imperative that are taking on these laws in states because it means the disenfranchisement of millions of people who deserve to make decisions over their own lives.
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It's also yet another reminder of the pointless cruelty of felon disenfranchisement laws, which block more than six million Americans from voting — more than the population of 31 states.
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He speaks often of marginalization and disenfranchisement, of economic grievances and historical injustices, code words that tap into decades' worth of disappointments and frustrations first articulated by his father.
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The last point may have some validity — but is it worth complete disenfranchisement, again given that Snap is a very early-stage company and Mr. Spiegel is so young?
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Beshear's executive order, Kentucky had the highest rate of black disenfranchisement; nearly one in three black males could not vote (versus 1 in 85033 adults in the general population).
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In short, trusting India with the welfare of religious minorities, is to condemn them all to marginalization, disenfranchisement and worse at the hands of India's nationalist ruling party, BJP.
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His view—common enough at the time, of course, and still active today in an only slightly evolved form—was that enfranchisement of black men was disenfranchisement of whites.
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It will — it has — produced just enough disenfranchisement to get the job done without so much as to rev up so many people as to threaten the whole project.
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Opinion Columnist At a forum in Iowa last weekend, Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts gave what has become a standard answer for Democrats on the question of felon disenfranchisement.
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Last year, for example, a supermajority of voters in Florida endorsed a state constitutional amendment to end the draconian policy of permanent disenfranchisement (barring a pardon from the governor).
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That's how the original disenfranchisement tactics that came about in the Mississippi plan of 2000 were able to circumvent the 503th Amendment, because they sounded reasonable and not racially targeted.
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Think of it as something tasty to lessen the bitter taste of consistent, systematic oppression, unequal distribution of wealth and resources, aggressive gentrification, and long-term disenfranchisement throughout US history.
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For nearly a century after the collapse of Reconstruction, the political order in the Jim Crow South was maintained by the systematic disenfranchisement of the region's large African-American population.
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There's no federal policy for ex-offender disenfranchisement, which means states are able to make their own rules when it comes to keeping ex-offenders from ever casting a ballot.
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US elections have plenty of problems already (widespread voter disenfranchisement, for starters), and only half of Americans said earlier this fall that they thought America had "fair and open" elections.
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It would not be good for America if, say, voter disenfranchisement became widespread and entrenched, or unauthorized immigrant parents were afraid to send their US-citizen children to elementary school.
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He says he decided to use the hashtag because it conveyed his frustrations with the judicial system's failure to protect the black community from violence, systemic inequity and political disenfranchisement.
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And he taken the politics of anxiety further than Sanders, moving out of an exclusively economic realm to tap into a deeper sense of cultural disenfranchisement among many patriotic Americans.
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The New York Times provided an urgently needed public service by printing an article which comprehensively informed the American citizens of a voter disenfranchisement practice that systematically goes after felons.
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The Star-Telegram noted that criminal-justice reform groups estimate that over six million Americans, including almost 500,000 Texans, couldn't cast a ballot in 2016 because of felon-disenfranchisement laws.
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" In a press release announcing the order, Cuomo's office said the reform will restore the right to vote upon release from incarceration and "reverse disenfranchisement for thousands of New Yorkers.
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While the lawsuit filed in Alabama on Monday challenges felony disenfranchisement generally, its focus is on the state's "moral turpitude" clause, a phrase that is not formally defined in law.
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If state lawmakers win, they will keep Virginia trapped in a shameful part of history: when former Confederate states passed felon disenfranchisement laws after Reconstruction to suppress black political power.
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While felon disenfranchisement laws have a history in many parts of the country, the harshest are found in the South, where they were central to the architecture of Jim Crow.
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In Pakistan, Ahmadi Muslims face state-sponsored and institutionalized religious oppression, including criminal prosecution and imprisonment under anti-blasphemy and anti-terrorism laws, police torture, voter disenfranchisement and publication bans.
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Warrenism is jealous of the political rights of citizens and therefore hostile to electoral practices — like gerrymandering, voter-ID laws and felon disenfranchisement — that deprive vulnerable citizens of equal representation.
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By the early 20th century, violence against indigenous peoples, immigrants and African-Americans reached a new ferocity, and nativist and racist demagogues entrenched a politics of dispossession, segregation and disenfranchisement.
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This interpretation of the disenfranchisement clause had yet to be discussed by the ECB's policy-making Governing Council and it was likely to face opposition on legal and political grounds.
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Nixey noted that while the latest weekend protests in August were sparked by the disenfranchisement of opposition party candidates, the wider "macro" picture was of growing disaffection with Putin's rule.
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As Pepe is created, then coopted by the residents of 4chan and turned into a meme representing ennui, disenfranchisement and white supremacy in turn, Furie takes it mostly in stride.
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With federal troops removed from the South, former Confederates, white nationalists and wealthy southerners began the process of disenfranchisement through social stigma, violence, legal strategies, black codes and other means.
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This recognition and that of March 8 as International Women's Day by the United Nations (in 1975) resulted from decades of activism against historical disenfranchisement and discrimination based on gender.
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Political analysts have talked about how ignorance, racism, sexism, nationalism, Islamophobia, economic disenfranchisement and the decline of the middle class contributed to the popularity of Mr. Trump in rural America.
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It asks viewers to consider the climate that made such a horrifying outcome an almost mechanical inevitability — the crack epidemic, the AIDS crisis, socioeconomic disenfranchisement under Reaganomics, and widespread racial tension.
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The only way we can successfully advocate and organize against policies expected to come into play with the incoming administration is by being radically honest — about death, about deportation, about disenfranchisement.
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This might have to trickle down to the state level too, because there's some scholarly debate about whether Congress even has the power to end felony disenfranchisement at the federal level.
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The state is slated to certify the results on Tuesday, putting to bed a messy post-election dispute involving a dozen lawsuits, claims of fraud, allegations of disenfranchisement, and rowdy protests.
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With voter disenfranchisement issues still plaguing the citizenry, and many burdened by plight and diminishing wages, often working multiple jobs to make ends meet, we need to lead everywhere we can.
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Meade's journey to advocacy began in earnest during his time at Miami-Dade, having first started to volunteer at the homeless shelter — for gun violence reduction and to overturn felony disenfranchisement.
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According to The Sentencing project, 6.1 million Americans across the country are barred from voting due to felony disenfranchisement, and other laws restricting voting rights for people with past criminal convictions.
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It's voter suppression, whether through voter ID laws, or draconian purges of voter rolls, or racial and political gerrymandering (manipulating the boundaries of voting districts), or through the disenfranchisement of felons.
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If Democrats win locally, it means their messaging is resonating, they are building a bench, they can beat back right-wing disenfranchisement efforts, and they have the best electoral infrastructure. Rep.
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Strict voter ID laws in eight U.S. states could lead to the disenfranchisement of more than 78,000 voting-eligible transgender people in the upcoming midterm elections, according to a new study.
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The full report details an array of aspects of poverty such as the roles of race and gender, voter disenfranchisement, high rates of incarceration and the plights of veterans, he said.
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Terry McAuliffe, who has been fighting to restore voting fight to felons who have completed their prison sentence in his state, has called felon disenfranchisement a vestige from Jim Crow laws.
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Art that feels like the product of an unlikely journey is frequently presumed to be more authentic; if that journey is marked by disenfranchisement and injustice, the work becomes doubly profound.
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Florida voters will determine whether to fix the state's worst-in-the-nation felon disenfranchisement law, which takes away the right to vote for life for more than 1.5 million Floridians.
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By some estimates, continued disenfranchisement paired with state trends in mass incarceration were predicted to soon yield a Florida "democracy" with 40 percent of black men barred from the ballot box.
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What's most striking, though, is how Serial reveals the infrastructure behind the normal instances of disenfranchisement and racism that have always punctuated my life and the lives of my loved ones.
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Florida's incarcerated population is one of the largest, and the state has the highest felony disenfranchisement rate in the whole country, according to data from the Sentencing Project published in 2016.
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She also spoke about the economic, environmental and social issues affecting Native American communities and committed to addressing issues such as racism, monument protection, economic disenfranchisement, mental health and substance abuse.
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Congress acted similarly in 1869 and 1919, when it approved constitutional amendments prohibiting disenfranchisement based on race and gender, and again in 1965, when it first passed the Voting Rights Act.
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What happened in Flint could happen elsewhere, as the push for austerity and a disdain for science are combined with antidemocratic measures like voter disenfranchisement, gerrymandering and state-appointed emergency managers.
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It is the nation's highest rate of black disenfranchisement, the group says, and among African-American males like Mr. Harbin, the rate is considered even higher: an estimated one in three.
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After the Supreme Court's 15.23 decision to invalidate the 1965 Voting Rights Act, gerrymandering and a wave of voter ID laws have left many voters of color at risk of disenfranchisement.
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Civil rights activists have warned that social media platforms can be manipulated to stoke fears around the U.S. census, potentially resulting in the disenfranchisement of minorities including Latinos and African Americans.
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More than six million Americans have been stripped of their voting rights because of felony disenfranchisement laws, according to the Sentencing Project, a nonprofit organization that works on criminal justice reform.
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In the 1870s, felon disenfranchisement — along with lynchings, kidnappings and other violence — served to "preserve the purity of the ballot box," in the words of an 1884 Alabama Supreme Court ruling.
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With Senate Bill 4, we're faced with the threat of a continued cycle of political and economic disenfranchisement of working-class minority communities, and the tragic human consequences that suppression brings.
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It is one of the dark ironies of American history that the broadening of the franchise to virtually all white male citizens coincided with the disenfranchisement of African-Americans and women.
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Eastman continued to push for a wide-ranging social justice agenda for the party, which would combine political goals (including a "protest against the disenfranchisement of Negro women") with economic ones.
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It is up to Clinton herself, not Democratic superdelegates pondering the leadership of the DNC, to convince Sanders voters she appreciates their sense of disenfranchisement as well as their policy priorities.
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From the experiences one derives from the digital age, consumerism, political disenfranchisement, and emotional desires, the work reminds me of Benjamin's panoramic analyses meant to provide orientation within the antinomies of capitalism.
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" Indeed, in "Defending Jihad" Gorka writes: "If poverty, lack of education, and political disenfranchisement were the causes of terrorism, then much of India and most of China would be populated by terrorists.
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The leave campaign managed to build a populist, right-wing base by playing on feelings of disenfranchisement among the white working class and stoking fears of immigration... That sound familiar at all?
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" He called the option of signing an affidavit "a sensible approach that will both prevent the disenfranchisement of some voters" but also "preserve Wisconsin's interests in protecting the integrity of its elections.
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There is no "disenfranchisement" of voters when electors vote, because there is no "right to vote" for president under our Constitution – only a right to vote for electors (under the 14th Amendment).
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The decision, its potential for disenfranchising voters of color, and the responses needed to counteract such disenfranchisement will be evaluated next month at the NAACP's 22019th annual convention in San Antonio, Texas.
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At the same time, the debate over the fate of a decaying relic of midcentury industrial architecture has focused a particular spotlight on Erie's legacy of disenfranchisement and its troubled race relations.
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" Andreas Krieg, assistant professor in defense studies at King's College London, agreed, saying that Trump's tough talk against Islam and immigration "is something that creates outsiders, grievances, feelings of alienation and disenfranchisement.
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Speaking of disenfranchisement, to see something truly undemocratic, look at North Carolina's Ninth Congressional District, where a Republican political operative is accused of mishandling mail-in ballots, in violation of state law.
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Citing the history of the 1868 convention, the suit argued that the disenfranchisement law had been adopted to discriminate against African-Americans and continued to do so, because they were disproportionately affected.
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But as the court has grown more conservative direction, it has upheld voter-suppression laws, eroded the Voting Rights Act and, in a quietly momentous decision in 1974, held felon disenfranchisement constitutional.
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But we must acknowledge that economic disparity in 2016 isn't the provenance of the white working class, and resist shallow attempts to place blame for this tragedy on the victims of disenfranchisement.
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"Texas has a long history of disenfranchisement of people of color, and this is just part of it," said Jose Garza, a longtime voting rights lawyer who is representing the teachers' union.
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Through an experimental combination of literary exploration and reporting, Jackson weaves together poetry, historical documents, and personal narrative to tell the story of his family — over generations — and the disenfranchisement of Americans.
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Led by Pew, red as well as blue states have adopted online voter registration and voluntarily cooperated to clean voter rolls in a way that is careful enough to avoid inadvertent disenfranchisement.
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Scaling back net neutrality regulations may not be as immediately visible a disenfranchisement of poor and marginalized citizens as, say, repealing the Affordable Care Act, but the potential societal effects are real.
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As political scientists who study election administration and have written extensively on felon disenfranchisement, our analysis of Florida's previous attempt at a similar, but smaller, reform suggests that a blue wave is unlikely.
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But the fact is that in-person impersonation -- the only kind of fraud a photo ID law would root out -- is extremely rare, while disenfranchisement because of strict voter ID laws does occur.
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When the Populist Party emerged, women were increasingly shut out of official roles, not only because of their disenfranchisement but also because increasing Populist power made male leaders less open to sharing influence.
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One of the most serious and immediate forms of voter suppression that keeps millions of people away from the polls are voting bans for people with prior felony convictions, known as felony disenfranchisement.
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This helped cut the state's disenfranchisement rate by more than two-thirds, from 1.4 percent of the state's voting-age population in 2010 to 0.4 percent in 2016, according to Sentencing Project estimates.
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At the same time, I was a bit off-put by the implication that women who are any combination of poor, addicted, and/or of color are jaded enough to accept mass disenfranchisement.
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My family and others who struggled through the civil rights movement had hoped that murders by domestic terrorists and the sanctioning of the systematic disenfranchisement of minorities were a thing of the past.
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Felony disenfranchisement – a policy with roots in Jim Crow – is also finally getting its day in the public light, notably on the heels of successful reform efforts in Florida, Colorado, Nevada and Louisiana.
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But though voter disenfranchisement and the need for better cybersecurity are real problems, election observers and experts largely seem to agree that, despite a few snafus, these elections were competently and fairly run.
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One of the most glaring examples of disenfranchisement can be found in our nation's capital, the District of Columbia, where residents have been denied voting rights and full self-government for 22020 years.
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They were optimistic that recent efforts by Republicans to systemically suppress minority voting in a state with a long history of racial discrimination and disenfranchisement of African-Americans appeared to be paying off.
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Mandatory disenfranchisement is constitutional — the 14th Amendment allows the government to restrict the right to vote because of "participation in rebellion, or other crime" — but there are few good reasons for the practice.
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Decisions like that serve to increase structural barriers in the American political system—from voter registration and felon disenfranchisement to the fact that many offices are decided in low-turnout off-cycle elections.
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Many states including Texas lack specific written policies pertaining specifically to registering homeless individuals, which leads to a lot of confusion and disenfranchisement of people who deserve a voice as much as anyone else.
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The disenfranchisement estimates from Florida, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia reflect this disproportionate system — one that strips more than one in five black voting-age citizens in those states of their most basic democratic right.
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Roughly 218 million Americans were barred from voting in the last presidential election due to ex-offender disenfranchisement - stripping voting rights from citizens otherwise eligible to vote due to conviction of a criminal offense.
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The haunting form — the most basic expression of a ghost — references an absence, a loss that pervades the black American experience, from slavery, through segregation, geographic displacement, economic disenfranchisement, police brutality, and institutional racism.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - International observers documented a range of concerns during November's U.S. elections, including cyber security risks, disenfranchisement of current and former prisoners, and an opaque campaign finance system, a German newspaper group reported.
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Schur and others face down a system with limited funding for exploration of issues like these, and some of that is the result of lack of social engagement with the disenfranchisement of disabled voters.
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Most blacks will not take conservative ideas seriously until there is a general willingness to own up to the fact that conservative politicians, intellectuals, businessmen, and religious leaders advocated for the disenfranchisement of blacks.
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In these communities, where government distrust has been earned over years of disenfranchisement, elite signals such as a Harvard education and a Rhodes scholarship matter less than building relationships with key gatekeepers and validators.
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That means we must guarantee the unimpeded right to vote and end racist voter suppression schemes that cost millions of Americans the right to vote, including voter ID laws, felon disenfranchisement, and Interstate Crosscheck.
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Throughout you become newly aware of themes of rootlessness, isolation, disenfranchisement and — beyond that — an upward-reaching spiritualty in the music of Dylan, and you remember he was indeed a child of the Depression.
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Two Democratic state senators, Sandra Cunningham and Ron Rice, have said that they will introduce legislation for New Jersey to join Maine and Vermont as the only states with no felon disenfranchisement whatsoever. Gov.
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"The legislature is essentially ensuring that there would be permanent disenfranchisement for many people, and basically for people who aren't as well off," Sean Morales-Doyle, a counsel for the Brennan Center, told CNN.
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In the midst of this season of harmony, it disturbs me that I have bought, wholesale, into an ideology that mocks and condemns a major demographic struggling with legitimate disenfranchisement from the American dream.
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The fourth constitution, created by mostly Democrats, was written to use disenfranchisement for crimes more likely to be committed by African-Americans (who at that time were widely accepted as less violent than whites).
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Much of the private money currently funding arts and culture comes from investments connected to educational segregation (a DeVos family member at the Whitney Museum) and voting disenfranchisement (David Koch at the Metropolitan Museum).
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" Not surprisingly, these policies have had a disproportionate effect on African-American populations; in the words of political scientist Khalilah Brown-Dean, "felon disenfranchisement laws present a formidable barrier to African Americans' full electoral development.
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He's been vocal about the plight of Black gay men within the Black and LGBTQ communities, grappling with homophobia, racism, and exclusionary biases that often preclude them from the narrative of disenfranchisement in this country.
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Maria Peralta, senior national coordinator for election watchdog the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, told VICE News that her group received more than 100 complaints on its hotline about voter disenfranchisement on Tuesday.
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Dr. Shannon also worked with the Sentencing Project, a nonprofit organization focused on criminal justice reform, on a 2016 report estimating that 6.1 million Americans had been barred from voting because of felony disenfranchisement laws.
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In the battleground state, the prospect of mass voter disenfranchisement loomed over the election when the governor last week refused to extend the voter registration deadline as Hurricane Matthew made its way towards the state.
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Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders might be poles apart in their politics and temperament, but they are voicing visceral feelings of economic disenfranchisement and alienation among pessimistic voters who feel they've been ignored for years.
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They also begin to provide a picture of how intersections of racial and gender-based discrimination and disenfranchisement can place many transgender people in high-risk circumstances—often involving sex work, substance abuse, and homelessness.
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"Disenfranchisement, loneliness, lack of purpose, multigenerational job loss, lack of hope, and the lack of future," he said, listing off the "social determinants of health" that determine why some people get addicted and not others.
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Ironically, the real roots of the gilets jaunes' ("yellow vests") frustrations are similar to those of many of the grassroots supporters of Donald Trump -- a powerful and growing sense of disenfranchisement and working class struggle.
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What we have, then, is actual evidence that Ohio's voter purge system leads to disenfranchisement, measured against data that its voter lists are inaccurate -- but with nothing to suggest that this fact impugns our elections.
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To be clear, the evidence highlighted by the report of the Special Rapporteur is not news to many who study extreme poverty and political and economic disenfranchisement, let alone to those who actually experience it.
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The Kemp campaign has accused Abrams of moving from "desperation to delusion" with this latest effort to eke out a win; Abrams sees herself as leading a fight against voter disenfranchisement perpetrated by Kemp himself.
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Kurdish families in Istanbul are increasingly concerned that the disenfranchisement of Kurdish youths and the crackdown on the political movement will lead their children to join the fight against the Turkish state in southeastern Turkey.
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The committee also warned that more than a quarter of all US votes in recent elections were distributed through the mail, meaning a loss in funding could result in a disenfranchisement in voting for Americans.
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"I believe we need a constitutional amendment that protects the right to vote for every American citizen and makes sure that vote gets counted," Ms. Warren said in response to a question about voter disenfranchisement.
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But the real significance of a Northam loss would be a statewide seal of approval for Gillespie's bigoted campaign, and a wave of voter disenfranchisement with the potential to set Virginia back by a decade.
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The government has refused to grant any of these measures, unless the returnees can prove that they satisfy the draconian requirements of the 1982 Citizenship Law — a cause of their disenfranchisement in the first place.
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The Deal Professor wrote that a "total disenfranchisement of public shareholders" has been coming for some time among technology companies, but that the risk to potential investors of such a structure was still not justified.
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Its ideology is loosely built on a sense of male disenfranchisement, a conservative political viewpoint, a hatred of feminism, and a resistance to attempts to diversify spaces that have traditionally been dominated by white men.
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I say with critical optimism that it is getting better, because I need to dream forth a place where trans youth, such as Blake Brockington and Shelley "Treasure" Hilliard, do not live in fear and disenfranchisement.
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I admire the artists included in the exhibition and their work, and hope that my action can contribute to the global momentum to protest inequity, occupation, labour extraction and disenfranchisement, and to see, together, better days.
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And when he does, it'll be important to see whether those changes make it harder for eligible households to get subsidies; though he's made no proposal yet, criticizing unproven fraud is often a cover for disenfranchisement.
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First, because of long-running anxiety about race-based disenfranchisement, mostly but not wholly alleviated by a court ruling that found restrictions imposed by the Republican-controlled legislature had targeted black voters with "almost surgical precision".
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Yet while Gross' work is heavily steeped in the canon of art history, it strikes out on its own with subtle representations of isolation, disenfranchisement, and distraction brought on by technology, and more specifically, social media.
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Kenneth Glasgow, a veteran of battles over felony disenfranchisement in Alabama, all drug-related convictions except for trafficking would have been removed from the moral turpitude category, which would have immediately opened voter eligibility to thousands.
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Gates quickly moves beyond the immediate political context of black disenfranchisement to tell the sad story of how an ideology that justified racism as science, and bigotry as reason, grew and governed minds across the country.
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The level of disenfranchisement felt by this group as it relates to Republican leadership led to a level of anger and disillusionment that allowed them to follow a man who is antithetical to their core beliefs.
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We'll examine the way that issues like family rejection, unstable housing and homelessness, economic disenfranchisement, and barriers to education contribute to the marginalization of transgender people and make it more likely that they will be victimized.
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"I'm the woman who's going to beat Donald Trump," she said, before listing policies to combat combating racial inequities such as voter disenfranchisement, as well as funding historically black colleges and ending the criminalization of marijuana.
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Next month, 50 years will have passed since a violent uprising erupted in Newark, fueled by the anger of many black residents over police brutality, racism and corruption, as well as a broader sense of disenfranchisement.
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They chanted "We will ride!" until city transportation officials were willing to hear their complaints: Namely, that lack of access to public transportation led to disenfranchisement and discrimination, which led to joblessness, homelessness, despair and misery.
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When the troops withdrew, whites re-established slavery through the economic exploitation of sharecropping, criminalization of African-American men, black disenfranchisement, and a reign of domestic terror including lynchings, massacres and assassinations of black elected officials.
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The mainstream Democrats had a dilemma: concede to the white Dixiecrats, who had long been part of their base, or embrace the principled challenge raised by the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and oppose segregation and disenfranchisement.
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"You don't want to go backwards when it comes to our LGBT brothers and sisters; you don't want to go backwards when it comes to the disenfranchisement of voters of color," he told the Daily Beast.
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They contend that officials proved that disenfranchisement was not the law's aim last year, when the state allowed voters to cast a provisional ballot if they submitted a "reasonable impediment declaration" that explained why they lacked identification.
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"While the Court recognizes that the risk of an erroneous deprivation is by no means enormous, permitting an absentee voter to resolve an alleged signature discrepancy nevertheless has the very tangible benefit of avoiding disenfranchisement," May wrote.
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But his attempt to portray Mr. Obama as someone who has left the country fundamentally unrecognizable is notable because it plays on the same sentiments of disenfranchisement that has been so successful for candidates like Mr. Trump.
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As photographer and photo archive curator Sarah Stacke explains in the article, 'Though the American South of Mangum's era was marked by disenfranchisement, segregation, and inequality, Mangum portrayed all of his sitters with candor, humor, and spirit.
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That this is all happening in the shadow of both a Trump presidency as well as some of America's stickiest sins — systemic disenfranchisement and voter suppression — makes the stakes of the midterm elections all that much higher.
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That is a grey area NON picks up the slack in by highlighting what most communities born out of oppression, fear, doubt, and disenfranchisement overlook in their struggle to maintain and protect their safe space in general.
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In the same way that reverse racism isn't really a thing, a darker skinned person using a light emoji might be weird, but the concepts of systemic disenfranchisement don't really come into play in the same way.
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The one-week delay, coupled with other voter disenfranchisement tactics including the deployment of the security forces, diminishing voter turnout in opposition strongholds, giving the margin to the incumbent, a lead then validated by civil society's PVT.
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Perhaps the best current example of this disenfranchisement is the 2628 Tax Reform which classifies Puerto Rico as foreign jurisdiction, where the government of Puerto Rico was sidelined as a mere supplicant without voting rights in Congress.
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Long term it could lead to widespread disenfranchisement, with creative talents deciding that the bar to entry to the U.S. is too high, skipping New York and Los Angeles in favor of cities like Paris or Shanghai.
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Along with the predominately nonwhite citizens of American territories like Guam and American Samoa, almost 6 million taxpaying Americans with felony convictions were barred from voting in the 2018 midterms due to state-level felon disenfranchisement laws.
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The bigger problem was self-indulgence, though Mr. Kosoko, whose mantra is "more is more" — he nimbly layers props, costumes and text — showed an excerpt from "Séancers," a tantalizing glimpse into disenfranchisement by way of an exorcism.
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When Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights advocates took to the streets to protest racial segregation and disenfranchisement, their voices culminated in the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
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Holder, which eliminated the need for states with a history of voter disenfranchisement to obtain federal pre-clearance before changing its voting laws, as was previously required under a section of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
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Turn right, however, and you are thrown immediately into contemporary Scottish politics: "We Are the People – Suck On This" (23–228) a four-and-a-half-minute video by Beagles & Ramsey that examines notions of political disenfranchisement.
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That is in addition to the disenfranchisement of potential voters who don't possess acceptable forms of identification or who have been convicted of felonies and still have outstanding legal financial obligations (rules that disproportionately affect African-Americans).
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Neither has traditionally been oppressed, which makes the sense of disenfranchisement all the more acute, and they assert increasingly extreme views against the powers they see concentrated against them—big business, big government, big media, big globalization.
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When he showed up at the Republican National Committee in Washington last month to lodge a complaint about what he said was "the disenfranchisement of millions of Republican voters," the guards wouldn't let him past the lobby.
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The victory belongs in large part to the diverse coalition led by formerly incarcerated men and women themselves who organized to restore the vote to the 85033,000 citizens locked out of democracy by Maryland's felony disenfranchisement law.
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Felony disenfranchisement laws slotted into the push after the Civil War, particularly in the South, to limit civil rights gains following the end of slavery and ratification of constitutional amendments — the 22020th, 22020th, and 22020th — protecting minority rights.
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As with many young people, he supported the 2011 protests; but the momentum towards democracy which followed the Arab Spring has been replaced by disenfranchisement and a reluctance on the part of the government to challenge the monarchy.
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He hasn't campaigned against closed primaries during his career in Congress, and neither he nor his supporters complained about disenfranchisement of independents when he won the closed primaries and caucuses in Alaska, Colorado, Kansas, Maine, Nebraska, or Wyoming.
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Still, Macron's presidency may not count for much unless he is able to address the feelings of economic disenfranchisement and blight that have forced themselves to the fore in elections in the Western world over the last year.
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"In an election already tainted by suspicion, previously expressed by Donald Trump himself, verifying the vote is a common-sense procedure that would address concerns around voter disenfranchisement," Stein said in a statement, as reported by ABC News.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - When the Democrats take over the U.S. House of Representatives in three weeks, their first order of business is expected to be a wide-ranging bill about political corruption, voter disenfranchisement and cleaning up campaign finance.
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"These results reflect the status of African-Americans as the population most directly affected by Florida's felon disenfranchisement laws," Natasha Christie, chair of the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at UNF, said in a news release.
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To her comments about voter repression, Espy could have reminded Hyde-Smith that the standard devices for accomplishing the disenfranchisement of voters on a racial basis were invented in Mississippi and even memorialized in the state's 1890 Constitution.
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"Considering Farr's record on voting rights, on the disenfranchisement of African-American voters in particular, his nomination to the Eastern District vacancy is not just a dash of salt in the wound, it's the whole shaker," Schumer said.
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Yet more than 60 percent of Florida voters approved a constitutional amendment to transform one of the nation's harshest state felony disenfranchisement schemes, restoring the vote to many of its roughly 1.5 million residents with past criminal convictions.
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This scene is replicated nearly every month in the main square by a tight-knit group of women who are rapping as a way to draw attention to issues like poverty, gender inequalities and disenfranchisement of indigenous communities.
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Though there's an amendment on the ballot that would restore voting rights to up to 22013 million ex-felons in the state, those directly impacted by Mr. Scott's felon disenfranchisement law won't be able to vote this year.
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"The continued disenfranchisement of felons who are genuinely unable to pay [court costs] and who have made a good-faith effort to do so, does not further any legitimate state interest that we can discern," the court said.
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The bill had bipartisan support, as similar measures have had around the country — an encouraging sign that people of all political stripes are beginning to see felon-disenfranchisement laws for the racist, pointless, anti-democratic shams they are.
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Judge George Hazel probed Gardner's logic to see if he was conceding a key argument for the plaintiffs who want the question nixed: that the citizenship question would contribute to a less accurate count and the resulting disenfranchisement.
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When the black suffragist and civil rights leader Mary Church Terrell petitioned her white sisters for help, they responded that the disenfranchisement of black women was a race problem — not a gender problem — and beyond the movement's writ.
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What he's saying: "I'm putting myself in a position that I know is going to create hate, anger, disenfranchisement from friends, from Democrats," Schultz said after last night's "60 Minutes" segment unveiling his plan to explore an independent bid.
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All of the time, money, and resources that were poured into production, paying hosts huge sums, and coming up with creative ways to talk about the disenfranchisement of marginalized groups could have actually gone towards making some serious change.
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Given America's incarceration rate and the demographic breakdown of its prison population – 216 percent of inmates are African-American and 163 percent are Hispanic – felony disenfranchisement is harshly skewed against minorities, reducing turnout among minorities and low-income households.
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These steps forward caused a wave of oftentimes violent backlash, part of a trend that continues to this day, as gerrymandering and disenfranchisement keep far too many women of color from having a fair voice in their political fortunes.
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She needed it to end its terrorization of Black and Brown communities, the criminalization of race, poverty, and the work that trans women of color turn to for survival because of the State's own manufactured class inequality and disenfranchisement.
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All parties are complicit here in furthering the disenfranchisement of LGBT people on-screen: the studio for offering the role to Johansson, Johansson for accepting it, and the screenwriter and producer for misgendering the character in the first place.
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Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp , Louisiana Secretary of State R. Kyle Ardoin and Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill are defendants in the filings, which note each state's history of racially polarized voting and disenfranchisement of black voters.
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The rise of the National Front in the 1970's and 1980's, a far-right, anti-immigrant group, was then attributed to economic disenfranchisement among working-class whites, who saw immigrants as competition for jobs and scarce housing.
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Volunteers have traveled throughout the state to connect with Floridians from all walks of life to spread awareness of Florida's felony disenfranchisement, and to collect enough petition signatures to put the voting restoration amendment on the November 2018 ballot.
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Whether it was recession causing job loss, the election of another Democrat president bent on gun control, or the disenfranchisement of rural Americans from the urban yuppies running politics—many militiamen have a healthy distrust of the federal government.
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"When it comes to the trifecta of voter disenfranchisement — voter suppression, racial gerrymandering, and restriction of voting rights — Thomas Farr is, sadly, one of the most experienced election lawyers in the country," Abrams and Gillum wrote in their statement.
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A national reporter for MSNBC, he includes the voter ID laws and disenfranchisement that grab headlines today, but the bigger story in "The Great Suppression" is one of a creative and increasingly desperate group of conservative scholars and politicians.
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Paris (CNN)Emmanuel Macron, who swept into office 18 months ago on a wave of popularity, is now faced with the greatest challenge to his presidency -- a nationwide populist protest against skyrocketing taxes and the disenfranchisement of the poor.
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Felon disenfranchisement disproportionately affects Americans of color nationwide, and the result is especially stark in Florida: The Sentencing Project estimates that one in five voting-age black adults in the state were disenfranchised under the state constitution's current rules.
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Justice Alito's answer to the problem of voters who may suffer disenfranchisement -- of which there are numerous examples -- dripped with disdain, saying that a "reasonable person with an interest in voting" would return the mailed card or vote again.
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In 85033, in a case that not only sought to undermine voting rights but harkened back to the ugliest chapters of racial disenfranchisement in the American South, Sessions prosecuted three civil rights workers on dubious charges of voter fraud.
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The 2016 election had the unfortunate distinction of being the first presidential contest in 50 years without the full protections of the Voting Rights Act; in 2018, the threat of disenfranchisement has gotten worse, in the South and beyond.
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History may record that the longest war in the history of the United States was neither the Vietnam War nor the war in Afghanistan, but the ongoing war against disenfranchisement, which is the denial of the right to vote.
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Yet it is clear that we in the United States face the looming threat of a takeover of government by those who would use it to enrich themselves together with a continuing disenfranchisement of large segments of the population.
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More than anything, it is the deep relationships between instructors and students, many of whom grow up with no male figure at home, that hold the key to ending the soul-numbing disenfranchisement that so many young men experience at school.
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In the end, the Republican Hayes won the White House, but only after agreeing to withdraw the remaining federal troops from the South and put an end to Reconstruction — which was followed by decades of black disenfranchisement throughout the South.
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There are so many systems in place to ensure that the people who are already down stay down: mass incarceration, voter disenfranchisement, rising health care costs, lack of public education, a narrowing path to citizenship for immigrants — the list goes on.
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While a great deal of the vote to leave the EU was driven by anti-immigrant sentiment, a pervasive sense of economic disenfranchisement and bleak prospects for jobs and wage growth in the future played a significant factor as well.
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In fact, thousands of voters had their provisionals withheld or rejected in Georgia during the 2018 midterms, which is especially troubling considering that these ballots are meant to be used as a failsafe, the last line of defense before disenfranchisement.
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Felon disenfranchisement laws, which currently block nearly six million Americans from voting, were enacted during the Reconstruction era in a racist effort to make it harder for newly freed African-Americans to vote — a reality Mr. McAuliffe acknowledged on Friday.
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Kentucky has the most restrictive felon disenfranchisement law in the country, yet its practice became just a tad less severe a few years ago after the state passed a bill that allows eligible felons to seek an expungement of their records.
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Florida's adoption of a state constitutional amendment last year to revise its own felon disenfranchisement law offers another example: people like Desmond Meade and his Florida Rights Restoration Coalition told the story of the impact voting rights can have on individuals.
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Onerous voter ID laws, voting roll purges, felon disenfranchisement and more exist, or are springing up in one "red" state after another, with only one real goal -- keeping poor and working people, young people, and disproportionately people of color from voting.
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Arizona's "alarmingly inadequate number of voting centers resulted in severe, inexcusable burdens on voters county-wide, as well as the ultimate disenfranchisement of untold numbers of voters who were unable or unwilling to wait in intolerably long lines," the lawsuit says.
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Mr. Kopachko, the pollster, said Mr. Manafort envisioned an approach that exploited regional and ethnic peculiarities in voting, tapping the disenfranchisement of those who felt abandoned by the Orange Revolution in eastern Ukraine, which has more ethnic Russians and Russian speakers.
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And blacks are about three times as likely than others to be denied the right to vote by a state felony disenfranchisement law, said Corey Goldstone, a spokesman for the Campaign Legal Center, a nonpartisan group focusing on election law.
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Even if the election still happens in November, without federal legislation, a pandemic could produce a hodgepodge of outcomes, such as massive disenfranchisement and skewed results, with only a fraction of the most committed voters braving it to the physical polls.
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Much could be added: plaques concerning the war itself, disputes over slavery, Richmond's and Virginia's roles in the Confederacy, Reconstruction (and its abrupt termination following the 1876 election deal), African-American disenfranchisement, the blatant racism surrounding the statues' planning and dedication.
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These undesirable locations, coupled with the general disenfranchisement of black people, made it a given that, commonly, the mere fact that a community was predominantly black would have been enough to depress home values in the eyes of the government.
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Some day, and possibly sooner than they think, Republican lawmakers will be forced to confront the reality that they cannot sustain a major American political party in the 21st century on a strict diet of voter suppression, discouragement and disenfranchisement.
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Beshear at the time lamented the state's voter access issues, asserting that Kentucky has the third highest voter disenfranchisement rate nationwide with nearly 10% of people, and nearly 25% of African-Americans, in the state not being allowed to vote.
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For years, the G.O.P. has failed to address voters' concerns about disenfranchisement and inequality, offering only rhetoric about inner-city dependency, Beltway corruption, birtherism, and, in the war on terror, an enemies list that has come to include the President.
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As the president rants conspiratorially about rigged elections, the country is witnessing incompetent election administrators, the aftermath of botched votes, purposeful disenfranchisement in the shadow of the gutted Voting Rights Act, and the undermining of democracy in red, blue, and purple places.
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"Political divisions in advanced economies - particularly where there is high unemployment or a high risk of unemployment - are feeding on a sense of disenfranchisement among many people who feel the rapid economic changes of our time have left them behind," Turnbull said.
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Instead, it comes from a populace that has a political investment in reaping the spoils of a French win from "one France" but still fails to come to terms with an emerging spirit of self-determination brought about by a history of disenfranchisement.
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"There are far more people turned away from the polls by restrictions like voter-ID laws, cuts to early voting, and felon-disenfranchisement efforts — which disproportionately impact people of color, young voters, and low-income voters — than cases of voter fraud," Berman said.
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In a paper presented last year to a government task force looking at how to defuse communal tensions in the wake of the civil war, local activists demanded an apology from the state for the disenfranchisement, deportation and neglect of hill-country Tamils.
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"[Arizona's] alarmingly inadequate number of voting centers resulted in severe, inexcusable burdens on voters county-wide, as well as the ultimate disenfranchisement of untold numbers of voters who were unable or unwilling to wait in intolerably long lines," Democrats argue in the lawsuit.
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" Mr. McAuliffe, who took office in 2014 and campaigned to restore voting rights to felons, said that he viewed disenfranchisement as "a remnant of the poll tax" and that he had been "trying to figure out what more I can possibly do.
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Today, 10 months into the outbreak, we have a witches brew of political disenfranchisement, distrust of authorities, rebel militias, mercenaries, opportunists, and militants loyal to the Islamic State fueling a deadly epidemic by preventing the medical response from getting ahead of the virus.
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When he issued the blanket order in April, Mr. McAuliffe acknowledged what politicians in Virginia and elsewhere have long lacked the courage to admit: The disenfranchisement law was expressly designed to permanently bar as many African-Americans as possible from the polls.
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The Supreme Court continued developing throughout the early 20th century this line of racial reasoning in the so called insular cases, which continue to this day to justify the institutional disenfranchisement of the people of Puerto Rico from its full civil rights.
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But Mr. Erdogan also carried out a housecleaning of personnel to readdress what he and his Islamist supporters saw as years of disenfranchisement at the hands of largely secular state structures, which refused to work with him even after he became prime minister.
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"If you keep rejecting the young, they will feel frustrated and feel that they don't belong, and they will look for their own society," Mr. Guillet warned, adding that such disenfranchisement had led some young European Muslims down the path of radicalization.
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Many fear that the bill, along with the National Citizens' Register (NRC), which will force Indians to provide documentation to prove their citizenship, will pave the way for the disenfranchisement of the country's 172 million Muslims and further the ascent of Hindu nationalism.
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"Whether it is the disenfranchisement of the people of Puerto Rico or Latino neighborhoods denied access to clean air and water, Latinos in the United States have been burdened for too long by a legacy of systemic discrimination," Buttigieg wrote in the plan.
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For Malunguinho, the biggest problem facing Brazil, even before Bolsonaro was elected, is the disenfranchisement of Afro-Brazilians, whose proportion of the total population hovers between 51% and 54%, and who have historically been underrepresented in the government but overrepresented in prisons and poor neighborhoods.
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"A pre-election undetected attack could tamper with voter lists, creating huge confusion and delays, disenfranchisement, and at large enough scale could compromise the validity of the election," said John Sebes, chief technology officer of the ESET Institute, an election technology policy think tank.
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McAuliffe's order -- which he said in May was intended to lift "a policy of disenfranchisement that has been used intentionally to suppress the voices of qualified voters, particularly African-Americans, for more than a century" -- was struck down by the state Supreme Court last month.
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The Trump campaign sued to challenge those votes, in the latest of a string of attempts by the GOP to dampen minority turnout at the polls—a timeworn tactic of voter disenfranchisement that's playing out all over the country, from Nevada to North Carolina.
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It would effectively mean the disenfranchisement of 7.5 million voters who have backed Trump in the primary process so far -- voters who the GOP can ill afford to lose at a time when national demographics give Democrats an easier route to the White House.
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Tim Scott — the only black Republican in the Senate — wrote a letter to the editor published in the Wall Street Journal that defended his decision to vote against Thomas Farr, a controversial judicial nominee Democrats accused of supporting the suppression and disenfranchisement of black voters.
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Meade, who has led and helped organize FRRC town halls, various campaigns, days of action, and engaged with people one-on-one throughout the state to bring awareness to felony disenfranchisement, is personally impacted by Florida's lifetime voting ban on people with criminal convictions.
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New York City (CNN)Dierks Bentley, who considers himself an "independent," told CNN that while touring the country he has seen firsthand the sense of disenfranchisement, anger and frustration that have defined 2016 politics and fueled the rise of billionaire business mogul Donald Trump.
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"In light of the disproportionate numbers of African-Americans who have been disenfranchised, it is unsettling that a nominee to the highest court expressed skepticism about the law's clear racial impact in a state with a long history of disenfranchisement of African-Americans," they wrote.
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"The vast majority of the reforms that have taken place have been toward expanding the electorate, cutting back on longstanding categories of disenfranchisement and/or making the process more transparent," Mr. Mauer said, speaking of recent activity along these lines in California, Maryland and Virginia.
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Also last week, black citizens who were denied the vote in Alabama brought a federal lawsuit challenging the state's disenfranchisement statute, a move that has started a broader discussion about the racist origins of such laws and their devastating effect on African-American communities.
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But the legal fight may soon be moot: Florida voters will consider a constitutional amendment this fall that would eliminate felon disenfranchisement for all but murders and serious sexual offenses, which would restore full civic rights to hundreds of thousands of the state's residents.
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The military details are meticulously researched and recreated down to the stitching of a uniform, but the broader social and political realities of the Civil War — the profound struggle over slavery and emancipation, racism and equality, citizenship and disenfranchisement — are largely confined to the margins.
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Considering the past performance of voters and widespread voter disenfranchisement — over 50 percent of registered voters not voting, Republican suppression of nonwhite voting, extreme Republican gerrymandering, polarization, unconstrained Russian interference, compromised social media and the wimpish performance of Democrats — what could possibly go wrong?
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And many voters complained of uninformed polling workers who could not operate voting machines, erroneously told voters to go to another polling site, and provided New Yorkers with contradictory and often incorrect information, all of which caused confusion and possible voter disenfranchisement on Tuesday.
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It has been repurposed to explain both institutional disenfranchisement and racial self-estrangement — an explanation for the behavior of black people who seem to be under white control, based on either their sustained proximity to whiteness or statements construable as anti-black, or probably both.
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The Los Angeles County Museum of Art's own Christine Y. Kim and Rita Gonzalez are co-curators of one of these sections focused on "the politics of participation, persuasion and power," which looks at issues of access, empowerment, and disenfranchisement in our post-internet world.
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"A pre-election undetected attack could tamper with voter lists, creating huge confusion and delays, disenfranchisement, and at large enough scale could compromise the validity of the election," said John Sebes, chief technology officer of the OSET Institute, an election technology policy think tank.
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In September 2000, the Brennan Center for Justice, a law-and-policy institute at New York University School of Law, tried another approach to challenge the constitutionality of disenfranchisement, filing a class-action lawsuit on behalf of former felons in federal court in Florida.
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To the Editor: Your editorial posits that Republican lawmakers "will be forced to confront the reality that they cannot sustain a major political party in the 21st century on a strict diet of voter suppression, discouragement and disenfranchisement," and I hope you're right about that.
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Last year, the United States Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit rebuked him for the mass disenfranchisement of thousands of people who registered to vote when they renewed their driver's licenses under the National Voter Registration Act, known as the "motor voter" law.
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When one takes into account gerrymandering, the Electoral College, voter disenfranchisement, shadow organizations like ALEC drafting legislation for legislators, and the amount of money that is now being allowed to affect our politicians, it is evident that we are considerably worse than simply flawed.
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Next, we must build a coalition that will work together to reform campaign finance, stop voter disenfranchisement and suppression, fight gerrymandering, ensure the modernization and security of election systems, control electioneering communications, demand candidate qualifications, and create clear constitutional solutions to 21st century problems.
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"A film about rural disenfranchisement and the way that institutions have abandoned people, with a major character in his 60s who spits out racist barbs — I never thought it would sell, so I just did exactly what I wanted to do," Mr. Sheridan said.
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"Whether it is the disenfranchisement of the people of Puerto Rico or Latino neighborhoods denied access to clean air and water, Latinos in the United States have been burdened for too long by a legacy of systemic discrimination," he said in a statement Monday.
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However, the root causes run much deeper, stemming from years of systemic disenfranchisement of the African-American community of South LA. In recognition of these events, their origins and their legacies, the Hammer Museum has organized a series of programs titled The LA Uprising: 25 Years Later.
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From voter disenfranchisement to the ever-widening racial wealth gap, African Americans continue to be denied their right to the American dream for no other reason than the American dream was historically built without them — though their ancestors' free slave labor was instrumental in building America.
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The drivers are complex, but it is clear that at least one of the motivations is a profound feeling of disenfranchisement and hopelessness — the sense of many young adults that their voice is not heard, and that they have no stake in the future of their country.
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Moreover, Tillerson did not address the everyday indignities and suffering of the Rohingya in Rakhine that predate the latest violence and, as such, would do little to reverse the disenfranchisement the Rohingya people have experienced for decades -- already highlighted by Kofi Annan's Advisory Commission on Rakhine State.
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Democrats should emphasize the sustained nationwide Republican effort to limit access to the ballot and offer proposals to restore the Voting Rights Act, end felon disenfranchisement, undo restrictive voter identification rules, ease registration, protect early voting and ensure that voting places are more widely and evenly distributed.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday revived Ohio's contentious policy of purging infrequent voters from registration rolls in a ruling powered by the five conservative justices and denounced by liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor as an endorsement of the disenfranchisement of minority and low-income Americans.
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Poll taxes and literacy tests have given way to voter-ID laws, cutbacks to early voting and same-day registration, polling place closings, voter-roll purges, racially discriminatory redistricting and felon disenfranchisement laws — most of which, though justified on race-neutral grounds, harm minority voters more.
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And nearly 2 million people in Florida and Georgia were prohibited from voting in the election because of felony disenfranchisement laws enacted during the Jim Crow era to suppress the black vote (fortunately, Florida voters repealed one of these laws this election by passing Amendment 4).
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In one notable Twitter thread, art historian Glendon Mellow listed off a ton of details about the trilogy that stand out, pointing out some of the design and sub-textual elements that were often overlooked: Lucas developed a world rife with disenfranchisement, colonialism, and politics that holds up.
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But if Maria made headlines as a generation-defining Category 4 storm, its aftermath has also revealed the turmoil that's been an everyday reality of Puerto Rican life for decades, dragging the unvarnished poverty and disenfranchisement rarely seen by the island's flocks of sun-seeking tourists into blistering focus.
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The Kansas Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights called out the law as a textbook case of voter suppression, and pointed out what anyone who studies elections already knows: Voter disenfranchisement is a much bigger problem than voter fraud, especially among poor and minority communities.
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"Most pernicious, I think, is the fact that Americans are basically divided on which is the bigger problem, voter fraud or disenfranchisement," said Robert P. Jones, the chief executive of P.R.R.I. In the poll, 41 percent said voter suppression was a bigger issue, while 37 percent named fraud.
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Still, advocates hope that a big vote in favor of statehood will at least put pressure on Congress to do something about the disenfranchisement of the hundreds of thousands of people who live in DC. Statehood would give DC residents full representation, which they currently lack, in Congress.
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Since black Americans are more likely to go to prison, these laws have a disproportionate impact on black voters: While the overall disenfranchisement rate didn't break 11 percent for any state, more than 20 percent of black voters were disenfranchised in Florida, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia in 2016.
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The great waves of Confederate monument building took place in the 1890s, as the Confederacy was coming to be idealized as the so-called Lost Cause and the Jim Crow system was being fastened upon the South, and in the 1920s, the height of black disenfranchisement, segregation and lynching.
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"We, the undersigned participants in Theater of Operations: The Gulf Wars 22019-13, echo this call and support Collins in the hope that his action will 'contribute to the global momentum to protest inequity, occupation, labour extraction and disenfranchisement, and to see, together, better days'," the open letter says.
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But as the historian Liette Gidlow shows in her revelatory study of the period, the files of the Justice Department, the N.A.A.C.P. and African-American newspapers were soon bursting with letters, investigations and affidavits documenting the disenfranchisement of black women, especially in but not limited to former Confederate states.
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The 22016 Race If you were asked to assess African-American voting power, you might think about the long history of disenfranchisement that still lingers today, in troubles in Ferguson, Mo.; in efforts to roll back the Voting Rights Act; or in recent moves to limit voting access around the country.
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A political coalition that makes its decisions about who to include based on the fear of white backlash is a political coalition that risks abandoning nonwhite people to full disenfranchisement: They will be unable to speak on their own behalf, and no one else will be interested in speaking for them.
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So he released a powerful video plea in partnership with The Love Vote, a nonprofit organization that aims to give the 50 million people like K'naan — who are unable to vote in the U.S. due to circumstances like age, citizenship status, or disenfranchisement — a space for their voices to be heard.
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With the specter of Trump, the self-advertised mogul-savior of the manufacturing sector, lurking offstage, the last days of Lordstown feel like a parable about what becomes of workers in a political economy that hinges on their systematic disenfranchisement—on the factory floor and in the public sphere alike.
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"When you have economic decline alongside a broad and dynamic civil rights movement, it becomes very easy for people to think their economic disenfranchisement comes at the hands of minorities," said David Cunningham, a sociologist at Washington University in St. Louis who wrote a book on the KKK in North Carolina.
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In a thundering dissent, Justice Sonia Sotomayor said the conservative majority ruling "entirely ignores the history of voter suppression against which the [National Voting Rights Act] was enacted and upholds a program that appears to further the very disenfranchisement of minority and low-income voters that Congress set out to eradicate."
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At the heart of the climate fight and efforts to switch to renewable technologies is a love of humanity, an understanding of inequity and disenfranchisement of those least responsible for and most vulnerable to climate crises, and the desire to build a better energy system that works for all of us.
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This becomes clearest in his 2014 essay "The Case for Reparations," which became Coates's calling card, and rightly so: It provides a remarkable pocket history of the financial toll of white supremacy, from disenfranchisement to land grabs to redlining, offering a harrowing account of the economic injustices imposed on African-Americans.
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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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" Though the text makes an exception to felon disenfranchisement in the event of a governor's restoration, the plaintiffs argue, "From Patrick Henry and Thomas Jefferson to Tim Kaine and Bob McDonnell, every Governor of Virginia has understood the clemency power to authorize the Governor to grant clemency on an individualized basis only.
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Its revival was rekindled by three factors: America's withdrawal in 2011; the disenfranchisement of Sunnis by the Shia prime minister, Nuri al-Maliki, who packed the army with loyalists and cut off the Sunni tribal forces created by America; and the violent breakdown of Syria, which allowed IS to establish a strong base.
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Twitter Boycott The league strongly supports the right of a player to abstain from sharing his indignation over the latest police shooting/neo-Nazi rally/mass disenfranchisement of black voters via Twitter, Instagram, and other social-media platforms until such time as racial justice is achieved and/or after the Super Bowl.
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It attempted to use psychological and other personal information to engage in a kind of voluntary disenfranchisement by depressing and suppressing turnout with messaging designed to keep voters who support the opposing candidate away from the polls—as well as using that same information to arouse fear, incite animosity, and divide the electorate.
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Unlike his more famous collaborators, John Rosamond and James Weldon Johnson — the brothers wrote "Lift Every Voice and Sing"; James Weldon Johnson was executive secretary of the N.A.A.C.P. from 1920 to 1930 — Cole did not survive the coliseum of commercial disenfranchisement and requisite self-denigration that encircled black artists of his era.
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"We look at employee disenfranchisement and are concerned particularly about Microsoft ... there are all sorts of issues and repeated concerns with employees," the firm&aposs director of shareholder activism and engagement Mari Schwartzer said, citing disputes such as Microsoft&aposs own contract with ICE and a gender discrimination lawsuit filed against the company.
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This is partially the consequence of systemic disenfranchisement and familial rejection, Munson says; trans people are often marginalized as the result of being discriminated against at home and in school, which means they can end up at a higher risk of sexual violence because they have to turn to things like sex work to survive.
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A nightmarish system of tribunals, detention centers, and updates to India's "national register of citizens" has sparked what might be the largest disenfranchisement project in the world, as Bengali speakers—largely Muslim and mostly poor—suddenly find themselves registered as foreigners or "doubtful" citizens, with many thrown into prison because they cannot prove their Indianness.
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The importance of not depriving any citizen of a voice in government becomes especially clear in light of the origins of felon disenfranchisement laws, which spread in the decades after the Civil War and have long been a central part of the arsenal with which states have tried to exclude African-Americans from politics.
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Fighting against the vote-suppression efforts of a Republican Party that dominates national politics despite being in the minority in presidential and Senate votes, Democrats are recognizing the extent of disenfranchisement — of former felons, incarcerated people, Puerto Rican citizens and those whose jobs and family responsibilities keep them from the polls on any given Tuesday.
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New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer later announced on Tuesday that his office will conduct an audit of the city Board of Elections in response to "widespread reports" of voter disenfranchisement, voters being purged from the rolls, polling locations that were not open during voting hours, and other alleged irregularities during the day's primaries.
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And if voting rights and election integrity become a core plank of the progressive agenda, those pushing for change need to be prepared to battle not just Republican voter suppression, but also Democratic machine politics that at times make elections in blue strongholds a comedy of errors at best, and an undemocratic exercise in disenfranchisement at worst.
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People does not publicize statistics on its subscriber base, but it's not outrageous to assume that a fair number of People's readers are white, middle-aged, middle- and working-class people — the demographics that came out in droves to, in many cases, express their frustration with the status quo and feelings of disenfranchisement by voting for Trump.
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It's just too easy for a lot of the things that are being said, being said up here, when there are people every single day somewhere in this country, in other countries, who are dealing with the real impact of the disregard, the disrespect, the disenfranchisement that a lot of us take for granted because it doesn't affect us.
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With "reeducation" camps in China, religious disenfranchisement in India, ethnic cleansing in Myanmar, street violence in Sri Lanka, mass shootings in New Zealand, the flourishing of far-right parties across Europe, and the mainstreaming of Islamophobia in America, there's been a global surge in anti-Muslim bigotry — often supported by the full power and might of the state.
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The event opens with a screening of USE YOUR VOICE -- a short film that explores political disenfranchisement within the younger generation -- and will be followed by a series of interviews and discussions with a whole host of clever people such as Jim Waterson (Political Editor Buzzfeed UK), Simon Childs (Current Affairs, Vice UK) and Abi Wilkinson (Guardian).
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This is the common thread connecting the permanent disenfranchisement of felons, who are disproportionately nonwhite; the stripping of citizenship of naturalized immigrants from Latin America; the blatantly racist gerrymandering of states like North Carolina; voter suppression in heavily black cities like Milwaukee; and countless other tactics Republicans employ to ensure a white-dominated electorate that will support their increasingly unpopular policy preferences.
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"There's a key education element to his Election Reform endeavor: He's compiled readers about the topic that come with each item (but can also be downloaded for free), and they're filled with essays on the origins and current shortcomings of the Electoral College, felon disenfranchisement, and ballot fraud, which Fowler underscores are "issues which affect everyone in this country regardless of party affiliation.
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"Most poor black women, as of right now at least, would fail even a mild voter qualification exam," he admits, but he's undeterred, insisting that their disenfranchisement would be merely incidental to his epistocratic plan—a completely different matter, he maintains, from the literacy tests of America's past, which were administered with the intention of disenfranchising blacks and ethnic whites.
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Given the history of slavery, of Jim Crow, and segregation, whether it's enforced (Native American reservations and the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882) or voluntary (gated communities and Hudson Yards) — all cogs in a sanctioned reign of brutality and disenfranchisement visited by one part of society on another — Driskell's decision to go his own way is to be admired and praised.
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And then there's the willful disenfranchisement of Democratic voter groups, particularly people of color — from limiting early-voting times, to restricting the number of voting machines in urban areas — compared to easy voting in suburban and rural areas — to limiting the franchise for ex-felons who have served their debt to society, to voter-roll purges, to voter ID laws, and on and on and on.
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Mr. Gillum will finish his term as mayor of Tallahassee later this month; he has not ruled out running again for governor, and plans to spend the immediate future carving out a role as a national champion in the fight against voter suppression and disenfranchisement, which he sees as the central civil rights struggle of the Trump era, according to a half dozen friends and associates.
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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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It's been true all along, from the complete disenfranchisement of slavery to the effective silencing of the Jim Crow era up to now, when a welter of clever and at times subtle laws operates to make it harder for minorities to get to the polls, and to have an equal voice — or any voice at all — in the choice of our representatives and policies.
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A collaboration between Terrill and fellow artist Teddy Sandoval, resulting in a series of t-shirts printed with the words Maricón (Spanish for "faggot") and Malflora ("dyke"), reinvested "a term of social disenfranchisement and offensiveness to empower it in a social project that allows for new ways of imagining your queer and Latino self," said Robb Hernández, a professor of Latino/a literature at UC Riverside.
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While Trump has spoken at length about voter fraud and asserted that between 3 million and 5 million illegal immigrants voted, giving 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 a lead in the popular vote, Cummings said that disenfranchisement of minority voters is a bigger issue.
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Taking a holistic approach to recovery, participants are encouraged to address the factors that led them to drink in the first place, including "love lives, poor nutrition, stress, anxiety, crap friendships, consumerism, lack of purpose, unresolved family of origin issues, disenfranchisement, poverty, tight or unmanageable finances, lack of connection, fear, shitty jobs we hate, depression, unprocessed trauma, lack of meaning, unfulfilled dreams, never-ending to-do lists, never-measuring-upness," the company writes.
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But if the #MeToo movement can only address distinct instances of sexual harassment and assault, and not the founding briarpatch of snide remarks, aggressive sexual and romantic overtures, dismissal, condescension, entitlement, and other quietly abusive behaviors that so often shape dynamics between boys and girls, men and women—let alone the histories of disenfranchisement that all of that is predicated on—then the #MeToo movement is no use to us at all.
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The letter, though, does include goals like preventing voter intimidation and disenfranchisement, even if those were not mentioned in the executive order creating the commission to examine voting integrity Kobach pioneered the growth of a multi-state program, called Crosscheck, that has been criticized by voting rights advocates for using incomplete information that generates thousands of false positives,or false matches of different people as the same voter, perpetuating a myth of widespread fraud and resulting in unjustified purging of voters from rolls.
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