"If I had a choice between disenfranchising voters and disenfranchising children, I'm going to side with the children first," Mr. Dutton said.
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Those in Comptroller Stringer's camp see entrenched boards disenfranchising shareholders.
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"This risks disenfranchising eligible voters and undermining faith in our democracy."
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To him, however, the current public analysis is not necessarily disenfranchising.
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Is disenfranchising voters really the GOP's only strategy to try to win?
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It also found 441 ineligible voters with disenfranchising felony convictions, NBC reported.
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However, malpractice has resulted in improperly removing and disenfranchising voters through error.
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Voting online is about inclusion, not about disenfranchising those who lack internet access.
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There were no hacked information dumps or believable deepfake videos or viral disenfranchising memes.
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Arguing that it was disenfranchising new voters, Mr. Trump called the move a "suicidal" mistake.
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Yes, we should clean them up, but not at the expense of disenfranchising valid voters.
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The Justice Department, contending that whites were disenfranchising blacks with discriminatory voting laws, filed suit.
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Mass incarceration that's accelerated since the 1980s has played a tremendous role in disenfranchising black voters.
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That amounted to "prominent African-American leaders disenfranchising black property owners and voters," Ms. Canady said.
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" Trump said that the system is disenfranchising people who "want to see America be great again.
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Indeed, most voting experts say threats of disenfranchising voters are far more worrisome than widespread fraud.
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But as he points out, disenfranchising American citizens is "shameful" regardless of its short-term consequences.
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Largely Democratic critics of such laws say they risk disenfranchising elderly and urban voters who don't drive.
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Success for these malicious actors comes in the form of poisoning the political discourse and disenfranchising voters.
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Any and all combat bots that fail to uphold their duty to serve will face immediate disenfranchising.
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This pattern of non-voting, with the unreturned missive in the middle, resulted in Ohio disenfranchising Mr Harmon.
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She insists that water protectors are peaceful protesters, but worries that aggressive legislation disenfranchising protesters could ignite violence.
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With its 1890 constitutional convention, Mississippi became a model for other states committed to disenfranchising the black vote.
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Leaders of six political parties, including those allied with the B.J.P., have voiced concerns about its disenfranchising effects.
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Yet those groups are warning that Barr could accelerate the administration's efforts, which they see as disenfranchising lawful voters.
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It frequently made news for effectively disenfranchising American citizens of their Second Amendment rights in defiance of the law.
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State officials have had an easier time disenfranchising the disadvantaged since the Supreme Court's ruling in Shelby County vs.
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In the 1880s, for instance, it limited the electoral gains that white supremacist Democrats reaped by disenfranchising black voters.
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The action effectively overturns a Civil War-era provision in the state's Constitution aimed, he said, at disenfranchising African-Americans.
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In June, the courts struck down an election law for disenfranchising provisional and absentee voters for "trivial" omissions of paperwork.
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Dr. William J. Barber II, said the purges were little more than election trickery aimed at disenfranchising legally registered voters.
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Modernizing Florida's voter registration system would go a long way toward preventing this kind of disenfranchising problem in the future.
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Mississippi: There are two pending federal suits seeking automatic restoration after a person completes a sentence for a disenfranchising crime.
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Any elected official that supports disenfranchising voters because of who they are or what they look like must be held accountable.
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The midterms weren't thrown into tumult by a massive, hacked information dump or a believable deepfake or a viral disenfranchising meme.
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"The State of Ohio has been held accountable again for disenfranchising legitimate voters," said a lawyer for the plaintiffs, Subodh Chandra.
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He began his majority opinion upholding Ohio's law by focusing on outdated voter rolls, not the disenfranchising effect of the law.
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Disenfranchising people with convictions Almost six million Americans will be denied the right to vote on Tuesday because of criminal convictions.
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The Washington based Sentencing Project estimates that nearly 6 million Americans are barred from voting because of laws disenfranchising former felons.
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In 2018 a US district judge, Eleanor Ross, said that raised "grave concerns" about disenfranchising minority voters vastly more often than whites.
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Whatever the HDP's mistakes over the past year, disenfranchising the millions of Kurds who voted it into office will only make matters worse.
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Instead of seeking ways to mollify and address the pent-up fears that are driving these voters, efforts are focused on disenfranchising them.
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She accused him of disenfranchising minorities for years, including his office's latest effort, suspending the processing of 216,1.43 voter registrations, mainly African-Americans.
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Now the biometric ID plan is being challenged in court by civil rights organizations, which say it is disenfranchising members of minority groups.
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Some might say that he is being selected only because he displayed a talent for disenfranchising elderly Black voters during his time in Alabama.
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One of Gregory's most clever and effective jokes addressed how local governments condemned black neighborhoods with the goal of disenfranchising and driving them out.
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As of this year, 33 states require voters to present identification at the polls, potentially disenfranchising hundreds of thousands of people this election season.
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In an interview, she called the nominating process disenfranchising and distasteful, but said she thought she had to play the game to beat it.
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A traditional caucus requires voters to show up at a specific time, disenfranchising many shift workers, people with disabilities, caregivers, or those lacking transportation.
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The rich can rule alone, disenfranchising or even enslaving the poor, or the poor can rise up and confiscate the wealth of the rich.
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Arabs, then, often see Zionism as a species of colonialism and racism aimed at appropriating Palestinian land and systematically disenfranchising the Palestinians that remain.
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As the current secretary of state in Georgia, Kemp's position allowed him to oversee elections in the state and Democrats accused him of disenfranchising voters.
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The law sent Native American voters into a scramble to provide street addresses, and carried the risk of disenfranchising an entire group of minority voters.
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Unilaterally disenfranchising the Palestinian residents would require a majority vote of the Israeli Parliament to amend the basic law governing Israel's hold over the city.
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But denying tens of millions of Lula's constituents the possibility of voting their idol back into the Planalto presidential palace would almost imply disenfranchising them.
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For a start, they aren't talking about interference of other sorts in the election, such as the Republican Party's many means of disenfranchising minority voters.
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"Voters were promised that this law was not about disenfranchising the most vulnerable in our state," said Tony Rothert, legal director of the ACLU of Missouri.
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Left-wing Democrats have long argued that their party's system of superdelegates is unfair because it gives too much weight to ruling elites, disenfranchising ordinary voters.
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Attacking ICE is an assault on the rule-of-law and is a step toward disenfranchising the voting public who — rightly or wrongly — cast their ballots.
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A voter registration lawsuit, filed in 2016 against the Texas Department of Public Safety and secretary of state, accused the state of disenfranchising thousands of voters.
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The canvassing board ultimately accepted all the ballots, saying it would err on the side of allowing them rather than disenfranchising more than 180 valid votes.
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Civil rights groups, however, said the program risked disenfranchising millions of people who already face systemic challenges getting the documents required to obtain biometric ID cards.
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"An article of impeachment is a very specific, very serious action, literally akin to declaring war, because you're disenfranchising voters," Van Drew told reporters last week.
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She ran an aggressive and dynamic campaign and almost won despite Republicans' success in disenfranchising thousands of black voters who might have propelled her to victory.
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The city can even become a role model for how a society, after decades of creating great economic disparity and disenfranchising the majority, can be reformed.
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After 30 seconds, Johnson concluded, "Disenfranchising 63 million voters gives me 63 million reasons to vote no and I urge my colleagues to do the same."
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He won the popular vote by dominating the Deep South, where white supremacist Democrats had succeeded in disenfranchising Republican black voters since the end of Reconstruction.
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The newly enacted law would limit voting rights to convicted felons who have wealth, disenfranchising many others who cannot pay their fees, civil rights groups said.
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The Yob-Redfield group is seeking a temporary restraining order "to prevent (Canegata) from subverting the democratic process and from disenfranchising Republican voters," according to the lawsuit.
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Soon the Fusion regime was driven from power and North Carolina joined every other Southern state in disenfranchising blacks, legalizing segregation and creating a Jim Crow society.
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But, at the same time the legislation is expanding voting rights, it is disenfranchising Americans by taking away their voice and ability to speak truth to power.
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"Education can be the great equalizer in our society, but if the rising tuition is impacting certain people more than others, it's now disenfranchising them," she said.
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"This was part of the 1898 constitutional convention, which is famous for disenfranchising black voters," Lawrence Powell, a historian at Tulane University in New Orleans, told me.
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In Mississippi, two recent lawsuits filed by the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Mississippi Center for Justice target the state's collection of so-called disenfranchising crimes.
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The report explains this could have a disproportionate effect on minority voters: Polling place closures are a particularly common and pernicious tactic for disenfranchising voters of color.
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"At every step along this historical path, Democrats" — and not just Dixiecrats — "have many times been intensely interested in disenfranchising poor urban black voters too," she said.
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"It's the last straw; Virgin Atlantic have consistently refused to recognize the PPU as a legitimate and independent union, essentially disenfranchising our members," said the PPU's Steve Johnson.
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Florida resident Marta Valentina Rivera Madera and a number of Latino advocacy and civic engagement groups say those elections are disenfranchising the votes of Spanish-speakers across Florida.
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But as much as Kobach's work has won him praise from conservatives, he has outraged liberals and voting rights advocates who say he is disenfranchising thousands of voters.
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Critics say that Mr. Kobach is wildly exaggerating the potential of noncitizens casting ballots and, in the process, disenfranchising lawful voters, especially minorities, young people and the poor.
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Last year, researchers at Stanford, Harvard, University of Pennsylvania and Microsoft Research concluded that Crosscheck produced a flood of false positives, raising the risk of disenfranchising legal voters.
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"An article of impeachment is a very specific, very serious action, literally akin to declaring war, because you're disenfranchising voters," Van Drew told reporters earlier in the week.
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Germany's requirement that parties win 5% of the vote to enter parliament keeps cranks and extremists out without disenfranchising parties that poll strongly, like the new Alternative for Germany.
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg reported for the New York Times: The action will overturn a Civil War–era provision in the state's Constitution aimed, he said, at disenfranchising African-Americans.
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Andrew M. Cuomo have the opportunity and responsibility to do a better job pressing for reforms and ending disenfranchising statutes — like New York's inane rules for changing party enrollment.
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These new restrictions include minimizing early voting, ending same-day registration, enforcing stricter voter ID laws, disenfranchising people who have gone to prison, and shutting down voter registration drives.
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Instead, once the American troops helped quell the violence, then-Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki used the "breathing space," to destroy his political opposition by disenfranchising most Sunni leaders.
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"Binding" electors is the very definition of "disenfranchising voters," because it takes away the free vote of the very people who get to vote for president and vice president.
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Dapper Dan chose Gucci to use to display his mastery, but it could have been any brand built on systematically disenfranchising black people, but occasionally exploiting the black culture.
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The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Minnesota on Monday filed a lawsuit against the state over a law disenfranchising felons who have completed their sentences or received probation.
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This lack of openness is all the more concerning, considering that the Vice Chair of the Commission, Kris Kobach, has a lengthy record of illegally disenfranchising eligible voters in Kansas.
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Especially in the case of Clinton, who won the popular contest by 3 million votes but lost the election, that process can have the effect of disenfranchising millions of voters.
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That year, Democrats won the popular vote by disenfranchising Republican black voters and running up the score in the Deep South, where they won by 70 percent to 26 percent.
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New York's voting laws, for instance, originally included mention of "he or she" and "his or her ballot," but, in 21919, the state struck the female pronouns, disenfranchising its women.
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But in the wake of the civil rights movement and the Voting Rights Act of 240, the idea that disenfranchising legitimate voters was unethical, and even un-American, gained traction.
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He said numerous ballots were discovered in Miami-Dade County, apparently the result of a postal problem, and the issue must be addressed urgently in order to avoid disenfranchising those voters.
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Meanwhile, Democrats are raising their own concerns about Republican efforts to sway the outcome of the election by disenfranchising minorities and poor people by making it harder for them to vote.
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Recently, the Democratic Party Platform spelled out a plan for eliminating Class A directors altogether from District boards, and disenfranchising any of the Districts' shareholding banks from the election of directors.
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But embedded in the law were requirements for voter identification and maintaining registration rolls, objectives that Democrats say Republicans have twisted for partisan ends, effectively disenfranchising certain groups that lean left.
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So too should every single historical US government policy directed toward Native nations, the vast majority of which were aimed at disenfranchising Native people, taking their lands, and erasing their cultures.
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It is unclear whether voting will ever be held in parts of Congo where the election was delayed - disenfranchising more than 1.2 million people - due to concerns about Ebola and violence.
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"[Breweries] have busily been disenfranchising women from the beer market for the past 40 years and are now clumsily trying to entice them back," beer writer Melissa Cole said after Animée's launch.
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"Bernie's endorsement becomes Exhibit A in our rigged system - the Democrat Party is disenfranchising its voters to benefit the select and privileged few," said Stephen Miller, a senior policy adviser to Trump.
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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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Maybe handing over control of the game to a cartel of superclubs, or allowing nation states to run teams according to their own, unchecked desires, risks disenfranchising everyone outside that small cabal.
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As a candidate working tirelessly to win over an electorate intentionally constructed to stack the odds against me while unequivocally opposed to the disenfranchising practice of gerrymandering, I'm in an awkward position.
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It's important because it shows that a strategy of regarding corporations as people, deliberately disenfranchising voters and battering the First Amendment is working, but it's working to the detriment of us all.
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The past and the homeland, "Heimat," blurred together into the notion of a romantic Western European past, the Abendland, becoming a cultural and psychological bulwark against the disenfranchising anonymity of urban industrialization.
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After four years of litigation and five rulings by five different courts that the law has a discriminatory effect — potentially disenfranchising 2628,28503 registered voters – civil rights advocates are still fighting the law.
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But is that a reasonable effort to draw that conclusion when you do results in disenfranchising disproportionately certain cities where large groups of minorities live, where large groups of homeless people live….
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Focused on the last 30 years of the artist's washboard preoccupation, Keepin' It Clean presents 22 works that violently rebel against damaging historical constructions of race and gender intent on disenfranchising black women.
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And as Trump continuously attacked the RNC rules as being undemocratic, disenfranchising to voters, and creatures of out-of-touch Republican-party regulars, he put Cruz in the position of backing the establishment.
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They do not like the outcome of the last election ... PIRRO: And they are disenfranchising everybody who voted to put Donald Trump in the Oval Office, but how does this all end, Mark?
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Michael's also quick to point out that—as a former Nixon aide recently admitted—the War on Drugs was instituted with the intention of disenfranchising and incriminating hippie leftists and people of color.
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The caucuses take place on a Monday night in frigid early February, disenfranchising Iowans who cannot attend because they have to work, have child care obligations, are disabled or are out of state.
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In another instance, Mr. Farr defended the state's partisan gerrymander before the Supreme Court, which struck down some of the districts after ruling they were drawn with the objective of disenfranchising black voters.
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Mr. Durbin, the No. 2 Senate Democrat, complained that the caucus system "limits and restricts opportunities for people to vote," effectively disenfranchising poor and working people who do not have time to attend.
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But the criminal justice system remains one path toward disenfranchising voters, with a criminal or felony record often costing people various legal rights and protections even after they get out of jail or prison.
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With his executive orders, the governor, a Democrat, sought to circumvent the Republican-run legislature and effectively overturn a Civil War-era provision in the state's constitution aimed, he said, at disenfranchising African-Americans.
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I think the political situation and the media played a massive part of dumbing down the people and totally disenfranchising them from politics, and making people not wanting to be involved or being aware.
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There's no doubt gerrymandering is one of the scourges of our political "system": nothing more than a way for incumbents to stack the odds in their favor, further disenfranchising and redlining disfavored populations and districts.
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Southern whites did such an effective job of disenfranchising freed slaves soon after the civil war that black turnout in South Carolina plunged from 96% in 1876 to 11% in 1898, as voting curbs bit.
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"This lack of openness is all the more concerning, considering that the vice chair of the commission, Kris Kobach, has a lengthy record of illegally disenfranchising eligible voters in Kansas," Merrill said in the statement.
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Such a law, the suit alleges, is racist in its origins and is biased in its effect, disenfranchising roughly 15 percent of Alabama's black voting age population, compared with fewer than 5 percent of whites.
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This month, a federal appeals court blocked the voter identification law in Texas, a law that had the effect of disenfranchising hundreds of thousands of people, with a disproportionate impact on black and Latino voters.
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But Obama promised that as ex-president he would help reverse the Republican control of state governments that has allowed them to win national elections through gerrymandering US congressional districts and further disenfranchising Democratic voters.
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Just days before the election, the electoral commission, citing security concerns and an Ebola outbreak, postponed voting in several opposition strongholds — effectively disenfranchising more than 1.2 million people among the 40 million registered to vote.
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Democrats, by contrast, have argued that such changes actually undermine electoral fairness by disenfranchising a lot of poor and minority voters, who tend to have fewer government-issued IDs and a harder time obtaining them.
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Other disenfranchising factors include dismal sex education and contraception access, higher rates of unintended pregnancies, restricted abortion access, subpar prenatal care—particularly for women covered by Medicaid—and poor communication and trust between doctors and patients.
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Despite the artificial advantage he's given himself through eight years of disenfranchising minority voters and strictly enforcing one of the country's most restrictive voter-ID laws, Kemp is deadlocked with Abrams in the general-election polls.
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But the legislature has contravened the will of the people, once again disenfranchising hundreds of thousands of returning citizens through a bill that imposes an antiquated poll tax on them in the form of court fees.
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Some were thrown out for omitting zip codes, using cursive writing instead of print, or writing in the current date instead of a birth date, they said, disenfranchising thousands of voters in recent elections, especially minorities.
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"It just seems pretty frankly disenfranchising to voters in Nevada and South Carolina that their voices aren't being heard … given there's been one poll in both states that's qualifying," Heather Hargreaves, Steyer's campaign manager, told POLITICO.
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So, this divide that we have in the nation and we often have divides in this nation, I do not think it is something that can be fixed very quickly because you&aposre disenfranchising the American people.
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"The blatant forms of racism we still see today, from disenfranchising black voters to police brutality, are rooted in the fact that people were brought here against their will and treated like they were subhuman," Ramsey said.
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Armed separatists have vowed to stop the election in English-speaking areas, potentially disenfranchising about one in five voters and, ironically, helping President Paul Biya, who heads a Francophone-dominated government, extend his 303 years in power.
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Asked about how she would expand voting rights, Warren described the process for electing presidents -- that race to 270 electoral votes -- as a de facto form of disenfranchising voters in states dominated by a single political party.
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But by 2014 he had recanted, issuing a blistering dissent in a Wisconsin voter ID case that called ID laws a "fig leaf" for disenfranchising citizens, and specifically rejecting the claim that bolstering voters' confidence justified them.
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Meanwhile, a man named John Hollander, who'd voted against McCain in the New Hampshire primary, filed a federal suit against McCain and the Republican National Committee for disenfranchising his vote by running an ineligible candidate for president.
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If Israel pursues the one-state solution, integrating ever larger stretches of Palestinian territory and population, while disenfranchising the people who live there, demographic realities will all too quickly make Jewish people a minority in their own country.
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Filmed in his New York City penthouse, seated on a gilt-edged chair under a Baroque-style ceiling mural featuring an enormous crystal chandelier, Trump reaffirmed his commitment to disenfranchising poor American women from their basic reproductive rights.
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While Democrats have broadly bristled at a number of these nominees for their conservative leanings, Farr is among a smaller subset that they've specifically called out for positions they say are discriminatory and explicitly targeted at disenfranchising African Americans.
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And if Israel does annex this territory while disenfranchising people, it must know that it will have crossed a red line and encounter powerful and unified opposition in Congress and among American Jewish organizations committed to the country's democracy.
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In his state, the coalition including the NAACP protesting the bathroom law also worked together to fight a state ballot initiative that banned same-sex marriage in 2012 and a more recent state voting law seen as disenfranchising minorities.
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These women seem to be having fun with the Commish: Still kinda feels like your dad showed up to your slumber party with a joint, but hey, anything to make that concussion-ignoring, power-grabbing, disenfranchising overlord look more human, right?
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But partly under pressure from Jobbik, an extreme right-wing party founded in 2003, and increasingly citing "the will of the people", Mr Orban has taken to demonising immigrants and minorities (particularly Muslims), attacking the judiciary and disenfranchising sources of dissent.
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Moreover, while Sanders can reasonably complain that the rules set up by the party, requiring voters to be registered as Democrats months in advance, were onerous and disenfranchising, he has to contend with the fact that voter turnout was high.
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"Being uninsured while working also means living with the disenfranchising concept that your work, time, and effort are seemingly meaningless because your employer does not see that it's worth it to provide you access to quality life with healthcare," she said.
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Barring a principled response to Mr. el-Sisi, the United States will be further complicit in shoring up his military dictatorship, disenfranchising most Egyptians and fueling the kind of instability that is certain to produce a new generation of extremists.
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In recent years both liberal and conservative states have made it easier to restore the right to vote, on the understanding that disenfranchising people with criminal records serves no purpose other than to keep them at the edges of society.
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Such criticism, combined with his ongoing financing from Wall Street banks and other companies notorious for disenfranchising people of color, have certainly impacted his ability to break through to voters who prefer the grassroots movement-building of Sanders and Warren.
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There's also a dark irony in Trump's demand coming on Veterans Day: If the recount were to be halted immediately, it would have the effect of disenfranchising overseas military personnel who submitted absentee ballots that can be tallied until November 16.
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The law, passed in 2011, was first struck down in October 2014, when the district court said its provisions—which allowed gun permits, but not student IDs or out-of-state driver's licences—amounted to "a poll tax" potentially disenfranchising up to 600,000 voters.
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If there was any remaining doubt that North Carolina's voting restrictions — which require a photo ID to vote and limit early voting days — are about disenfranchising black people, recent comments by a top Republican consultant in the state should put that doubt to rest.
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Given the GOP's narrow 51-49 Senate majority, Flake has also played a part in sinking Trump's nominees on the Senate floor -- most notably Thomas Farr, a nominee to be a US district judge in North Carolina who was accused of disenfranchising African-American voters.
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Growing up in the heartland of industrial decay in the "Black Country" of England, and later traveling the globe through my telecom career, I've been a first-hand witness to the benefits of globalization and also to the personal disenfranchising impact it can bring.
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The silver lining for all shareholders seeking change was that a board and management team that had previously ignored the will of shareholders got a loud and clear wake-up call: disenfranchising shareholders, maintaining poor corporate governance policies and underperforming peers are simply unacceptable.
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According to court documents, Fair Fight Action argued that the state was disenfranchising voters after a name was purged because of the state's "use it or lose it" rule, which bumps from the rolls voters who had not voted in the past several elections.
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The state supreme court ruled that the closing hour under the state's election law was "clear," failing to recognize that the decision would have a tangible effect in disenfranchising some people who had come to the polls earlier but had not been able to cast a ballot.
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The PSA is a response to an October 9th Supreme Court decision, where they declined to overturn a North Dakota voter ID law requiring voters to present an ID listing their residential address, potentially disenfranchising many Native American voters whose tribal IDs don't include this information.
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At the rally on Sunday night, many speakers pointed out that, although the fight today feels new because it is coming from top federal officials and so extremely and blatantly aims at disenfranchising transgender Americans, it is part of a long effort to eliminate trans rights.
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To the Editor: If saving lives is the ultimate goal of public policy, then in addition to disenfranchising younger adults from buying tobacco products, shouldn't we revoke the driving privileges of all senior citizens over the age of 21, given that group's increased likelihood for accidents?
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Disenfranchising voters: Between 2013 and 2015, the state cited its "exact match" protocol and canceled nearly 35,000 voter registration applications (76 percent were from applicants who identified as African-American, Latino or Asian-American), according to a lawsuit against Kemp filed by a coalition of civil rights groups.
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The judicial system's experience with the effort to ban racial gerrymandering only to find itself sucked into a million debates over whether such-and-such a gerrymander is really about disenfranchising black people (which is bad) or just about screwing over Democrats (which is okay) is an unhappy precedent.
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ATLANTA — Allies of Stacey Abrams, the Democrat who narrowly lost the Georgia governor's race, filed a federal lawsuit on Tuesday calling for sweeping changes to the state's election procedures, and accusing Brian Kemp, the Republican victor, of systematically disenfranchising poor and minority voters when he was secretary of state.
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"I got to Waller County in '05, so every time every story starts with Waller County and its 40-year racist history of disenfranchising voters, I have no connection to that at all," said Judge Carbett J. Duhon III, a Republican who is the top official setting voting rules.
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Over the same period those laws have been cited by liberals as evidence that Republicans are bent on winning elections by disenfranchising Democrats — locking out poor and minority voters in a rerun of the Jim Crow-poll tax era, and electing conservative politicians at the expense of democracy itself.
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An Associated Press analysis revealed that while Georgia's population is 32% African-American, according to the most recent Census data, a full 70% of the 53,000 voters whose registration status had been put on hold identified as such, leading critics to accuse Kemp of deliberately disenfranchising likely Abrams voters.
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They've come to believe that regardless of what is in a man's heart, if he supports laws that have the inevitable consequence of disenfranchising black voters, overpolicing black, Latino, and Muslim communities, and turning a blind eye to private discrimination, his effect is racist even if his intent is not.
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Indeed, Syria's current electoral law does not allow many in the diaspora to participate in elections, in effect disenfranchising millions forced to flee as refugees, many of which after facing barrel bombs, chemical weapons, or death squads are directed to their towns and neighborhoods because they were deemed disloyal to Assad.
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"As our country deals with the uncertainty of Covid-19, it is critical that states provide clarity and not confusion, which could lead to disenfranchising voters," Tom Perez, the chairman of the Democratic National Committee, said on Tuesday, as he urged the remaining states to allow vote-by-mail balloting.
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This action follows Kemp's office potentially disenfranchising thousands of voters by placing their registrations in a "pending" status because the voter registration forms did not "exactly match" other information in the state's databases, such as when a last name had a hyphen on the voter registration form but not in the DMV database.
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Civil rights advocates, who have won four court decisions against this law, have argued that it is a scheme to favor Republicans by disenfranchising poor and minority voters, who tend to vote Democratic but often lack the government-issued photo identification — like a driver's license, passport or concealed handgun license — required at the polling station.
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A rigid textualist approach to the state's election law — one that elevates the rigid nature of the word "shall" over all other concerns — risked effectively disenfranchising huge swaths of Ohio's voters, who would have stayed home due to public health concerns, and who may have struggled to vote because poll workers stayed home as well.
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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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"— Aminatou Sow on sexist incidents regarding Hillary Clinton this election "If we elect Donald Trump, and if he appoints a Supreme Court [justice] that's going to make law for the next one or two generations, and he has a Republican Congress — and you know he'll repeal voting rights — we further limit voting rights, thereby disenfranchising populations of people, mostly populations of color, lots of women.
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There are plenty of reasons for cynicism when it comes to the political process: Our country's history—and present practice—of disenfranchising voters through racist voter identification laws and gerrymandering; the 2010 Citizens United ruling that turned elections into shopping sprees for the rich; and decades of wildly unaccountable politics that have left many voters feeling, rightly, that the system does not actually serve them.
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Timber larceny, felony shoplifting and bigamy are some of the 22 disenfranchising crimes in the state, and once a person has lost the right to vote in Mississippi there are only two ways to get it back — by pardon from the governor, which hasn't happened under current Republican Governor Phil Bryant, or by an individual suffrage bill, filed by a state legislator on behalf of the ex-felon.
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And given the make-up of the Supreme Court, the fact that Trump will have at least four years to fill vacancies on the federal bench and Supreme Court – not to mention the prospect that Alabama Senator Jeff Session will be the next Attorney General - it is likely that other states will resort to the Michigan model for disenfranchising Black voters in federal, state and local political contests.
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By its own measure, one of the country's major political parties went rogue decades ago and has set about systematically disenfranchising millions of Americans, put the greater part of the population under the thumb of a permanent ruling minority, and has now slipped any remaining traces of civic decency, cynically installing a man it knows to be a ranting incompetent in the White House, just to advance its own, completely self-interested ends.
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