Sentences with phrase «voting rights district»

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The 1965 Voting Rights Act requires states to create and preserve districts in which minority voting groups can elect their candidate of choice.

Federal judges found more problems in Texas» voting rights laws, ruling that Republicans racially gerrymandered some congressional districts to weaken the growing electoral power of minorities, who former President Barack Obama set out to protect at the ballot box before leaving office.

But J. Gerald Hebert, director of the Voting Rights and Redistricting Program at the public - interest Campaign Legal Center in Washington, said the states drew districts with more black voters than necessary to «dilute their voting strength in order to achieve a partisan gain.»

«She has no right to spend millions of dollars without letting residents vote on it,» said Hadac, 34, an attorney who was a Berwyn Park District commissioner before she moved to Grayslake three years ago.

The article profiles the efforts of Dick Armey's FreedomWorks to «turn local Tea Party groups into a standing get - out - the - vote operation in Congressional districts across the country,» in part through a series of trainings that would be right at home in the 2008 Obama grassroots operation.

Gun rights groups claim a slim majority for their position in the Senate, given the two or three Democratic Senators representing rural districts who often vote against gun control — although there are also Republican Senators from urban districts who tend to waver.

We must commit to expanding voting rights and getting big money out of politics so that billionaires are no longer able to hold our democracy hostage,» Jamaica Miles, Capital District Organizer, Citizen Action of New York.

Assemblyman Jim Tedisco (R,C,I - Glenville), who was the top vote getter in the Assembly on the Stop Common Core ballot line in 2014, today announced new legislation he is introducing, the «Common Core Parental Refusal Act» to require that school districts notify parents of their rights to refuse to have their children in grades 3 - 8 participate in the Common Core standardized tests.

That said, I don't feel I have the right to vote in this district, let alone run for office here.

It also diluted the voting rights of citizens of the districts in which theincarcerated persons previously resided.

And de Blasio is right - there are 49 more states and the District of Columbia to vote before the primary season is over.

District Judge Mark Walker last week ruled the board must overhaul the voting rights restoration process for felons.

The more candidates the better in NY - 26 from the Democrats» perspective, since this is a GOP district and more right - leaning contenders would theoretically dilute the GOP and Conservative vote.

Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 mandates that electoral district lines can not be drawn in such a manner as to «improperly dilute minorities» voting power.»

Say, party Y won 20 % of the party votes (meaning they have a right to about 120 seats), but their local candidates won in 130 districts; now, even though party Y won't get any additional members from their list, they have 10 seats too many, which can't be taken away from them.

«While Adam Haber's advertising is just beginning, Jack Martins and his extremist GOP allies have been pouring money into this district trying to distract from the fact that he has consistently voted against women's rights and health, supported higher taxes and fees and blocked all ethics reforms to clean up Albany.

Hochul's conservative views and votes — necessary for someone representing a GOP - dominated district — have become fodder for Wu, who has accused her of being too far to the right to lead a blue state like New York.

That's good news for Owens, since his best shot at victory in the GOP - dominated district is in a three - way race where the right splits its vote.

Democrats who represent marginal districts, like David Valesky, Bill Stachowski, Brian Foley, Darrel Aubertine, and Joseph Addabbo Jr. (the primary beneficiaries of gay - rights fund - raising), have tried to put off the vote out of fear it would jeopardize their seats.

Hanna has gotten support from outside the district, from a pro-gay rights Republican P.A.C. that, through television ads and direct mail, has accused Tenney of voting against tax relief.

ALBANY — A caucus of black and Hispanic state legislators has condemned proposed Senate districts, saying the maps drafted by Republicans in that chamber «dilute» minority voting rights.

We are extremely disappointed that the Erie County Legislature voted to deny the public their right to determine the future of our 37 Buffalo & Erie County Public Libraries by opposing the creation of a Special Library District.

Civil rights advocates last week testified during a LATFOR hearing that the lines unfairly divided communities of color in central Nassau County as well as in Brentwood - Islip in Suffolk County, splitting minority voters — who tend to vote for Democrats — among districts now represented by white Republican incumbents.

The rally was co-sponsored by members of the Let NY Vote coalition, which includes over thirty organizations, nonprofits, and labor unions, including Common Cause / NY, Public Citizen, New York State United Teachers, SEIU 32BJ, RWDSU, CWA District 1, as well as the statewide NAACP and the National Action Network, grassroots organizations, faith groups, civil liberties, reproductive and immigrant rights, criminal justice and re-entry groups, New American, and the LGBTQ community.

Castorina argues that the plaintiffs and others are «being denied their right to vote for a representative in the vacant 11th Congressional District in New York due to the failure of defendant to comply with mandatory provisions of Article I, Section II, Clause IV of the United States Constitution and the New York Public Officers Law Section 42 [3],» according to court documents.

sean is a true gentleman and a great guy cares about his community and knows exactly how to get things done for his future constituents he WILL bring home the bacon for his district and do whats right when those decisions are most needed now for our fiscal security and our future for our children i will be voting for Sean FOR SURE — lets support a proven leader and a great american

Libertarian Tim Menger, a man in the right place at the right time, is winning 44 % of the vote in this one - on - one way race in Colorado's 54th state house district.

Gillibrand was a hardworking lawyer (partner in David Boies» law firm); elected TWICE in a heavily Republican district; serves on the Armed Services Committee; ranks among the top ten fundraisers in the House; was hired by President Clinton to work at HUD; fought for the rights of abused women; is a genuine working Mom who gave birth to her second child just last March, making her only the sixth woman in the House to do so while serving in office; she has voted in every single election (unlike Kennedy who has missed even GENERAL elections); magna cum laude graduate of Dartmouth... Need I say more?

The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) today released the following joint statement from House Republican Leader John Boehner, House Republican Whip Eric Cantor, and NRCC Chairman Pete Sessions regarding the the special election in New York's 23rd Congressional District: «As the House stands on the cusp of the forthcoming vote on a trillion - dollar healthcare reform measure, it is vital that we unify behind a candidate that will support reining in massive government spending and work with Republicans in Congress to restore fiscal sanity and propose thoughtful measures to get our nation's economy on the right track.

The Let NY Vote coalition is made up of over thirty organizations, nonprofits, and labor unions, including Common Cause / NY, Public Citzen, New York State United Teachers, SEIU 32BJ, RWDSU, CWA District 1, as well as the statewide NAACP and National Action Network, civil liberties, reproductive and immigrant rights, criminal justice and re-entry groups, New American, and the LGBTQ community.

Two, he represents a voting rights protected district.

At the session on tick - borne illness — a major district concern that has earned Gibson votes from the left and right — she led off by pointing to New York's ban on hydraulic fracturing as evidence of what a groundswell of opposition can do.

«In a district that President Obama carried by 58 percent of the vote (in 2012), Katko opposes a woman's right to choose and would even allow employers to deny coverage for common forms of birth control,» Ward wrote.

The former assistant secretary of State for democracy, human rights and labor is hoping to challenge moderate GOP Rep. Leonard Lance in a district that narrowly voted for Clinton.

The third plan would be subject to amendments that must comply with specific criteria, including the protection of minority voting rights, and could not affect more than two percent of the population of any district.

The override vote came less than two weeks after U.S. District Court Judge Shira Scheindlin's order for a monitor to focus on stop - and - frisk, a practice she said the department had used in a way that violated the rights of hundreds of thousands of black and Hispanic men.

Meanwhile about One Million New Yorkers are denied the right to vote in the primaries we pay for simply because we won't egister in the party in control of our electoral district and no one gives a dime about that!

There will be Democratic contests for eight seats — including three of Albany's five majority - minority districts that were the subject of the nearly four - year federal voting rights lawsuit that the county lost in April.

L.A. County Rejects School Districts» Bid to Avoid Voting Rights Suits Los Angeles County officials rejected a bid Tuesday from several Santa Clarita Valley school districts and a water district hoping to consolidate elections and avoid the kind of voting rights lawsuits that other local governments have been Districts» Bid to Avoid Voting Rights Suits Los Angeles County officials rejected a bid Tuesday from several Santa Clarita Valley school districts and a water district hoping to consolidate elections and avoid the kind of voting rights lawsuits that other local governments have been hitRights Suits Los Angeles County officials rejected a bid Tuesday from several Santa Clarita Valley school districts and a water district hoping to consolidate elections and avoid the kind of voting rights lawsuits that other local governments have been districts and a water district hoping to consolidate elections and avoid the kind of voting rights lawsuits that other local governments have been hitrights lawsuits that other local governments have been hit with.

It doesn't require tearing apart school districts, dividing educators and removing basic voting rights of citizens.

His litigation experience includes service as an Assistant District in Manhattan and as plaintiffs» counsel in federal civil rights litigation, including school desegregation and voting rights cases.

To enforce the constitutional right to vote, to confer jurisdiction upon the district courts of the United States to provide injunctive relief against discrimination in public accommodations, to authorize the Attorney General to institute suits to protect constitutional rights in public facilities and public education, to extend the Commission on Civil Rights, to prevent discrimination in federally assisted programs, to establish a Commission on Equal Employment Opportunity, and for other purrights in public facilities and public education, to extend the Commission on Civil Rights, to prevent discrimination in federally assisted programs, to establish a Commission on Equal Employment Opportunity, and for other purRights, to prevent discrimination in federally assisted programs, to establish a Commission on Equal Employment Opportunity, and for other purposes.

Carlos Curbelo, the cochair of the Climate Solutions Caucus and a Republican whose district includes the Florida Keys, seemed to exemplify the tensions faced by moderate, climate - concerned Republicans this week as he voted «yes» for the tax bill — right after calling President Trump's refusal to recognize global warming as a national - security threat «unacceptable.»

Like the Bush Administration's lawyers two years back, lawyers in Obama's OLC agreed that giving the District voting rights is unconstitutional because the it is not a state.

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, the nation's top lawyer, overruled the opinions of his own lawyers within the Office of Legal Counsel on the question of the constitutionality of giving the District of Columbia voting rights in the House of Representatives, reports The Washington Post.

The court rulings to protect voting rights have incensed state legislators, who harshly criticized the federal courts and dragged their feet in redrawing gerrymandered election districts.

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(2) Forthwith after the close of the poll each day, the deputy returning officer shall provide to the returning officer a list of the names, addresses and polling division numbers of all electors who have voted or forfeited their right to vote and, before polling day, the returning officer shall give every candidate in the electoral district a copy of the list and the Chief Electoral Officer shall give the registered party, if any, of the candidate a copy of the list.

Federal courts should be wary of interfering with the voting process, but we agree with the district court and the Sixth Circuit that ««it is always in the public interest to prevent the violation of a party's constitutional rights.

When her district's current state senator, Adam Driggs, voted in favor of this year's discriminatory SB 1062, she made the decision to run for his seat in the Senate so that her fellow LD 28 constituents could be represented by someone who would advocate for the rights and dignity of all Arizonans.