Sentences with phrase «voting laws»

This website's goal is to try to make sure the redistricting process and litigation over voting law is as transparent and accessible as possible to the public.

But this one appears to be unique — it may be the only one devoted to the topic of voting law.

But such straight - ticket voting laws have been the subject of much contention in recent years.

While I'm not rejecting their compulsory voting law out of hand, I did wonder whether it was really effective.

This website's goal is to try to make sure the redistricting process and litigation over voting law is as transparent and accessible as possible to the public.

«New York State can not claim to be the shining progressive light on the hill as long as it continues to have some of the most antiquated voting laws in the country,» said L. Joy Williams, President of the Brooklyn NAACP.

ALBANY, N.Y. (WBEN / AP)-- Proposals to end child marriage, address government corruption and revise the state's antiquated voting laws await New York state lawmakers returning to Albany to finish up their annual legislative session.

Hillary Clinton's top campaign lawyer has filed a new legal challenge to a slew of restrictive voting laws signed by Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker.

De Blasio last month said he intended to lead a bipartisan effort to change state voting laws in the next legislative session.

Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner is urging the state to make changes in voting laws so it will be easier for people to go to the polls.

During the «Four Women in a Room» panel discussion, hosted by activist groups True Blue New York and Empire State Indivisible and moderated by POLITICO politics reporter Gloria Pazmino, Williams noted that New York has some of the worst voting laws in the country and addressed comments made by Melissa DeRosa, secretary to the governor, in which she said that most of the panelists do not have state government experience.

It's not as bad as voting laws in Florida yet, but we could be headed in that direction.

Voters began casting absentee ballots Tuesday to take advantage of a disputed early voting law in the crucial swing state of Ohio.

Gov. Cuomo has previously called for early voting and automatic registration, but the Legislature has been so busy on ethics reform — sarcasm intended — that it has not had the time to propose any new voting laws.

The Working Families Party benefits from New York's electoral fusion voting laws that allow cross-endorsement of a single candidate by multiple parties.

The history of Republican «freedom» from Federal authority — whether it be freedom from federally imposed desegregation, or freedom from federal voting laws, or freedom from federal environmental standards — always favors the «freedom» of privileged groups (racist whites, wealthy polluters) to screw over everyone else.

Vote law challenge settled in U.S. court ID definition broadened for in - person voting Nov. 7 and for all absentee ballots

One candidate, Juan Carlos Polanco, known as J.C., is currently the presumptive Republican nominee for Public Advocate and has released an extensive package of proposed reforms to New York voting laws.

The loss of that clause, which liberals had seen as a crowning achievement of the Civil Rights movement, makes it easier for states to adopt voting laws that can have an adverse impact on minority voters.

Under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, about 800 counties with histories of racially - discriminatory voting laws — going back to poll taxes and literacy tests — had to get the Justice Department's approval beforehand (a process called pre-clearance) before such laws could take effect.

Controversial changes in voting laws include those that eliminate polling places, or move them to less accessible locations, or reduce the hours that polls are open; tighten voter ID requirements; reduce early voting and Sunday voting (popular among minority voters in certain regions); and so on.

Obama later congratulated the AME religion's efforts on fighting slavery and ending racially bias voting laws and procedures.

This was done by yeas and nays, as we now vote a law.

Hawaii, since there are people who are violating the felony voting laws do you think that makes a case for tighter voter restrictions?

The U.S. Supreme Court announced it would stay out of a fight over a restrictive North Carolina voting law.

As Michael noted in his answer, notably, the Voting Rights Act of 1965 explicitly regulates voting laws.

@Chad voting laws exist to ensure fairness in election outcomes.

More than thirty years after Abrams» testimony, State Board of Elections Co-Chair Doug Kellner also endorsed the deterrent principle as the reason that so few of New York's voting law proposals have been rejected.

Unfortunately, New York State has some of the most archaic voting laws in the nation.

He also explained that the Sanders campaign was a key impetus for change, adding, «I think a lot of us were disgusted by the New York State voting laws years ago and thought they were unmovable, particularly with a Republican Senate that was not going to be friendly to voting reform.

About $ 7 million is being proposed in Gov. Andrew Cuomo's budget amendment to pay for changes to the state's voting laws such as allowing for early voting in New York, his office on Monday announced.

As New York State's archaic election and voting laws continue to dampen voter turnout, the New York City Council is about to take a step to encourage participation.

New York's restrictive voting laws became a national embarrassment and laughingstock in 2016 as younger voters realized they couldn't vote for Sanders in the primary against Hillary Clinton because they missed the deadline to re-enroll as Democrats, which at six months» prior to the April 19 vote was the most restrictive deadline in the country.

With voting laws commonly associated with those of the South, New York can hardly call itself a progressive, forward - thinking state.

But many politicians speaking at the rally says it's other politicians, specifically white males in Albany who like the antiquated voting laws just the way they are, holding the state back.

But Sanders and his backers blamed the loss on New York's primary voting laws and the 125,000 voters who were stripped from the rolls.

Springfield Election Commissioner Gladys Oyola says the Massachusetts voting laws badly needed to catch up with what other states have been doing.

Stringer also slammed Albany politicians for failing to change out - of - date voting laws.

Senate Democrats introduced their own set of voter proposals to make it easier for New Yorkers to vote, including early voting, and opposed requiring ID - to - vote laws because they argue that they lead to fewer people voting and discriminate against those without IDs.

Some Democratic strategists have taken note of apparent GOP advancements in voter registration, coming after Republican - led efforts in several statehouses to pass voting laws that Democrats say discourage core voters such as minorities and students.

New York's voting laws stifled many new voters or those newly engaged in politics that wanted to participate in our democracy.

The march, of course, was an act of politics, intended to shine a light on the inherent injustice of voting laws aimed against African Americans in the South.

The argument is that VRA is discriminatory against Southern states to require them but not other states to seek pre-clearance for voting laws; I actually agree.

The U.S. Supreme Court has affirmed rulings that North Carolina's 2011 legislative redistricting maps discriminated against black voters, and it let stand a ruling that the legislature's wide - ranging 2013 voting law targeted black voters with «almost surgical precision.»

Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act (which is the type of statute about which 1Ls have nightmares) «requires certain States... to obtain pre-clearance of proposed changes in state or local voting laws.»

Last year, a federal court ruled that the 2013 voting law also discriminated against Black voters, targeting them with «almost surgical precision.»