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	Voting Rights Act - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The United States Voting Rights Act of 1965 outlawed the requirement that would-be voters take literacy tests in order to qualify to register to vote, and it provided for federal registration of voters in areas that had less than 50% of eligible voters registered.
		Although the right to vote regardless of race is guaranteed by the Fifteenth Amendment, some Dixiecrats argued that Primary elections were an internal party affair, and that the party was a "private club", so that the government had no authority over its criteria for membership and other factors relevant to participating in primary elections.
		However, The Voting Rights Act and three constitutional amendments that prevent discrimination in granting the franchise, has established in United States Supreme Court jurisprudence that there is a "fundamental right" in the franchise, even though voting remains a state-granted privilege.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Voting_Rights_Act (501 words)

	Voting Rights Act - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The United States Voting Rights Act of 1965 outlawed requiring would-be voters to take literacy tests and provided for federal registration of African American voters in areas that had less than 50% of eligible voters registered.
		Although the right to vote is guaranteed by the Fifteenth Amendment, the Democratic Party argued that Primary elections were an internal party affair, and that the party was a "private club", so that the government had no authority over its criteria for membership and other factors relevant to participating in primary elections.
		Quiet Revolution in the South: The Impact of the Voting Rights Act, 1965-1990.
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /voting_rights_act.htm (505 words)

	Voting Rights Project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Voting Rights Project litigates cases under the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments of the United States Constitution, the Voting Rights Act, and the National Voter Registration Act of 1993.
		The Voting Rights Project organizes the National Commission on the Voting Rights Act to compile the record of racial discrimination in voting since 1982 in preparation for upcoming efforts to reauthorize provisions of the Voting Rights Act set to expire in 2007.
		The Voting Rights Project seeks to expand the franchise to people with felony convictions by educating them about restoring their voting rights and by challenging particular state laws that have the purpose or the result of discriminating against minority voters.
	www.lawyerscomm.org /projects/votingrights.html (285 words)

	Voting Rights (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Because so many of Florida's voting problems, particularly those of the 2000 Presidential election, fell and continue to fall most heavily on African Americans and language minority communities, much of the ACLU's work is directed toward correcting voting irregularities that have a disproportionate impact on those groups.
		In Florida, civil rights lost upon conviction of a felony include not only the right to vote, but also the right to hold certain state job licenses, which makes it difficult for many people to support their families as productive, tax-paying citizens.
		The ACLU has routinely represented voters and candidates in election contests in order to protect the right to vote and the right to participate in an election process that is fair.
	www.aclufl.org /issues/voting_rights/index.cfm (414 words)

	Warriors for voting rights keep up fight \| ajc.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The 1965 Voting Rights Act — enacted after a violent confrontation between nonviolent marchers and white policemen at the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala.
		No one expects the current dispute over voting rights to boil over into the kind of violence he experienced there 40 years ago, nor the church bombing and water-cannon assaults that occurred in downtown Birmingham in the early 1960s.
		Voting rights advocates claim laws that make it difficult for felons to regain the right to vote are disproportionately denying the vote to minorities, particularly African-Americans.
	www.ajc.com /news/content/news/stories/0305/05march.html (853 words)

	Encyclopedia: Voting Rights Act
		Contemporary drawing depicting the first vote by African-Americans Amendment XV (the Fifteenth Amendment) of the United States Constitution is one of the post-Civil War, Reconstruction amendments.
		The States Rights Democratic Party, usually known as the Dixiecrat Party, was a short-lived splinter group that broke from the Democratic Party in 1948.
		John Lewis (on right in trench coat) and Hosea Williams (on the left) lead marchers across the Edmund Pettus Bridge,March 7, 1965 The Selma to Montgomery marches, which included Bloody Sunday, were three marches that marked the political and emotional peak of the American civil rights movement.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Voting-Rights-Act (1457 words)

	Understanding Your Voting Rights (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Because this guarantee has been threatened in the past, the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was enacted to ensure that no one could prevent any citizen from freely exercising their right to vote.
		The prohibition against discrimination in voting is a permanent one, and no citizen is in danger of losing his or her right to vote.
		The Civil Rights Acts of 1957, 1960, and 1964 attempted to address the racial discrimination that was plaguing this country, and included provisions for securing and protecting the right to vote.
	www.oag.state.ny.us /family/kids/crime/voting.html (1937 words)

	The History of CORE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Voting Rights Act of 1965, meant to reverse this disenfranchisement, grew out of both public protest and private political negotiation.
		The resolution, signed into law on August 6, 1965, empowered the federal government to oversee voter registration and elections in counties that had used tests to determine voter eligibility or where registration or turnout had been less than 50 percent in the 1964 presidential election.
		The Voting Rights Act was extended in 1970, 1975, and 1982 and despite some setbacks and debates, the Voting Rights Act had an enormous impact.
	www.core-online.org /history/voting_rights.htm (474 words)

	BRIA(12:2) South Africa, End of apartheid, voting rights act 1965, Segregrated South, Race, redistricting, ...
		The most basic right of a citizen in a democracy is the right to vote.
		Despite the 14th and 15th amendments guaranteeing the civil rights of fl Americans, their right to vote was systematically taken away by white supremacist state governments.
		With the Voting Rights Act of 1965, however, the federal government ended the years of voting discrimination in the South.
	www.crf-usa.org /bria/bria12_2.html (5676 words)

	District of Columbia Voting Rights Amendment - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The District of Columbia Voting Rights Amendment was a proposed amendment to the United States Constitution.
		It was proposed by Congress in 1978 but failed because it was not ratified by the legislatures of enough states when the August 1985 deadline arrived.
		Had it succeeded, the amendment would have repealed the Twenty-Third Amendment and would have granted the District of Columbia the full voting rights of a U.S. state.
	www.netipedia.com /index.php/DC_Voting_Rights_Amendment (172 words)

	Civil Rights - Law and History/Voting Rights (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Voting Rights Act of 1965 prohibits discrimination in voting practices or procedures because of race and color.
		The civil rights activists decided to hold a memorial march from Selma to the state capitol in Montgomery on March.
		She was murdered by the enemies of justice who for decades have used the rope and the gun and the tar and the feather to terrorize their neighbors." In August, 1965, Congress passed the Voting Rights Act.
	www.usdoj.gov /kidspage/crt/voting.htm (509 words)

	American Civil Liberties Union (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		If portions of the Voting Rights Act are not renewed and restored, the fundamental right to vote could be jeopardized for millions of Americans.
		The ACLU is also conducting an ex-felon public education and mobilization campaign with affiliates in Georgia, New Jersey, North Carolina and Southern California, to educate ex-felons about their voting rights and to encourage them to vote.
		The National Election of 2004 The ACLU monitored election polls nationally and is responding to incidents of voter intimidation, vote suppression or election foul-ups in Minnesota, Ohio, Rhode Island and Virginia, and Florida.
	www.aclu.org /VotingRights/VotingRightsMain.cfm (372 words)

	t r u t h o u t - Voter Rights
		Elderly voters examine the new electronic voting devices on the eve of the November 2nd Presidential election.
		If I receive the mail-in vote form to vote in Florida at a Springville, AL address, then I will know for certain just how crooked they are.
		I would prefer voting in Florida because even though I am a registered republican, I have every intention of voting for Senator Kerry and my vote would have more of an impact in FL.
	www.truthout.org /voters.rights.htm (348 words)

	We must defend voting rights in America, not just Iraq
		But in America, Bush and his party are undermining the right to vote -- and the right to have one's vote counted.
		When Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act, he predicted that there would be a fundamental upheaval in the South, and that Democrats might well lose that region for a generation.
		A constitutional amendment to guarantee the right to vote, to ensure that residents of the District of Columbia have the same right to vote as residents of Baghdad, and to set up federal rules for fair elections has been proposed.
	www.suntimes.com /output/jesse/cst-edt-jesse011.html (773 words)

	Voting Privacy
		Voting machines are currently certified by states through a Qualification Process overseen by the National Organization of State Election Directors and based on 2002 Federal Election Commission guidelines.
		To make DRE voting systems accountable to voters and auditable in the event of a recount, Rep. Rush Holt (D-NJ) has proposed a bill entitled the Voter Confidence and Increased Accessibility Act of 2003 (HR 2239) that would require all electronic voting machines to produce a voter-verified permanent paper record.
		Anonymity is a fundamental aspect of voting rights in the U.S. DRE machines make it difficult to have both audit ability and anonymity in the voting process.
	www.epic.org /privacy/voting (4747 words)

	Immigrant Voting Project --Democracy for All
		Efforts to reinstate voting rights for noncitizen residents --which were widespread in 40 states and federal territories until the demise of the practice in the 1920s-- have kicked into high gear for 2005.
		Restoring Immigrant Voting Rights in the US The acquisition of political rights—including voting rights—has been a vital tool for every disempowered group in America’s history to achieve economic, social and civil rights and equality.
		The end of immigrant voting rights was part and parcel of a broader effort to disenfranchise many Americans --one that continues today.
	www.immigrantvoting.org (705 words)

	We Shall Overcome -- The Players
		No law that we now have on the books...can insure the right to vote when local officials are determined to deny it...
		The Civil Rights Act of 1964, which required equal access to public places and outlawed discrimination in employment, was a major victory of the fl freedom struggle, but the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was its crowning achievement.
		When Congress passed the Voting Rights Act, barely 100 African Americans held elective office in the U.S.; by 1989 there were more than 7,200, including more than 4,800 in the South.
	www.cr.nps.gov /nr/travel/civilrights/prize.htm (707 words)

	Voting Rights of People with Mental Disabilities
		Just as important as ensuring that election officials are prepared to provide accommodations is educating people with disabilities about their right to voting accommodations.
		To be sure, it may be within states' authority to limit voting rights to individuals who are capable of understanding the nature of an election and what it means to cast a ballot.
		However, if people with mental disabilities in your area face other barriers to exercise of their voting rights, we would be interested in hearing about those problems and discussing potential solutions.
	www.bazelon.org /issues/voting (871 words)

	US CODE: Title 42,1971. Voting rights (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In a proceeding before a voting referee, the applicant shall be heard ex parte at such times and places as the court shall direct.
		Where proof of literacy or an understanding of other subjects is required by valid provisions of State law, the answer of the applicant, if written, shall be included in such report to the court; if oral, it shall be taken down stenographically and a transcription included in such report to the court.
		Any voting referee appointed by the court pursuant to this subsection shall to the extent not inconsistent herewith have all the powers conferred upon a master by rule 53(c) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.
	www4.law.cornell.edu /uscode/42/1971.html (1040 words)

	National Youth Rights Association - Voting Age
		This proposal makes the case for why Washington, DC should lower its voting age, the research and arguments are universal.
		CSAE's President, Curtis Gans is the leading opponent to lowering the voting age, describing it as a 'terminally dumb' idea.
		This article makes the case that youth are too dumb and immature to vote, and the age should be raised to 30.
	www.youthrights.org /votingage.shtml (348 words)

	Florida Voting Ban (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Loss of civil rights takes away not only the right to vote, but also the right to hold public office, serve on a jury, and qualify for certain types of state licenses necessary for many jobs, such as those in the construction and medical fields.
		In Florida, this voting and civil rights ban dates back to the Reconstruction Era after the Civil War when newly-freed slaves were granted the right to vote.
		If restoration of civil rights is granted, the rights that are restored include the right to vote, serve on a jury, hold public office, and hold certain types of state job licenses.
	www.aclufl.org /issues/voting_rights/florida_voting_ban.cfm (2469 words)

	Voting Rights (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The ACLU's Voting Rights Project is committed to making the promise of equal voting rights a reality -- despite the recent challenges we have faced.
		The “touch-screen” technology alerts voters to mistakes — not recording a vote or voting twice in a particular race — before their votes are cast.
		This voting technology does not alert voters to mistakes they may have made, nor does it allow voters to correct their mistakes before casting their votes.
	www.acluohio.org /issues/voting_rights/voting_rights.htm (937 words)

	The Voting Rights Act Of 1965
		Section 2 of the Act, which closely followed the language of the 15th amendment, applied a nationwide prohibition against the denial or abridgment of the right to vote on the literacy tests on a nationwide basis.
		The Voting Rights Act had not included a provision prohibiting poll taxes, but had directed the Attorney General to challenge its use.
		Congress had found that case-by-case litigation was inadequate to combat wide-spread and persistent discrimination in voting, because of the inordinate amount of time and energy required to overcome the obstructionist tactics invariably encountered in these lawsuits.
	www.usdoj.gov /crt/voting/intro/intro_b.htm (757 words)

	African American Odyssey: The Civil Rights Era (Part 2)
		A group of civil rights demonstrators set off on Sunday, March 7, 1965, from Selma to march to Montgomery, Alabama--a fifty-four mile journey--to present a petition for fl voting rights to Governor George Wallace.
		The 1965 Voting Rights Act created a significant change in the status of African Americans throughout the South.
		The Voting Rights Act prohibited the states from using literacy tests, interpreting the Constitution, and other methods of excluding Afric an Americans from voting.
	memory.loc.gov /ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart9b.html (1058 words)

	Voting Rights (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		This subject has been the basis of many heated debates and caused deep emotional turmoil to senior citizens who have chosen to pursue the RV lifestyle and have been threatened with having their voting rights stripped from them because of that choice.
		Late in December 2000 Cathie Carr, CEO of the Escapees RV Club, was notified of another voting challenge, this time in the form of "illegal votes" cast by Escapees members that allegedly prevented Slim Speights (D) from being reelected as county commissioner in precinct 1.
		The Escapees RV Club is fighting for all full-timer's voting rights, not just their members rights.
	www.rvhometown.com /HTML/Whats_Hot/Voting_Rights.htm (990 words)

	Voting Rights Act
		Schooling to sixth grade constituted legal proof of literacy and the attorney general was given power to initiate legal action in any area where he found a pattern of resistance to the law.
		Although opposed by politicians from the Deep South, the Voting Rights Act was passed by large majorities in the House of Representatives (333 to 48) and the Senate (77 to 19).
		No law that we now have on the books can ensure the right to vote when local officials are determined to deny it.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAvoting65.htm (991 words)

	Voting Security (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Feb 10: Voting machines must include a verifiable paper trail and audit capability in time for the 2006 elections, according to a bill introduced this week in Congress.
		Voting by machine, absentee, early, Internet, e-mail, phone, fax, central "counting" facility, or carrier pigeon is an invitation to undetectable system failure and vote fraud.
		The accuracy of voting machines is often correlated with the number of overvotes and undervotes it records.
	www.ecotalk.org /VotingSecurity.htm (7147 words)

	Dennis Kucinich on Voting Rights
		I support measures such as Election Day as a holiday, election-day voter registration, enhanced voting rights enforcement, an end to the racially biased disenfranchisement of felons who have served their time, and full Congressional representation for residents of the District of Columbia.
		Over a million fl males have unjustly been deprived of their right to vote.
		The national media's collective silence on the intentional purging of a disproportionate number of fl voters in Florida in 2000 is living proof that the race card is alive and well in the Republican party.
	www.kucinich.us /issues/voting_rights.php (264 words)

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