voting rights
California ballot initiatives mostly an assault on democracy
May 4, 2010Three of five propositions on the June 8 California primary ballot are an assault on the voting rights of the people, and on their pocketbooks.
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Toolmaker-singer speaks out on ‘one person, one vote’
March 26, 2010Clint Jones, 82, has won fame with his "Clint's Dandy Digger," but his biggest passion is his belief that the Electoral College is unjust and should be abolished.
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ACLU challenges disfranchisement
February 9, 2010The American Civil Liberties Uunion has filed a federal lawsuit in South Dakota on behalf of Native American voters who were denied the right to vote in 2008.
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Court rules in favor of voting rights for felons
January 7, 2010A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Seattle, Wash., in a 2-1 decision Tuesday, has ruled in favor of felons the right to vote in state prisons there.
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Racist found guilty in 1964 Mississippi killings
June 24, 2005On June 21 a jury of nine whites and three Blacks in Philadelphia, Miss., convicted octogenarian and former Ku Klux Klan leader Edgar Ray Killen of manslaughter, exactly 41 years after the triple slaying of young...
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