839 Search Results Containing "voting"
Help Welcome Formerly Incarcerated Individuals Back to the Voting Booth
Many formerly incarcerated people can vote, but they don't know it. Giving people returning to our communities a say in their future helps to distance them from the past. Common Cause proudly joins the Campaign Legal Center in an effort to register 25,000 people who are eligible to vote -- join us in creating hope in the future and imagine the moment when the people you help register put on an "I voted" sticker for the first time.
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LA County to see additional non-English voting help at the polls in November
A new report out Wednesday from the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights found continuing voting problems for people of color and people with disabilities. The report took a national view, but some of these challenges have been playing out in California.
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Are You Voting for the First Time? Mother Jones Wants to Hear from You!
With voter registration across the country up and large turnouts in special elections leading up to the mid-terms, the folks at Mother Jones are hoping to hear from first-time voters.
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Manafort and Cohen get off easy for financial crimes. Minorities get prison for voting
Manafort and Cohen get off easy for real crimes while minorities get prison for voting. Our criminal justice system undermines democracy and must change.
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USA Today Op-Ed: Manafort and Cohen get off easy for financial crimes. Minorities get prison for voting.
The Manafort and Cohen cases are also a disturbing reminder of how differently Americans are treated by our criminal justice system depending on their skin color, wealth and status. Earlier this year, a black woman in Texas was sentenced to five years in prison for unwittingly breaking state law by voting while still under community supervision for a previous fraud charge.
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Associated Press: Kemp Wants Verifiable Voting - After His Own Governor's Race
Voting-integrity advocates have asked a federal judge to force Kemp to use a new paper-based balloting system in time for the November midterms.