state sales tax, but with no income tax in Washington, it was the only route. I know I usually focus on software in this blog, but being around my wife for the last few months really puts things in perspective and I felt the need to toss in one blog entry on election day to ...
In October 2022 the Supreme Court heard arguments inAllenv.Milligan, a case that threatened to further weaken Section 2 of the VRA by challenging the conclusion of a district court inAlabamathat the law was likely violated by a redistricting map that diluted the voting power of the state’s...
bans on voter registration drives; the elimination of same-day voter registration; and the permanent disenfranchisement of convicted felons. Other potentially illegal tactics included large-scale purges of voter rolls, the removal of ballot boxes for hand delivering absentee ballots, and calculated lega...
How do voting and elections affect Americans’ everyday lives? How has our country’s history of limiting voting rights changed over time? How might our country be different if the power to vote was still limited to those who had it at the time of the writing of the Constitution?Create...
And in North Carolina, where the western part of the state was devastated by Hurricane Helene, more than 353,000 peoplevoted on the first dayof the state's early-voting period, which was Oct. 17. That figure surpassed the prior record for the opening day of early voting: more than 348...
While this is legal in the Sunshine State, there are limitations to the practice. Oct 31 South Florida encouraged to vote early, not wait until Election Day Miami-Dade Supervisor of Elections Christina White said the lines will get longer day-to-day as we count down to Election Day. ...
Chris Baumann, southern regional director of SEIU Workers United, the labour union, said: “These big corporations that are headquartered here, they always celebrate the civil rights movement, as they should, with Martin Luther King Day [and] Black History Month. But when the chips are down ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Norman Hill was at the AFL-CIO office in Washington, D.C., in August 1965, and recalls cheering when he learned the Voting Rights Act had passed Congress. Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year]June 9, 2023 ...
"The right of U.S. citizens to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude."2 History of the Voting Rights Act PresidentLyndon B. Johnsonsigned the Voting Rights Act into law on August 6,...
Transcript inSenate Report 693, 2nd Session, 46th Congress: Proceedings of the Select Committee of the United States Senate to Investigate the Causes of the Removal of the Negroes from the Southern States to the Northern States, Washington DC, beginning Tuesday, 9 March 1880. ...