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From:Fordham Urban Law Journal (Vol. 34, Issue 3)I. INTRODUCTION It is axiomatic that members of the military, particularly those involved in conflict overseas, should be provided with the opportunity to exercise their franchise. Unfortunately, throughout history...
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From:American Political Science Review (Vol. 91, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedAn experiment was performed to assess if people vote correctly. It aimed at informing electorates on how 'correct voting' should be executed, obtaining a workable measuring devise in gauging correct voting and analyzing...
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From:University of Pennsylvania Law Review (Vol. 156, Issue 2)INTRODUCTION As a sacred symbol of electoral equality and democracy, the Voting Rights Act (VRA) (1) has long been regarded as "the most effective civil rights statute" ever promulgated by Congress. (2) Section 5 of...
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From:Journal of Information Systems Education (Vol. 25, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis teaching case discusses the analysis of an electronic voting system. The development of the case was motivated by research into information security and management, but as it includes procedural aspects,...
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From:Notre Dame Law Review (Vol. 85, Issue 3)INTRODUCTION Many minorities still did not have the right to vote (1) nearly a hundred years after the Reconstruction Amendments (2) guaranteed them this constitutional right and others. (3) The Voting Rights Act of...
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From:Administrative Law Review (Vol. 64, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIn our system, the first right and most vital of all our rights is the right to vote. Jefferson described the elective franchise as "the ark of our safety." It is from the exercise of this right that the guarantee of...
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From:Humanist in Canada (Vol. 35, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedFor many years there have been occasional news items decrying the undemocratic Canadian voting system of "first past the post." Hubert O. Stehr's article "Our Voting System Needs Reform" (Humanist in Canada Spring 1991,...
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From:Arkansas Business and Economic Review (Vol. 28, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedVarious factors which determine the decision of voters to vote for particular presidential candidates were examined. Economic factors and the so-called discomfort index help determine the voting patterns of 'undecided'...
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From:Revista Thesis Juris (Vol. 4, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe present work deals with an analysis of the application of the interpretive criteria of proportionality in Writ decision unconstitutionality lawsuit no. 4467 of the Federal District, filed by the National Directory...
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From:American Libraries (Vol. 43, Issue 9-10)ALA Council passed a resolution at the 2012 ALA Annual Conference in Anaheim, California, that opposes voter ID laws, restrictions on voter registration, cuts to early voting, and any other laws resulting in the...
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From:Jones Law Review (Vol. 10, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedI am delighted to be here with members of the faculty, students, and lawyers. Let me initially express my surprise to see this many persons who are interested in coming to a seminar on this topic, but I am honored that...
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From:Science (Vol. 294, Issue 5541) Peer-ReviewedSTEVEN J. BRAMS AND DUDLEY R. Herschbach are right about the defects in the plurality voting system used in most U.S. elections (Editorial, "The science of elections," 25 May, p. 1449). But, on both theoretical and...
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From:American Political Science Review (Vol. 94, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedWe report the results of a randomized field experiment involving approximately 30,000 registered voters in New Haven, Connecticut. Nonpartisan get-out-the-vote messages were conveyed through personal canvassing, direct...
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From:Yale Law Journal (Vol. 121, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedThe Reconstruction Amendments are justly celebrated for transforming millions of recent slaves into voting citizens. Yet this legacy of egalitarian enfranchisement had a flip side. In arguing that voting laws should not...
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From:Human Rights (Vol. 39, Issue 1)A spate of new legislation, executive orders, ballot initiatives, and administrative practices is making it harder to register to vote and cast a ballot. These new laws could impede access for more than 5 million...
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From:Outskirts: feminisms along the edge (Vol. 31) Peer-ReviewedThis paper redresses the limited attention to Boadicea in research on suffrage feminists of the twentieth century. It analyses her importance through the lens of dramaturgical theory that privileges a reading of social...
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From:Indian Journal of Scientific ResearchPeer-ReviewedElections in a democratic country are of utmost importance, providing people the right to choose their representatives. If majority of these elected representatives are from the same group, then they rise to form a...
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From:Michigan Law Review (Vol. 105, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedINTRODUCTION Well after the end of the Civil War, the abolition of slavery, and the passage of the Fifteenth Amendment, many African Americans were still unable to effectively exercise their right to vote) Finally,...
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From:Diverse Issues in Higher Education (Vol. 23, Issue 17)The way today's legislators draw political boundary lines reminds Deralyn Davis of the kinds of obstacles that kept Blacks from voting back when her grandmother had to pay $1.75 for the privilege. The Fort Worth...
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From:Harvard Law Review (Vol. 119, Issue 7)"The definition of the right of suffrage is very justly regarded as a fundamental article of republican government. It was incumbent on the convention, therefore, to define and establish this right in the Constitution."...