... these aspects of closing the range. However, the issue became politically explosive when antirange forces attempted to deny voters the power to settle this question for themselves at the local level. MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 2010 Free Men and Free Pigs: Closing the Southern...

..., as in the pre-war New Deal era, there was a real difference between liberals and conservatives, the liberals being of course the mainstay of the Democratic party and the conservatives of the Republican party. Voters had a choice. But as the strategists of each party sought wider electoral support...

... witnesses and the review of more than 100,000 pages of documents, concluded that “perhaps the most dramatic undercount in Florida’s election was the uncast ballots of countless eligible voters who were turned away at the polls or wrongfully purged from voter...

... Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). CORE and SNCC orga- nized voter registration campaigns in the rural communities of the Deep South, where white supremacist violence had played a critical role in black disenfranchise- ment since Reconstruction...

... on this one, don’t hold your breath. HIGH-TEST VOTING In what appears to have been a fit of testosterone poisoning, George F. Will produced a column last year with the indignant title: ”In a Real Democracy, Voters Wouldn‘t Have to Cast Their Ballots in Secret.” Using Oregon’s experiment with mail...

... the Sierra Club, League of Conservation Voters, and NARAL, put their money into guaranteeing some synergy between the ”field,” or grassroots activ- ism, and paid media, in the hopes that the combination will all pay off in serious ”earned media” coverage. Thus, for all intents and purposes...

... them a huge bonanza. Even the very foundations of America’s democratic process are threatened by the new approach of the business elite. No democratic country in the world has lower rates of voter participation than the US., except Botswana. Moreover, our voting participation is class...

... by Joaquín Bustelo, with quotations from her speech translated into English, please visit atlanta .indymedia.org/newswire/display_any/21383. The Coordinadora then embarked on a campaign to register voters in the Latina/o community in the run-up...

... would prove beneficial for Delano.16 With support from the Drug Policy Alliance, we embarked on a related strat- egy: commissioning the governor’s own pollsters to conduct a statewide poll of likely voters. That poll found that Californians strongly favored a freeze on prison con- struction...

... Americans, winning over the George Wallace voters. And he was again consistent in that all the way through, too. Most consistent, of course, was his anti-labor activity, as congressperson, as senator, and later as president. Intentiewer: Did you have any sort of direct personal encounters with him...

..., but already secondary functions are being proposed, such as using the smart card on the driver’s license to administer food stamps and voter registration.6 This legislation would establish the driver’s license as an apparatus for total and automatic authentication, analysis, and control. If HR 4633...

... of the 1910s turned League of Women Voters’ member in the 1920s, and the professional woman of the 1930s turned suburban house- wife in the 1940s figure more into our conceptualizations of twenti- eth-century women’s experience than their sisters who labored in factories or struggled to manage...

... Vote (OBV), is a voting rights and voter education organization founded in 1996 to address the needs of black Briton voters and to foster enfranchisement through encourag- ing black people to vote.27 The group uses the Internet as its primary tool to inform 06...

..., but René points out that this “doesn’t sell.” While the no side aims to convince undecided voters to get to the polls and to instill confidence in Pinochet’s opposition with unbridled optimism, the yes side employs scare tactics that show bombs, burn victims, and violent protests from the past...

... attended by the Green children.7 At Chapman’s urging, Bryant soon formed Save Our Children from Homosexuality Inc., an organization whose mission was to force a voters’ referendum on the amend- ment. With Bryant as its president and primary spokesperson, Save Our Children quickly collected sixty...

... Dylan , Ziegler Laura , and Mesa Blaise . “ Voters in Kansas Decide to Keep Abortion Legal in the State, Rejecting an Amendment .” NPR , August 3 , 2022 . https://www.npr.org/sections/2022-live-primary-election-race-results/2022/08/02/1115317596/kansas-voters-abortion-legal-reject...

... Segregation is difficult to grapple with because it cannot be relegated to the past. Indeed, Jim Crow is making a comeback. The resegregation of much of the nation’s school system is now an accomplished fact. The disfranchisement of Afri- can American voters was the deciding element in the 2000...

..., was the constricted base of voters. The newly mobilized con- stituency of southern partisans of the New Deal remained disenfran- chised in the South. As of March 1944, for example, only 10 per cent of the CIO’s southern membership was registered to vote. Thus the NAACP, the CIO-PAC, the SCHW, and various...

... was not banned. The cofounder of the Network of Afro-Venezuelan Organizations, Luís Perdomo, explained the significance of the event: “In a certain way the proposal propaganda worked. Many desperate and ignorant voters didn’t think twice about the racist nature of the proposal. So, we took advantage...

... their lives and working conditions, they were pushed to define what that action would be. Leaders suggested simple but important roles for participants: voter registration, educating fellow members on the issues, distributing leaflets, phone-banking, community events, organizing election day...