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• Holloway on Disenfranchisement for Larceny in the Redeemer South

  
  Legal History Blog — Authority: 482
  Pippa Holloway, Middle Tennessee State University has posted "A Chicken-Stealer Shall Lose His Vote": Disfranchisement for Larceny in the South, 1874-1890, which appeared in the Journal of Southern History 75 (November 2009): 931-962. Here is the abstract:Between 1874 and 1882 all southern states (except Texas) ...
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• Shadowy GOP-Linked Group Plans Barrage Of 2010 Robo-Calls

  
  TPMMuckraker — Authority: 771
  A shadowy conservative group with ties to the operatives behind a host of GOP dirty tricks is working to undermine state restrictions on political robo-calls, as it gears up to unleash a barrage of such calls in 2010 races. Last month, American Future Fund Political Action (AFFPA) informed the FEC that its planning ...
  3 days ago

• Congress Suddenly Interested in Respecting DCs Voters?

  
  Scott's Take — Authority: 124
  HT: Joe My God. DC Mayor Adrian Fenty and Council Chair Vincent Gray were called on the carpet by Congress for not allowing the majority of District residents to vote on the civil rights of a minority. Lets listen in: At a hearing on proposed changes to the citys Home Rule Act, two Republicans on the ...
  1 week ago

• Charron Discusses the Life of Septima Clark on the State of Things today

  
  UNC Press Blog — Authority: 112
  In the mid-1950s, Septima Poinsette Clark (1898-1987), a former public school teacher, developed a citizenship training program that enabled thousands of African Americans to register to vote and then to link the power of the ballot to concrete strategies for individual and communal empowerment. In Freedom’s ...
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• Human Rights Maps (71): Voting Rights for Felons in the U.S.

  
  P.A.P. Blog - Human Rights Etc. — Authority: 479
  ( source , click on the image to enlarge) Taking away someone’s human rights can only be done for a good reason, for example if this is necessary in order to protect other people’s rights . So we can imprison people and take away their freedom of movement if there is no other way to protect the security and ...
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• Woman Jailed For Voting; Trains Finally Run on Time

  
  Symon Sez — Authority: 132
  The Criminal Susan B Anthony! On This Date in History: The presidential election of 1872 was rather odd and somewhat brutal. It was between President Ulysses S. Grant and New York Tribune editor Horace Greeley. The first term of Grant had been clouded by some questionable moves and charges of ...
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• “Jackpot: Lawyers earn fees from law they wrote”

  
  Overlawyered — Authority: 620
  By reader acclaim, this report from AP’s Michael Blood in Los Angeles : Every lawsuit filed or even threatened under a California law aimed at electing more minorities to local offices – and all of the roughly $4.3 million from settlements so far – can be traced to just two people: a pair of attorneys who ...
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• Final Brief In Maui Councilmember Residency Appeal: What Is "Immediate Forfeiture And Vacancy?"

  
  inversecondemnation.com — Authority: 124
  Today, we filed the Reply Brief in DeJetley v. Kahoohalahala , No. 29929, the appeal now pending in the Hawaii Supreme Court regarding the Lanai member of the Maui Council who is alleged to not be a resident of Lanai as required by the county charter. Section 3-3 of the Charterprovides that "If a council member ...
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• Women Had Right to Vote, Lost it, Then got back the right to vote

  
  Symon Sez — Authority: 132
  New Jersey Women Stormed To Take Back What Was Once Theirs Early Suffrage Poster Featuring George On This Date in History: The original constitution of the state of New Jersey said that “all inhabitants” who met residency requirements and had a net worth of at least 50 pounds had the right to vote. I ...
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• You Say Potato, I Say Potato; You Say 澳巴馬, I Say 歐巴馬

  
  AAA-Fund Blog — Authority: 142
  Someone has Obama’s name wrong. No, there’s not another fake “real” birth certificate with Obama’s “real” name. Obama’s China visit has revealed a dispute over what to call him in Chinese. Although Washington Post reporter Keith B. Richburg doesn’t understand that’s an ideographic writing system ...
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• You Know You Make Me Want To Shout

  
  AAA-Fund Blog — Authority: 142
  I feel like Texas needs a sign similar to the “X many days since a workplace accident” that says “X many days since a racist incident initiated by a public official.” We had a good half year since Betty Brown in April and Leo Berman before that. This time, the assistant director of the Elections Divison of ...
  1 week ago

• freekeenenews - Think theres a right to vote in NH? Not so! Heres Video Proof

  
  Press Releases — Authority: 493
  http://freekeene.com/2009/11/13/voter-intimidation-continues-in-keene/ Voter Intimidation Continues in Keene Filed under: Hypocrisy, Issues, Update — Ian at 11:45 pm on Friday, November 13, 2009 On the day of the general election I went to Ward 4’s voting location with the intention of voting for Free ...
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• Photo Quote

  
  Doodlemeister's Weblog — Authority: 116
  “Most of my pictures are compassionate, gentle and personal. They tend to let the viewer see for himself. They tend not to preach. And they tend not to pose as art.” Bruce Davidson American photographer, born 1933. Image: Magnum Photos
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• Thanks for Nothing

  
  Kicking Ass Ann Arbor — Authority: 139
  On Sunday afternoon, Organizing for America (OFA) sent an email to supporters asking them to write thank you letters to their representatives for voting for H.R. 3962, the health insurance reform bill. I am not sure why I got this email, because my representative did not vote for health insurance reform—but not ...
  2 weeks ago

• No ceiling for managerial remuneration in Companies Law Bill 2009

  
  LEGAL & FINANCIAL UPDATES FROM TAX GURU — Authority: 451
  The new Bill, which is likely to come up in the Budget session in 2010, proposes no cap on the remuneration of CEOs, letting the shareholders decide the issue. Thanks to the Companies Law Bill 2009, the expression ‘shareholders’ democracy’ is... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full ...
  2 weeks ago

• Snitch: The Drug War “crisis in black America”

  
  aid and comfort — Authority: 100
  "[President Nixon] emphasized that you have to face the fact that the whole problem is really the blacks. The key is to devise a system that recognizes this while not appearing to." H.R. Haldemans diary according to former Wall Street Journal reporter Dan Baum in his book " Smoke and Mirrors: The War on Drugs and the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Trying to stick a “Far Left” label on Righteous Indignation

  
  The Confluence — Authority: 621
  The New York Times Opinionator blog aggregator has detected a nascent revolt in the Democratic party.  The Times is only 18 months late.  The PUMAs were ahead of the curve the day the DNC RBC knifed its own voters and installed Barack Obama as the nominee over the objections of slightly more than half of the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Oh DNC, That’s Just Dumb

  
  We Love DC — Authority: 605
  ” courtesy of ‘Chris Rief aka Spodie Odie’ Sure, DNC, we know you think you’ve got it all made, what with your 60 votes in the Senate and control of both houses of Congress and the White House, but could you please pay closer attention to your automated email ? I mean, we know that Congresswoman ...
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• Answering Brief In Maui Councilmember Residency Appeal: What Is "Immediate Forfeiture And Vacancy?"

  
  inversecondemnation.com — Authority: 124
  Heres the Answering Brief filed by a Maui Councilmember in the case in which Lanai residents and voters assert he forfeited the Lanai seat on the Maui County Council under section 3-3 of the Maui Charter since he is not a resident of Lanai. Section 3-3 of the Charterprovides that "If a council member...ceases to ...
  3 weeks ago

• Enforce the Tennessee Voter Confidence Act

  
  Liberadio(!) — Authority: 470
  Governor Bredesen signing the Tennessee Voter Confidence Act into law. Why? Because the touch-screen electronic voting machines we use now are broken . And how can Tennesseans get the secure and accurate elections they deserve while voting on broken voting machines? In a more in depth response to an Memphi Flyer ...
  3 weeks ago

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