Voting rights

Europe 05/17/19, 02:03

The Council of Europe has gathered for a ministerial meeting that could restore Russia's voting rights in the continent's main human rights watchdog.The council suspended Russia's voting rights after it annexed Ukraine's Crimean peninsula in 2014 in a move that Ukraine and almost all of the world views as illegal. ...

2020 Campaign 05/13/19, 08:16

A Florida federal judge ruled that, for the 2020 presidential elections, 32 counties in the state had to cast ballots in Spanish. As noted in Palm Beach Post, Chief Justice Mark Walker of Florida Gainesville's Northern Division decided that for the Florida Primary Election scheduled to take place on March 17, ...

U.S. 05/03/19, 18:53

Florida felons will have to pay court-ordered financial obligations if they want their voting rights restored under a bill sent to Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis on Friday that would implement a voter-approved constitutional amendment. The bill, though, caused outrage among Democrats who say Republicans are adding hurdles that don't reflect the ...

U.S. 05/02/19, 18:51

Most Florida felons will have their voting rights restored under a bill the Senate passed to implement a constitutional amendment approved by voters.The bill passed Thursday on a 22-17 vote and now goes back to the House.Voters approved a constitutional amendment in November that restored voting rights for felons who ...

U.S. 05/01/19, 15:28

A loud group of chanting protesters disrupted a Florida House session over proposals to ban sanctuary cities for immigrants, limit felon voting rights and other controversial bills.Chanting slogans such as "stand up fight back" and displaying banners that read "strong hearts fight back," about two dozen people brought debate in ...

Politics 04/29/19, 15:10

Bernie Sanders attracted controversy when he said he’d give the most gruesome felons in the country, including Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the right to vote while in prison.  Many prisons, like the U.S. Penitentiary Administrative Maximum Facility in Florence, Colorado, house hundreds of prisoners and are located in rural towns across ...

Politics 04/28/19, 07:54

New Hampshire Democrats are looking for help from their party's presidential candidates in overturning a law they claim will make it harder for some college students to vote. At campaign events across the state, White House hopefuls are being pressed to speak out against the 2018 law. It subjects college students ...

U.S. 04/25/19, 07:39

Feminist author and activist Gloria Steinem once said, “Women have always been an equal part of the past. We just haven’t been a part of history.” But American women became an important part of hist

U.S. 04/24/19, 17:41

Legislation to restore voting rights to convicted felons except murderers and felony sex offenders has passed the Florida House. The Republican-dominated House voted 71-45 Wednesday for the bill that would implement a constitutional amendment approved by voters last November. The main issue is whether legislation is needed at all, and whether ...

2020 Campaign 04/24/19, 11:14

Democratic presidential contenders are facing a new debate over whether criminals in prison, even notorious ones like the Boston Marathon bomber, should be able to win back their right to vote. Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders says they should and that voting is "inherent to our democracy — yes, even for terrible ...

U.S. 04/23/19, 20:20

Legislation that would restore voting rights to convicted felons except murderers and felony sex offenders is another step closer to passage in the Florida House. Lawmakers debated a measure into the night Tuesday that would implement a constitutional amendment approved by voters last November. The main issue is whether legislation is ...

Politics 04/16/19, 16:02

Native American voters face poor access to polling sites, discrimination by poll workers and unfair identification requirements, tribal leaders told members of Congress who traveled Tuesday to a reservation in North Dakota where voting rights were a key issue in last year's U.S. Senate race. A House elections subcommittee's meeting at ...

U.S. 04/02/19, 06:12

President Trump says the count of people living in the country would be 'meaningless' without asking about their citizenship, and the issue will soon go before the Supreme Court

Politics 03/20/19, 15:10

In a matter of months, Stacey Abrams has gone from losing the Georgia governor's race to being a heavily recruited Democratic star, urged to run for Senate and mentioned as a possible presidential contender. It's a dramatic rise often fueled by the promotional spending of Fair Fight Action, a nonprofit she ...

Politics 03/20/19, 04:51

President Donald Trump on Tuesday, March 19, said that Democrats are becoming 'strange' when they try to lower the voting age and abolish the Electoral College, in order to run for the 2020 election. The president wrote on Twitter, "The Democrats are getting very “strange.” They now want to change the ...

Politics 03/19/19, 09:19

During the press conference about H.R. 4, The Voting Rights Advancement Act of 2019, on Tuesday, March 19, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) stated again her support for lowering the federal voting age to 16. Pelosi made the remark after she was asked about why she always supported lowering the voting age. "When kids are in ...

U.S. 03/18/19, 00:58

A federal appeals court will hear arguments Monday over the constitutionality of a struck-down Kansas statute that had required people to provide documents proving their U.S. citizenship before they could register to vote. In a case with national implications for voting rights, Kansas faces an uphill battle to resurrect the law ...

Politics 03/08/19, 21:39

A majority of House Democrats on Wednesday voted to lower the federal voting age from 18 to 16. A number of high-profile Democrats voted in favor of the legislation, including California Reps. Adam Schiff, Eric Swalwell, Maxine Waters, and Ted Lieu; Democratic presidential candidate and Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard; New York Rep. Alexandria ...

2020 Campaign 03/04/19, 01:50

The Latest on Democratic presidential hopefuls at events commemorating the 54th anniversary of the civil rights march on Selma, Alabama, known as "Bloody Sunday" (all times local): 8:35 p.m. Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders is recalling his start in the civil rights movement at the University of Chicago in the early 1960s, ...

Politics 01/29/19, 15:19

Stacey Abrams will deliver the Democratic response to President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address, congressional Democrats said Tuesday. The choice elevates Abrams in Democratic politics as the party looks to keep core supporters, such as black women who anchor the base, energized ahead of the 2020 congressional and presidential ...