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  • August 2008

    • After 43 Years, LBJ's Dream Is Realized Tonight

      New York Times  |  Aug 28, 08 10:12 AM CDT

      After 43 Years, LBJ's Dream Is Realized Tonight

      (Newser) - As Barack Obama accepts the Democratic nomination tonight, author Robert A. Caro will be remembering another speech: Lyndon Johnson's 1965 address to Congress urging the passage of the Voting Rights Act. In that speech, which reduced Martin Luther King to tears, LBJ "adopted the great anthem of the civil rights movement," calling on legislators to give blacks full enfranchisement and insisting, "We shall overcome." More »

    • Advocates Work to Get Ex-Cons in Voting Booths

      Washington Post  |  Aug 11, 08 1:05 PM CDT

      Advocates Work to Get Ex-Cons in Voting Booths

      (Newser) - Grass-roots activists in states across the country are working to register an unusual bloc of potential voters: former felons. While nearly all states limit the right of convicted criminals to vote, most offer avenues back to the voting booth in varying degrees, the Washington Post reports. In the potential swing state of Florida, for instance, a law change last year has made 115,000 former convicts eligible. More »

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      prison  • civil rights  • voting  • voter registration  • voting rights  • felon

  • May 2008

    • Ind. Nuns Don't Have a Prayer at Polls

      Associated Press  |  May 7, 08 5:59 AM CDT

      Ind. Nuns Don't Have a Prayer at Polls

      (Newser) - A dozen nuns who lacked proper photo ID were turned away from an Indiana voting booth yesterday—by a fellow nun. None of the nuns, all over 80, had a driver's license because they don't drive, and some presented outdated passports, the AP reports. Their convent has launched a major push to arrange for proper ID in time for November's election. More »

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      Indiana  • Indiana primary  • voting  • voting rights  • nuns  • photo ID

  • April 2008

    • Supreme Court OKs Photo ID Requirement for Voters

      Reuters  |  Apr 28, 08 10:12 AM CDT

      Supreme Court OKs Photo ID Requirement for Voters

      (Newser) - The Supreme Court today upheld photo ID requirements for Indiana voters, the Justices’ most significant election-law ruling since Bush v. Gore—and one critics say could keep minorities and poor voters from voting in November. The 6-3 decision validated the country’s most arduous voting rules, though 20 states have ID laws; Reuters notes that the groups most disadvantaged tend to skew Democratic. More »

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      US Supreme Court  • Indiana  • voting rights  • photo ID

  • February 2008
  • October 2007

    • Obama Wants Voter-Rights Official Sacked

      Associated Press  |  Oct 20, 07 7:52 AM CDT

      Obama Wants Voter-Rights Official Sacked

      (Newser) - Barack Obama wrote to the Justice Department asking for the dismissal of John Tanner, the head of its voting rights division, in the wake of Tanner's assertions that voter ID laws primarily hurt old white people, because "minorities don't become elderly the way white people do. They die first." Obama called the comments "erroneous, offensive and dangerous," but Justice is standing behind Tanner, reports the AP. More »

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      Barack Obama  • Department of Justice  • voting rights  • minorities  • voter ID laws

  • September 2007

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