Minority Voters

Florida Plan to Purge Voter Rolls Triggers New Voter Rights Showdown

HuffingtonPost.com | Janell Ross | Posted 05.27.2012

Read More: Voter Purge, Latino, Elections 2012, Immigrants, Minority Voters, Hispanics, Justice Department, Non-Citizens-Voting-in-Florida, Purge, Voter ID, Latino Voters, Latino Politics, Voting Rights, Voter ID Laws, Florida, Non-Citizen Voter, Latino Voices News

Florida officials made it clear Friday that the state will continue to purge as many as 182,000 suspected noncitizens from the state’s voter rolls -...

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Is Minority Voter Registration Really Declining?

Michael P. McDonald | Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: 2004 Election, The Washington Post, 2006 Election, Minority Voting, Curren Population Survey, Voter Registration, 2010 Election, 2008 Election, Voter Turnout, Minority Voter Registration, Minority Voters, Pollster Analysis, Politics News

To understand my contention that The Washington Post's analysis is flawed, I must explain how the voting and registration questions are asked.

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Voter Suppression: A Real and Enduring American Issue

John W. Boyd Jr. | Posted 05.06.2012

Read More: Voters, Civil Rights Act, Voter ID Laws, Voter ID, Voter Suppression, Voting, Civil Rights Movement, Black Voters, Civil Rights, Minority Voters, Voter Fraud, Politics News

This is no time to drop our guard. Here we are in the year 2012 still requiring blacks, the poor and other minorities to jump through hoops to vote.

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South Carolina Fights Back Against Justice Department For Blocking Voter ID Law

HuffingtonPost.com | Trymaine Lee | Posted 02.23.2012

Read More: South Carolina Voter Id, Sc Voter Id, s.c. Voter Id, Video, Bv-Politics, Voter Identification, Voting Rights Act, Power and Politics, Voting Rights, South Carolina, Voter ID Laws, Minority Voters, Voter Suppression, Black Voices News

The state of South Carolina yesterday filed a lawsuit challenging the Justice Department's recent blocking of the state's recent voter identification ...

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Former DNC Political Director Clyde WIlliams: People Should Never Feel Like They're Disenfranchised By The Political Process

Rakim Brooks | Posted 04.03.2012

Read More: Campaign 2012, 2012 Election, Clyde Williams, Democratic National Committee, Dnc, Minority Voters, Election 2012, Black Political Perspectives, Slidepollajax, Bv-Politics, Black Voices News

In an exclusive interview with Clyde Williams, the former political director of the Democratic National Committee discusses the importance of constituency groups, like blacks, Latinos, and LGBT organizations, to Democratic electoral success.

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President Obama Makes Rare Overture To Black Voters With Video Announcement (WATCH)

HuffingtonPost.com | Trymaine Lee | Posted 02.01.2012

Read More: African-American Voters, Video, Minority Voters, Barack Obama 2012, 2012 Election, President Barack Obama, Black Voters, Operation-Vote, Black Voices News

In the latest push to energize and engage black voters, President Barack Obama's reelection campaign this morning launched African Americans for Obama...

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The Supreme Court and the Texas Gerrymander

Lou Dubose | Posted 03.24.2012

Read More: US Supreme Court, Minority Voters, Republican Party, Voting Rights Act, Texas Legislature, Clarence Thomas, Texas, Redistricting, Gerrymandering, Texas Redistricting, Texas Gerrymandering, Politics News

When the Court ruled in favor of the State of Texas and ordered a three-judge panel in San Antonio to redraw maps they had drawn in November, did nine justices vote to uphold a racial gerrymander that violates the 1965 Voting Rights Act?

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U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder Delivers Voting Rights Speech at LBJ Library & Museum

Elana Estrin | Posted 02.13.2012

Read More: Voter Fraud, LBJ Library, Minority Voting, Ben Cardin, Voting Rights Act, Voting Rights, Lyndon Baines Johnson, Department of Justice, Minority Voters, U.S. Attorney General, Chuck Schumer, Eric Holder, Mark Updegrove, Politics News

Nearly five decades after President Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder spoke at the Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library & Museum on Tuesday, warning that Texas may be undermining that law.

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Perry's Immigration Strategy Could Draw Key Group Of Voters

AP | Posted 11.28.2011

Read More: Undocumented Immigrants, Michele Bachmann 2012, Gop 2012, Elections 2012, Mitt Romney, Immigration, Minority Voters, Rick Perry Immigration, Rick Perry, Video, Michele Bachmann, Latino Voters, Mitt Romney 2012, Rick Perry 2012, Hispanic Voters, Gop 2012 Presidential Candidates, Politics News

By KASIE HUNT AND LAURA WIDES-MUNOZ, ASSOCIATED PRESS (AP) MIAMI -- Rick Perry is calling his Republican rivals "heartless" and using ethnically ch...

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Department Of Justice: Texas Redistricting Maps Violate Voting Rights Act

AP | APRIL CASTRO | Posted 11.19.2011

Read More: Mexican American Legal and Defense Fund, Voting Maps, Elections 2012, U.S. Department of Justice, Voting Rights Act, Minority Voters, Rick Perry, Texas, Redistricting, Texas Republicans, Texas Redistricting, Gop, Department of Justice, Texas Senate, Voting, Minorities, Texas House, Republicans, Politics News

AUSTIN, Texas — The U.S. Department of Justice said in a court filing Monday that Texas' new voting maps for Congress and for the Texas House do...

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Arizona Suing U.S. Government

UPI | Posted 10.26.2011

Read More: Politics News, Arizona Voters, Arizona Attorney General Tom Horn, Eric Holder Attorney General, Voting Rights Act, Upi, Minority Voters, Arizona, Justice Department, Eric Holder, Tom Horn, Voting, Politics News

Arizona is suing the U.S. government, questioning the constitutionality of a portion of the 1965 Voting Rights Act....

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Goodbye, Freedom

Eddie Glaude, Jr., Ph.D. | Posted 10.04.2011

Read More: Unemployment, Freedom, Black Unemployment, African Americans, African American Unemployment, Minority Voters, Racial Inequality, Economic Inequality, Civil Rights, Black Voices News

We have to reimagine struggle in light of the fundamental shift in the very nature of American governance. A new language is urgently needed; a revolution of the imagination in action is required.

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Tea Party Minority Outreach Gets Help From Unlikely Individual

Roll Call | Posted 07.25.2011

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The mostly white crowd that turns up for weekly meetings at King Street Patriots is becoming a problem for tea party leaders....

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Voter Education Equals Improving Our Educational System

Jalen Rose | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Minority Voters, Voter Registration, Respect My Vote!, November Election, Education, Voting, Hip Hop Caucus, Politics News

The voting gap among young people who vote and those who do not is not a function of apathy. It is a function of lack of sufficient civic education in our schools, in our media, and in our society.

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GOP Strategy to Re-Take Congress: "A Heaping Plate of Soul"

Richard M. Benjamin | Posted 05.25.2011

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President Barack Obama has helped inspire an historic batch of black Americans to run for Congress - against his own party. 32 black Republicans, a r...

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Misplaced Loyalties: Montana Native American Elected Leaders and Voters Silent in Health Care Debate

Melinda Gopher | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Health Care Reform, Native Americans, Max Baucus, Minority Voters, Indian Health Service, Politics News

Maybe it is time for Native Americans to step up and seriously re-think their allegiance to Max Baucus and further; to ponder 30 years of failed policies that have not made their communities better off.

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The Minority Response

David Goldstein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Minority Voters, Republican Party, Bobby Jindal, Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, Politics News

Republicans just can't slap a Jindal or a Michael Steele in front of a gaggle of rich, old, white men and magically create a more inclusive party.

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Obama and the Minority Majority

Laura Carlsen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Election Results, Minority Voters, Race, Barack Obama, Minorities, Home News

The election of Barack Obama as the nation's first African American president has been heralded as proof that the United States has finally broken t...

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The Passage of Prop 8: Do The Math

Disgrasian | Posted 05.25.2011

The shame that we feel today over Prop 8 is only directed at our collective failure, which we need to figure out how to rectify. All of us. Together.

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Our Eyes Have Seen The Glory

Timothy Cooper | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: History, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jesse Jackson Barack Obama, Barack Obama, Election Night Celebration, Obama Wins, Obama Election Day, Obama Inauguration, Elderly Voters, Barack Obama African American Voters, Barack Obama Acceptance Speech, Minority Voters, Barack Obama Inauguration, Barack Obama Race, 2008 Presidential Election, Politics News

On November 5th, I examined the red, weary eyes of my fellow taxpayers, which showed the residue of a sleepless night spent checking every news channel to see if it was really true.

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Proposition 8 is Not About Black Homophobia

Irene Monroe | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gay Rights, Proposition 8, Prop 8, Black Voters, Gays and Lesbians, Lesbians, Minority Voters, Gays, Gay Marriage, Politics News

When society narrowly defines marriage as solely the union between a man and a woman, it ignores the constant changing configuration of today's family units.

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A Long Road to Walk

Whitney Leigh | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: California Gay Marriage, HuffPost Election Reaction, Proposition 8, California, Obama Election Day, Latino Voters, Prop 8, Black Voters, California Propositions, Hispanic Voters, Minority Voters, California Gay Marriage Ban, Barack Obama, Gay Marriage, Politics News

Here in California, we appear to have passed Proposition 8

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Slow Voting Process in St. Louis

Jeanine Molloff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: African American Voters, Obama Missouri, Mccain Missouri, The Rachel Maddow Show, Black Voters, Election Day, Missouri Results, Minority Voters, Poll Worker, Paper Ballots, Rachel Maddow, Sarah Palin, Missouri, On the Ground 2008, Election 2008, Poll Tax, Sarah Palin Missouri, Long Lines at the Polls, Home News

Long wait times to vote represent a covert 'poll tax.' Many people in low-income neighborhoods in Missouri are hourly wage earners who cannot afford to lose a day's wages.

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I Like What I See in Florida

Alan Fein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Charlie Crist, Florida, Early Voting, Barack Obama, Election Predictions, Swing States, Battleground States, Voter Turnout, Florida Swing State, Minority Voters, 2008 Presidential Election, Politics News

I have never seen a volunteer effort like it in any Florida campaign, ever. I expect the laser focus and effort to stay in place through Tuesday.

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How to Stop the Rigging of Election '08

Sarah van Gelder | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Acorn Voter Fraud, Acorn Voter Registration, Acorn, Mark Ritchie, Greg Palast, Vote Suppression, Robert Kennedy Jr, Republican Vote Suppression, Acorn Nevada Raid, Electoral Process, Democratic Vote, Minnite, Minority Voters, 2008 Presidential Election, Voter Registration, Poor Voters, Voter Fraud, Voting Problems, Politics News

The issues of ACORN and voter fraud are a smokescreen designed to cover a much more serious issue with a long and ugly history: the suppression of the vote of groups that tend to vote Democratic.

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