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The document discusses various topics related to voting restrictions and Republican policies including: - Laws passed in several states requiring photo ID to vote and reducing early voting periods. - Over 180 restrictive voting bills introduced in 41 states since 2011, with 25 laws passed in 19 states. - Analysis of voter ID and other laws aimed at fighting alleged voter fraud but which disproportionately impact poorer, minority, and elderly voters. - Discussion of Republican support for reducing restrictions on corporate political spending and influence.
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The document summarizes the expansion of suffrage and voting rights in the United States over time. It discusses how voting was initially only granted to white male property owners but has expanded to include all races, both sexes above age 18. The document also outlines the various stages of this expansion, from eliminating property and religious requirements to amendments granting women and younger adults the right to vote. Finally, it discusses current issues around voter registration, identification laws, and factors that influence voter behavior.
California Politics (Summer06)
The document discusses California's system of direct democracy through initiatives, referendums, and recalls. It provides background on their origins in the early 20th century as a way for citizens to have more direct control over laws and policies. There are arguments that they empower ordinary citizens but also that they are tools that mostly benefit wealthy individuals and organizations. While initiatives allow for progressive laws, some that passed received major funding from conservative groups and targeted immigrant and minority rights. Critics argue citizens may lack expertise to make complex decisions and be swayed by emotions over long-term impacts. Many initiatives are challenged in courts with around half being invalidated.
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- 1. Article Town Hall meetings Unions Voting restrictions Early voting Corporations are people City managers Businessmen run country Food stamps to vouchers Colonial Obama 2016 Political Notes Ann Romney: it is time for grown ups --- economics Romney and Ryan are the adults in the room --- women’s issues Success is about the difference you make in peoples lives. Elizabeth Warren Steal your purse on main street and steal your pension on Wall Street. EW Matt 25:40 do to the least of these Individual responsibility and corporate action Partnership vs. Partisanship On your own vs. working together Stand your ground Obstruction is the center piece of the Republican party Not a free market but FAIR market Primadonna of patriotism Ballots don’t work bullets will
- 2. Stand up as real and true patiots of this country and democracy and stop this slow walze towards fascism To Do Restrictions on voting Early voting thinkprogress.org/.webloc First introduced in Indiana in 2008, new “photo ID” laws have the potential to disenfranchise 3.2 million voters, mostly poorer residents and minorities. Georgia, Kansas, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Wisconsin. five states – Florida, Georgia, Ohio, Tennessee, and West Virginia – have reduced their early voting periods as well. In Kansas and Alabama, those wishing to register to vote must now provide proof of citizenship first.Making it harder to restore voting rights. Michigan is currently considering a bill similar to Florida’s, but with just a 24-hour window to submit voter registration forms. In Maine, the Republican-controlled legislature has taken a different path, choosing to repeal the state’s 38-year-old law allowing citizens to register to vote at the polls on Election Day.
- 3. www.brennancenter.org/.webloc Photo ID laws.Voter ID laws. Proof of citizenship laws. Making voter registration harder. Reducing early and absentee days. Florida is just one of 23 states that have laws restricting traditional registration drives, Florida has dominated voting rights news for its attempts to restrict registration and early voting , for its questionable voter purge , for the local elections officials who've opposed such measures, and for the flurry of lawsuits that have followed. At least 180 restrictive bills introduced since the beginning of 2011 in 41 states. 27 restrictive bills currently pending in 6 states. 25 laws and 2 executive actions passed since the beginning of 2011 in 19 states (Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Mississippi, New Hampshire, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin). 17 states have passed restrictive voting laws that have the potential to impact the 2012 election(Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Mississippi, New Hampshire, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia, and Wisconsin). These states account for 218 electoral votes, ornearly 80 percent of the total needed to win the presidency. Of these, restrictions from 19 laws and executive actions are currently in effect in 14 states (Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia, and Wisconsin).
- 4. Analysis Identification laws (read a detailed summary of laws passed since the beginning Florida’s lawmakers passed unnecessary electoral reforms in 2011 to restrict voter registration drives and to cut off early voting hours— Backers of the law, which was passed last year by Florida's Republican-controlled Legislature and signed by Republican Governor Rick Scott, say it is intended to fight voter fraud. Mother Jones feb15 PaulAbowd Gov. Rick Snyder put Louis Schimmel in charge of Pontiac last September, invoking Public Act 4, a recent law that lets the governor name appointees to take over financially troubled cities and enact drastic austerity measures. Under the law, passed last March, these emergency managers can nullify labor contracts, privatize public services, sell off city property, and even dismiss elected officials. Bush and Chaney were both very successful business people. Lacked was a moral compass Super packs From food stamps to vouchers