Entries Categorized with "D.C. Voting Rights"
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The Right to Vote: The case of the people of our nation’s capital
- Posted: April 14, 2011
- Author(s): Right to Vote Blog, Jo McKeegan
- Categories: Home, Right to Vote Amendment, FairVote, D.C. Voting Rights
Although the District has a delegate in the U.S. House (Eleanor Holmes Norton) who can propose legislation and serve on committee, she does not have voting rights in Congress. The District lacks even a delegate in the U.S. Senate, even though Congress can veto any bill passed by the District and often considers “riders’ on bills that would change laws governing the residents of the District – a classic case of “taxation without representation.”
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Live Blogging from the polls in DC
- Posted: November 2, 2010
- Categories: Home, Fair Elections, Fair Representation, FairVote, D.C. Voting Rights
Election Day is here! Amy Ngai, Director of Program for Representative Government at FairVote, is working the polls in DC.
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Voting Rights Act turns 45
- Posted: August 6, 2010
- Author(s): Right to Vote Blog, Tom Sanchez
- Categories: Home, Fair Access to Participation, Elections for U.S. Senate Vacancies, D.C. Voting Rights
Although the Voting Rights Act turns 45, we still have much ground to cover in the effort to obtain an constitutional Right to Vote.
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President Obama Calls for DC Voting Rights
- Posted: April 16, 2010
- Author(s): Adam Fogel
- Categories: Home, Fair Representation, D.C. Voting Rights
On Emancipation Day 2010, President Obama calls on Congress to give representation to the District of Columbia and improve the Home Rule Charter.
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Anything Else, Mr. President?
- Posted: January 28, 2010
- Author(s): Adam Fogel
- Categories: Home, Fair Access to Participation, D.C. Voting Rights
The issue of DC Voting Rights was conspicuously absent from last night's State of the Union Address.
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D.C. City Council Passes Election Omnibus
- Posted: November 5, 2009
- Author(s): Adam Fogel
- Categories: Home, D.C. Voting Rights, FairVote
The D.C. City Council passed the final reading of the the sweeping Omnibus Election Reform Act of 2009.