When it comes to defending the vote, democracy is in the details.
Voting
Meg E. Cox 9-01-2006
The Help America Vote Act requires that every polling place be accessible to people with disabilities and that every site have accessible voting machines.
James Ferguson 3-01-2006
There are currently 7 million adults under correctional supervision in the United States, 1.6 million more than in 1995, according to a recent Department of Justice report. The majority are ineligible to vote. Marc Mauer, assistant director of The Sentencing Project, told Sojourners that laws that prevent convicted felons from voting could “skew the electorate in many states, [with] many elections decided by felony disenfranchisement.” He cited as an example the 2000 presidential race in Florida.
Nathan Wilson 1-01-2003
Thomas Patterson says that the juice has been squeezed out of elections for Americans...
Rose Marie Berger, Susannah Hunter 7-01-2001
A recent survey of political involvement by black churches, conducted by Morehouse College’s "Public Influences of African-American Churches Project"...
Ed Spivey Jr. 7-01-2000
In just a few short months you'll wake up on a crisp Tuesday after the first Monday in November and do your part to dramatically affect the course of history.
Marian Abrecht, Aaron McCarroll Gallegos 5-01-1998
In a remote part of India, the world’s largest democracy, the democratic process came to a grinding halt recently.
