Protecting poor people's right to vote: Fully implementing public assistance provisions of the national voter registration act

2004 ◽  
Vol 93 (3) ◽  
pp. 66-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew M. Fleischmann
Keyword(s):  
Public Assistance ◽  
Voter Registration ◽  
National Voter Registration Act ◽  
Right To Vote

Northern Bourbons: A Preliminary Report on the National Voter Registration Act

1996 ◽  
Vol 29 (01) ◽  
pp. 39-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frances Fox Piven ◽  
Richard A. Cloward
Keyword(s):  
Preliminary Report ◽  
Voter Registration ◽  
National Voter Registration Act

An Alternative Route to Voting Reform: the Right to Vote, Voter Registration, Redistricting and U.S. State Constitutions

2019 ◽  
Vol 49 (3) ◽  
pp. 465-489 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy Martorano Miller ◽  
Keith E Hamm ◽  
Maria Aroca ◽  
Ronald D Hedlund
Keyword(s):  
State Level ◽  
Voter Registration ◽  
State Court ◽  
Voting Rights Act ◽  
Constitutional Amendments ◽  
State Constitutions ◽  
The Supreme Court ◽  
Right To Vote ◽  
The Right ◽  
Election Laws

Abstract The U.S. Constitution reserves to states the responsibility for regulating most aspects of elections. Recently, the Supreme Court has weakened the tools for federal officials to challenge state elections practices under the Voting Rights Act and signaled a great deal of deference to state authority over election law. As a result, state legislatures’ latitude to regulate elections is constrained primarily by state constitutions. With voter ID laws and partisan gerrymandering commanding considerable attention in recent years, it is important to investigate the importance of state constitutions in this area. In this article, we discuss recent efforts by voting and election reformers to utilize state constitutions to challenge restrictive voting laws and partisan gerrymandering, whether by enacting state constitutional amendments or relying on state constitutional provisions in state court litigation. We also highlight the diverse and often underappreciated landscape of voting and election laws in the states and the resources available to reformers at the state level by analyzing state constitutional provisions bearing on the right to vote, voter registration, and redistricting.

scholarly journals Voter Registration: A Restriction on the Fundamental Right to Vote

1987 ◽  
Vol 96 (7) ◽  
pp. 1615 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deborah S. James
Keyword(s):  
Voter Registration ◽  
Right To Vote

The Right to Vote

Getting By ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 849-874
Author(s):  
Helen Hershkoff ◽  
Stephen Loffredo
Keyword(s):  
Low Income ◽  
Electoral Politics ◽  
Voter Registration ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Rights ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Vote Count ◽  
Right To Vote ◽  
The Right ◽  
Waiting Periods

This chapter discusses the right to vote. Democracy demands that every vote count and that every voter be able to shape social and economic policy. Equality of participation, however, is seriously undermined by the outsized role that money plays in American electoral politics—making the exercise of the franchise even more important for persons who are poor or have low income. The chapter discusses the legal and practical barriers that low-income citizens face when they go to the polls, including demands for identification cards, the need to take time off from work, and long waiting periods at the ballot box in neighborhoods that are poor or populated by persons of color. The chapter sets out the constitutional basis for the right to vote, locating current restrictions in past practices that excluded the poor and unpropertied, and impeded the political rights of African Americans after emancipation. Discussion focuses on conditions that states have attached to the right to vote, on protections afforded under federal statutes, and rules governing voter registration campaigns.

Encouraging Local Compliance with Federal Civil Rights Laws: Field Experiments with the National Voter Registration Act

2015 ◽  
Vol 76 (1) ◽  
pp. 165-174 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas R. Hess ◽  
Michael J. Hanmer ◽  
David W. Nickerson
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Field Experiments ◽  
Voter Registration ◽  
National Voter Registration Act ◽  
Local Compliance

scholarly journals BUDAYA MERANTAU MASYARAKAT DAN PERMASALAHAN PENDAFTARAN PEMILIH PADA PILKADA DI SUMATERA BARAT

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 157
Author(s):  
Mega Ardilla ◽  
Asrinaldi Asrinaldi
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Methods ◽  
Voter Registration ◽  
Voter Participation ◽  
Electoral Process ◽  
Low Level ◽  
Cultural Implications ◽  
Electoral Democracy ◽  
Right To Vote ◽  
Depth Interviews

An accurate, comprehensive and up-to-date voter list is an absolute prerequisite that must fulfill in carrying out electoral democracy. The existence of a correct voter list will improve the quality of the democratic electoral process by opening the most extensive possible space for citizens to exercise their right to vote. The purpose of this study was to find out the cultural implications of migrating the community in Lubuk Tarok sub-district to voter registration with the Dejure pattern. This research was carried out with qualitative methods through in-depth interviews with various informants equipped with existing documents. The results of this study show that due to the de jure pattern in voter registration has caused a large number of voters registered in the permanent voter list, but the voters are not by the KTP address. It is due to the wander culture in the Lubuk Tarok sub-district. Many of the residents of Lubuk Tarok are wandering out, but their population administration still listed in the Tarok. It is caused by many voting invitations to be returned by KPPS because there were no voters registered in the voter list. Also, this also has implications for the low level of voter participation on election day in the Lubuk Tarok sub-district.

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