Viral Voter Suppression

Significance Hichilema's surprise win came despite extensive voter suppression and intimidation attributed to former President Edgar Lungu and the ruling Patriotic Front (PF) against supporters of Hichilema’s United Party for National Development (UPND). Impacts The broad scope of Hichilema’s reform programme will pose difficulties of prioritisation, particularly within current fiscal constraints. Higher copper prices may mitigate some of the social costs associated with debt restructuring and spending cuts. The cancellation of a meeting between President Joe Biden and Hichilema over LGBT rights concerns may complicate relations with Washington.

Download Full-text

Voter Suppression or Voter Fraud in the 2014 US Elections?

SSRN Electronic Journal ◽

10.2139/ssrn.2698229 ◽

2015 ◽

Author(s):

Pippa Norris ◽

Holly Ann Garnett

Keyword(s):

Voter Suppression ◽

Voter Fraud

Download Full-text

The 2019 Afghan Presidential Election: An Assessment of Problematic Processes and Results

Afghanistan ◽

10.3366/afg.2021.0062 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 4 (1) ◽

pp. 19-46

Author(s):

Thomas Johnson

Keyword(s):

Statistical Methods ◽

Presidential Election ◽

Voter Suppression ◽

Election Commission ◽

Official Data

This article assesses Afghanistan's Presidential Election of 2019. Analyzing official data from the Afghan Independent Election Commission (IEC), it examines voting patterns at both the national and provincial levels and compares these results with those of past elections. It draws on statistical methods to evaluate Afghan electoral procedures, focusing in particular on the practice of ballot invalidation and voter suppression as well as the role of ethno-linguistic voting blocs. The analysis reveals highly unusual voting patterns and other dynamics that point to significant irregularities and fraud. The article concludes with a number of recommendations for future Afghan elections.

Download Full-text

Going South: How Southern Organizing Will Determine the Future of the Labor Movement

Labor in the Time of Trump ◽

10.7591/cornell/9781501746598.003.0011 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 191-205

Author(s):

MaryBe McMillan

Keyword(s):

Labor Movement ◽

Political Influence ◽

Right Wing ◽

The South ◽

Race And Gender ◽

Right To Work ◽

Challenges And Opportunities ◽

Voter Suppression ◽

And Gender ◽

The U.S

This chapter reflects on the challenges and opportunities of building workers' power in North Carolina. To change the political balance of the nation, this chapter argues, we must change the South, which is gaining in jobs, population, and political influence. Home to more than a third of the U.S. population, the region is larger than the Northeast and Midwest combined. Political representatives from the South disproportionately contribute to right-wing agendas, including right-to-work, low wages, and voter suppression. The chapter outlines essential strategies for organizing in the South, or in any right-to-work states with hostile political climates. First, start small and dream big; second, issues of race and gender equality must be addressed; third, unions must build strong locals and unite with community allies. Finally, the labor movement, including central labor councils and state federations, must build political power.

Download Full-text

Voter Suppression, Then and Now

Ideals and Ideologies ◽

10.4324/9780429286827-12 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 57-60

Author(s):

Alexander Keyssar

Keyword(s):

Voter Suppression

Download Full-text

The Persistence of White Supremacy Beyond Desegregation

Mormonism and White Supremacy ◽

10.1093/oso/9780190081768.003.0006 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 161-198

Author(s):

Joanna Brooks

Keyword(s):

White Supremacy ◽

Mass Incarceration ◽

The United States ◽

Church Leaders ◽

Rhetorical Strategies ◽

American Christianity ◽

White American ◽

Chattel Slavery ◽

Lds Church ◽

Voter Suppression

Systematic anti-Black racism did not end with the legal abolition of chattel slavery in the United States. It simply changed shape: into debt peonage, criminalization, mass incarceration, housing segregation, sexual predation, voter suppression, and discrimination of all kinds. The same holds true for systematic anti-Black racism in white American Christianity. This chapter examines how structures of everyday white supremacy persisted in everyday Mormonism beyond the end of the priesthood and temple ban, especially through rhetorical strategies on the part of LDS Church leaders that evaded historical facts or dismissed history as insignificant and demonstrated no commitment to responsibility, reconciliation, or reparations.

Download Full-text

The Changing Politics of Race in the South and Its Impact on National Politics

The South and the Transformation of U.S. Politics ◽

10.1093/oso/9780190065911.003.0004 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 83-107

Author(s):

Charles S. Bullock ◽

Susan A. MacManus ◽

Jeremy D. Mayer ◽

Mark J. Rozell

Keyword(s):

African Americans ◽

Civil Rights ◽

Civil Rights Movement ◽

Democratic Party ◽

The South ◽

National Politics ◽

Past Half Century ◽

Voter Suppression ◽

Politics Of Race ◽

Party Dominance

The long era of racial segregation and black voter suppression coincided with the old “Solid South” of Democratic dominance of the region. Among African Americans who could vote, they were loyal to the GOP, the party of Lincoln. The Voting Rights Act (VRA) and the civil rights movement more generally moved Southern blacks to the Democratic Party. The emergence of African American voters’ rights and their realigning to the Democratic Party have had the most profound impact on the politics of the region of the past half century. Today, Southern African Americans vote at about the same rate as whites and in some recent presidential elections have exceeded white participation. As whites realigned to the GOP, African Americans became a key component of the Democratic Party dominance of the South, with substantial influence on legislative priorities.

Download Full-text

Political Climate, Voter Suppression Policies and Federal Sentencing Outcomes

The British Journal of Criminology ◽

10.1093/bjc/azaa017 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 60 (5) ◽

pp. 1155-1180

Author(s):

Jeffrey S Nowacki ◽

Danielle Creech ◽

Megan Parks

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Ethnic Diversity ◽

The United States ◽

Sentence Length ◽

District Courts ◽

Racial Threat ◽

Political Climate ◽

The Us ◽

Voter Suppression ◽

And Gender

Abstract Many states in the United States have recently implemented voter suppression policies, which make voting more difficult, particularly for members of marginalized populations (e.g. non-white and female voters). In this article, we examine how these policies and other measures of political climate influence criminal sentencing in US district courts. Using 2015 data from the US Sentencing Commission, alongside other district-level measures, we find both direct and conditioning relationships between political climate and extra-legal variables. Specifically, we find that, while voter suppression policies do not directly affect sentence length, racial threat effects are enhanced in districts governed by such policies. Conversely, districts without such policies see larger mitigating effects at high levels of ethnic diversity and gender equality.

Download Full-text