On AlterNet: disenfranchisement
Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "disenfranchisement"
Attaturk, Firedoglake AlterNet: Democracy and Elections. May 12, 2008.
The Missouri Secretary of State estimates the amendment, if passed, would disenfranchise up to a quarter million citizens.
Jill Hussein C., Brilliant at Breakfast AlterNet: PEEK. May 9, 2008.
After their Indiana sisters were disenfranchised, Missouri nuns are mad as heck and not gonna take it anymore.
dday, Hullabaloo AlterNet: Election 2008. May 6, 2008.
According to the AP, 12 nuns were turned away from voting by one of their own sisters.
Erin Ferns, Project Vote. March 6, 2008.
Excluding citizens from the most basic right of a representative democracy undermines communal bonds and weakens our civic society.
Steven Rosenfeld, AlterNet. December 21, 2007.
Arizona: Activists move closer to proving electronic vote count theft. Florida: A law disenfranchising thousands of new voters is blocked.
Steven Rosenfeld, AlterNet. November 7, 2007.
NAACP officials in Georgia and Michigan report new voter ID laws stopped people from voting.
Steven Rosenfeld, AlterNet. September 11, 2007.
Now the Department of Justice, like the Republican Party, wants fewer registered voters in 2008.