Federal court strikes down parts of Texas voting law : NPR

A federal judge has struck down provisions in Texas’ new law that set limits on how people can help voters cast their ballots.

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This appears to be some good news for voters in Texas, but, much more needs to be done for the right to be able to vote should be there for everyone and not just a few.

But for the right to vote to be accessible does mean that some voters will need more help than others so these rights need to be there otherwise there is a high degree of voter discrimination.
This would, if not enabled would be an infringement of their human rights

 

Source: Federal court strikes down parts of Texas voting law : NPR

Next up: voting rights, as US supreme court set to tear up more protections | US news | The Guardian

The ideologically driven conservative majority is likely to further weaken key civil rights legislation after a term of radical rulings

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This is extremely disturbing for it is a prime example of where politics is the main ruling factor over justice and is breaching Human Rights of non-white people, meaning that the ‘Land of the Free’ is only free for whites.

Politics should have no bearing in the rule of law, for if this is taken to its extreme it could mean the overturning of the abolishing of slavery, however, that would mean having to remove the 13th Amendment of the Constitution, but it appears that the current US Supreme Court has no regards for Human Rights.

This is down to Trump and if he is allowed to run for President in 2024 then America could well become a country which will be a country for whites only, as every other ethnicity will be discriminated against.

The abuse in America will know no bounds and equality will be a concept of the past.

 

Source: Next up: voting rights, as US supreme court set to tear up more protections | US news | The Guardian

How Republicans gutted the biggest voting rights victory in recent history | US news | The Guardian

Florida’s ‘amendment 4’ was meant to restore voting rights for those with felony convictions – but hundreds of thousands of people remain disenfranchised

Source: How Republicans gutted the biggest voting rights victory in recent history | US news | The Guardian

It takes a long time to vote : The Conversation

Overall, waiting times may be improving – but long waits are still common in Black communities.

Source: It takes a long time to vote : The Conversation

How one man fought South Carolina Democrats to end whites-only primaries – and why that matters now : The Conversation

South Carolina’s black community has a long history of fighting for democratic rights.

Source: How one man fought South Carolina Democrats to end whites-only primaries – and why that matters now : The Conversation

Native votes went missing in North Carolina. Tribal leaders vow that won’t happen again next week. – ThinkProgress

Native American voting groups have made it their mission over the years to get as many of their members to the polls as possible. That effort has even greater urgency, as North Carolina prepares next week to hold one of its most closely watched elections ever.

The 40,000 voting-eligible Lumbee tribal members living in North Carolina’s 9th Congressional District could swing the special election for the tightly contested U.S. House race pitting Republican Dan Bishop against Democrat Dan McCready.

Ahead of next Tuesday’s vote, tribal members have been knocking on doors to encourage their neighbors to get out to the polls. Working with the Native voting-rights group Four Directions, more than two dozen members of the Lumbee tribe have been hired to visit every home on the reservation, and to even drive people to the polls if necessary.

Just 26% of eligible Native voters cast ballots in last year’s election. Harvey Godwin Jr., chair of the Lumbee Tribe, told ThinkProgress that there are various reasons that fewer Native people turn out at the polls than he would like, and not all of them have to do with voter suppression.

 

Source: Native votes went missing in North Carolina. Tribal leaders vow that won’t happen again next week. – ThinkProgress

Women’s rights – A list of countries showing when they allowed women to vote.

So approx 45 countries throghout the world have introduced Voting Rights for women, what about all the others. Also are their any restrictions on these rights for if women have voting rights it should apply to all women.

How secure are these rights, can they be easily withdrawn.

Equality should be engaged everywhere and not only with regards to voting rights, but, I assume, you have to start somewhere.

Yes, what about Switzerland why did it take them so long.

Opher's World

It is quite sobering to look at the year when women were allowed the vote.

Here is a list. It’s a bit crude because there are instances where aboriginals were still denied voting rights.

It is quite shocking to see countries such as Switzerland not allowing females to vote until 1971!!

To think that some countries only gave women the right to vote in the last couple of decades!!

There is much that needs doing in order to gain equality throughout the world.

Well done New Zealand!! Shame upon so many countries!!

• 1893 New Zealand
• 1902 Australia¹
• 1906 Finland
• 1913 Norway
• 1915 Denmark
• 1917 Canada²
• 1918 Austria, Germany, Poland, Russia
• 1919 Netherlands
• 1920 United States
• 1921 Sweden
• 1928 Britain, Ireland
• 1930 South Africa³
• 1931 Spain
• 1934 Turkey
• 1944 France
• 1945 Italy
• 1947 Argentina, Japan, Mexico, Pakistan
• 1949 China
• 1950 India
• 1954 Colombia
• 1957 Malaysia, Zimbabwe
• 1962 Algeria

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Greg Palast in Ohio on GOP Effort to Remove African Americans from Voter Rolls in Battleground State

Stop Making Sense

Amy Goodman speaks to investigative reporter Greg Palast who has uncovered the latest in vote suppression tactics led by Republicans that could threaten the integrity of the vote in Ohio and North Carolina. On some polling machines, audit protection functions have been shut off, and African Americans and Hispanics are being scrubbed from the voter rolls through a system called Crosscheck. “It’s a brand-new Jim Crow,” Palast says. “Today, on Election Day, they’re not going to use white sheets to keep way black voters. Today, they’re using spreadsheets.” (Democracy Now!)

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Scalia’s Death Throws North Carolina’s Upcoming Election Into Confusion | ThinkProgress

It’s a lose-lose situation for voters.

Source: Scalia’s Death Throws North Carolina’s Upcoming Election Into Confusion | ThinkProgress