Article: Florida Falls Short in Restoring Felons' Voting Rights

Article: Restore voting rights
Baltimore Afro-American;  March 19, 2004 ;     638 words ......restoration of voting rights to otherwise...out when voting rights should resume...Maryland Voting Rights Restoration Coalition...relates to voting rights for ex-felons...Maryland Voting Rights Restoration Coalition...

Article: Supreme Court turns down historic voting rights case
Westside Gazette;  November 17, 2005 ;     640 words ......sought to restore the voting rights of working, tax-paying...Florida law violates the Voting Rights Act and the Constitution...chair of the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition. "Florida's...Floridians are working to place voting rights restoration on the ...

Article: Conference on the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to be held at Yale.
M2 Presswire;  April 12, 2005 ;     463 words ......YALE UNIVERSITY: Conference on the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to be held at Yale(C)1994-20...Honoring the Fortieth Anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, a conference sponsored...at Yale, evaluates the legacy of the Voting Rights Act as well as contemporary barriers...

Article: Restoring voting rights
Westside Gazette;  March 25, 2004 ;     493 words ...Restoring voting rights to citizens with felony convictions has become one...Just last week they, along with the ACLU of Florida Voting Rights Restoration Campaign, held a workshop at the Mizell Center registering...convicted of a felony are actually stripped of their voting ...

Article: NAACP, Women In NAACP (WIN) and ACLU host workshops to restore voting and Civil Rights, celebrate National Voting Rights Restoration Day
Westside Gazette;  July 23, 2003 ;     579 words ......are hosting a free rights restoration workshop to assist...restoration of civil rights. The workshop will...NAACP and the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition in recognition of National Voting Rights Restoration Day, a day dedicated...sentences. The Florida ...

Article: Ex-felon workshops redeem more than voting rights
Miami Times;  May 20, 2003 ;     392 words ......being called the Redemption Workshop, by the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition. The coalition was formed of several organizations...beauty of this is these groups that make up the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition did not wait for the laws to change. They...into the hands of the ex-felons ...

Article: Voting Rights, 2005
Call and Post (Cleveland);  October 6, 2005 ;     625 words ......Cleveland) 10-06-2005 When you say, "voting rights," what are the images that come into...Lyndon Baines Johnson as he signs the Voting Rights Act. Or maybe you think of Selma, Ala...General Assembly. But in fact, the Voting Rights Act may have some impact on a debate...

Article: Felons' voting rights to get another chance.(Front)
The Virginian Pilot;  January 1, 2008 ;     543 words ......Virginian-Pilot RICHMOND Efforts to restore voting rights for felons don't have a history of...enable nonviolent felons to regain voting rights. I introduce this every year because...introduced each year aimed at restoring voting rights to nonviolent felons who have fulfilled...

Article: Quantifying the Valuation Discount for Lack of Voting Rights and Premium for Voting Rights
American Bankruptcy Institute Journal;  March 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......valuation of equity securities without voting rights or with supernormal (i.e., superior) voting rights is a common occurrence in a bankruptcy...of stockholders often have varying voting rights. Empirical evidence indicates that...

Article: Are our voting rights at risk?(Speaking Of Education)
Black Issues in Higher Education;  March 11, 2004 ;     700+ words ...Will African American voting rights expire in 2007? In this election...nation's most intense battles for voting rights were focused on Mississippi...disenfranchised Black voters. The 1965 Voting Rights Act was passed because case-by-ca...

Article: ACLU joins call for Voting Rights renewal
New York Beacon, The;  March 30, 2005 ;     520 words ......Beacon, The 03-30-2005 If portions of the Voting Rights Act are not renewed, hard-won voting rights protections will vanish, leaving millions...in the national dialogue, and if the Voting Rights Act expires, that important voice will...

Article: Activist groups demand same voting rights protection in Illinois
Chicago Citizen;  August 10, 2005 ;     700+ words ......PUSH Coalition in Atlanta to protect voting rights, Illinois activist groups met last...Representatives from the Committee to Preserve Voting Rights (CTPVR); Committee For a Better Chicago...some serious voting and longstanding voting rights battles." Numerous voting ...

Article: Council holds hearing on Voting Rights Restoration Act
New York Beacon, The;  November 30, 2005 ;     700+ words ......held a hearing on the Voting Rights Restoration Act. This legislation would...discrimination." "Non-citizen voting rights is not a new idea," declared...truly the restoration of voting rights that is being sought, not...non-citizen immigrants enjoyed voting ...

Article: REP. ENGEL COMMENTS ON VOTING RIGHTS ACT
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  July 17, 2006 ;     407 words ......the Congressional Record regarding the Voting Rights Act: CONGRESSIONAL RECORD VOTING RIGHTS ACT July 13, 2006 Mr. Speaker, I rise...Rosa Parks, and Coretta Scott King the Voting Rights Act reauthorization. Since the law's inception...