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voter and registration
* To obtain a declaration on a legal document, such as an application for voter registration, that the information provided by the applicant is truthful to the best of the applicant's knowledge.
* Civil Rights Act of 1960, establishing federal inspection of local voter registration polls.
: This can include confusing or misleading voters about how to vote, violation of the secret ballot, ballot stuffing, tampering with voting machines, destruction of legitimately cast ballots, voter suppression, voter registration fraud, failure to validate voter residency, fraudulent tabulation of results, and use of physical force or verbal intimation at polling places.
From 1890 – 1908, Democrats passed new constitutions and statutes in the South that created requirements for voter registration and voting that effectively disfranchised most blacks and tens of thousands of poor whites.
Jurors in some states are selected through voter registration and drivers ' license lists.
American mosques host voter registration and civic participation drives that promote involving Muslims, who are often first-or second-generation immigrants, in the political process.
The term was widely used in the South at the turn of the 20th century in combination with other measures as a means of disfranchisement to bar poor people, especially blacks, from voter registration and voting.
Its 1907 constitution and laws had voter registration rules that effectively disfranchised most blacks ; this also barred them from serving on juries or in local office, a situation that lasted until federal civil rights legislation was passed by the US Congress in the mid-1960s.
A few months before the election, he switched his voter registration and driver's license to Wyoming and put his home in Dallas up for sale.
In the elections of 1866 an intramural fight arose in Maryland, when the Governor appointed partisan Radical police commissioners who would be responsible for managing voter registration.
Election-related proposals included replacing the Electoral College with popular vote, automatic voter registration, public funding of campaigns, reducing the campaign season, and the elimination of political action committees.
1995 saw a soaring membership and voter registration for the party.
According to the editor of Ballot Access News, which periodically compiles and analyzes voter registration statistics as reported by state voter agencies ( only 29 states and DC tally voter registration by party ), it ranks third nationally among all U. S. political parties in registered voters, with 438, 222 registered voters as of October 2008.
It passed segregationist Jim Crow laws and in 1902 rewrote the Constitution of Virginia to include a poll tax and other voter registration measures that effectively disfranchised most African Americans and many poor whites.
In April 2003, the third multiparty parliamentary elections were held with improvements in voter registration for both men and women and in a generally free and fair atmosphere.
Kaunda's UNIP party boycotted the parliamentary polls to protest the exclusion of its leader from the presidential race, alleging in addition that the outcome of the election had been predetermined due to a faulty voter registration exercise.
Southern states disfranchised most blacks and many poor whites from 1890 – 1908 through constitutional amendments and statutes that created barriers to voter registration, and voting such as poll taxes and literacy tests.
They advocated strong antitrust laws, restricting corporate lobbying and campaign contributions, and greater citizen participation and control, including standardized secret ballots, strict voter registration and women's suffrage.

voter and drive
A voter registration drive in 2002 helped gain support for the Democratic candidate for the US Senate, and turnout in Shannon County and across the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation helped narrowly elect Tim Johnson to office.
CAIR also held its first voter registration drive in 1996 ; CAIR continues to encourage active political participation by American Muslims, for them to address political candidates and elected representatives with greater frequency.
" He traveled to Selma, Alabama, where SNCC had organized a voter registration drive ; he watched mothers with babies and elderly men and women standing in long lines for hours, as armed deputies and state troopers stood byor intervened to smash a reporter's camera or use cattle prods on SNCC workers.
Active in the civil rights movement, on October 7, 1963, Gregory came to Selma, Alabama and spoke for two hours on a public platform two days before the voter registration drive known as " Freedom Day " ( October 7, 1963 ).
Its position on the ballot was restored in 2003 after a voter registration drive.
SNCC, under the local leadership of Bill Ware, engaged in a voter drive to promote the candidacy of Julian Bond for the Georgia State Legislature in an Atlanta district.
A voter registration drive was part of an aggressive campaign waged by Robinson as Student Government President and was meant to threaten members of the city council that proposed zoning laws that would have moved students from the neighborhoods around campus using student partying as the reason for the zoning laws.
She also participated in Michael Moore's " Slacker " college voter drive tour.
Conyers was present in Selma, Alabama on October 7, 1963, for the civil rights movement voter registration drive known as Freedom Day.
The missing civil-rights workers became a major national story, especially coming on top of other events as civil rights workers were active across Mississippi in a voter registration drive.
The text of the mailer suggested Pleitez, posing with a Latino stage actress and using a Latino voter registration drive hand sign, was " flashing gang signs ".
In 2004, the Nu Mu Lambda chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity, held a voter registration drive in DeKalb County, Georgia, from which Georgia Secretary of State Cathy Cox ( Dem.
) rejected all 63 voter registration applications on the basis that the fraternity did not follow correct procedures, including obtaining specific pre-clearance from the state to conduct their drive.
In 2008, RTV ran the largest nonpartisan voter registration drive in history.
The album proceeds were used to support a 2004 concert tour and an associated voter registration drive, emphasizing the swing states.
An effort to get people to register is known as a voter registration drive.
Also, one may register at a voter registration drive.
On October 4, 2004, a voter registration drive in Austin, Texas led by the Travis County Democratic Party registered over 12, 000 people to vote in less than 24 hours.
The government responded with its own petition drive to make the socialist system " untouchable ", for which the government claimed 99 % voter approval.
In the mid-1960s, when it was the Western College for Women, the campus served as the staging ground for Freedom Summer, a voter registration drive in Mississippi.
Axelrod met Obama in 1992 when Obama so impressed Betty Lou Saltzmann, a woman from Chicago's " lakefront liberal crowd ," during a black voter registration drive he ran that she then introduced the two.
Freedom's Answer is a non-partisan, youth-led voter turnout drive led by a coalition of youth organizations nationwide.
Campaign, along with Radio Oneregistered more than 30, 000 voters during its national “ One Vote Day ” voter registration drive on September 30, 2008.

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