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Watch a video about Project Vote's collaboration with Action United Education Fund of Pennsylvania to Get Out the Vote in 2010.
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Tea Party, GOP Groups, Target Minorities for Voter Suppression Schemes |
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October 28, 2010
As the hotly contested November election nears, it should be no surprise that voter intimidation and suppression schemes are ramping up too. Even beyond the usual partisan pre-election hysteria, this year the Tea Party has made "voter fraud" a rallying cry. Never mind that it's been proven time and again that voter fraud is largely a myth; it excites the right-wing base.
To combat alleged "voter fraud," party activists in a number of states have mounted well-publicized campaigns to compile challenge lists from returned mail ("voter caging") and to deploy their members to watch the polls. But what they're really doing is threatening and intimidating a targeted group of voters, and it's usually in minority precincts.
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Voter Groups Go to Court to Fight for Voting Rights of Private, Charter, and Public School Students |
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October 27, 2010
TRENTON – The American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey, Project Vote and the Fair Elections Legal Network today submitted a brief seeking to ensure that the Department of Education fulfill a twenty-five-year old mandate to protect the voting rights of private, charter, and public school students, which the DOE has thus-far failed to meet
“It is appalling that 25 years after the High School Voter Registration Law was issued, there are still no regulations on the books protecting the rights of private and charter school students under the law, and only the most minimal of protections for district public school students,” said Ed Barocas, the ACLU-NJ legal director. In 1985, New Jersey passed a law giving all eligible high school seniors the right to receive a voter registration form and voter education as they neared adulthood. The law required the DOE to pass regulations to effectuate the law and ensure compliance. But the DOE never did. And even when the DOE earlier this year created a minimal and insufficient compliance requirement for public schools, it still wholly ignored the rights of students at private and charter schools.
In June of this year, the DOE turned down the voting rights groups’ formal request to tighten the oversight requirements. The groups therefore took state educators to court. This appeal of the DOE decision is based on a section of the voter law that says the commissioner of education “shall adopt” regulations on the voting law.
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