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Believing that these tactics violated the Voting Rights Act, the Democratic National Committee took the RNC to federal court. Rather than see the case fully litigated, the RNC entered a consent decree , which prohibited the party from engaging in anti-fraud initiatives that targeted minorities from conducting mail campaigns to "compile voter ...
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 improved voting access. Since the beginning of voter suppression efforts [ citation needed ] , proponents of these laws have cited concerns over electoral integrity as a justification for various restrictions and requirements, while opponents argue that these constitute bad faith ...
The Voting Accessibility for the Elderly and Handicapped Act (VAEHA) P.L. 98-435, 42 U.S.C. §§ 1973ee–1973ee-6, is a United States law passed in 1984 that mandates easy access for handicapped and elderly person to voter registration and polling places during Federal elections.
From robocalls to opinion polls, here are the most common types of election scams to look out for ahead of Election Day.
Signed into law by President George H. W. Bush, the act prohibits discrimination based on disability. The U.S DOJ Civil Rights Division phrases the right to access to the polls, as well as the right to register to vote, in these terms: "(the ADA) safeguards the voting rights of a person with a disability." [8]
With just weeks to go before the 2024 election, some people have had to go out of their way to fight for their right to vote. On Thursday, over 100 voters in Bryan County, Ga., piled into an ...
• Fake email addresses - Malicious actors sometimes send from email addresses made to look like an official email address but in fact is missing a letter(s), misspelled, replaces a letter with a lookalike number (e.g. “O” and “0”), or originates from free email services that would not be used for official communications.
May 6—An Antrim man was sentenced Monday to a year-and-a-half in prison after pleading guilty in federal court to faking a mobility impairment to get nearly $662,900 in benefits he wasn't ...