Voting Rights and Issues
Resources about the problems facing Latinos in the voting process. Not
everybody is getting their vote processed - or even being allowed to
the polls.
The right to vote is a fundamental and basic right guaranteed to all U.S. citizens by the Fifteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Every voter has the right to cast an informed and effective vote. This right is extended to all people, including
Press releases of various initiatives and issues facing Latino electoral empowerment.
Founded in 1994, the National Voting Rights Institute is a prominent non-partisan legal center in the campaign finance reform field. Through litigation and public education, the Institute aims to redefine the issue of private money in public election
"In a nation where children are taught in grade school that every citizen has the right to vote, it would be comforting to think that the last vestiges of voter intimidation, oppression and suppression were swept away by the passage and subsequent en
Some counties are required to provide bilingual voting materials including ballots to limited-English-proficient voters. These talking points list the jurisdictions and languages that are covered by the Voting Rights Act, as well as the types of assi
The Justice Department today announced it will send 324 federal observers and 108 Justice Department personnel to 26 counties in 14 states to monitor the general election on Tuesday, November 5, 2002.
Public information regarding past and current use of federal observers to monitor elections.
New York Times columnist Bob Herbert recently wrote about visits made to dozens of elderly African American voters in the Orlando area by Florida state troopers, who were "investigating" charges of voting fraud. Most of those questioned were members
