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- Sandra Padilla; Victor Sanchez; Rosa Andrade, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Rosalyn Lever, in Her Official Capacity as Registrar of Voters, Orange County Registration and Elections Department; Suzanne Slupsky, in Her Official Capacity as Assistant Registrar of Voters, Orange County Registration and Elections Department, Defendants-Appellees, and Vivian Martinez, Defendant., 429 F.3d 910 (9th Cir. 2005)
Thomas A. Saenz, Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund, Los Angeles, CA, for the plaintiffs-appellants.
Wendy J. Phillips, Deputy County ...
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- Sandra Padilla; Victor Sanchez; Rosa Andrade, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Rosalyn Lever, in Her Official Capacity as Registrar of Voters, Orange County Registration and Elections Department; Suzanne Slupsky, in Her Official Capacity as Assistant Registrar of Voters, Orange County Registration and Elections Department, Defendants-Appellees, and Vivian Martinez, Defendant-Appellee., 463 F.3d 1046 (9th Cir. 2006)
Nina Perales (argued), Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, San Antonio, TX, for the plaintiffs-appellants.
Wendy J. Phillips (argued...
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The most consequential election in our lifetime is still 10 months away, but it's clear from the Obama administration's order halting South Carolina's new photo ID law that the Democrats already have brought a gun to a knife fight.
How else to describe this naked assault on the right of a state to create minimal requirements to curb voter fraud?
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U.S. AMBASSADOR TO IRAQ CHRISTOPHER HILL HOLDS A STATE DEPARTMENT NEWS BRIEFING VIA TELECONFERENCE FROM IRAQ ON THE IRAQI ELECTIONS
MARCH ...
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Kerry Fraas, County Solicitor, Allan J. Opsitnick (Argued), Assistant County Solicitor, Michael McAuliffe Miller, Assistant County Solicitor, Alleghen...
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WASHINGTON, July 12 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --The Justice Department announced today that it will monitor the primary runoff elections on July 13, 2010, in Barbour, Lee and Russell Counties, Ala., to ensure compliance with the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The Voting Rights Act prohibits discrimination in the election process on the basis of race, color or membership in a minority language group.
Under the Voting Rights Act, the Justice Department is authorized to ask the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to send federal observers to jurisdictions that are certified by the Attorney General or by a federal court order. Federal observers will be assigned to monitor polling place activities in Barbour and Russell Counties based on the attorney general's certification. The observers wi...
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Kerry Fraas, County Solicitor, Allan J. Opsitnick (Argued), Assistant County Solicitor, Michael McAuliffe Miller, Assistant County Solicitor, Alleghen...
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Cornish F. Hitchcock (argued), David C. Vladeck, Public Citizen Litigation Group, Washington, D.C., Sarah E. Siskind, Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland...
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Filing week opened Monday with 48 candidates signing up to run for elected office.
Candidates can file at the Clark County Elections Department, 1408 Franklin St., or online at http://clarkvotes.org.
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WASHINGTON, May 7 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Justice Department announced today that it will monitor municipal elections on May 8, 2010, in Dallas and Galveston Counties, Texas, to ensure compliance with the requirements of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
The act prohibits discrimination in the election process on the basis of race, color or membership in a minority language group. In addition, the act requires certain covered jurisdictions, including Dallas and Galveston Counties, to provide language assistance in Spanish during the election process. Galveston County is also subject to a court order entered in 2007 that requires the jurisdiction to comply with the minority language requirements of the Voting Rights Act.