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The Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies (SALISES), in partnership with Behavioural Dynamics Solutions Ltd, has undertaken an initiative to explore and mitigate the growing societal disengagement from the political process....
\t On Friday, internet and international calls were cut off across the West African nation in anticipation of the election results, according to locals and international observers in the capital, Conakry.
\t This was the third time that Conde matched-up against Diallo. Before the election, observers raised concerns that an electoral dispute could reignite ethnic tensions between Guinea's largest ethnic groups.
DURHAM, N.C. – As the U.S. Senate considers a bill to expand voting rights – and dozens of individual states move the other direction in seeking to limit voting – an assumption underlying it all posits that voter expansion helps Democrats while restrictions helps Republicans. This is a fundamental mistake, a Duke political scientist said […]
by Najee El-Amin - In 2016, Mississippi’s voter turnout rate took a nosedive as 70,000 eligible citizens did not show up to cast a ballot. Activists have been trying to figure out why this happened and how to get African Americans, a powerful voting bloc, energized and back to the polls. Their efforts are coming […]
Foot Locker is helping voters get a leg up this election year. The athletic retailer is joining forces with the non-profit Rock the Vote to give voter registration services. For 30 years, Rock the Vote has been [...]
Texas State Representative Carl O. Sherman (D-109) was part of a late-night walkout Sunday evening with fellow Democrats on the last night of the Regular 87th Legislative Session
[VOA] Paris -- Protests banned and political activists and journalists detained. Lawyers and judges reprimanded or otherwise targeted, ostensibly for their ties to a grassroots protest movement demanding profound political change.
[Premium Times] The senatorial seat became vacant following the death of the former occupant, Bayo Oshinowo, earlier this year.
… , by contrast, pundits often portray Black Americans as an undifferentiated mass – loyal … of Black Americans as Democratic loyalists.
Our new survey of 1,215 African Americans … fewer than half of young Black Americans surveyed in battleground states say …
Urgency Of Restoration of Rights Within Diverse Communities Eclipses Voter Registration Outreach By Julie Warlick, 2ndEpiscopal District Third Street Bethel AME Church Social Action Committee [...]
The new Texas bill, SB7, mandates that you can vote with gun permit but not student ID, no online voter registration, individuals must be deputized to register voters, voters under 65 can’t use fear of COVID to vote by mail. In addition, Texas has closed 750 polling places since the U.S. Supreme Court under John Roberts destroyed the Voting Rights Act of 1965 with their Shelby vs. Holder decision in 2013.
The post After Record Turnout In 2020, Texas Set To Pass Most Restrictive Voting Laws In The U.S. appeared first on The Seattle Medium.
Initiative to Include Radio Ads, Digital PSAs, Voter Outreach “Caravan” in 11 Key States Today, Black Voters Matter Fund (BVMF) announced a major voter outreach ...
[CPJ] New York -- In response to Algerian authorities' recent decision to revoke the accreditation of French public broadcaster France 24, the Committee to Protect Journalists issued the following statement:
Former President Barack Obama released a statement on Monday, June 1 encouraging protesters of the George Floyd murder to further their activism once they leave the streets.
Released via online publishing platform Medium, Obama touched on the ways that activists can create real change in their communities when the protesting ends.
“… the elected officials who matter most in reforming police departments and the criminal justice system work at the state and local levels,” he explained.
Obama went on to say that activists need to get specific about their demands for criminal justice and police reform, as well as find the best ways to educate their community members about what needs to be done.
Obama ended his public posting on Monday by sharing a video of George Floyd’s brother, Terrence Floyd, encouraging protesters to be nonviolent and vote.
Your vote is your voice. We need you to use it this November to achieve real change. We need you to use it to create the beloved community John Lewis dreamed of.
Low turnout has marred the voters roll verification exercise as the first phase of the exercise ends Tuesday in some parts of the central and northern regions.
The exercise also involved voter ID replacement and transfer.
For example in Neno, the exercise is also going at a slow pace, but NICE District Education Officer Wallace Kudzala is optimistic the numbers will improve between today when the exercising is ending.
In Ntchisi, NICE Assistant Civic Education Officer Mercy Kazembe, attributes the low turn out to a lack of clarity on the actual voting day.
The situation is the same in Mzuzu with only 495 voters showing up at one centre since Friday last week.
By Cash Michaels and Peter Grear, Greater Diversity News If preliminary data estimates on the recent 2020 primaries in North Carolina are accurate, student voters on HBCU campuses must raise their turnout game come the general election this November. So says Dr. William Busa, founder of EQV Analytics, a ‘North Carolina-focused campaign consulting firm serving
Biden has already had an advantage with Black voters in the primary elections, especially over his former opponent Bernie Sanders.
Biden swept the Black vote in states like South Carolina, while Sanders lost them by a large margin.
Biden is still liable to run into this same issue now that he’s going against Donald Trump in the general elections.
Although Black votes were generally low for Trump during the 2016 elections, Black voter turnout rates dipped for the first time in 20 years in a presidential election, according to the United States Census Bureau.
Black women came out in strong support for Hillary Clinton during the 2016 elections against Trump, according to exit polls.
Photo: Getty Images In the summer of 1890, state leaders across Mississippi met with the intention of preventing Black people from voting within the state. 'We came here to exclude the Negro,' Mississippi Constitutional Convention President Sol S. Calhoun declared over a century ago. 'Nothing short of this will answer.' During this fateful convention, the … Continued
If preliminary data estimates on the recent 2020 primaries in North Carolina are accurate, student voters on HBCU campuses must raise their turnout game come the general election this November.
Initiative promotes partnership between national grassroots voter empowerment and education nonprofits and nationally syndicated radio shows WASHINGTON, D.C., Aug. 14, 2020 – As the nation enters the final months of the 2020 presidential election campaign, a major new initiative, “Stand in Soulidarity” has launched, designed to educate and empower Black voters to register to vote and go to vote. The initiative, […]
