The Arab-American Institute, which was founded by James Zogby in 1985, has led a relentless drive to increase Arab-American voting registration.
The suit seeks compliance with the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the Voting Registration Act of 1993 and cites the equal protection clause in the Constitution.
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Suits have been filed in Ohio this year over absentee voting and registration drives.
In anticipation, Democrats are preemptively pushing to make voting and voter registration easier in the court of public opinion.
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The MIT study does show that American voters, however, are deeply split on Democrat proposals to make voting and voter registration easier.
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Despite aggressive efforts by both parties across the country, Latino registration and voting rates still lag behind those of whites and blacks.
His campaign excelled here in 2008 as it worked college campuses and African-American communities hard, capitalizing on early voting and same-day registration to bank a significant number of votes before Election Day.
Instead, Article II of the Constitution empowers each state (and the District of Columbia) to conduct its own election, which is why there are variations in voter registration laws, early voting, the use of voting machines, etc.
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So has Florida, which has not only tried to restrict voter-registration drives but also limited early voting and sought to purge ineligible voters from its rolls, using a list full of errors (that effort has been suspended).
New-voter registration ended this week in New Mexico, and voting actually began.
In the Lords (from 3pm) peers bid a less than fond farewell to the Electoral Registration and Administration Bill - the measure which had Conservative and Lib Dem ministers voting in opposing lobbies for the first time, last week.
There are stronger partisan divides over election-day registration (72 percent of Democrats favor versus 29 percent of Republicans) and internet voting (51 percent of Democrats favor versus 24 percent Republicans).
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