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Quickly End Ny’S Suppressive Ballot Policy, Rachel Landy, Jarrett Berg
Quickly End Ny’S Suppressive Ballot Policy, Rachel Landy, Jarrett Berg
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Earlier this year, with the 2022 midterm elections looming, New York’s Democratic members of Congress sued their own state Board of Elections in federal court for unconstitutional practices that disqualify ballots cast by duly registered voters. Chief among the alleged violations of New Yorkers’ right to vote is the practice of fully disqualifying so-called “wrong church” ballots cast by lost or misdirected voters at poll sites other than the ones to which they are assigned.
Let Locked-Up People Vote: Prisoners Are Still Citizens And Should Be Able To Exert Their Civic Rights, Rachel Landy
Let Locked-Up People Vote: Prisoners Are Still Citizens And Should Be Able To Exert Their Civic Rights, Rachel Landy
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The Constitution does not guarantee all citizens the right to vote. Rather, the right to vote is implied through a patchwork of amendments that restrict how voting rights may be limited. For example, the 15th Amendment reads “[t]he right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged...on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.” Subsequent amendments added gender, failure to pay poll taxes, literacy, and age over 18 to the list of characteristics for which denying the right to vote may not be based.
New York Moveable Feast: Boundaries To Practice, Christopher Honeyman, Lela P. Love
New York Moveable Feast: Boundaries To Practice, Christopher Honeyman, Lela P. Love
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Environmental Review In The Land Use Process: New York's Experience With Seqra, Stewart E. Sterk
Environmental Review In The Land Use Process: New York's Experience With Seqra, Stewart E. Sterk
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Faces Without Features: The Surface Validity Of Criminal Inferences, Peter Lushing
Faces Without Features: The Surface Validity Of Criminal Inferences, Peter Lushing
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This article will offer nonempirical grounds to show that instructed inferences operate as the dissenters believe, at least when the instruction does not explicitly refer to the evidence at trial, but to occurrences in general.