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The Support-Or-Advocacy Clauses, Richard Primus, Cameron O. Kistler

Articles

Two little known clauses of a Reconstruction-era civil rights statute are potentially powerful weapons for litigators seeking to protect the integrity of federal elections. For the clauses to achieve their potential, however, the courts will need to settle correctly a contested question of statutory interpretation: do the clauses create substantive rights, or do they merely create remedies for substantive rights specified elsewhere? The correct answer is that the clauses create substantive rights.

More Than The Vote: 16-Year-Old Voting And The Risks Of Legal Adulthood, Katharine B. Silbaugh

Faculty Scholarship

Advocates of 16-year-old voting have not grappled with two significant risks to adolescents of their agenda. First, a right to vote entails a corresponding accessibility to campaigns. Campaign speech is highly protected, and 16-year-old voting invites more unfettered access to minors by commercial, government, and political interests than current law tolerates. Opening 16-year-olds to campaign access undermines a considered legal system of managing the potential exploitation of adolescents, which sometimes includes direct regulation of entities and also gives parents authority in both law and culture to prohibit, manage, or supervise contacts with every kind of person interested in communicating with …

Table Of Contents, Seattle University Law Review

Seattle University Law Review

Table of Contents

Undefeated - Women Still Don't Have Equal Rights (Or = Pay) Exhibit Panel, Sally Brown

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Undefeated - Women Still Don't have Equal Rights (Or = Pay) poster

History of Equal Rights Amendments for Women.

Undefeated - Jim Crow Laws Ended With The Civil Rights Act, Or Not? Exhibit Panel, Sally Brown

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No abstract provided.

Undefeated - Bicycle Cut-Outs To Promote Voting Exhibit Panel, Sally Brown

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Undefeated - Bicycle Cut-outs To Promote Voting poster

Includes instructions for cut-out to include artists' names.

Undefeated - Disinformation Memes Exhibit Panel, Sally Brown

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Undefeated - Disinformation memes poster

The poster displays memes for encouraging seeking true voter information to and calls out Facebook for allowing fake news

Undefeated - Introduction Panel, Sally Brown

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Undefeated - introduction poster

The right to vote is fundamental to a constitutional democracy. Any action to restrict protections to every citizen's right to vote is anathema to our democracy.

Undefeated - The Importance Of Bipartisanship Exhibit Panel, Sally Brown

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Undefeated - The Importance of Bipartisanship poster

"Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer." "Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past, let us accept our own responsibility for the future."

Undefeated - Vote Values Exhibit Panel, Sally Brown

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Undefeated - 12 Continues, Sally Brown

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Undefeated - An Even More Ugly Example! Exhibit Panel, Sally Brown

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Undefeated - An Even More Ugly Example! poster

"This What Gerrymandering Looks Like" display of West Virginia redistricting.

Undefeated - Bicycle Cut-Outs To Promote Voting Exhibit Panel, Sally Brown

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Undefeated - Election Issues Dial Exhibit Panel, Sally Brown

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Undefeated - Election Issues Dial poster

A dial that asks "Is the US currently representing your views on priorities as a world power? No? Then VOTE". Under the dial are issues such as immigrants, gun deaths, poverty, healthcare, gender gap, energy, education and largest economy.

Undefeated - Richard Chance Quote Exhibit Panel, Sally Brown

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Undefeated - Richard Chance Quotation poster

"We're the only advanced democracy that deliberately discourages people from voting." Richard Chance / The Guardian

Undefeated - Gerrymandering / Jim Crow Exhibit Panel, Sally Brown

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Undefeated - Gerrymandering / Jim Crow poster

Definitions of redistricting, malapportionment and gerrymandering as means of voter suppression.

Undefeated - Elections Matter Exhibit Panel, Sally Brown

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Undefeated - Elections matter poster

The poster draws attention to the ways that Congressional districts have been mapped inconsistently.

Undefeated - End Of Mississippi Jim Crow Laws Exhibit Panel, Sally Brown

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Undefeated - Information/Disinformation Exhibit Panel, Sally Brown

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Undefeated - Information/Disinformation poster

The poster lists disinformation tactics that can be used to spread a lack of confidence in elections and lead to voter suppression. Web links to government websites and fact checking sites are included.

Undefeated - How The Us Compares In Voter Turnout Exhibit Panel, Sally Brown

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Undefeated - How the US Compares in Voter Turnout poster

The poster is an infographic representation comparing the voter turnout as a percentage of the population in the United States with the voter turnout in other countries. The square miles area of the United Sates and Canada are also represented.

Undefeated - Anti-Vote Sintra Circles, Sally Brown

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Undefeated - Two 18-inch sintra material circles with repeated text "YOUR VOTE DOESN'T MATTER" in an inverse spiral. One circle is white letters on black background; other circle is black letters on white background.

Undefeated - Era And Blm Fold-Out Circles Exhibit Panels, Sally Brown

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undefeated - ERA and BLM Fold-out Circles posters

Equal RIghts Amendment and Black Lives Matter descriptions

Undefeated - A Census That Counts Population Effectively Allocates Political Power For Every State Exhibit Panel, Sally Brown

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Undefeated - A Census That Counts Population Effectively Allocates Political Power For Every State infographic poster.

Undefeated - False Information Travels 6 Times Faster Than Truth Exhibit Panel, Sally Brown

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Undefeated - False Information Travels 6 Times Faster Than Truth poster

Quotation about truth of information that impacts voting decisions.

Undefeated - Bike To Vote Exhibit Panel, Hannah Jack

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Undefeated - Bike to Vote

"[bikes have] done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world" Susan B. Anthony, abolitionist and suffragette

Rail trails brought accessible biking culture to hill WV. Do you have a bike story?

Undefeated - Bike The Vote Today Exhibit Panel, Sally Brown

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Undefeated - Bike the Vote Today poster

"Bike, walk, drive, call a friend for a ride, or mail it in .... Just VOTE!!!"

Undefeated - Voter Fraud Myths Exhibition Panel, Sally Brown

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Undefeated - Voter Fraud Myths poster

The poster shows the numbers of voter registrations that were purged. The myth that voter photo id laws would prevent voter fraud is debunked because absentee ballots do not require photo identification.

Undefeated - Voter Intimidation Exhibit Panel, Sally Brown

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Undefeated - Voter Intimidation poster

Seven subtle or not-so-subtle voter intimidation tactics are listed.

Undefeated - Voter Suppression Quote Exhibit Panel, Sally Brown

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Undefeated - Voter Id Laws Exhibit Panel, Sally Brown

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Undefeated - Voter ID Laws poster

Voter ID laws reduce voter turnout. Photo ID requirement more severely impact minorities and women voters. In the past 14 years, per 1 billion voters, 31 cases of identity misuse has been identified.