One blue state in particular, Delaware, still disenfranchises some felons for life.
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Externally, Luckie describes frustrations about how Facebook's platform "disenfranchises" its black users.
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What kind of system is it that disenfranchises people in the South?
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Florida, along with Iowa and Virginia, permanently disenfranchises anyone with a felony conviction.
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Like Mr Hanna, Mr Israel sees a system that disenfranchises the moderate middle.
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He said prohibiting felons from voting in the state mostly disenfranchises African-Americans.
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Plaintiffs contend this disenfranchises native people who live far from reliable mail service.
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Nelson's lawyers believe this standard is unfair and disenfranchises a whole host of voters.
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On the other hand, Ohio's voter purge process effectively disenfranchises thousands of eligible voters.
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That effectively cancels out the vote of the US citizen, effectively disenfranchises that US citizen.
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The ACLU contends that the measure disenfranchises minority and poor voters — blocs that lean Democratic.
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But opponents say this disenfranchises poor and minority voters, who face difficulties obtaining IDs and documents.
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The process, she said, effectively disenfranchises voters in states dominated by one of the two parties.
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For those who frequent TRP, the metaphor applies to reality in which feminism emasculates and disenfranchises men.
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Armenia and Chile have similar laws, and Belgium disenfranchises felons whose sentence was longer than seven years.
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A patchwork of state laws disenfranchises about 5.85 million Americans, according to the American Civil Liberties Union.
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With the help of eye-popping infographics, Rusch shows how our government disenfranchises segments of the population.
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Some might say that shoveling money at charter schools actually disenfranchises the students who need help the most.
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Rick Scott restored a lifetime ban on voting by felons, which now disenfranchises more than a million people.
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The 27st is a monstrosity of gerrymandering that disenfranchises voters and weakens representative democracy in upstate New York.
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An appropriately woke person would reply that we are talking about a social practice that systematically disenfranchises black people.
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They argue that it disenfranchises voters and violates a deeply felt ethos of American democracy that allows for local representation.
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Florida currently disenfranchises a staggering 20143 million individuals who have completed their sentences (28 percent of them are African American).
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Globalism poses a threat to the future of democracy because it disenfranchises the vast majority and empowers a technocratic elite.
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Those voters are less likely to know where their polling place is, potentially making them susceptible to misinformation that disenfranchises them.
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Tennessee is one of several states that disenfranchises people who've been convicted of felonies even after they've been released from prison.
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As a result, Florida's statutory framework completely disenfranchises thousands of voters, and amounts to a severe burden on the right to vote.
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"When you say you no longer need to be certified, it disenfranchises instructors and pulls revenue out of their pockets," he theorized.
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Today, the statute disenfranchises about 15 percent of the state's black voting-age population, compared with less than 5 percent for whites.
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"Voter fraud cannot be tolerated by anyone in this nation because it disenfranchises Republicans, Independents, Democrats, conservatives, and liberals in America," he said.
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This means that abusive redistricting not only disenfranchises the political minority but also encourages elected officials to eschew compromise in favor of extreme polarization.
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The challengers argued the new rule disenfranchises a disproportionate share of the population because many Native American voters live on reservations without standard addresses.
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It would be hard to call a country that disenfranchises a majority of its population based on ethnicity anything other than an apartheid state.
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In a guest column on The Gazette, O'Malley explained how family leave dovetails with reproductive healthcare, in that the lack of this benefit disenfranchises women.
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The lawsuit argues that a Pennsylvania law requiring that absentee ballots be received by county officials on the Friday before Election Day disenfranchises absentee voters.
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The group argued that the rule disenfranchises a disproportionate share of the Native American population, because many of them live on reservations without standard addresses.
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Shutting down the operations of ICE — and contravening elected officials' decisions — disenfranchises the voters who, for better or worse, cast their ballots and expected results.
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The restriction effectively disenfranchises thousands of Native Americans with IDs listing their P.O. boxes because the U.S. Postal Service doesn't offer residential delivery to rural reservations.
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Critics also contend that the law disenfranchises minorities, elders and college students who tend to vote Democratic and may not have the required documents readily available
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Or, to put it more bluntly, it gives white people outsize power in determining nominees, and disenfranchises black, Hispanic, Asian Americans, and Native Americans relatively speaking.
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And just a few days ago he sided with the Court's conservatives in upholding a Texas redistricting plan that implicitly endorses partisan gerrymandering and effectively disenfranchises voters.
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Analyses of Ohio county voter rolls, however, suggest that the practice disproportionately impacts and disenfranchises homeless residents, veterans, Libertarians, and low-income people who work multiple jobs.
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In the past year, the A.C.L.U. has fought signature matching issues in a series of lawsuits across the country, arguing the process is unconstitutional and disenfranchises voters.
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"Yes, it does disenfranchise a lot of African Americans, but it disenfranchises a lot of white people who would be voting as Republicans as well," she said.
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" He adds, "[T]o put it more bluntly, it gives white people outsize power in determining nominees, and disenfranchises black, Hispanic, Asian Americans, and Native Americans relatively speaking.
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But a case coming before the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday explores whether some states are aggressively purging voter rolls in a way that disenfranchises thousands of voters.
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The state also has the earliest deadline for voters to register for a party in the country, which activists and independents say disenfranchises voters, particularly young people and minorities.
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But appreciatively, Turbulences dans les Balkans focuses mostly on the beguiling, immoderate whirlpools of the marginalized whose phantasmagorical approach to life disenfranchises them, as so happened to Vojislav Jakić.
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The fourth lawsuit, from the Southern Poverty Law Center, also makes the case that the SB 7066 disproportionately disenfranchises poor people of color, violating the 8th, 14th, and 43th Amendments.
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"Not only does it put me in a Republican district, it disenfranchises the large part of the African-Americans who would be a voting bloc for me," Judge Hill said.
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Luckie argued that Facebook's platform "disenfranchises" its black users and specifically cited efforts by trolls to undermine Black Lives Matter pages and other activist accounts posting about racism as hate speech.
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You don't want to be that band that completely disenfranchises your fanbase by doing a reggae album or something, but at the same time you don't want to keep repeating yourself.
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But the truly toxic problem with Bisping-St-Pierre—the one that I can't abide—is that it disenfranchises the UFC's most exciting division to satisfy an imagined appetite for celebrity.
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And requiring voters to re-register disenfranchises some legitimate voters — Karim checked that the benefits aren't a result of reduced enfranchisement, but perhaps it has some other costs elsewhere, hard to detect.
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The League of Women Voters accused the administration of "playing politics with our democracy and threatening the fundamental right to vote" by siding with an Ohio policy it said disenfranchises eligible voters.
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In Florida, which disenfranchises more people with criminal records than any other state, voters will decide in November whether to restore voting rights to as many as 1.5 million of their neighbors.
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Washington (CNN)A Native American tribe is suing to stop North Dakota's new voter identification law before the midterm election vote next week, saying that the law disenfranchises voters living on reservations.
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Turning away qualified caregivers who can empathize with the stigma and trauma that can come with an LGBTQ identity handicaps our over-burdened system and disenfranchises the children it is meant to serve.
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Ignoring election officials' and poll workers' mistakes and misconduct — even when it disenfranchises eligible voters — signals that their confusion and ignorance are inevitable and excusable, but the same in a voter is not.
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The fourth lawsuit, which was announced Monday by the Southern Poverty Law Center, also makes the case that the new amendment disproportionately disenfranchises poor people of color, violating the 8th, 14th, and 43th Amendments.
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Elias and Democratic lawyers will argue on Wednesday that more votes need to be considered, telling the judge that Florida's signature match law disenfranchises the ill and elderly, people of color and young voters.
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Today, Florida disenfranchises almost 1.5 million of its citizens, more than 11 states' populations and roughly a quarter of the more than six million Americans who are unable to vote because of a criminal record.
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If that were ever true, the debacle of this year's Iowa caucuses should put an end to what is fundamentally an undemocratic process that disenfranchises those who cannot devote several hours to the process of voting.
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There's also a second, more subtle way the voter fraud rhetoric disenfranchises people, Charles Stewart, a political scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who has studied how partisanship affects the public's view of election outcomes, said.
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WASHINGTON, Sept 12 (Reuters) - A U.S. Court of Appeals on Friday blocked an effort by Alabama, Georgia and Kansas for voters to furnish proof of citizenship when registering at the polls, which opponents say disenfranchises voters, especially minorities.
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As a result, Florida disenfranchises more potential voters than any other state, with more than 24 percent of all potential voters and more than 24 percent of potential black voters in Florida unable to vote due to felony records.
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Civil rights advocates claim barring felons from voting disenfranchises minorities from participating in the democratic process; according to 22016 data released by the Sentencing Project, one in 22018 African Americans nationwide is unable to vote due to felony convictions.
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But residents of some majority-black Michigan cities, including Flint, argue that the intense state-assigned oversight disenfranchises voters, shifts control from mostly Democratic cities to the state's Republican-held capital and risks favoring financial discipline over public health.
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Iowa makes it needlessly difficult to vote, and that needless difficulty disenfranchises parents, low-income people, people without control over their job schedules, and pretty much anyone who isn't determined enough to sacrifice hours to an arcane and anti-democratic process.
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Voter suppression initiatives have grown increasingly common since the Supreme Court invalidated a central provision of the Voting Rights Act in 2013, making it easier for local authorities to tweak election rules in a manner that disenfranchises particular groups of people.
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A federal judge on Thursday ruled that Florida's process for ex-felons to restore their voting rights is unconstitutional, a major upset for one of the few remaining states that permanently disenfranchises convicted felons — even after they've served their sentence.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Conservative U.S. Supreme Court justices were joined by liberal Stephen Breyer on Wednesday in signaling sympathy toward Ohio's policy of purging infrequent voters from registration rolls — a practice critics say disenfranchises thousands of people — in a pivotal voting rights case.
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While Republicans say the fees are part of an ex-felon's sentence and are thus obligatory, Democrats and opponents of the bill argue that the measure disenfranchises felons from voting and ignores the will of over 5 million Floridians who supported the statewide referendum.
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The NEA long ago stopped serving educators who support or remain open to reform, but their current behavior disenfranchises those educators who disagree or remain unconvinced by reform proposals, but want to listen, learn, consider, counter, and compromise in order to solve real problems.
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While Republicans have argued that the fees are part of an ex-felon's sentence and are thus obligatory, Democrats and critics of the bill argue that the measure disenfranchises felons from voting and ignores the will of over 5 million Floridians who supported the statewide referendum.
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Nightcap: The latest news and political buzz from CNN Politics | Sign up Trump is already making the case that the system is inherently unfair and is a symptom of the insider politics practiced by distant elites that disenfranchises grass-roots voters like those who have flocked to his campaign.
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"The Act subverts the franchise for cheap political gain, creates an extra-constitutional qualification for the office of President, and effectively disenfranchises voters by denying their right to associate for the advancement of political beliefs and effectively cast a vote for the otherwise qualified candidate of their choosing," the Republican complaint argues.
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Critics also contend that the law disenfranchises minorities, elders and college students who tend to vote Democratic and may not have the required documents readily available Kobach's office didn't respond to request for comment ahead of the trial, but has staunchly defended the law in court filings, saying it's needed to prevent voter fraud by people in the country illegally.
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Hispanics are about twice as likely as whites to find themselves bereft of a photo ID on election day, and the impact is even more pronounced for blacks, who are three times more likely than whites to be excluded from polling places because they lack proper ID. The law falls harder on the poor, too: it has no effect on 97.4% of voters with incomes between $100,000 and $150,000 but effectively disenfranchises more than a fifth of voters earning less than $20,000.
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This led to a lack of awareness on the part of these vulnerable groups until lease agreements have already been signed to transfer land. This oversight in consultations further disenfranchises previously overlooked communities and worsens power inequities in local villages.
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However, in Kentucky, a felon's rights can be restored after the completion of a restoration process to regain civil rights. In 2007, Florida legislature restored voting rights to convicted felons who had served their sentences. In March 2011, however, Governor Rick Scott reversed the 2007 reforms. He signed legislation that permanently disenfranchises citizens with past felony convictions.
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Opponents of filling Gadsden creek believe that filling the creek disenfranchises the historic African American Gadsden Green (also known as the Back Da Green) community. While proponents of the plan believe that modern-day Gadsden Creek is just a "reiteration" of the waterway with historic ties to the African American community and that filling the creek will cut off the creek's pollutants from leaking into the Ashley River.
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New York disenfranchises felons both while they are in prison and while they are on parole. The Sentencing Project favors restoring these rights. New York allows absentee ballots for "registered voters who cannot make it to the polls on Election Day because of occupation, business, studies, travel, imprisonment (other than a convicted felon), illness, disability and hospitalization or resident in a long term care facility".Absentee Voting, Board of Elections in the City of New York.
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An offender given a sentence of home detention will not be caught by this legislation and as such will not be removed from the electoral roll. The opposition also noted the position was not changing for prisoners housed in a hospital instead of a prison.Charles Chauvel (21 April 2010) 662 NZPD 10343 Under previous legislation, they were both treated the same, but the new legislation disenfranchises offenders housed in prisons, but those housed in secure hospitals are still allowed to vote if their sentence is less than three years.
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Linbeck is the chairman of the Competitive Governance Institute and Competitive Governance Action. According to the group's mission statement, Competitive Governance Action "exists to challenge the increasing domination of decision-making in Washington that disenfranchises ordinary citizens, protects incumbents from challenges to their power and position, and allows career politicians to avoid accountability for their actions." The group's efforts include a "Primary Pledge" to encourage citizens to vote in primary elections, support for interstate compacts, including the Health Care Compact, and organization of a coalition to repeal the Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
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In the weeks before the 2016 election, Frank uses ICO as a pretext to enacting martial law in urban areas and consolidating polling places in key states. Done mainly through back channels with Democratic governors, this is officially done in the name of safety, but in practice disenfranchises rural Republican voters. To keep the strategy of fear going, Doug blackmails hacker Aidan Macallan into launching a massive cyberattack on the NSA, slowing down Internet traffic and wiping out hundreds of thousands of files. The Underwood Administration pins the attack on ICO.
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The Voter Participation Center launched the largest voter campaign in its history in 2020, with a goal of registering 1 million voters. Ahead of the 2020 election, the group said it was mailing 5.4 million registration forms, including 520,000 in Pennsylvania. The group also conducted polling that found young people, people of color and unmarried women were likely to vote against Donald Trump, including a growing number of working class white women, many of whom voted for him in 2016. The group has also argued that aggressive deadlines for registering to vote disenfranchises many voters.
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From 1972 to 1978, he served as a judge in Brownville, Alabama. He was elected to the Alabama House of Representatives in 1986, and was elected as the speaker pro tempore in 1998, becoming the first Black speaker pro tempore in Alabama's history. He served in the role until 2010, when Republicans became the majority party. While a member of the Alabama House, Newton campaigned for a constitutional convention to replace the Constitution of Alabama, written in 1901, which he contended contains language that disenfranchises Blacks and the poor.
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The Court noted that the Government could not demonstrate how denying prisoners the vote helped the stated aims of the relevant statute; a democracy built on inclusiveness, democracy and citizen participation cannot be party to a law that disenfranchises a considerable part of the population. There was also no credible theory why prisoners should be denied the right to vote as a form of punishment, as it is arbitrary and not related to the offender's criminal act nor does it deter crime or rehabilitate criminals.Sauvé, paras. 20–53. The foregoing cases may be contrasted with the position in the United States.
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Another reform pushed by Block was the elimination of straight-ticket or "master lever" voting, which allows voters to cast a ballot for all candidates of a single political party with one vote, arguing that it confuses and disenfranchises voters. The master lever was first introduced to Rhode Island in 1939 when voting machines required voters to physically pull multiple levers to cast a vote. These machines were eventually replaced with a modern electronic system in the late 1990s, however, the laws remained in place. Block was among those who testified before the Rhode Island Senate in a judiciary hearing on the elimination of the master lever in March 2012.
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Winburn defeated independent candidate David Wilson by 13,000 votes to take a second term in 2010.Brunner, Jennifer 2010 general election results (2010-11-02) Currently, Winburn is on the committees of Ways and Means; Economic and Small Business Development; and Criminal Justice (as ranking member). Area lawmakers win House committee leadership jobs He also serves on the Commission on Minority Health;Area’s state lawmakers take leadership spots the State Criminal Sentencing Commission; as well as the Speed and Scale Taskforce. Winburn has come out against a measure that looks to require a photo ID to cast a ballot, stating that it disenfranchises minorities in the polling places.
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Richard Msowoya is a Malawian politician who served as Speaker of the National Assembly of Malawi from 2014 to 2019. Msowoya served as Deputy Minister of Education in Bingu wa Mutharika's cabinet but he resigned following the introduction of the controversial 'equitable' selection of students into Malawian public higher education institutions, dubbed, 'the quota' system which, presumably, disenfranchises capable students from more populous and intellectually more gifted districts. He was elected as a member of the National Assembly on 20 May 2014, and on 16 June 2014 he was elected as Speaker of the National Assembly, receiving 101 votes against 89 for Francis Kasaila. He was also the running mate of Lazarus Chakwera, the Malawi Congress Party's presidential candidate in the May 2014 general elections.
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As a result, people using many major UK ISPs were blocked from viewing the entire article by the Cleanfeed system, and a large part of the UK was blocked from editing Wikipedia owing to the means of blocking in use. Following representations by the Wikimedia Foundation (who host the Wikipedia website)"Censorship in the United Kingdom disenfranchises tens of thousands of Wikipedia editors" , Wikimedia Foundation press release, 7 December 2008 and public complaints,ZDNet cites "floods of angry users". the IWF reversed their decision three days later and confirmed that in future they would not block copies of the image that were hosted overseas. The IWF stated that one of the reasons for reversing their decision was that it had increased public interest in the image, an example of the Streisand effect.
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In December 2008, the Internet Watch Foundation, a UK-based non-government organization, added the Wikipedia article Virgin Killer to its internet blacklist due to the album cover's image and the illegality of child pornography in that country; the image had been assessed by IWF as being the lowest level of legal concern: "erotic posing with no sexual activity". As a result, people using many major UK ISPs were blocked from viewing the entire article by the Cleanfeed system,AP: Wikipedia article blocked in UK over child photo and a large part of the UK was blocked from editing Wikipedia owing to the means used by the IWF to block the image. Following discussion, representations by the Wikimedia Foundation,"Censorship in the United Kingdom disenfranchises tens of thousands of Wikipedia editors" , Wikimedia Foundation press release, 7 December 2008 and public complaints,ZDNet cites "floods of angry users". the IWF reversed their decision three days later, and confirmed that in future they would not block copies of the same image that were hosted overseas.
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