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Month: November 2024

What is the ‘Gingles Test’ and How Does it Impact Minority Voting Rights?

November 28, 2024November 28, 2024
Federal courts often use the “Gingles Test” when determining whether a gerrymandered redistricting map is a violation of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. How that test is interpreted can determine whether minority voters can elect the candidate of their choice, or their vote is diluted by an anti-voter state legislature.
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Voter Suppression of Native Americans is on the Rise.  Three Pieces of Pending Legislation Could End It.

November 27, 2024November 27, 2024
On Thanksgiving, we're rerunning a report from earlier this fall on the increase in suppression of Native American voters, who've been targeted by anti-voter state and local legislators for their consistently liberal voting patterns.
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The Constitution’s Foreign Emoluments Clause was Intended to Stop Bribery and Corruption.  Recently, Not So Much.

November 26, 2024November 26, 2024
The framers of the U.S. Constitution included the Foreign Emoluments Clause because they feared the influence, corruption and bribery they witnessed in Europe’s monarchies.  Why should Americans care about it?
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The Presidential Transition Turns Into One Big Dark Money Special Interest Swamp

November 25, 2024November 25, 2024
Federal election law governs campaign contributions directly to Presidential candidates.  But when an incoming administration refuses to follow the Presidential transition rules, those contributions become an unregulated spigot of special interest dark money. 
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Alaska’s Ranked Choice Voting and ‘Top 4’ Open Primaries Survive Repeal Referendum – By a Whisker

November 24, 2024November 24, 2024
With a razor-thin statewide margin of 664 votes, ranked choice voting and open primaries weathered a repeal challenge in Alaska, one of the few democracy reforms to survive the 2024 Presidential election cycle.  
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