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Voting Rights Headlines

A list of the most recent stories about Voting Rights.

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Correction: Immigrant Voting story

In a story May 9 about a proposal to allow some non-citizens to vote in New York City local elections, The Associated Press reported erroneously that Chicago allows immigrants to vote in school board elections. Members of the Chicago Board of Education are appointed, not elected. A corrected version of ...

NYC weighs allowing many immigrants to vote

Agha Saleh came to the United States inspired by democratic ideals, but it took him years to achieve a basic one here: voting. He'd lived through political upheaval in his native Pakistan and was eager to be part of America's storied "government of the people." But for the eight years ...

Music boosts positive message at Girls Rock! camp

Through the whine of guitars and the pounding of drums, a little bit of teenage angst was working its way out on stage. No Direction, a punk band made up of 13- and 14-year-old girls, powered through their original songs about everything from striking out on their own to bad ...

Justice Department OKs ousting Texas school board

State-appointed managers will take over the El Paso Independent School District after the U.S. Department of Justice said it won't oppose ousting the locally elected school board in the wake of a testing scandal at several of high schools. Texas Education Commissioner Michael Williams named the new board of managers ...

Highlights from around the Capitol

A proposal to criminalize "ballot harvesting" of mail-in votes roiled partisan tensions in the Texas House on Thursday and shattered a truce between Republicans and Democrats this session that had largely averted divisive voting rights measures. The bill targets what Republicans say is rife with potential voting fraud: political individuals ...

Groups object to restrictions in elections bill

Several groups on Monday criticized language in an elections bill that they say would make it more difficult for some minority, disabled and elderly voters to cast ballots. A provision in the wide-ranging bill wouldn't allow voters to use assistants to cast ballots if they didn't previously know them. Also, ...

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