Vote

View the full speech here: http://millercenter.org/scripps/archive/speeches/detail/3386

Johnson states that every man should have the right to vote and that the civil rights problems challenge the entire country, not one region or group. The President asks Congress to help him pass legislation that dictates clear, uniform guidelines for voting regardless of race or ethnicity and that allows all citizens to register to vote free from harassment.

March 15th, 1965

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Get Out Her Vote 2008

College students are frequently told that they risk losing their financial aid if they register to vote at their university or college address. That’s simply not true! Students have a right to register and vote where they attend college, which eliminates the need for absentee ballots.

Join our Get Out HER Vote campaign by sharing this message with your e-mail list. Make sure your circle of friends and family count in this historic year.

Together we can make sure our votes are a key part of this election.

www.feministcampus.org/votenow

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Meles Zenawi, the Ethiopian prime minister, presides over the country with the second-largest population in Africa.

Zenawi has been the prime minister of Ethiopia since 1991 but he has most recently been in the headlines for his role in the country’s upcoming elections.

Crtitics claim it is impossible for the opposition to win Sunday’s vote because of legal restrictions imposed by the current administration.

In an interview with Al Jazeera’s Andrew Simmons, Zenawi spoke about his country’s often poor human rights record.

[20, May, 2010]

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October 20, 2008
Fayetteville, North Carolina
Washington Times reported that McCain supporters shouted & heckle voters entering voting polls. Tires slashed

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Residents of McComb, Mississippi discuss the summer of 1964 – when they risked their lives for the right to vote.

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There were problems with the primaries in Indiana. Twelve nuns were not allowed to vote because of Indiana’s strict new law requiring a valid, current photo ID in order to vote. Seven percent of Americans lack the required paperwork to prove citizenship, which is required to get a government-issued ID in many states. Strict laws that require these documents at the polls disenfranchise voters – and are a solution in search of a problem. Voter impersonation fraud was documented only 24 times from 2002 to 2005 throughout the country. The primaries in Indiana did not go off without a hitch.

All Americans have the right to vote, even if they don’t have access to a valid, current photo ID. Our democracy works best when all Americans participate.

For more info, please visit www.projectvote.org.

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Thomas Ferguson (born 1949) is an American political scientist and author who studies and writes on politics and economics, often within a historical perspective.

Michael Stanley Dukakis (born November 3, 1933) served as the 65th and 67th Governor of Massachusetts from 19751979 and from 1983-1991, and was the Democratic presidential nominee in 1988. He was born to Greek immigrants of partly Vlach origin in Brookline, Massachusetts, also the birthplace of John F. Kennedy, and was the longest serving governor in Massachusetts history. He was the second Greek American governor in U.S. history after Spiro Agnew.

Stephen Grover Cleveland (March 18, 1837 – June 24, 1908) was the 22nd and 24th President of the United States. Cleveland is the only president to serve two non-consecutive terms (1885-1889 and 1893-1897) and therefore is the only individual to be counted twice in the numbering of the presidents. He was the winner of the popular vote for president three times – in 1884, 1888, and 1892 – and was the only Democrat elected to the presidency in the era of Republican political domination that lasted from 1860 to 1912. Cleveland’s admirers praise him for his honesty, independence, integrity, and commitment to the principles of classical liberalism. As a leader of the Bourbon Democrats, he opposed imperialism, taxes, subsidies and inflationary policies. As a reformer he also worked against corruption, patronage, and bossism.

Some of Cleveland’s actions caused controversy within his own party. He used the presidential veto 584 times, far more than any president before him. His intervention in the Pullman Strike of 1894 in order to keep the railroads moving angered labor unions, and his support of the gold standard and opposition to free silver alienated the agrarian wing of the Democrats. Furthermore, critics complained that he had little imagination and seemed overwhelmed by the nation’s economic disasters – depressions and strikes – in his second term. Even so, his reputation for honesty and good character survived the troubles of his second term. Biographer Allan Nevins wrote, “in Grover Cleveland the greatness lies in typical rather than unusual qualities. He had no endowments that thousands of men do not have. He possessed honesty, courage, firmness, independence, and common sense. But he possessed them to a degree other men do not.”

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