We must mobilize and organize as the March on Washington leaders did, to remove from office those elected officials who would block fair election practices from underserved communities.
Preliminary injunctions to stop discriminatory election practices outside covered areas are rarely granted.
The next year a lower court convicted Gandhi of corrupt election practices, and Narayan called for her resignation.
It would provide $2.5 billion over five years for states to modernize their election practices, obligating those that take grants to meet certain national standards on election practices to be established by a new bipartisan commission.
The elections clause allows Congress to set rules only for federal elections, but those laws almost always guide state election practices, too.
But for dissidents like Ms. Khalip, even small changes in election practices, which were the most that were hoped for in this vote, are pivotally important.
This should be high on the list of election practices to reform, right after the statistical distortion created by the Electoral College system.
The purpose of the Voting Rights Act was to apply a nationwide ban against discriminatory election practices such as literacy tests.
Mr. Inasaridze was among about 20 election officials, journalists and observers from Russia and Georgia at Hunter College yesterday as part of a program sponsored by the State Department that brings international delegations to the United States to study fair election practices.
Seen in this light, the letter is a satire not only on Cicero, but on election practices of the Republic (pilloried by men like Plutarch, whose attacks Shakespeare repeated in "Coriolanus"), and a spoof of the whole "advice" genre.
