Sentence examples for enforce voting from inspiring English sources

WASHINGTON — Days after his administration filed suit against Texas to protect minority voters, President Obama told civil rights leaders and local officials on Monday that the federal government would vigorously enforce voting rights in the country despite a Supreme Court ruling against a core section of a landmark 1965 law, several participants said after a White House meeting.

The associate countries are discriminated against and even within that boys club there is discrimination among them where basically the powerful get their way and enforce voting by threats, intimidation, under-the-table deals.

More telling, in its way, than the ultimate failure to enforce voting rights in the South was Akerman's resignation from Grant's Administration, in December of 1871, and the reasons for it.

Michael Benjamin, a former state assemblyman in the Bronx, said that the law had helped scores of minorities get elected to office in the borough, and that it should now fall to those local officials, not the federal government, to enforce voting rights.

Today, these same conservatives are fuming that the U.S. Department of Justice is promising to use the Civil Rights Act to enforce voting rights and other measures to protect immigrants.

He pushed a serious civil rights bill which enforced voting rights and cracked down on discrimination.

In some cases, the lawyers are compiling dossiers on the people involved and their track records on enforcing voting rights.

But while the report recounts "troubling" episodes and a "potential appearance of politicized decision-making," it "generally did not substantiate the allegations we heard about partisan or racial motivations" or favoritism in enforcing voting rights laws in either administration.

These kinds of legal actions, though expensive and difficult, are likely to become the principal tool for enforcing voting rights, and the department needs to gear up to fight many more of them.

There seems to be little chance that Mr. Bush will appoint the sort of attorney general that the nation needs, a job that includes enforcing voting rights laws and civil rights laws and ensuring that criminal prosecutions are done fairly.

Although the campaign was not tailoring its message to black voters, another staffer said that Jones was focussing on a message of "inclusiveness" — access to affordable health care and education, improvements to the school system, and enforcing voting rights.