The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in San Antonio, alleges that Texas Secretary of State David Whitley and Attorney General Ken Paxton are violating the Voting Rights Act by attempting to intimidate voters from exercising their suffrage rights.
Voting by mail in New York would both reduce the overall costs of our unworkable system and let New Yorkers exercise suffrage without suffering.
Hazard taught courses on "Women in Industry," "Women in the State," and "History of Housekeeping". She also wrote a number of pamphlets for the Farmers' Wives Reading Course, including Civic Duties of Women (1918), which was widely used and reprinted as women prepared to exercise their suffrage.
Sect. 5 provides, that any person who prevents, hinders, controls, or intimidates any person from exercising the right of suffrage, to whom it is secured by the fifteenth amendment, or attempts to do so, by bribery or threats of violence, or deprivation of property or employment, shall be guilty, &c.
Over the next few years, exercising their newly granted suffrage, African-American voters helped elect hundreds of African-American state legislators across the South, as well as the first African-American Congressmen and many other leaders.
This could be either through exercising one's right to suffrage or by placing political pressure on elected representatives.
With listings of "What's Doing In and Out of Town," plus cartoons, spot illustrations, and Art Deco covers depicting flappers atop horses and suffrage-granted women exercising their liberation with swim costumes and Lindy Hops, it both celebrated and satirized the high life.
If the bill becomes law, it will lead to increased exercise of suffrage in the South, and will help restore American prestige in the parts of the world where it has been lowered by reports of the disenfranchisement of American Negroes.
In electing the European Parliament by direct suffrage, EU citizens are exercising one of their essential rights in the European Union, that of democratic participation in the European political decision-making process (Article 39 of the EUCFR).
Property in land also conferred civic privileges, so an unusually large number of male colonists were qualified for suffrage by the Revolution's eve, even though not all of them exercised the vote freely or without traditional deference to the elite.
With a referendum on women's suffrage approaching, she starts to wonder whether exercising her "feminine influence" behind the scenes is a good enough substitute for, you know, democracy.
