Examples of such violations might range from racially biased redistricting to moving polling places out of minority neighborhoods.
Might early advertising be useful for raising money or generating media coverage or other things besides moving poll numbers?
Under federal oversight, the city has submitted more than 2,000 proposed electoral changes for approval by the Justice Department, which have included moving polling places and translating election materials into Bengali, Chinese and Russian.
In other words, if one party sees that another attracts more minority votes — and we have seen this — it can have a motive for playing with the laws and moving polling stations to suppress turnout, a motivation that has to do with power rather than with simple, crude, racism.
From moving polling locations in areas with high populations of minority voters to instating strict voter ID laws and slashing early voting periods, Americans across the country continue to face new restrictions on their right to vote.
There was something tawdry about the Tory press officers prowling the press room afterwards, bothering to spin a debate their man had not bothered (as it were) to attend himself.None of this, alone, is likely to move polls.
Personal attacks move poll numbers more readily than policy papers do.
Months of effort by President Carter and his administration failed to move poll figures showing public opposition to transferring the canal to Panama.
Just to be safe, Rivas moved Poll along slowly so she would not have to compete against her sister, who is older by two and a half years.
COLUMBUS — Several counties in southeastern Ohio have reported flooding from the winter storm that began last night, forcing elections officials to seek court approval to move polling locations and in some cases, to allow voters to cast ballots at the county boards of elections rather than individual precinct sites.
