When Congress nearly unanimously reauthorized the Voting Rights Act in 2006, it relied on abundant evidence that there is still pervasive, persistent, even Jim Crow-style voting discrimination in the South and elsewhere — including in Shelby County and other parts of Alabama.
LAS VEGAS, Oct. 30 - Amid persistent complaints of voting fraud, including charges that Democrats' registration forms were discarded by Republican-financed registrars, voters in Nevada went to the polls in record numbers during a two-week early-voting period that ended Friday.
For many people today – including the voters in Ferrol who recently channelled their anger over double-digit unemployment and persistent corruption into votes for the citizen-led Ferrol en Común – the coalition signals a break with Franco's way of seeing politics.
Two pervasive and persistent myths about racial voting in the modern South are behind the notion that Mr. Obama might win in places like Georgia, North Carolina and Mississippi.
With Sunday's vote, the persistent Republican assertion that Democrats were cutting their own political throats has now devolved into hundreds of individual campaigns of persuasion.
The Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants has voted for a global ban of hexabromocyclododecane (HBCD), a common flame retardant in insulation, textiles, and electronics.
They include tighter surveillance of euro nations' budgets, perhaps by the European Central Bank, stricter rules and the suspension or removal of E.U. funds or voting rights for persistent offenders.
I think of the persistent racial inequities in education, voting rights, and immigration, and the need in each of these areas for champions who will answer the question posed by Mordechai to Esther and utilize what privilege, power, access and relationships we have to stand for the oppressed and compel our country toward change.
Ms. Mah, one of Mr. Kobach's most persistent critics, trails by 44 votes.
That has led to persistent allegations of corruption and vote-buying by pro-whaling nations.
