This newsletter was sent to everyone on Jim’s email list (2,290) on Friday, October 15, 2021. If you grew up in the American South in the 1950s and 1960s and paid attention to the news (here, guilty on all counts), you would have heard the name of Fannie Lou Hamer, a Mississippi woman who upset • Read More »
When the Second Boer War between the British Empire and the Boer states in southern-most Africa broke out in the fall of 1899, the British newspaper reading public could be sure of one thing: the newspapers in London would spare no expense in their efforts to cover the war and to bring home exciting stories • Read More »
The suffrage ladies may not be done with me. Those were the women who, between 1910 and 1920, affected the most profound change in the make-up of the electorate in the history of the Republic. In 2013, Seeing Suffrage was published by the University of Tennessee Press. The book was about the 1913 Washington suffrage • Read More »
Tags: 1913 Washington Suffrage Parade, Alice Paul, Nashville, protest, Securing Suffrage, Silent Sentinels, suffrage, Woodrow Wilson
A century ago, newspaper humorist Finley Peter Dunne, speaking through his wise-beyond-years character Mr. Martin Dooley, ended a soliloquy about the Court by saying:
“That is, no matther whether th’ constitution follows th’ flag or not, th’ supreme coort follows th’ iliction returns.”
No One in America Should Have to Wait 7 Hours to Vote – The Atlantic.
Tags: election, suffrage, voter rights, voting
The New York Times has a roundup of early voting around the country and how it has changed the pace of elections.
Tags: Democrats, early voting, New York Times, Republicans, voting
Ori Eisen, founder, chairman and chief innovation officer of online security firm 41st Parameter, makes the case for taking voting online in this Gigaon blog post, It’s Time to Take the Election Online.
Tags: electronic voting, franchise, online voting, suffrage, voter fraud, voters, voting, voting procedures
The Voting Rights Act has been around for a very long time and has become part of the political fabric of the nation, especially the states in the South that are the specific targets of the act.
Tags: discrimination, Huffington Post, suffrage, Supreme Court, voting, Voting Rights Act
This super graphic shows how the US ranks in terms of voter turnout and other issues related to the push to change the voting system.
Tags: Nineteenth Amendment, voter participation, voter turnout, voting, voting procedures, why tuesday
Check out this interactive graphic to see what your state’s requirements are concerning photo identification required to vote in this year’s election! http://www.ncsl.org/legislatures-elections/elections/voter-id.aspx
Tags: Nineteenth Amendment, voter rights, voting, voting fraud, voting regulations
This idea of denying people who have been convicted of crimes the right to vote has been debated for a couple of centuries now. It is viewed by many as retribution for an act against society. Should it be forever?
Tags: electorate, suffrage, voters, voting
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Tags: voter participation, voters, voting, women, young women
Postcards are few and far between these days, but the message on this postcard from the 1900’s speaks a sentiment that echoes throughout history and remains relevant today. Let us carry these words on to future generations!
Tags: Nineteenth Amendment, photographs, suffrage, voting, women, women's suffrage
We like to think that our voting decisions are at some distance from our personal well being, but that’s not always the case. Accepting money for voting one way when we might have voted the other is abhorrent to many of us, and it’s not the way democracy should work.
Tags: David Farhenthold, selling votes, suffrage, voting, voting fraud, Washington Post
The case of the Kansas territory demonstrates that Americans think of voting as a central act of democracy. They like to have confidence in the results of voting, no matter what those results are. When that confidence is shaken, there are consequences.
Tags: Border Ruffians, free soilers, Kansas, Kansas-Nebraska Act, pro-slavery, territories, voters, voting
Voters at that time did not vote directly for candidates for the U.S. Senate. The race was over who would be elected to the state legislature, which had the power to name the senators from the state. Lincoln lost the election to Douglas not because there was a sudden flood of illegal Irish voters into the electorate but more likely because the incumbent senator began with such a decided advantage in that electoral system.
Tags: Abraham Lincoln, electorate, George McClellan, Illinois, Illinois Central Railroad, Lincoln-Douglas debates, Stephen Douglas, voters, voting, voting fraud
Despite 100 years between the printing of this pamphlet and today, the sentiments expressed here are still shared by many, both nationally and internationally. The discussion on suffrage remains relevant.
Tags: 19th Amendment, suffrage, voting, women's history, women's suffrage
The underlying tone of one is that expanding the electorate will help President Barack Obama get re-elected. The underlying tone of the other is that putting more legal controls on who votes and when will aid the Republicans and Mitt Romney.
Tags: Barack Obama, Democrats, Fifteenth Amendment, Get out the vote, Mitt Romney, Nineteenth Amendment, Republicans, voter fraud, voters