Whites Faced Election Bias In Mississippi, Judge Rules
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JACKSON, Miss., June 29 -- The head of a Mississippi Democratic Party organization illegally suppressed white residents' votes, a federal judge ruled Friday in the first case filed by the Justice Department alleging that whites were subjected to voting discrimination based on their race.
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When Steve Cohen, a white man, was elected last year to represent mostly black Memphis in Congress, it was seen as a sign that racial divisions were fading in this Southern city.
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A lawsuit demanding touch-screen voting machines be made to produce paper records will not be heard until Oct. 18, a judge ruled Friday, raising doubts that any significant changes to the system used by about half of Florida's voters will happen before the election.
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A Nov. 4 special election date is now in place for the U.S. Senate seat vacated in late December by Mississippi Republican Trent Lott and currently held on an interim basis by Republican Roger Wicker. That date was permitted Wednesday by the state's Supreme Court, ruling in a partisan dispute over the scheduling of the contest.
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White candidates should be barred from standing for Parliament in up to eight constituencies in order to get more black and Asian MPs elected, says a controversial report commissioned by Labour's deputy leader, Harriet Harman
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A federal judge who once struck down Georgia's voter identification law has approved a revised version, dismissing a lawsuit aimed at stopping the state from enforcing the statute.
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Add another item to the list of interesting political developments in Mississippi. Powerful Republican Sen. Trent Lott unexpectedly resigned. Then, Rep. Roger Wicker was appointed to succeed him, opening up Wicker's seat in the 1st District seat. Now, the race for Mississippi's 3rd district -- an open seat -- is taking shape.
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State Democrats seeking compensation in an Election Day 2002 phone-jamming scheme can argue that the GOP plot hindered their get-out-the-vote efforts, a judge has decided.
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DENVER, Sept. 22 -- A judge on Friday chastised state officials for botching efforts to ensure that electronic voting machines are tamper-proof, but he cleared them for use in the November election, saying it is too late now to change course.
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The NAACP sued Volusia County's elections supervisor, alleging the county disenfranchises blacks by having only one early voting site in an area where fewer minorities live.
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Last week&#39;s approval by US District Judge Henry Wingate of a consent decree restoring thousands of Mississippians to the Medicaid rolls was the right thing to do for two reasons.
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A federal judge on Tuesday ordered Duval County to install special voting machines for blind and disabled voters in time for the November election.
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CLEVELAND -- A federal court judge has ruled that partisan challengers at Ohio polling locations is unconstitutional. The judge was asked to stop more than 3,000 Republicans who are planning to monitor polling places and challenge voters.
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark.  - An Arkansas judge ruled on  Monday that presidential candidate Ralph Nader's name be  removed from ballots in the state because his campaign did not  meet qualifications for being listed.
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By The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Feb. 26--The editorials of The Wall Street Journal often give voice to  some of the most erudite thinking in the American media. So it is  disheartening to hear that voice twist -- or ignore -- reality in order to  savage Mississippians.
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A federal judge ruled on Monday that  Florida's elections division did not need to create a paper  trail for the controversial touchscreen voting systems that  will be used by about half the state's voters in next week's  presidential election.
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Requiring photos as proof of identity to vote is an unconstitutional burden that resurrects memories of Jim Crow-era laws designed to keep blacks from the polls, former Gov. Roy Barnes told the state's highest court Monday.