Report on voting in America : ensuring free and fair access to the ballot /
Butterfield, G. K. 1947-
Report on voting in America : ensuring free and fair access to the ballot / At head of title: Committee on House Administration, Chairperson Zoe Lofgren Ensuring free and fair access to the ballot Voting in America : ensuring free and fair access to the ballot prepared by Chair G.K. Butterfield. - 124 pages ; 28 cm
Shipping list no.: 2022-0003-P. "July 2021." "117th Congress."
Includes bibliographical references.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY -- Committee in House Administration and Subcommittee on Elections CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION AND THE HISTORY OF DISCRIMINATION IN VOTING -- America's Long History of Discriminating in Voting -- A Constitutional Right to Vote -- The Voting Rights Act, Precedent, and Shelby County V. Holder -- The Subcommittee on Elections Investigation of Current Discrimination in Voting CHAPTER TWO: DISCRIMINATORY PRACTICES IN VOTING: AN OVERVIEW -- Overview CHAPTER THREE: VOTER LIST MAINTENANCE PRACTICES AND THE PURGING OF ELIGIBLE VOTERS -- Background -- The Disproportionate and Discriminatory Burden and Impact of List Maintenance Practices on Minority Voters CHAPTER FOUR: VOTER IDENTIFICATION AND DOCUMENTARY PROOF-OF-CITIZENSHIP REQUIREMENTS -- Background -- The Disproportionate and Discriminatory Burden and Impact on Minority Voters of Voted ID and Documentary Proof-of-Citizenship Laws -- Additional Evidence of Discriminatory Purpose CHAPTER FIVE: ACCESS TO MULTI-LINGUAL VOTING MATERIALS AND ASSISTANCE -- Background -- The Disproportionate and Discriminatory Burden and Impact of Lack of Access to Multilingual Voting Materials and Support CHAPTER SIX: POLLING PLACE CLOSURES, CONSOLIDATIONS, RELOCATIONS, AND LONG WAIT TIMES AT THE POLLS -- Background -- The Disproportionate and Discriminatory Burden and Impact of Polling Place Closures, Consolidations, and Relocations, Wait Times, and Lack of Resources on Minority Voters CHAPTER SEVEN: RESTRICTING OPPORTUNITIES TO VOTE -- Background -- Cutbacks and Restrictions on Opportunities to Vote and the Discriminatory and Disproportionate Burden and Impact on Minority Voters CHAPTER EIGHT: CHANGES TO METHODS OF ELECTION, JURISDICTIONAL BOUNDARIES, AND REDISTRICTING -- Background -- The Disproportionate and Discriminatory Burden and Impact on mInority Voters of Changes in Methods of Election, Jurisdictional Boundaries, and Redistricting
2020477195
Voting--United States.
Voter suppression--United States.
Voter turnout--United States.
Suffrage--United States.
Election law--States.--United States
Election law--U.S. states.
Suffrage.
Voter suppression.
Voter turnout.
Voting.
United States.
Legislative materials.
Legislative materials.
JK1967 / .B88 2021
1018-A
Y 4.H 81/3:V 94/55
Report on voting in America : ensuring free and fair access to the ballot / At head of title: Committee on House Administration, Chairperson Zoe Lofgren Ensuring free and fair access to the ballot Voting in America : ensuring free and fair access to the ballot prepared by Chair G.K. Butterfield. - 124 pages ; 28 cm
Shipping list no.: 2022-0003-P. "July 2021." "117th Congress."
Includes bibliographical references.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY -- Committee in House Administration and Subcommittee on Elections CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION AND THE HISTORY OF DISCRIMINATION IN VOTING -- America's Long History of Discriminating in Voting -- A Constitutional Right to Vote -- The Voting Rights Act, Precedent, and Shelby County V. Holder -- The Subcommittee on Elections Investigation of Current Discrimination in Voting CHAPTER TWO: DISCRIMINATORY PRACTICES IN VOTING: AN OVERVIEW -- Overview CHAPTER THREE: VOTER LIST MAINTENANCE PRACTICES AND THE PURGING OF ELIGIBLE VOTERS -- Background -- The Disproportionate and Discriminatory Burden and Impact of List Maintenance Practices on Minority Voters CHAPTER FOUR: VOTER IDENTIFICATION AND DOCUMENTARY PROOF-OF-CITIZENSHIP REQUIREMENTS -- Background -- The Disproportionate and Discriminatory Burden and Impact on Minority Voters of Voted ID and Documentary Proof-of-Citizenship Laws -- Additional Evidence of Discriminatory Purpose CHAPTER FIVE: ACCESS TO MULTI-LINGUAL VOTING MATERIALS AND ASSISTANCE -- Background -- The Disproportionate and Discriminatory Burden and Impact of Lack of Access to Multilingual Voting Materials and Support CHAPTER SIX: POLLING PLACE CLOSURES, CONSOLIDATIONS, RELOCATIONS, AND LONG WAIT TIMES AT THE POLLS -- Background -- The Disproportionate and Discriminatory Burden and Impact of Polling Place Closures, Consolidations, and Relocations, Wait Times, and Lack of Resources on Minority Voters CHAPTER SEVEN: RESTRICTING OPPORTUNITIES TO VOTE -- Background -- Cutbacks and Restrictions on Opportunities to Vote and the Discriminatory and Disproportionate Burden and Impact on Minority Voters CHAPTER EIGHT: CHANGES TO METHODS OF ELECTION, JURISDICTIONAL BOUNDARIES, AND REDISTRICTING -- Background -- The Disproportionate and Discriminatory Burden and Impact on mInority Voters of Changes in Methods of Election, Jurisdictional Boundaries, and Redistricting
2020477195
Voting--United States.
Voter suppression--United States.
Voter turnout--United States.
Suffrage--United States.
Election law--States.--United States
Election law--U.S. states.
Suffrage.
Voter suppression.
Voter turnout.
Voting.
United States.
Legislative materials.
Legislative materials.
JK1967 / .B88 2021
1018-A
Y 4.H 81/3:V 94/55