Saturday, October 08, 2005
Update: NC Battle to Win the Right for Homeless People to Vote
"County Democratic Party Chairman Michael D. Evans, representatives of the Black Political Caucus, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN and several elected officials gathered in Charlotte on Tuesday to criticize James," who refuses to accept a temporary shelter as a legal address for voter registration by the homeless. An earlier story about this particular battle in the long struggle for universal suffrage. Could the outcome of this show-down set a federal legal precedent for denying the homeless the right to vote? If a senator finds the gumption to ask Bush's Supreme Court nominees whether the U.S. constitution guarantees all citizens the right to vote, perhaps that would help expose the need for a constitutional amendment establishing that right.
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