Civil rights movement

Article Abstract:

The civil rights movement which gathered momentum in the late 1950s and early 1960s had inspired the passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965 to ban poll taxes, literacy tests and similar tactics. The US President George W. Bush reauthorized the legislation, which was due to expire in 2006, on July 27th, despite the opposition from many republicans towards extending it, and claimed that Congress, through reauthorization of the act, has reaffirmed its belief that all men are created equal.

Civil rights movements

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Partisan muddle

Article Abstract:

The political divide in the US is still continuing to set the tone of debates over election administration. Election law experts claim that the left-right political divide fault line running through the country show little signs of narrowing till 2016, particularly if virtually all election systems continue to be supervised by officials who are political partisans.

Election monitoring, Political systems

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Democratic experiment

Article Abstract:

The concept of Democratic, free and fair elections in the colonial and modern US is discussed. The rampage during the 1898 congressional elections set the stage for a state constitutional amendment in 1900 that formally disenfranchised African-Americans.

African Americans, Civil rights, Congressional elections, Disfranchisement

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