🗳️ India begins the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) 2025 — a massive voter list verification drive.
Residents must fill and submit the enumeration form with valid ID and address proofs to their BLO before the deadline.
Learn what documents are required and how to ensure your name stays in the electoral roll.
#SIR2025 #ElectionCommission #VoterListUpdate #RightToVote #ECI
https://news24media.org/sir-process-2025-begins-in-india/
#righttovote
A Republican and an Unaffiliated Voter join forces at Saturday morning's "No Kings" protest in Lewistown. #nokings #nokingsprotest #protest #protestmarch #protestrally #lewistown #mifflincounty #voters #voting #righttovote #votingrights #democracy #civilrights #exercisingrights
The Ultimate Goal revealed
FASCISTS- Trump, GOP & #Protect2025 know they will lose in 2026
They are doing everything & I mean everything, in their power to guarantee it
They will
LIE
CHEAT
STEAL
GERRYMANDER
& 
PUT ICE AT POLLING PLACES
To intimidate, challenge & SUPPRESS our #RightToVote
My article in @TheJournal about how our generation is being left behind:
#HousingCrisis #theTraitors #Housing #Climate #Democracy #Voting #Ireland #IrishPolitics #Irish #YoungPeople #GenerationRent #LeftBehind #Renting #Tenants #VotingAbroad #RightToVote #FiannaFáil #FineGael #TraitorsIRL
#VisuallyImpaired #voters sue #NewHampshire over changes to #Absentee #BallotAccess
The plaintiffs say the new law will deter some voters with #disabilities from participating in the democratic process at all, even after they have registered to vote
By Steven Porter Globe Staff, Updated August 21, 2025, 9:30 a.m.
"Three people with visual impairments are suing New Hampshire officials to challenge the constitutionality of a law that will soon tighten #PhotoID requirements for voters seeking an #AbsenteeBallot.
"The plaintiffs — Adele Robertson of #ExeterNH, Daniel Frye of #ConcordNH, and Regina Wilson of #BrentwoodNH — allege the new law, known as #SenateBill287, will impose a significant burden on every #AbsenteeVoter statewide.
" 'And, in some cases, these burdens will entirely prevent voters from exercising their #RightToVote,' their lawsuit states.
Under the new rules imposed by #SB287, voters will be required to either bring a photo ID to their local election officials to request an absentee ballot in person, or submit a copy of their ID or a notarized signature along with their application.
While proponents said the legislation will better protect election integrity, critics said the changes will add barriers that disproportionately impact #seniors, voters with #disabilities, and those living in #rural parts of the state."
Read more:
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/21/metro/nh-blind-disabilities-voters-absentee-ballots/
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/DWXKG
#VoterDisenfranchisement #DisabilityRights #USPol #NHPol #AbsenteeVoting #USElections
Here we go again. For years #Trump has decried #election security, and now he threatens to withhold #ElectionSecurity funds from states…While at the same time removing the rule that explicitly banned using federal grant money for activities that "could be used to suppress #VoterRegistration or turnout."
To be clear: He wants to make it okay to suppress your #RightToVote by taking money away from election security and putting it into #VoterSuppression. https://www.npr.org/2025/08/22/nx-s1-5508345/election-security-grants-trump-voting-policy
A quotation from Franklin Roosevelt
Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves — and the only way they could do this is by not voting.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945) American lawyer, politician, statesman, US President (1933-1945)
Radio Broadcast (1944-10-05)
Sourcing, notes: wist.info/roosevelt-franklin-d…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #fdr #franklinroosevelt #franklindroosevelt #America #apathy #democracy #righttovote #selfdefeating #vote #voting #votingrights
Secretary of Defense #PeteHegseth, who oversees about 3 million #military service members and #civilian employees, reposted a video last week advocating repealing the #19th #Amendment, which #guarantees #women the #righttovote. The video is an excerpt from CNN anchor Pamela Brown's interview with Christian nationalist pastor Doug Wilson, who Brown reports believes "women shouldn't be able to vote." https://apnews.com/article/women-hegseth-defense-secretary-religion-d962f472910fb47a0c66cd37b01f550d #christian #nationalism
AP “Hegseth reposts video on social media featuring pastors saying women shouldn’t be allowed to vote.”
https://apnews.com/article/women-hegseth-defense-secretary-religion-d962f472910fb47a0c66cd37b01f550d
There it is. I knew this was coming. They have made very it clear they are coming for everyone. He says he envisions a country and world where everyone is Christian. I have no problem with christians, but there’s this little thing called freedom of religion? F this guy.
#WomensRights #righttovote #ChristianNationalism #AntiTrump #antifacist
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth sparks controversy by sharing a video featuring pastors calling for the removal of women`s suffrage, raising concerns about Christian nationalism. https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/world/us-defense-secretary-hegseth-reposts-video-of-pastors-saying-women-shouldnt-be-allowed-to-vote-x73s2ejc?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #PeteHegseth #WomenSuffrage #RightToVote #Controversy #ViralVideo
All big changes came from the people not politicians.
#AbolitionofSlavery
#FreeSpeech
#TradeUnions
#RightToVote
#WorkersRights
#WomensSuffrage
#EndofApartheidinSouthAfrica
We will win. Palestine will be free
🍄rump claims there may b violence at pols during Mid-Terms.
Then 🍄rump shld PROTECT voters frm violence by having his most experienced division, #ICE, guarding the pols❗️
Put #ICE to the POSITIVE task of protecting the #RightToVote❗️
B nice @SecNoem -- try 2 b a good Gestapo❗️
"In #Switzerland, #women gained the right to #vote in federal #elections in 1971; but in the canton of #AppenzellInnerrhoden women obtained the #rightToVote on local issues only in 1991, when the canton was forced to do so by the Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland."
@usa See source post for details! #TheGriffinList #NorthCarolina #Ballot reverification.
#RightToVote
I wanted to give you nine hours to celebrate Wisconsin's win. The victory is a bellwether for the people of the US's awakening to the ineptitude and cruelty of the Trump administration. Trump will now redouble his efforts to cheat or ensure the 2026 midterms never happen.
#RightToVote #Resist
Democrats Expect a 2026 Comeba...
What Is A #PollTax? Definition and Examples
By Robert Longley, July 27, 2022
Excerpt: "In the United States, the origin of the poll tax—and the controversy surrounding it—is associated with the agrarian unrest of the 1880s and 1890s, which culminated in the rise of the Populist Party in the Western and the Southern states. The Populists, representing low-income farmers, gave Democrats in these areas the only serious competition that they had experienced since the end of Reconstruction. The competition led both parties to see the need to attract Black citizens back into politics and to compete for their vote. As the Democrats defeated the Populists, they amended their state constitutions or drafted new ones to include various discriminatory disfranchising devices. When the payment of the poll tax was made a prerequisite to voting, impoverished #BlackPeople and often #PoorWhitePeople, unable to afford the tax, were denied the #RightToVote.
"During the post-Civil War Reconstruction Era in the United States, the former states of the Confederacy repurposed the poll tax explicitly to prevent formerly enslaved #BlackAmericans from voting. Although the #14thAmendment and #15thAmendment [s] gave Black men full #citizenship and #VotingRights, the power to determine what constituted a qualified voter was left to the states. Beginning with Mississippi in 1890, #SouthernStates quickly exploited this legal loophole. At its 1890 constitutional convention, Mississippi imposed a $2.00 poll tax and early registration as a requirement for voting. This had catastrophic results for the Black electorate. Whereas approximately 87,000 Black citizens registered to vote in 1869, representing almost 97% of the eligible voting-age population, fewer than 9,000 of them registered to vote after the state’s new constitution took effect in 1892.
"Between 1890 and 1902, all eleven former #Confederate states imposed some form of a poll tax to deter Black Americans from voting. The tax, which ranged from $1 to $2, was prohibitively expensive for most Black sharecroppers, who earned their wages in crops, not currency. Beyond the cost, voter registration and tax payment offices were usually located in public spaces designed to intimidate potential voters, like courthouses and police stations.
"The southern states also enacted #JimCrowLaws intended to reinforce #RacialSegregation and restrict Black voting rights. Along with the poll tax, most of these states also imposed literacy tests, which required potential voters to read and interpret in writing sections of the state constitution. So-called 'grandfather clauses' allowed a person to vote without paying the poll tax or passing the literacy test if their father or grandfather had voted before the abolition of slavery in 1865; a stipulation that automatically precluded all formerly enslaved persons. Together, the grandfather clause and the literacy tests effectively restored voting rights to poorer White voters who could not pay the poll tax, while further suppressing the Black vote.
"Poll taxes of varying stipulations lingered in Southern states well into the 20th century. While some states abolished the tax in the years after World War I, others retained it. Ratified in 1964, the #24thAmendment to the #USConstitution declared the tax unconstitutional in federal elections.
"Specifically, the 24th Amendment states:
'The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice President, for electors for President or Vice President, or for Senator or Representative in Congress, shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any state by reason of failure to pay any poll tax or other tax.'
"President Lyndon B. Johnson called the amendment a 'triumph of liberty over restriction.' 'It is a verification of people's rights, which are rooted so deeply in the mainstream of this nation's history,' he said.
"The #VotingRightsAct of 1965 created significant changes in the voting status of Black Americans throughout the South. The law prohibited the states from using literacy tests and other methods of excluding Black Americans from voting. Before this, only an estimated twenty-three percent of voting-age Black citizens were registered nationally, but by 1969 the number had jumped to sixty-one percent.
"In 1966 the U.S. Supreme Court went beyond the Twenty-fourth Amendment by ruling in the case of Harper v. Virginia Board of Elections that under the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, states could not levy a poll tax as a prerequisite for voting in state and local elections. In two months in the spring of 1966, federal courts declared poll tax laws unconstitutional in the last four states that still had them, starting with Texas on February 9. Similar decisions soon followed in Alabama and Virginia. Mississippi's $2.00 poll tax (about $18 today) was the last to fall, declared unconstitutional on April 8, 1966."
https://www.thoughtco.com/poll-tax-definition-and-examples-5443130
#VoterDisenfranchisement #USPol #USHistory #TwentyFourthAmendment #FourteenthAmendment #FifteenthAmendment #VoterRights #LiteracyTests #USElections #VoterSuppression #BlackAmericans
Did you know that the US of A is currently voting on a bill to take away women's right to vote? This is pure madness!
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