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In 1996, with majority voter support, Missouri amended its state constitution's Article VIII. With Article VIII, Missouri hoped to spearhead a movement toward congressional term limits. Thus, this amendment required ballots to display text indicating a candidate's rejection of term limits. On ballots, such text would accompany the names of candidates failing to endorse term limits.
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Texas (defendant) adopted a plan for redistricting the Texas House of Representatives that created multimember districts. The redistricting plan was challenged for diluting minority voting power in violation of the Voting Rights Act (VRA). Two counties were highlighted: Dallas County and Bexar County.
Indiana's Marion County, a multimember district, consisted of several townships with distinct populations. The Center Township ghetto occupied a substantial part of Center Township. Most of this area's inhabitants were African American and faced particular socioeconomic issues. Wealthier tracts in nearby Washington township, although similar in area, hosted smaller populations.
The Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 (FECA) limited campaign-coordinated political-party spending. This regulation aimed to combat political corruption without impeding speech rights. The Colorado Republican Party ran a series of attack ads in April 1986. These ads targeted Timothy Wirth, the probable candidate of the Democratic Party.
Minnesota forbade candidates from receiving nominations from multiple parties (called fusion candidacies). Historically, minor parties and candidates engaged in fusion candidacies to expand their reach. Sometimes, fusion candidacies aimed to factionalize major parties. Most states abandoned and ultimately prohibited fusion candidacies. Minnesota's law, which sought to avoid the adverse effects of fusion candidacies, applied to all parties.
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In 2004, Washington voters approved initiative I-872. This law compelled primary candidates to declare a party affiliation, which would appear on the ballot. A candidate could identify with a party even if not a member of that party. That party's opposition could not prevent the candidate's self-identification.
The Log Cabin Republicans of Texas and the Texas Log Cabin Republicans, Inc. (LCR) (plaintiffs) sought a booth at the 1996 Republican Party of Texas Convention. LCR concerned itself with promoting LGBT civil rights. At first, the Republican Party of Texas (Republican Party) (defendants) greenlit an LCR convention booth.
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Texas mandated that its political parties hold primary elections. Pate, Wischkaemper, and Carter (plaintiffs) each met all but one requirement for inclusion in the Texas Democratic Primary ballot. The three candidates, all seeking to run for local or state offices, failed to pay the required filing fees.
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Georgia implemented a county-unit reapportionment scheme. Effectively, this system favored the votes of larger over smaller rural counties. Moreover, rural-county votes generally counted for more than urban-county votes. Yet on its surface, the scheme abided by the one person, one vote principle. The district court affirmed the constitutionality of Georgia's system.
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In November 1962, two amendments to the Colorado Constitution relating to apportionment of state legislators were considered. Amendment No. 7 proposed apportioning state representatives based on population but maintained the existing system of apportionment of state senators, which combined population with other factors. Amendment No.
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Lassiter (plaintiff), an African American female citizen of North Carolina, sought to register to vote in that state. North Carolina required the administration of a uniform literacy test for voter registration. This test measured the ability of prospective voters to write and read a passage from the North Carolina Constitution.
The State of Hawaii's election laws did not allow voters to cast write-in votes in the state's elections. However, the laws did allow the filing of petitions nominating candidates until two months before a primary election. Hawaii justified the write-in-voting prohibition as part of the state's two-stage, primary-general election process.
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African Americans comprised 43.9 percent of the population of Granville County. This demographic also comprised 40.8 percent of voting-age persons and 39.5 percent of registered voters. Originally, Granville County employed an at-large, county-wide system for electing commissioners. This system violated § 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
San Francisco sought to improve upon the electoral system it employed in some municipal elections. Originally, San Francisco implemented a runoff election system. This system's flaws included the prevalence of strategic voting and wasted ballots. To resolve these issues, San Francisco amended its city charter.
The Illinois Municipal Code permitted both single-member and cumulative voting schemes. Chicago Heights designed a single-member districting plan, which the district court rejected. Instead, the district court designed its own hybrid plan. Pursuant to this plan, voters would select seven council members. Such elections would occur on a municipality-wide, rather than district-wide, basis.
In 1994, Chicago Heights adopted a six single-member district plan. Under this scheme, African Americans would comprise a majority in two districts. Another district would feature a large Hispanic population. This district plan proposed mayoral election by at-large voting. The mayor would possess substantial executive powers, including in tie-breaking, vetoes, and appointments.
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In Ohio, 81 out of 88 counties used non-notice voting technology during the 2000 general election. The remainder of Ohio's counties used notice technology, which alerted voters when an error or failure occurred upon the casting of a ballot. Non-notice voting technology did not alert voters to the occurrence of errors or failures upon the casting of a ballot.
Minnesota voters (plaintiffs) filed suit in state court in January 1991, alleging unconstitutional districting. Another set of plaintiffs brought suit in federal court on similar though not identical claims in March 1991. The two causes of action relied on different laws. Minnesota's legislature developed a redistricting scheme by May, which then underwent corrections.
Roe, Hooper, and Martin (plaintiffs) brought this suit against the State of Alabama (defendant). Alabama Election Code § 17-10-7 required notarization and witnessing of absentee ballots. However, the circuit court compelled the inclusion of noncompliant absentee ballots. This order occurred directly subsequent to the November 8 general election.
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Eagle Township held an election on November 7, 1916. The township's deputy sheriff refused entry to qualified electors, including Venable and Boyd (plaintiffs). This deputy sheriff received his appointment from the conspirators, three judges of the election, on election day.
Miami held an election for executive mayor on November 4, 1997, resulting in an outcome so close that a run-off election occurred on November 13. On November 4, candidate Suarez led in absentee votes and candidate Carollo led in machine votes. In that run-off election, candidate Suarez won over candidate Carollo.
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Shortly after a census, New Jersey enacted a state legislature reapportionment in the form of the Feldman Plan. This redistricting scheme did not conform to absolute numerical equality. A population discrepancy of less than one percent resulted between the largest and smallest district.
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A 1902 amendment to the Oregon Constitution provided for the use of the initiative process. The initiative process allowed the electorate to vote on a prospective law originating with the electorate itself. In 1906, the Oregon electorate proposed a corporate-tax law. A majority of the Oregon electorate voted for this law, resulting in its 1907 implementation.
Most Latinos in Texas's District 23 did not support the incumbent Republican state representative. In contrast, the Republican incumbent garnered the support of a majority of pre-2003 District 23 Anglos. Prior to the 2003 redistricting scheme, District 23 featured a 57.5 percent Latino citizen voting-age majority.
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Approximately 30,000 Hasidic Jews called Bedford-Stuyvesant home. This cohesive religious minority inhabited one assembly and one senate district in 1972. The senate district was 37 percent racial minority. By contrast, the assembly district was 61 percent racial minority. The Hasidic population belonged to the racial majority.
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Bleckley County's governing authority operated according to a single-commissioner system. In this way, it differed from all other Georgia counties, characterized by multimember commissions. This prompted the allegation that this county's system diluted the votes of its African American minority. In Bleckley County, African Americans constituted 20 percent of the population.
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In 2003, the North Carolina General Assembly embarked on a redistricting process. Under the redistricting scheme, District 18 would have no longer remained entirely in Pender County. District 18 would have crossed the borders of Pender and New Hanover counties. This would have increased the percentage of African Americans eligible to vote in District 18.
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North Carolina engaged in multimember redistricting. Seven districts came under controversy for alleged racially polarized vote dilution. Until 1982, African Americans experienced minimal electoral success in North Carolina. Of the seven districts, District 23, which regularly elected African Americans, served as the sole exception. African American voters in North Carolina overwhelmingly favored a single party.
In 1960, the New Orleans city council proposed Plan II, a redistricting scheme for the city. The attorney general rejected the plan, claiming that its implementation would result in vote dilution. However, Plan II would have created three majority African American districts. Two of these districts would have contained African American population majorities.
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SEATTLE, Washington - COVID-19 in Ghana raises significant questions regarding public health, governance, the economy and infrastructure. Ghana's response to COVID-19 is comprised of cautious but effective policies for the maximization of treatment as well as mitigation of the disease's spread. COVID-19 has threatened to unravel the nation's progress.
Of all the resources that may cause enrichment of a nation, none are as valuable as the cognitive attainments of its population. The issue of access to primary education remains a critical one for many nations, particularly those in the developing world.
Though somewhat obscure today, the Destruction of the Thracian Bulgarians refers to the systematic expulsion of the native Christians (Bulgarians, Greeks and Armenians) in Eastern Thrace. These atrocities occurred during and after the Second Balkan War of 1913. Additionally, it involves some of the figures later complicit in the Armenian Genocide of World War One.
The Republic of Buryatia is seeing a gradual decline in absolute population numbers. A 2016 census recorded 983,209 people in the republic in 2017. This is down from a total population of 1.02 million in 1997. A shrinking population may lead to adverse consequences for the economy of the Republic of Buryatia.
IRAQ - "Child labor" refers to work carried out by children that inflicts moral, mental, physical or social harm upon them. This work robs children of educational opportunities, and in its harshest manifestations may cause lifelong trauma. As a result of decades of conflict and crisis throughout Iraq, thousands of children, many of whom are displaced, are forced into labor.
Approximately half of the world's 7,000 distinct spoken languages are at risk of extinction within this century as a result of market globalization. Generational language loss emerges from the prioritization of dominant languages over minority languages. Yet, online communications technology expands outlets for the promotion and preservation of endangered indigenous minority languages.
The Muhamasheen (the marginalized) pejoratively known as the Akhdam (servants) constitute a distinct community in Yemen that the broader Yemeni society consigns to the lowest part of the social hierarchy. Though Yemen has officially abolished its caste system, the legacy of centuries of discrimination persists today.
SEATTLE - India's indigenous peoples, the Adivasis, comprised of over 700 recognized tribes and constitute 8.6 percent of the country's population. While the 1950 Constitution protects the The living conditions of the Adivasis lag behind those of other demographics, particularly in health care.
Vietnam is a multiethnic state, home to a myriad of indigenous peoples in addition to the dominant Vietnamese (or Kinh) ethnic group. Centuries of conflict and cooperation, from Han Chinese domination, Vietnamese southward imperial expansion, Mongol invasions, French conquest and American intervention, molded the complex dynamics between these various groups.
Public health outcomes and economic status both rely greatly on a nation's sanitation infrastructure. Sanitation encompasses the regular, efficient and safe collection and disposal of waste, whatever its source. Improper procedures and insufficient waste management facilities have led to poor sanitation in Bosnia and Herzegovina, but recent efforts show promising improvements.
Iraq is one of the largest recipients of U.S. aid. It has been wracked by violence for decades. Children in Iraq are particularly vulnerable to exploitation in this violent situation. These 10 facts about child labor in Iraq demonstrate just how dangerous it can be.
Belarus, since 1991 an independent state in northeast Europe, remains somewhat isolated from the European mainstream as one of several successor states to the Soviet Union. Though the country hosts 4.08 physicians per 1,000 people, a figure comparable to many developed nations, there remain areas of the healthcare system that require improvement, and one such area is the dental health sector.
In the years following the fall of the Eastern Bloc, Bulgaria still struggles in comparison with the rest of Europe. As of 2016, the government of Bulgaria reported that an estimated 23.4 percent of its population lived below the poverty line, while as of 2017 the unemployed constituted around 6.2 percent of the population.
Sweden's renown as a humanitarian superpower stems from its involvement in global aid initiatives. In 2018, the country devoted 1.04 percent of its gross national income (GNI) to overseas development, making Sweden the sixth-largest humanitarian aid contributor among the world's countries and the largest one proportional to its Gross Domestic Product (GDP).
Large swathes of the world still rely on irrigation infrastructure as an integral component of agricultural production. According to the U.N. World Water Development Report of 2015, a global average of 70 percent of water use goes towards agriculture, encompassing both modern and traditional irrigation technology methods.
Montenegro is a Balkan country that obtained independence from Yugoslavia on June 3, 2006. The data regarding life expectancy in Montenegro attests to its modernization and the continuing integration of the country into the global market system.
In this age of rapid digital evolution, ensuring widespread access to information and communication technologies (ICTs) has become a serious goal for countries seeking economic modernization. And Malaysia is no exception. Efforts to increase digital inclusion in Malaysia are well underway.
A short distance from the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador lies Saint Pierre and Miquelon, an overseas collectivity of France. Its remoteness and obscurity marks it as culturally, economically and demographically distinct from the rest of North America. Living conditions in Saint Pierre and Miquelon compare well with much of the developed world in some respects, but not all.
The Philadelphia Music Festival Blog Posts
See See Beats The NY based music production company See See Beats has worked with J Cole, 2 Chainz, Joey Bada$$, Statik Selektah, Nick Hissom, and other major names in the music industry. Their music production activities run the gamut from hip hop to trap, from pop to R&B, and even EDM.
Richard Pigkaso is a Bronx-born-and-raised rapper whose passion and virtuosity extend to both music and yo-yos. Pigkaso's hip-hop seeks after authenticity and joins tradition with progress to create a new and original musical aesthetic. His first LP, aptly titled "Something Different", already established his richly wrought style that openly defies convention and transcends superficial categories....
Brooklyn-based Dan Rauchwerk is a songwriter, singer, multi-instrumentalist, and founding member of the internationally touring folk band The Lords of Liechtenstein. Throughout his career he has carried forth the troubadour tradition into the 21st century, but with a unique twist. His songs, of high musical quality, also educate his audience in a refreshingly fun way,...
Rebecca Zimmerman is an acoustic-rock singer and songwriter from Delaware County, Pennsylvania whose idiosyncratic style is heavily influenced by rock, folk and the blues. Her albums, available on her Bandcamp page, are published by the Philadelphia-based label goodhowareyou records and include her most recent album "Loose Pages", which was composed in Western Ireland.
Daisy Royce is a Philadelphia-based folk singer and songwriter. Her works include the singles "Daisy Buchanan", "Endless Nights", and her debut "Philadelphia in the Rain", all available on her Bandcamp page. Daisy's richly nostalgic and melancholy idiom, her belief in the power of truth-telling, and her voice which has been likened to a "Disney Princess"...
Mike Matteson is a Spring City-based songwriter/composer, drummer, guitarist, vocalist, lyricist and arranger whose work is influenced by a whole gamut of styles, from Delta Blues to Punk and from Neo-Psych to Funk. While in high school, after a stint with a blues rock cover band called Electrified, he entered the musical landscape of punk...
Julia Pratt is a young Philadelphia-based singer, songwriter, poet, pianist and ukulele player. The niece of Memphis, Tennessee-based jazz musician Marcus Johnson (with whom she has recorded), she began to demonstrate musical gifts from a young age while traveling throughout the world. While in China at age 10 she gained experience as a choral singer....
Brandon Boulware is a Philadelphia-based singer-songwriter, New Orleans Bounce rapper, and producer who began his musical journey in 2007 and has continued ever since. Besides the stage name B. Aquarius, he has formerly also released singles and buzz singles as YoungB215. His versatility as a musician embraces Soul, Hip-Hop, R&B, Neo-Soul, Pop, Gospel and New Orleans...
Jack Savage is a Philadelphia-based folk punk singer and songwriter whose influences include Frank Turner, Green Day, The Gaslight Anthem, Bruce Springsteen, Billy Bragg, and Hail the Peasant. His recent album "Come Hell or High Water" was written chiefly between late 2017 and mid-2018 and released on December 17, 2018.
Long-Island based singer, songwriter, guitarist, pianist and ukulele player Karen Bella began studying voice at 9 years old and composing original songs at age 12. In elementary and middle school, she participated in theater and choir programs, and played the drums in the high school band.
Scranton-based Alternative Rock and Folk singer, songwriter and guitarist Gabby Borges began writing music as a ten year old in Hawley, PA. From early on her influences ranged from Bob Dylan and Amy Winehouse to the Front Bottoms and Kimya Dawson. She wrote her first album, "Linoleum Complex", after graduating high school.
High school friends Travis McArthur, Lucas Conover and Tyler Cushman founded Collegeville, PA-based hard rock band Near Nightmare in January 2014. Soon thereafter, drummer Ryan Brown joined bassist Travis McArthur, lead guitarist Lucas Conover and rhythm guitarist Tyler Cushman. Ryan Brown's diagnosis of neuroblastoma at the age of three entailed serious hearing loss.
Jeremy Goldsmith is a Cheltenham-born, Glenside-based hip-hop artist who goes by the stage name Internal Rhyme. His art, informed by his progressive ethics, bears the indelible stamp of his home city and expresses the full gamut of human emotion and experience. His support for the arts at his alma mater in New Brunswick, NJ continued...
Camp Candle (Briana "Hetepsa" Mills and Mark "Nu Ra" Cave) is a Philadelphia-based "swag-pop" duo influenced by chillwave, indie pop, hip-hop, electronic pop and R&B, whose work balances optimism with a realistic appraisal of humanity's fallen nature. Diaphanous textures and often a tinge of melancholy characterize their musical idiom, in contrast to so much contemporary...
Nearly York is a Lancaster-based Alternative/Pop band which began with two members, Lucas Gienow [vocalist, keyboardist, guitarist] and Bradley Hartman [guitarist, bass guitarist], but soon thereafter saw Jonathan Poorman (guitarist, bass guitarist) and Christopher Mundy (drummer / percussionist) join its ranks. Gienow, a studio manager and staff engineer at The Sugar Tank, sought to record...
Roselle, NJ-based rapper Jolon Franklin (better known under his pseudonym Cypha IX) experienced the blessing of a musically-inclined family upbringing. His musical idiom developed from a very early exposure to a wide array of music. Called the "Sinatra" of Hip-Hop, his work has an autobiographical quality, and rings out with the influence of his Christian upbringing....
Dru Diligence is the pseudonym of a New-Jersey based Hip-Hop, R&B, Neosoul, and Pop artist whose influences range widely. His music pursues truth and authenticity while rejecting the merely conventional in its expression. Musicality and a strong social conscience pervade his work, and philosophical references abound.
Francis Convery, better known under the pseudonym Fonvery, is a Philadelphia-based musician whose influences span from Indie Pop band Alvvays to "blue wave" pioneer Mac Demarco to R&B singer/songwriter Steve Lacy, among others. A rising star in the sphere of Alternative Rock, he describes himself as "your friendly neighborhood singer/songwriter," and his works are full...
Art Teixeira, better known under the pseudonym Artimës Prime, is a Newtown, PA-based Alternative Hip-Hop artist with a distinctive and influential voice. A graduate of Council Rock High School North in 2009 and Temple University in 2013 with a degree in Media Studies and Production, his work is deeply rooted in his home of the...
Philadelphia-based band XPRESIDENTS eschews arbitrary rules for inspiration and authenticity. Its members, consisting of drummer and vocalist Demetrius "Bomdekat" Millner, bassist Andrew "Spock" Barndt, guitarist Hugh "Gunslinger" Feely, lead lyricist Marvin "Ceaser Live Soul" Marcellus, and keyboardist Will "Fingaz" Winborne are musical alchemists, combining Rock, Hip-Hop, Jazz, Funk, Reggae, and Neo-Soul into a richly dramatic...
The Only Way is an Atlantic County, NJ-based band whose musical idiom fuses Rock, Punk, Reggae, and Metal in a fresh and compelling way. In the band's own words, such a fusion is "the only way," hence the band's name. With Darragh B. Dooney as lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist, Tom Rocco as lead guitarist...
Pamela Grant, also known as Pamela G, is a singer, songwriter, and podcast co-host based in Philadelphia. Through her music and the passion with which she approaches contemporary musical expression, she hopes to bring love and positivity to a world in dire need of them. Alongside Highz she co-hosts the weekly podcast "The Midnight hour...
Keyanta Williams, known under the stage name Don Los Saint Keyanta and formerly known as Tha Don Los, is a Philadelphia-based songwriter, rapper and lyricist whose passionate intensity pervades all his musical oeuvre. He has developed his own distinctly recognizable rap idiom which is in part autobiographical in content, inspired by the trials and tribulations...
West Philadelphia native Byren J. Holmes, known professionally under the pseudonym Wild West Bandit, is a West Philadelphia native who hopes to inspire others through his work as a rapper, actor, songwriter, and comedian. Known for, among other things, the R&B songs he writes for other artists and for his YouTube channel "Wild West Bandit...
Dig A Revel is a New Jersey-based Punk Rock band known for its performances throughout New York and New Jersey. Counting among its members Mike O'Neill (guitarist, vocalist), Craig Chalfin (bassist, vocalist) and Joe DiMola (drummer), Dig A Revel has delighted audiences at such venues as the Nyack Village Theatre (Nyack, NY), The Pearl River...
Ricky Fontaine (also known as Official Ricky Fontaine), born on May 13, 1992 and brought up in West Philadelphia, is a rising star in the music industry. A musical and dance prodigy encouraged during his formative years to pursue and hone his talents, he has mastered the musical idioms of Hip-Hop and R&B, while dance...
Lily McKown is a Philadelphia-based Folk Rock and Indie Rock singer and songwriter whose work bears the indelible stamp of her deep inner emotional world. Lyrical, melodic, subtle yet deeply affecting, her musical idiom as displayed in "Sea of Junk", "Count The Death Rate Over The Birth", "Took a Wrong Turn", "Off Track", and "Forward...
Harrisburg-based Indie band Hometime impresses one immediately with its passion and vigor. Its members, guitarist and lead vocalist Braiden Williams, bassist Jack Feinberg, and drummer Gordon Lauffer combine real musicality with a kind of brotherhood that emanates from every performance. Calling themselves "pioneers of emo-boatgaze," Hometime's members have already carved out for themselves an idiosyncratic...