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United States: Illinois Election & Campaign Finance Calendar (2005)
The Election & Campaign Finance Calendar (2005) for the State of Illinois
United States: 2004 Indiana Election Calendar
The 2004 Indiana Election Calendar published by the Indiana Election Division
United States: Absentee Ballot Application (Guam)
Specimen of an application form for absentee ballot from Guam
United States: Voting Scenario Assumptions
A paper with Voting Scenario Assumptions for electoral materials
United States: 2003-2004 Elections Calendar - Maryland
The 2003-2004 Elections Calendar by the Maryland State Board of Elections
United States: California Statewide Election Calendar (2003)
The special edition of California's Statewide Election Calendar of October 2003
United States: Twelfth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States (1804)
Changes the method of presidential elections so that members of the electoral college cast separate ballots for president and vice president. (Ratified June 15, 1804).
United States: The Electoral College
The paper "Electoral College"by William C. Kimberling, Deputy Director of the FEC Office of Election Administration
United States: Constitution (1992)
The American Constitution is also applicable to the Virgin Island, US.
United States of America: Voters With Disabilities [2001]
A report by the General Accounting Office addressing access to polling places and alternative voting methods.
The United States of America: The Americans with Disability Act
Though the Americans with Disability Act was passed with the purpose of eliminating barriers of disabled persons to vote, the Act does not in fact remove these barriers. This research finds that additional legislation is needed in order to effect a further leveling of the playing field.
The United States of America: Creating the Disabled Citizen
This article explores the creation of a specific type of disenfranchisement - namely, that of disabled persons - under Massachusetts law in the first half of the nineteenth century within a context of the economic themes that shaped this particular policy. Contemporary implications are then drawn from this historical analysis, placing current electoral structures within a larger, more informed framework.
The United States of America: Making Exceptions to Universal Suffrage
This article examines laws in place in the United States that work to disenfranchise certain segments of the population, specifically the criminal and disabled. The authors argue that though these laws remain, they are largely anarchronistic vestiges of early attempts to seperate from democracy those individuals believed to be inferior in some capacity.
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