voting rights

• Extending vote to N.B. permanent residents won’t happen by fall: province

  The change would be a Canadian first, but the department says there are too many outstanding questions and logistical issues to make the change for elections this fall.

  Canada

  May 27
  
• U.S. Senate fails to pass voting rights bill over Republican objections, filibuster

  The nighttime voting brought an end, for now, to legislation that has been a top Democratic priority since the party took control of Congress and the White House.

  World

  Jan 20
  
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• Biden says GOP state voting restrictions are ‘un-American’

  U.S. President Joe Biden declared that preserving voting rights is ``a test of our time'' Tuesday.

  World

  Jul 13, 2021
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• Montreal latest Canadian city to consider extending voting rights to non-citizens

  Montreal can ``show leadership'' on this issue and rekindle the debate in the country, according to an April 19 report by the city's committee on social development and diversity.

  Canada

  Apr 26, 2021
• N.B. legislature to consider bill to extend voting rights to permanent residents

  New Brunswick would be the first province in Canada to allow permanent residents the right to vote if the bill is successful.

  Politics

  Dec 13, 2020
• Obama calls for U.S. Congress to expand voting rights at John Lewis funeral

  Obama called on Congress to renew the Voting Rights Act, which Trump and Republican congressional leaders have left unchanged since the Supreme Court diminished the landmark law in 2012.

  World

  Jul 31, 2020
• B.C. board launches public effort to rename school named after ‘racist’ federal MP

  Alan Webster Neill, the namesake of a Port Alberni school, for his efforts in the House of Commons to deny voting rights to Asian immigrants and other now-controversial positions.

  Dec 18, 2019
• State of Texas falsely passed off registered immigrant voters as non-citizens: lawsuit

  The lawsuit was filed after Texas' secretary of state gave county registrars a list of 95,000 registered voters who he suggested were illegal non-citizen voters based on faulty drivers license data.

  Politics

  Feb 3, 2019
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• Upcoming right-to-die legislation prompts MPs to consider their voting rights

  A Conservative private member's motion that would allow members of Parliament to vote freely on matters of conscience is due to come up for debate in the House of Commons.

  Politics

  May 28, 2015