Voting Rights
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Extending vote to N.B. permanent residents won’t happen by fall: provinceThe 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.CanadaMay 27, 2022
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U.S. Senate fails to pass voting rights bill over Republican objections, filibusterThe 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.WorldJan 20, 2022
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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.WorldJul 13, 2021
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Montreal latest Canadian city to consider extending voting rights to non-citizensMontreal 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.CanadaApr 26, 2021
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N.B. legislature to consider bill to extend voting rights to permanent residentsNew Brunswick would be the first province in Canada to allow permanent residents the right to vote if the bill is successful.PoliticsDec 13, 2020
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Obama calls for U.S. Congress to expand voting rights at John Lewis funeralObama 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.WorldJul 31, 2020
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B.C. board launches public effort to rename school named after ‘racist’ federal MPAlan 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
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State of Texas falsely passed off registered immigrant voters as non-citizens: lawsuitThe 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.PoliticsFeb 3, 2019
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Upcoming right-to-die legislation prompts MPs to consider their voting rightsA 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.PoliticsMay 28, 2015
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