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An independent voter, often also called an unaffiliated voter or non-affiliated voter in the United States, is a voter who does not align themselves with a political party.An independent is variously defined as a voter who votes for candidates on issues rather than on the basis of a political ideology or partisanship; [1] a voter who does not have long-standing loyalty to, or identification ...
Board of Election Commissioners of Chicago, 394 U.S. 802 (1969), [1] was a unanimous decision by the Supreme Court of the United States that an Illinois law that denied absentee ballots to inmates awaiting trial did not violate their constitutional rights under the Fourteenth Amendment.
If a party's candidate for Governor fails to receive at least 2% of the vote, that party loses ballot access (N.C.G.S. §163-97 [42]) and must begin the petitioning process over again, and the voter affiliation of all registered voters affiliated with that party is changed to unaffiliated (N.C.G.S. §163-97.1 [43]).
Voters can only vote in the primary election of the party they are registered as. States may or may not allow unaffiliated voters to vote in a primary election. If unaffiliated voters are allowed to vote, it is subject to the political parties' decision in each election cycle.
In 2013, the Supreme Court effectively gutted Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act that had required local election officials in areas with a history of discrimination to run their laws by the ...
Thornburg v. Gingles, 478 U.S. 30 (1986), was a United States Supreme Court case in which a unanimous Court found that "the legacy of official discrimination ... acted in concert with the multimember districting scheme to impair the ability of "cohesive groups of black voters to participate equally in the political process and to elect candidates of their choice."
A U.S. Supreme Court ruling last June about minority voting rights paved the way for new districts in Alabama and Louisiana. In each state, the result is that Black voters will have a better ...
Even if voters don’t register as a Republican or Democrat, that doesn’t mean they can’t vote in the March primary election. Even if voters don’t register as a Republican or Democrat, that ...