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Voting sites from Chicago to Long Island, N.Y., warn of lengthy wait times for early voters. Limited time off and high turnout force some U.S. residents between a rock and a hard place.
Most of the states requiring employers to permit voting leave also require that this time be paid. Among those that do not require that the time be paid are Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia ...
Choosing when to vote is usually about finding that one block of time between your responsibilities at home and at work.
Many states require elected municipal officers to be over 18 years of age or be a registered voter in the city thereof. Montana requires mayors to be at least 21 years of age. As of November 2016, most U.S. cities with populations exceeding 200,000 required their mayor to be a registered voter in the city thereof or at least 18 years of age.
Currently, damages are limited to back pay, less any wages earned by an employee if they are hired by another employer. There would have been no provision for compensatory or punitive damages. Finally, the bill would have provided for civil fines of up to $20,000 per violation against employers found to have willfully or repeatedly violated ...
A legal voting age is the minimum age that a person is allowed to vote in a democratic process. For general elections around the world, the right to vote is restricted to adults, and most nations use 18 years of age as their voting age, but for other countries their voting age ranges between 16 and 21 (with the sole exception of the United Arab ...
Some states require employers give workers time off to vote on Election Day. Here’s how it works in South Carolina.
According to the Sentencing Project, as of 2010 an estimated 5.9 million Americans are denied the right to vote because of a felony conviction, a number equivalent to 2.5% of the U.S. voting-age population and a sharp increase from the 1.2 million people affected by felony disenfranchisement in 1976. [101]