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Proposal Details

Proposal ID	150
Proposal	The Right to Vote Act, An Act to Enforce American Democracy
Presenter	Black Caucus of the Green Party of the United States
Floor Manager	Gwendolyn Wages
Phase	Closed
Discussion	06/20/2005 - 07/03/2005
Voting	07/04/2005 - 07/10/2005
Result	Adopted
Presens Quorum	32 0.6666
Consens Quorum	39 A Majority of Yes and No Votes

Background

On December 12, 2000, the Supreme Court ruled that
citizens of the United States did not have the constitutional right to
vote. Since the electoral abuses of the 2000 and 2004 Presidential
elections and the Supreme Court ruling in Gore v. Bush, Congressman
Jesse Jackson, Jr. has introduced for enactment, legislation H. J. Res.
28 deceptively titled "The Right to Vote Amendment". This amendment is
a Trojan horse that will relegate third party political organizations to
a subservient role to the Republican and Democratic parties.
Furthermore, the amendment would mandate that only a "winner take all"
allocation of presidential electors by states be constitutional, and may
in fact foreclose on the possibility of candidates winning state
electors if they fall short of a majority of the votes cast in a
multi-candidate field.

Proposal

The BC-GPUS has endorsed and seeks to have one of it's
members, Asa Gordon, Chair of the DCSGP Electoral College Task Force and
Executive Director of the Douglass Institute of Government (DIG) be a
plenary speaker at the July 21-24, 2005 Annual Meeting in Tulsa,
Oklahoma to solicit the endorsement of the GPUS to move forward on
enlisting congressional sponsorship of a "Right to Vote Act" which would
affect the enforcement clause of Sec. 5 of the 14th Amendment as well as
addressing other shortcomings of the voting process. We also ask for
time for Mr. Gordon to conduct a follow-up detailed workshop on the same
subject, "The Right to Vote Act vs. The Right to Vote Amendment".

Resources

TIME LINE: Plenary: Equal time allotted to other Plenary
Speakers
Workshop: Request 2 hrs

EQUIPMENT NEEDED: Overhead projector, screen, DLP projector with
video, and computer hook-up

2005 BC Budget (Tiers 1 & 2), Diversity Committee, GP
State organizations, Personal Funds

CONTACT: Michele Tingling-Clemmons, Co-Chair GPUSBC

References

Presented "DC Over Dixie" at June 2004 Milwaukee
Convention

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