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Proposal Details

Proposal ID	179
Proposal	The Right to Vote Act, An Act to Enforce American Democracy
Presenter	Black Caucus of the Green Party of the United States, DC Statehood Green Party
Floor Manager	Gwendolyn Wages
Phase	Closed
Discussion	09/12/2005 - 09/18/2005
Voting	09/19/2005 - 09/25/2005
Result	Adopted
Presens Quorum	32 0.6666
Consens Quorum	37 A Majority of Yes and No Votes

Background

The BC-GPUS and the DCSGP endorsed the position that Asa Gordon, Chair of the
DCSGP Electoral College Task Force and Executive Director of the Douglass
Institute of Government (DIG) be a plenary speaker and host a workshop 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."
Favorable Reports of Asa's presentation at the meeting and from members of the
Southern Caucus who attended his presentation on the same matter at the
recent "Keep the Vote Alive" rally in Atlanta, Ga. has been posted on various
Green list, and his commentary appears in the current issue of the Atlanta
Daily World.

Furthermore as declared in the Green Release:Greens Push for Real Electoral
Reforms at Carter-Baker Hearings, June 30
{http://www.gp.org/press/pr_2005_06_27.shtml } and specified in the BRIEF FROM
THE GREEN PARTY OF THE UNITED STATES TO THE COMMISSION ON FEDERAL ELECTION
REFORM June 27, 2005 submitted by Brent McMillan, political director of the
Green Party of the United States, the Greens call for "National legislation to
enforce the right to vote, as established in the 14th Amendment, Section 2 in
the U.S. Constitution. Such legislation would override the Supreme Court's
claim in Bush v. Gore (2000) that no guaranteed right to vote exists in
national elections." and included Asa's observation that "Such legislation
would be analogous to the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which enforces Section 1 of
the 14th Amendment guaranteeing equal protection under the law".

Proposal

The GPUS approves Asa Gordon, Chair of the DCSGP Electoral College Task
Force as a representative of the GPUS position in 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 and modeled on the "The Right to Vote Act"and report presented
by Asa at the 2005 Annual Meeting in Tulsa, Oklahoma, to be presented at the
Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, Inc 35th Annual Legislative Conference
September 21-24, 2005, Washington, D.C.

Resources

CONTACTS: Rick Tingling-Clemmons, mirico5@aol.com, 202.397.2277
Michael Piacsek, piacsek@mindspring.com, 202.302.7604

References

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