voting

  • The biggest dilemma when voting: Biden or Trump

    More than 160 million voters in the United States will have a dilemma on November 5: vote for the second term of an octogenarian president with clear evidence of weakened cognitive acuity or for a fallacious almost octogenarian lacking an ethical compass and moral. The first face-to-face debate between...
  • Black voters in battleground states are a crucial voting bloc in 2024

    Black voters will play a key role in determining who will win the 2024 presidential election. And while Black voters remain overwhelmingly Democratic and support President Joe Biden over former President Donald Trump, Biden’s edge over Trump is changing. A new poll shows Trump ahead of Biden in five crucial...
  • Muchos latinos de California no están votando en las elecciones. ¿Podrán esta vez los candidatos al Senado estadounidense motivarlos?

    Yue Stella Yu CalMatters Durante seis generaciones desde que emigró de México a Estados Unidos, la familia de Clarissa Rentería nunca ha votado. Si llegaban sobres de campaña durante la temporada electoral, los padres de Rentería, quienes trabajaban como empleados de un almacén en Woodlake, un pueblo agrícola de...
  • Many Latino Californians aren’t voting. Can U.S. Senate candidates motivate them?

    Yue Stella Yu CalMatters For six generations since emigrating from Mexico to America, Clarissa Renteria’s family never voted. If any campaign mailers arrived during election season, Renteria’s parents — who both worked as warehouse workers in Woodlake, an agricultural town of 7,600 in California’s citrus belt — would throw...
  • The power of voting for Latina women in the United States 

    August 18th is a significant date as it commemorates the 103rd anniversary of the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution, which recognized women’s right to vote. This historic milestone honors the legacy of the fight for women’s suffrage, gender equality and the political participation of women in general,...
  • Study: Vote-by-Mail Promotes Equity, Reduces Racial Gap in Voting

    The pandemic changed the way we vote in California, and some reforms made voting patterns more equitable, while others did not, according to a new study from the Public Policy Institute of California. The decision to send mail-in ballots to all registered voters narrowed the gap between groups often turning out...
  • VOTE OR STAY ASLEEP?

    Unfortunately, it was not much of a surprise that the new voting rights law ended in another legislative failure for President Joe Biden and for the Democrats. All Republican senators, supported by Democrats Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema, joined forces to thwart the attempt to eliminate filibustering, and thus...
  • ¿VOTAR O QUEDARSE DORMIDO?

    Lamentablemente no causó mucha sorpresa que la nueva ley de derechos de los votantes terminara en un nuevo fracaso legislativo para el presidente Joe Biden y para los demócratas. Todos los senadores republicanos, apoyados por los demócratas Joe Manchin y Kyrsten Sinema, sumaron fuerzas para frustrar el intento de...
  • ARE YOU REGISTERED TO VOTE? HELP RE-ESTABLISH U.S. CONSTITUTION’S CHECKS & BALANCES

    Hilbert Morales EL OBSERVADOR According to the “HOME PAGE” of Registrar of Voters, County of Santa Clara, the deadline to register to vote is October 22, 2018. {SOURCE: <www.sccvote.gov>}. Hopefully, each and every resident citizen is planning to vote at your precinct’s poll or by ‘VOTE BY MAIL’ in...
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