The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.
Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
from Thomas Roche:
On August 26, 1920, Secretary of State Bainbridge Colby certified the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution, which guaranteed women the right to vote. Tennessee, the 36th state to ratify the amendment, had done so on August 18 (three-quarters of State legislatures must ratify an amendment for it to take effect).
The last state to ratify the 19th Amendment, Mississippi, didn’t do so until 1984.
Are you registered to vote? Start with the League of Women Voters.
If you live in NYC, visit the NYC Board of Elections site. Have you recently moved? If so, you’ll need to transfer your registration: “Because of the role that one’s address plays in the electoral system, New York State law requires voters to notify the Board of Elections within 25 days of an address change to preserve their voting rights.”
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There will be a debate with seven of the eight current Democratic contenders for the Presidential nomination – every one except Biden – on Logo, the LGBT channel, on August 9. You can watch it on cable if you get the channel, or on Logo’s website. You can submit a question for the debate here.
In addition to being the newsletter editor for the Washington State Stonewall Democrats, I am a member of the OffTheBus campaign analysis team at Huffington Post, and hope to cover this debate. I’m interested in getting some reactions from people before, possibly during, and definitely after the debate. I ask that you be willing to identify yourself with your real first name, last name, and city and state of residence in order to be interviewed for this. I’ll want to talk via either phone or email with the same people both before and after; email me at my LJ address to get started. Here are some of the questions I’m interested in:
- Will you watch this debate?
- Did you know about it before this post?
- What do you think of the idea of having an LGBT-focused debate?
- What questions do you want answered?
- What is your stakehold in this? Do you consider yourself to be a member of the LGBT community, a straight ally, an opponent, or what?
- What is your impression of the candidates going into this debate? I’ll also want to know your impression of them afterward, and whether that’s changed for any of them, and why.
- What is your impression of the candidates who were invited but didn’t choose to participate: Joe Biden and every Republican contender? Has that changed due to their decision not to participate in this debate?
Thanks,
River Curtis-Stanley
riverheart @ livejournal dot com
(X-Posted from the Livejournal Bisexual community)
Please don’t leave comments here – contact River directly at the email listed.
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by Kendyl Salcito
Aug. 5, 2007 – In a crowded primary field, every vote counts. So it’s probably not surprising that six of the eight Democratic presidential contenders for 2008 plan to participate in the first debate devoted entirely to gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender issues on Aug. 9 in Los Angeles. (Senators Joe Biden and Chris Dodd declined to attend, citing scheduling conflicts) Still, the event’s sponsors, the Human Rights Campaign and Viacom’s Logo cable TV network, are touting the event as an historic opportunity for the gay community to raise its issues on a national stage. The forum, moderated by Margaret Carlson of Bloomberg News, will run from 9-11 p.m. ET on Logo and Logo.com. (The sponsors say they invited GOP candidates to participate in their own gay debate, but that none signed on.)
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By JOHN M. BRODER and ADAM NAGOURNEY
CHAPEL HILL, N.C., March 22 — John Edwards, the North Carolina Democrat, said Thursday that his wife’s cancer had returned in incurable form. He proclaimed that he would continue his bid for the presidency, saying, “The campaign goes on strongly.â€
The announcement here by Mr. Edwards and his wife, Elizabeth, followed an emotional 72-hour stretch.
On Monday, Mrs. Edwards reported pains to her doctor and learned that her cancer might have returned. On Tuesday, Mr. Edwards cut short a trip in Iowa to fly back on a charter plane. The couple, alone, went to the University of North Carolina hospital on Wednesday for a daylong battery of tests that confirmed the diagnosis. (more…)
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