by sapp.140@osu.edu | Nov 4, 2024 | Ohio State University
Ghana, often hailed as a model of democracy in West Africa, now faces a serious challenge to its electoral processes and democratic institutions. Ahead of the country’s December 7th presidential and parliamentary elections, allegations of irregularities in the voter...
by Nayra Green | Apr 27, 2023 | University of Utah
Beginning after Reconstruction—when Black men were granted the right to vote—the implementation of voter disenfranchisement laws crept across the United States in the form of poll taxes, literacy tests, and gerrymandering. Contemporary voter disenfranchisement laws...
by Isabelle Megosh | Oct 17, 2022 | Boston University
“Taxation without representation,” is not just some catchy slogan plastered across license plates. It is the reality for nearly 700,000 Americans currently living in the nation’s capital. For almost 250 years now, Washington, D.C. residents have paid taxes, served in...
by Danae Gaytan | Apr 19, 2021 | Boston University
The 2020 Presidential Election represents a new era in the breakdown of American Democracy. Although Joe Biden won the presidency, in many states he won by a rather slim margin contrary to what many expected. Combined with the fact that the incumbent president, Donald...
by Samantha Garcia | Nov 22, 2020 | Suffolk University
Voter turnout has been studied for decades. Demographics of voting and registered voters changes with every election, presidential or not, each vote is counted for a statistic. Now, in saying that, it is also essential to state that every single vote matters. No voice...
