The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said it has concluded plans to distribute over 49, 000 Permanent Voters Cards (PVCs) in order not to disfranchise people from voting in the Bayelsa gubernatorial poll fixed for Nov 16.
CREDIBILITYPastoralists Parliamentary Group secretary-general and Isiolo Woman Rep Rehema Dida acknowledged that census will guarantee equitable distribution, but said the use of a biometric system which is being rooted by central Kenya leaders should not apply, saying it will disfranchise them.The leaders, who singled out Mr Kuria, said their region has more numbers than central Kenya and called for a credible census.
Section 2 of the amendment, which the author claims was meant to disfranchise for treason and acts of disloyalty to the union, was used instead to disfranchise black offenders in particular, and the black race in general.
Giles's challenge to the new Alabama Constitution of 1901--a document which was designed to disfranchise and had the effect of disfranchising African Americans.
It indicates a lack of confidence in the system, and it can be coupled with the lower turn-outs in elections, where it seems voters disfranchise themselves.
The bill would have expressed the sense of Congress that it: would condemn election procedures that dilute and disfranchise the minority vote and any person acting under color of law or intimidating, or denying eligible persons the right to vote; would recognize the importance of the 15th amendment; and would reaffirm its commitment to the Voting Rights Act of 1965.