The end of immigrant voting rights early in the twentieth century coincided with other efforts to disenfranchise Americans: poll taxes, literacy tests, and restrictive residency requirements.
Today, many of those practices have been exposed and ended. Yet disenfranchisement remains a serious threat to American voters today, particularly to those who have committed felonies but have re-paid their debt to society.
The Immigrant Voting Project maintains a dialogue with organizations like Unlock the Block, which is working to challenge felony disenfranchisement laws, which prevent ex-offenders from voting in some states; to eliminate barriers to voting for those eligible by ensuring that City and State Agencies are in active compliance with the law; to educate prisoners, ex-prisoners, parolees, probationers and their families about their voting rights and the importance of voting; to register those eligible individuals and to mobilize their communities to vote.
The Immigrant Voting Project also follows with interest the fate of the Right to Vote Amendment introduced by Rep. Jesse L. Jackson Jr.
The political was essentially autonomous, not in the sense of marking out a new area laterally positioned vis-a-vis others (such as morality, culture, economics, or religion), but as a self-revealing essence not reducible to any one of them but that could operate in all.
The political logic was hence always foundational and the political entity always the decisive entity, sovereign in the sense of being determinant in the decisive instance.
The sovereignty of the economy (and of political economy as master science) was once again exchanged for the sovereignty of the political (and of political philosophy).
Women in Kuwait are denied the opportunity for political participation although women hold positions such as Director of the University of Kuwait, Kuwaiti Ambassador to Austria, and Undersecretary of Higher Education within the Ministry of Education.
Following the vote, a bill identical to the Emirs decree was submitted for consideration but was narrowly defeated by a vote of 32-30 on 30 November 1999.
On 28 October 2000, a public demonstration was held in front of the National Assembly at the commencement of its fourth session, calling for the amendment of the Election Law to give women the right to vote.
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