Know Your Rights!

Following the infamous election in 2000, there are a lot of new laws design to protect and ensure your right to vote. Click these links to learn more about your rights.

Help America Vote Act
Florida Election Laws
Absentee Ballots
 Voters Rights and Responsibilities
   

Disillusioned Blacks
Hurt Democratic Vote

Hip-Hop Fridays: Exclusive Q & A With Russell Simmons, Chairman Of The Hip-Hop Summit Action Network (Part I)
One Million Black Votes Didn't Count in the 2000 Presidential Election
Greg Palast,  June 22, 2004

 Special Report: Bush and Black America
Wave Newspaper Group, News Report, Mary Frances Gurton, Jun 21, 2004

 Reagan’s Legacy Among Blacks
 The Black World Today, Commentary, Herb Boyd, Jun 10, 2004

The author writes that for most Black Americans, Reagan, the so-called great communicator, had little or nothing good to say to them, if he said anything at all.

The Need for a Movement (Voting)
in Florida

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Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies
#1 Black Focus Group in the U.S.


Vote Community Poll

 

Duval County Elections March 20, 2007!
Paper Ballots, Precincts and Voting Machines


Voting precincts in Duval County changed in 2006. They were in effect for the last General Election, but it is always good to check to make sure you are going to the right place. The information is on your voter's registration (new ones were mailed out with updated information last year), and on sample ballots that were sent out during the past month.

Also keeping with the last election, the March 20 vote will allow residents to choose at the polling location whether they want to use the touch screen machine or use an optical scan ballot.

To find out your voting precinct, a map to the location, and view your sample ballot, use the interactive map provided by the Supervisor of Elections Office (you may need to download additional, free software).

Diebold Election Systems, the company that makes Florida's new voting equipment has online demonstrations of how to properly use the Touch Screen and Optical Scan voting machines.

For more information about upcoming Duval County elections, visit the Supervisors of Elections Web site or call the office at (904) 630-1414.

 

 


                                       
Voter FAQ                                            
Florida House Redistricting Committee
Democratic Black Caucus of Florida


  Learn how assist ex-offenders to regain their voting rights
On behalf of the NAACP and BLACKSONVILLE.COM, training workshops will be conducted to train community participants on how to fill out the application to "RE-ENFRANCHISE" ex-offenders.  Volunteers needed. 
Please call  904-764-7828 for details.

     Click here for the Application to Restore Your Civil Right to Vote
  

          
P. Diddy has just launched "Citizen Change," a non-profit organization that aims to recruit young voters to come out for the upcoming presidential elections.
"I want young people to know that your vote can change your life," Combs said in a statement distributed during his annual White Party at the Sony PlayStation 2 Estate this past weekend. "I am asking young Americans to hold their vote hostage and force the candidates to address our issues."
According to Diddy, education, health care and jobs are some of the key issues the youth needs to address. "Citizen Change" will work to educate young voters on those issues in the months leading to the elections.  Read more  |  And more!!
 


"About 31% of African American males in Florida cannot vote as a result of felony disenfranchisement.  That figure is three times greater than the percentage of black males disenfranchisement internationally.  Embarrassing." 
  --  Tonyaa Weathersbee, Times Union columnist


 
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"Government is not infallible. Government is only an executive control, a centralized authority for the purpose of expressing the will of the people. Before you have a government you must have the people.
Without the people there can be no government.
                 ........
The government must be, therefore, an expression of the will of the people."
 
          >> Marcus Garvey  


" The right to vote is the cornerstone of democracy; without this right, we MUST honestly question true citizenship."

              >> Shannon-El  


“George Bush has never attended [a meeting of] the Congressional Black Caucus since his arrival in Washington almost four years ago,” noted Muhammad Nassardeen, president of Inglewood-based Recycling Black Dollars. “His relationship with the [CBC] is very disrespectful to African-American leadership in this country.”
 

The Bush Chronicles

“George Bush will go down in history as the most disliked president by the African-American community in at least four decades,” Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Los Angeles said. “Members of the African-American community will always remember that he stole the vote, indeed the presidency. Bush is not seen by the African-American community as legitimate.”