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Can felons vote?
The question is answered at the level of state law. It does seem that Maine and Vermont are the only two states where felons never lose voting rights (here, here, the latter pointing out that this ...
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Can felons vote?
germany
Yes, people convicted of crimes may vote unless they have been specifically prohibited from doing so. This is exceedingly rare. According to a student law paper, this has only happened 178 ...
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Does the First Amendment shield the previous president from the August 2023 D.C. Indictments?
The constitutionality of each of the charges is well supported and there is no really viable First Amendment defense to any of them.
There is literally a U.S. Justice Department handbook on how to ...
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Can states refuse to put a candidate on a ballot?
The US Constitution hardly says anything at all about how a Presidential election must be held, except that states can pretty much do whatever they like:
Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as ...
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Can states refuse to put a candidate on a ballot?
Yes. Most (or all) states also have procedures that allow people to challenge the placement of a candidate on the official ballot who is not eligible to hold the office for which the candidate has ...
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How does copyright over content that is not behind paywalled content work?
Exactly the same way it works over all other content
There are no special classes of copyright, there’s just copyright. What a user of a service may do with copyright materials will be spelled out in ...
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Can felons vote?
canada
The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, s. 3 says:
Every citizen of Canada has the right to vote in an election of members of the House of Commons or of a legislative assembly and to be ...
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Can felons vote?
czech-republic
For elections into state-wide representative bodies (parliament, senate and European parliament), neither convinction or incarceration is an issue. In fact the relevant election laws ...
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Can states refuse to put a candidate on a ballot?
In general yes.
A twenty year old would be bared from being on a presidential ballot everywhere by local action/decision.
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How does copyright over content that is not behind paywalled content work?
Copyright law is about what you are legally allowed to do. What you are physically capable of doing is totally unrelated.
The fact that you can access something without anything stopping you or trying ...
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A way of electing representative to the Congress of the United States
The law would be struck down for conflicting with a federal statute. Congress has the authority to regulate many aspects of federal elections. In particular, Article I, Section 4 of the U.S. ...
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Is there a path through the courts to sue the US government to allow a national referendum?
This would require a constitutional amendment (overriding the First Amendment), which can be done in two ways. Congress can write an amendment and submit it to the states; or the states can call for a ...
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Is there a path through the courts to sue the US government to allow a national referendum?
...but is there a path through the court system, the damages being that
the elected representatives are benefiting from a system (specifically
campaign funding) that actually hurts the democratic ...
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What if a previous US President was found ineligible to be President?
What would happen?
Nothing.
The Courts would deem it to be a political question that was decisively and conclusively resolved when Congress ratified the electoral vote and the President was sworn in.
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What if a previous US President was found ineligible to be President?
In the hypothetical past, some person could petition for writ of quo warranto, and if your alternative reality can be proven, the person may be removed from office, indeed this happened a half a year ...
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lose primary, run as independant?
In a good many states there are so-called "sore loser" laws. These specifically prohibit a person who has been a candidate in a primary election and has lost that election from being ...
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Who is the local authority to decide if a candidate eligible to be on a ballot?
In every state, conducting elections is the job of the Secretary of State. There are forms to fill out, fees to pay, and so on. It is possible that in filing the application, a person may reveal their ...
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Can an election be canceled if the elected candidate has saturated medias
united-states
Can an election be canceled if the elected candidate has saturated
medias?
No. Indeed, many completely legal election campaigns are grossly one-sided with the opponents of one ...
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Can felons vote?
france
Unless specifically sentenced to it (see below), persons convicted of a crime (felony) do not lose voting rights and can vote, even incarcerated (polling stations are set up at some ...
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Final authority on re-districting map
Resources
You are asking about the issue in Moore v. Harper, which has a SCOTUSblog entry here. SCOTUSblog is a good resource for learning about the arguments in cases before the Supreme Court.
There, ...
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lose primary, run as independant?
There are three ways that a person can be candidate for president: as a candidate in a particular party, as a write-in candidate, and as petitioned independent candidate. Some states don't allow write-...
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