Word: voters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Consequently, Royko confesses puzzlement that Daley's most consistently loyal constituency is in the black ghetto wards. Their loyalty, though, may be due to the diligence of Democratic precinct workers, who remind the voters that the continued receipt of welfare checks is somehow inextricable from the franchise. Then, being thorough in their work, says Royko, they accompany the voter into the polling booth to make sure he does not forget...
Steve Morgan of Boston CAN said that busses will leave from Cambridge Common at 2 p. m. Sunday afternoon. He said a key purpose of the rally is to encourage student voter registration. The elections in Berkeley last week showed that students can have a major effort in electoral politics, he added...
Activities proposed at the meeting included hosting a series of speakers, lobbying in Washington, organizing voter registration drives, and coordinating students interested in working in local campaigns this fall and New Hampshire primary campaigns next winter...
...being tried on charges stemming from the slaying of Alex Rackley, a fellow Panther and alleged police informer. Like many defense lawyers, Seale's attorney, Charles Garry, sees his client as a victim. He insists that a black militant cannot obtain a panel of impartial jurors from voter rolls, which are stocked largely with white, middle-class citizens. None of them, he claims, "could possibly judge an enemy of the Establishment...
...sense of frustration is evident in Weltner's voice when he talks about the future of Southern politics. He has little faith in the effects that increased black voter registration will have ("They go from 5 per cent of the electorate to 34 per cent, and then the whites win by 66 per cent instead of 95 per cent.") or of efforts to rebuild the Democratic Party...