[Pressreleases] Report to Congress highlights Douglass Inst. of Govt. lawsuit on voting rights (Forwarded release)

[DC Statehood Green Party]

(Forwarded by the D.C. Statehood Green Party
<http://www.dcstatehoodgreen.org>)


Douglass Institute of Government
For Immediate Release
Friday, October 3, 2003

Contact:
Asa Gordon, Executive Director, (202) 635-7926,
Electorsus en aol.com


CRS Report for Congress highlights DIG Presidential
Election of 2000 Lawsuit (Order Code 95-896 GOV)


The Congressional Research Service (CRS) report on
"The Voting Rights Act of 1965, As Amended: Its
History and Current Issues"; prepared for members and
committees of Congress, highlights the Lawsuit
challenge to the Presidential Election of 2000 by
Washington's Douglass Institute of Government (DIG)
over all the lawsuits filed by the NAACP and other
civil rights organizations including the American
Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), "challenging voting
policies and practices in some states electoral
processes." 

DIG's civil action has so far received no major media
coverage and does not appear in any of the purported
legal scholarly publications or books that provide
"expert" analysis over the legal issues raised in the
2000 presidential election. 

Furthermore, in addressing the question "Are
additional penalties needed to discourage future
violations of the VRA [Voting Rights Act]?"; the CRS
report only examines the arguments raised in DIG's
civil action over the 2000 presidential elections.

The CRS reported that DIG "[C]hallenged the
constitutionality of Florida's presidential electors.
According to DIG, the disparate impact on African
American voters in not having their votes counted in
the presidential election violated their due process
rights and the right to equal protection under the
law-rights that Sections 1 and 2 of the 14th Amendment
protect. DIG asserted that redress is provided in
Section 2 of the 14th Amendment. That is, the slate 
of Florida's presidential erectors should have been
reduced in proportion to the protected class of
disfranchised voters' population of the state."

The DC Statehood Green Party will host Asa Gordon,
Exec. Dir. of  DIG and DCSGP Str. Cmte. member at
Large, to present a series of lectures on "The Green
Party's Role in Democratizing  the Electoral College: 
(The Constitutional Mandate For Electoral Reform)",
Oct.2; Nov.6; Dec. 4  prior to the opening sessions of
its Monthly General Assembly Meetings held the first
Thursday of each month at 7pm UDC, Rm. 202, Bldg.39.

The Douglass Institute of Government (DIG) has
instituted a systematic program of civil actions to
educate the public to their full constitutional rights
and bring into effect the reconstruction era
constitutional provisions' de jure mandate for
electoral reform by proportional representation. 


Web site: http://www.electors.us/
E-mail address: electorsus en aol.com









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