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July 17, 2009
NAACP CALLS FOR END TO PRISON-BASED GERRYMANDERING AT NATIONAL CONVENTION
NAACP CALLS FOR END TO PRISON-BASED GERRYMANDERING AT NATIONAL CONVENTION
by Peter Wagner, July 17, 2009
[URL: http://www.prisonersofthecensus.org/news/2009/07/17/naacp/ ]
On Tuesday, the delegates to the NAACP's 100th annual convention
approved a resolution calling for an end to prison-based
gerrymandering:
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the NAACP, on principle, decries
the enumeration of prisoners as local residents as violation of
our nation's fundamental one person one vote ethos of
representational democracy, harkening back to the disgraceful
three fifths era of constitutionally sanctioned slavery; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the NAACP calls on the U.S.
Department of Commerce Bureau of the Census to enumerate
prisoners within census blocks where domiciled at their time of
arrest; and
BE IT FINALLY RESOLVED, that NAACP units call upon their
Congressional representatives to effect such a permanent change
to the Census Bureau enumeration procedures.
Posted by lois at July 17, 2009 04:09 PM