[Studentsenatecommissioners-l] FW: Sept. 17 at OU: panel on voting rights

[McDaniel, Caitlyn]

Cool event to share with your orgnaizations and members...

________________________________
From: Bernstein, Alyssa <bernstei at ohio.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, September 3, 2014 11:17 PM
To: College Democrats; ohioucollegerepublicans at gmail.com; ouwpapresident at gmail.com; info at ohioupc.com; outhreadmag at gmail.com; posteditorial at ohiou.edu; Grisso, Jaelynn; ohioustars at gmail.com; Students For Liberty; Thayer, Brandi; Burry, Brenna; sphereou at gmail.com; ou-dg-spj-forward; Sierra Student Coalition; serviceliving at good-works.net; Johns, Alexis; ou.nsbe at gmail.com; National Communication Assoc, Student Club; ou-dg-saw-forward; Black Student Union; BSCPB at listerv.ohio.edu; ,com; American Association of University Women; NPHC at ohio.edu
Subject: Sept. 17 at OU: panel on voting rights

Please help advertise the panel, "Vote Suppression, Democratic Values, and Struggles for Voting Rights," described below (under my name) and in the attached Word document.

Attached is a flyer (a pdf file) that can be printed out and/or forwarded to others electronically.

Thank you,

Alyssa Bernstein
Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy
Director, Institute for Applied and Professional Ethics
Ohio University

"Vote Suppression, Democratic Values, and Struggles for Voting Rights," a panel including Daniel Tokaji (Professor of Law and Senior Fellow with Election Law @ Moritz, Ohio State University), Piers Turner (Assistant Professor of Philosophy and co-leader of the Democratic Governance group of the Ohio State University Center for Ethics and Human Values) and Patricia Gunn (Associate Professor of Law at Ohio University's Department of African American Studies) will take place in Clippinger 194, 4:30-6:30pm, on Wednesday, September 17th (Constitution Day).
   Three lectures of 20-30 minutes each will be followed by open discussion.
   This event is organized by Professor Alyssa Bernstein, Director of the OU Institute for Applied and Professional Ethics, and co-sponsored by OU's Philosophy Department and the OU Center for Law, Justice, and Culture.

Descriptions/abstracts:
(1) Professor Gunn will discuss, from the point of view of Constitutional Law, the effect that deprivation of their legal right to vote had on African Americans in the context of the Civil Rights Movement.

(2) Professor Tokaji will give a talk entitled "Three Dimensions of the Right to Vote".   He has provided the following abstract:

In recent years, voting rights advocates have become increasingly concerned about "vote suppression," in the form of laws like voter ID that make it difficult for eligible citizens to vote and have their votes counted.  Professor Tokaji will argue that vote suppression is real, but has been conceived of too narrowly.  While most of the attention has focused on the right to participate, that is just one of three dimensions to the right to vote.  Properly conceived, the right to vote includes not only participation but also representation and influence.  It is in these latter areas where the most serious, yet less fully appreciated, threats to the right to vote exist.  Practices that deny equal representation include partisan gerrymandering and racial vote dilution,, while the vast sums spent on campaigns and lobbying imperil the ideal of equal influence.   Professor Tokaji will argue that the U.S. Supreme Court, rather than providing solutions, has become part of the problem with respect to all three dimensions of the right to vote.

(3) Piers Turner will give a talk entitled "Democratic Values and Voting Rights".   He has provided the following abstract:

Proposed reforms to the regulations around voting rights--such as those concerning voter ID and restrictions on early voting--are introduced against a background set of democratic values and commitments, including political equality, autonomy, public accountability, community, and stability. Proponents and critics alike have tended to focus on political equality and autonomy issues. The basic worry is that fraud (or, conversely, an overzealous effort to stamp out fraud) undermines the equality of influence fundamental to democratic decision-making by giving greater voice to (or suppressing the voice of) some set of individuals. This then affects the autonomy of some individuals by diminishing their say over the laws that bind them. These issues are important, but considerations of public accountability, community, and stability must also factor into our account of the value of voting rights. I argue that once these other democratic values are taken into account, the burden of proof is clearly placed on those who would make it more difficult to exercise one's voting rights.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://listserv.ohio.edu/pipermail/studentsenatecommissioners-l/attachments/20140907/1a349825/attachment-0001.html 
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: Voting Panel.pdf
Type: application/pdf
Size: 99050 bytes
Desc: Voting Panel.pdf
Url : http://listserv.ohio.edu/pipermail/studentsenatecommissioners-l/attachments/20140907/1a349825/attachment-0001.pdf 
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: Voting Rights Panel Sept. 17, 2014.doc
Type: application/msword
Size: 33280 bytes
Desc: Voting Rights Panel Sept. 17, 2014.doc
Url : http://listserv.ohio.edu/pipermail/studentsenatecommissioners-l/attachments/20140907/1a349825/attachment-0001.doc