The Diaspora Progressive Movement in USA talks about ROPAA
We sighted a news item on Joy News in which a Deputy Commissioner at the Electoral Commission talking about the Commission’s readiness to implement ROPAA in the 2020 elections. He stated that ROPAA is a Ghanaian thing and early this year, they will start registering Ghanaians living abroad. We welcome this decision by the commission and we on our part, will do everything possible for ROPAA to succeed.
Citizenship question is gone. Michigan immigrants still distrust the Census
President Donald Trump’s plans to include a citizenship question on the 2020 U.S. Census have come and gone, but they continue to spark fear among immigrants about what the government will do with information collected in the count.
ROPAA Committee begins engagement of Diaspora
The Electoral Commission (EC) on Monday started consultation of strategic countries towards the operationalization of the Representation of the People Amendment Act (ROPAA) 2006 (Act 699), which gives Ghanaians in the Diaspora the right to vote from abroad.
White and Black people to get more room on 2020 census to explain their origins
For the first time, the U.S. Census Bureau is giving people in the country’s two largest racial categories space to give more details about their origins.
People who identify as “white” or “Black or African American” will have 16 blank spaces to explain their ethnic makeup when filling out the paper copy. Those filling out the form online will have 200 characters.
As Census Count Nears, Columbus Confronts Fear Among African Immigrants
Efforts are underway in Ohio for the 2020 Census, the U.S. government’s once-a-decade effort to count every resident in the country. Mailers will begin showing up on doorsteps as early as next month, with a national Census Day planned for April 1. At stake is an estimated $1.5 trillion a year, distributed by the federal government to […]