Me Before You (2016)
Kanisha Dezarn
In the run-up to the 2016 presidential election, the surge in attempts to make it harder to vote has been met by a pushback by courts, as many challengers fighting against these laws have secured victories softening or eliminating the restrictions.
But progress is possible: Before the summer recess, congressional Democrats introduced a transformative bill that could automatically register up to 50 million new citizens to vote. Recent litigation victories in Alabama, Georgia, Kansas, North Carolina, North Dakota, Texas, and Wisconsin also signal hope that rollbacks to voting rights can be stopped. Between now and November, watch the courts for the latest developments on what voters will encounter at the ballot box this year.
Voters in 14 states will face new voting restrictions for the first time during a presidential election this year. Those 14 states are: Alabama, Arizona, Indiana, Kansas, Mississippi, Nebraska, New Hampshire, Ohio, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and Wisconsin.
In a broad wave of voting restrictions passed since 2010, 20 states have cut back on voting access, with two more states passing laws that were recently blocked by courts. Still others, like Arkansas and Pennsylvania, passed restrictions that were quickly and permanently blocked by courts. The key factors that account for these new laws are partisanship and race.
As this map makes clear, the states most likely to pass new voting restrictions were those with the highest African-American turnout in 2008, those with the highest Hispanic population growth between 2000 and 2010, and/or those formerly covered under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act.
Among the many restrictive voting laws passed since 2010, the most burdensome are strict photo ID requirements, which permit voters to show only a small number of government-issued photo IDs in order to cast a ballot. Approximately 600,000 registered voters in Texas did not have acceptable IDs required under the original strict law, which has since been softened. Nationwide, approximately 11 percent of Americans lack government-issued photo ID, including a disproportionate number of people of color, seniors, and young people, according to one analysis.
If voters in one of these strict photo ID states do not have a required form of ID on Election Day, they may vote a provisional ballot. But to have that vote counted, they will have to return to the polls within a few days to prove their identity.
When Georgia and Indiana passed their strict photo ID laws in 2005, they were outliers. But the number of strict photo ID laws has exploded since 2012. Although states continue to pass new laws, courts have already blocked or mitigated some of the worst measures before the 2016 election.
This sequence of maps traces the history of strict photo ID laws in the U.S., showing how many states had strict photo ID laws in effect in recent presidential elections and how many are expected to have them this fall.
New to Exchange 2016. In the past with Exchange 2010, before installing a CU I would backup certain files which I believe were in C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\V15\ClientAccess\Owa\"version"\themes\resources
Is the path different in Exchange 2016? I realize everyone has different files and customizations to save but I'm just trying to narrow it down to a folder path. The last person that did this did not document this information such as customized logo's for OWA etc.....Also, I read that with Exchange 2016 CU's, The install automatically creates a backup of the web.config files in all the folders. Is this true?
if you are enquiring about files for the customisation of OWA etc, then the details are here: -us/exchange/clients/outlook-on-the-web/customize-outlook-on-the-web?v...
If you are talking about themes, then the details are here: -us/exchange/clients/outlook-on-the-web/themes?view=exchserver-2019
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Preceded by much discussion of sexual harassment and violence in the media, the #MeToo movement went viral on or around October 15, 2017. In short, it served as an accessible way for people around the world to simultaneously indicate, by using the hashtag #MeToo on social media, that they had been a victim of sexual violence, harassment, or misconduct of some form at some point in their lives. As millions used the hashtag, it quickly gained traction on social media before entering news media and general public discourse. As a result, #MeToo arguably became one of the most powerful public demonstrations of the magnitude of victims affected by sexual violence or harassment.
A number of other social movements that aimed to raise awareness of sexual violence also surfaced around this period, such as #TimesUp in January of 2018. Accusations of sexual violence or misconduct against a number of high-profile celebrities and powerful individuals also came to light in 2017 and 2018, contributing further to public discussions and calls to support victims. One underlying message of these campaigns was that victims of sexual violence should be supported and encouraged to share their stories.
Pre- and post-#MeToo time periods were defined to analyze police-reported sexual assaults and their characteristics before and after the social media movement went viral (see Text box 1). The pre-#MeToo period as defined by this study spans January 1, 2016 to September 30, 2017, and the post-#MeToo period includes October 1, 2017 to December 31, 2017.Note Although #MeToo has been recognized for going viral on social media on or around October 15th, 2017, the whole month of October is included in the post-#MeToo analytical time period because it allows for a more complete temporal analysis on a month-to-month as well as a quarterly basis, and because there was evidence of an increase in incidents reported by police leading up to mid-October. It is important to note that the pre- and post-#MeToo time periods applied in this analysis are not to be taken as rigid characterizations of the social climate around or public attention towards sexual violence. Indeed, attention on sexual violence in Canada did not only begin in October of 2017, and other events, such as a study on unfounded sexual assaults published in The Globe and Mail (see Text box 3), had taken place prior to. Ultimately, the data evidenced a clear jump in sexual assaults reported by police in October of 2017, which reinforced the use of this period as an analytical marker for the purposes of this study.
Data provided by police services in Canada indicate a marked increase in the number of victimsNote of founded sexual assault incidents during the same month that the #MeToo movement first went viral (Chart 1). It should be noted that reporting a crime to police can be done by any party, including the victim, a parent or guardian, or another third party.
There were nearly 2,500 victims of sexual assault reported by police in Canada in October 2017, higher than any other month in 2016 or 2017. This constituted 29% more victims than the month prior, and 46% more victims than in October of the previous year (Chart 2). Historically, there is typically an increase in reported sexual assaults in the summer months, making the sharp increase in October even more noteworthy.
Since comparable national-level data by month became available in 2009, sexual assaults reported to police have followed a relatively consistent pattern, where more incidents are reported to police in the summer months relative to other times during the year. This pattern can also be observed with many other types of violent crime, such as physical assault.
However, the end of 2017 did not follow this typical pattern; instead, there were more sexual assaults reported to police in October or November than during any other calendar month since comparable data became available in 2009.
Though sexual assault is more likely to be delayed in coming to the attention of police relative to other types of crime, according to 2016 and 2017 police-reported data, the majority of sexual assaults that were reported to police had occurred somewhat recently. Both before and after #MeToo, about three-quarters of sexual assaults were reported to police within the month they occurred (77% pre- and 73% post-#MeToo), including about half that were reported the same day they happenedNote (51% and 47%). Of incidents that were not reported the same day they occurred, the median time to reporting to police was just over a month (32 days) for post-#MeToo cases. This was longer than the 3-week median (21 days) it took for pre-#MeToo sexual assaults to come to the attention of police.Note
Proportionally, a marginal difference was noted when looking at sexual assaults that occurred more than one year before being reported to police. Before #MeToo, 12% of victims reported a sexual assault to police over a year after the incident, compared with a slightly higher proportion (16%) of victims after #MeToo. While proportions were fairly close, after #MeToo, the number of sexual assaults that took place a year prior to being reported was 56% higher than an average quarter before #MeToo (1,043 versus 671). More specifically, the increase in historical sexual assaults was driven by incidents that happened over a decade prior to being reported.
As such, despite increases in historical sexual assaults after #MeToo, which also resulted in longer median times between the incident occurring and being reported, it is important to recognize that the majority of the increase in reported sexual assaults post-#MeToo was driven by recently-committed crimes coming to the attention of police.
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