Sunday’s Iraqi Elections Bring Out Crowds.
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Archive for the 'Elections' Category
The new Demockracy.
Saturday, January 9th, 2010Courts Roll Back Limits on Spending in Election Law
By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK
Published: January 8, 2010
WASHINGTON — Even before a landmark Supreme Court ruling on campaign finance law expected within days, a series of other court decisions is reshaping the political battlefield by freeing corporations, unions and other interest groups from many of the restrictions on […]
Just as the NFL season opens with radio commercials for point spread gurus, so does election season welcome the Republican attempts to prevent citizens from voting.
Monday, September 8th, 2008INSIDE HIGHER EDUCATION
Sept. 3
Warning for College Student Voters
Last week, Virginia’s Montgomery County, home to Virginia Tech, issued a press release regarding proper protocol for college students registering to vote. In interviews with Inside Higher Ed Tuesday, it was described by turns as “unsubstantiated,” “chilling,” and (more generously) as not “incredibly encouraging or friendly.”
It reads, in […]
And they want to keep ‘illegals’ out of Colorado?
Saturday, September 6th, 2008
Colorado elections director resigns amid inquiry
By Myung Oak Kim, Rocky Mountain News (Contact)
Saturday, September 6, 2008
The abrupt resignation Thursday of a top elections official at the secretary of state’s office happened in the midst of a watchdog group’s investigation into her relationship with a local businessman who has contracts with that office.
Holly Lowder, 66, resigned […]
When will the Care-Bear Dems awaken from their 12-year hibernation?
Wednesday, September 12th, 2007Voter Purging: A Legal Way for Republicans to Swing Elections?
By Steven Rosenfeld, AlterNet.
Posted September 11, 2007.
Now the Department of Justice, like the Republican Party, wants fewer registered voters in 2008.
Looking toward the 2008 election, it appears the purges could be a new and legal way to accomplish a controversial longstanding Republican Party electoral tactic — […]
Does anyone remember that Bob Barker once hosted Truth or Consequences?
Sunday, August 5th, 2007*
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Republican hopefuls wade into terrorist strike debate
By Kay Henderson2 hours, 31 minutes ago
Republican presidential contenders waded into a Democratic foreign policy row on Sunday, and argued over how far the United States should go in striking terrorist targets abroad.
Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois, running for the Democratic presidential nomination, said last week he would […]
Voting While Black is a real problem for Rove.
Thursday, April 19th, 2007Posted on Thu, Apr. 19, 2007
U. S. ATTORNEYS
Campaign against alleged voter fraud fuels political tempest
By Greg Gordon
McClatchy Newspapers
WASHINGTON - For six years, the Bush administration, aided by Justice Department political appointees, has pursued an aggressive legal effort to restrict voter turnout in key battleground states in ways that favor Republican political candidates.
The administration intensified its […]
This is reason #2,748 why I did not feel sorry for the Old Man 41’s tears.
Friday, March 23rd, 2007Posted on Fri, Mar. 23, 2007
U.S. ATTORNEYS
New U.S. attorneys seem to have partisan records
By Greg Gordon, Margaret Talev and Marisa Taylor
McClatchy Newspapers
WASHINGTON - Under President Bush, the Justice Department has backed laws that narrow minority voting rights and pressed U.S. attorneys to investigate voter fraud - policies that critics say have been intended to suppress […]
What’s in a Name?
Friday, February 9th, 2007From the country which gave us “Plutot Hitler Que Blum” comes this story.
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France’s Socialist Party presidential candidate Segolene Royal holds the report on the institution of the government as she speaks to reporters at her campaign headquarters in Paris, February 8, 2007. REUTERS/Michel Euler/Pool (FRANCE)
French intellectuals abandoning Royal
By ANGELA DOLAND, Associated Press Writer
Fri Feb 9, […]
If the good lord had wanted reliable election procedures, he would not have invented e-voting.
Monday, November 27th, 2006The New York Times reports serious voting problems in 25 states. Brad’s Blog has been a source of warnings for many of the problems we see.
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Please find the New York Times article and a link to Brad’s Blog.
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