By Eartha Jane Melzer 9/10/08 6:42 AM

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Volume 55, Number 14 · September 25, 2008
Obama: The Price of Being Black
By Andrew Hacker
Restoring the Right to Vote
by Erika Wood

Brennan Center for Justice, 34 pp., available at www.brennancenter.org
Crawford v. Marion County [Indiana] Election Board

US Supreme Court, April 28, ( Read more... )

Battlegrounds

Updated 9:40 p.m.
By Mary Pat Flaherty
About 2,500 ballots remain missing from an Aug. 26 primary in Palm Beach County, Fla.

County workers will fan out to polling places Friday to check whether ballots may have been left there rather than being transferred to a central counting facility. Elections workers also will be counting voter ( Read more... )

Indictments don't spoil Stevens' re-election bid

By STEVE QUINN, Associated Press Writer1 hour, 49 minutes ago

Even though he's facing federal charges, Ted Stevens remains feisty as ever. The 84-year-old Republican handily won his primary race for Senate and immediately proclaimed the November election a "piece of cake."

That's despite some major ( Read more... )

The New York Times

August 11, 2008

Op-Ed Contributor

Help Our Veterans Vote

By SUSAN BYSIEWICZ

Hartford

WHAT is the secretary of Veterans Affairs thinking? On May 5, the department led by James B. Peake issued a directive that bans nonpartisan voter registration drives at federally financed nursing homes, rehabilitation centers and shelters for homeless ( Read more... )

 
August 5, 2008
Voters Not Strongly Backing Incumbents for Congress
Percentage backing re-election for their member and most members near all-time lows

• USA
• Congress
• Election 2008
• Americas
• Northern America

 Wed Aug-06-08 08:28 AM

163. Galloglas Update: Out of Jail, and ready to answer all questions:
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Bad Ballot Design Results in Staggering Numbers of Lost Votes

International Herald Tribune

Influx of voters expected to test new technology in U.S. election

By Ian Urbina

Monday, July 21, 2008

With millions of new voters heading to the polls this November and many states introducing new voting technologies, election officials and voting monitors ( Read more... )

Germany plans to give vote to babies

By Harry de Quetteville in Berlin

Last Updated: 7:17AM BST 10/07/2008

Dozens of German politicians have tabled a new law to extend voting rights to babies, toddlers, children and teenagers.
The bill, which has won the cross-party backing of some heavyweight German politicians, would wipe away decades of " ( Read more... )

posted July 01, 2008 8:00 pm
Tomgram: Rick Shenkman

[Note to TomDispatch readers: With this post, TomDispatch is shutting down for a few days. Expect the next piece on July 7th or 8th. With the sunny days of summer ahead, what could be better -- consider this a last holiday hint -- than picking up a copy of this site's new book, The World ( Read more... )