Tag: democracy
group name: electionreform
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April 17, 2006 10:59 AM EDT --
Here in California, where Arnold suspiciously won the state house (despite offending women (he molested hundreds), Jews (his dad was in the Nazi S.A.) and Latinos (speaking against the right of illegials . . . more
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April 30, 2006 02:01 PM EDT --
(This haiku is dedicated to Alan Dechert and Open Voting Consortium .)
I just want to know
how our votes will be counted.
Open Voting NOW!
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November 26, 2006 06:24 AM EST --
I got the following response from a Gather member after sending him a connection request. After thinking about it, I thought I should post his message to me and my response. Of course I have . . . more
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May 10, 2006 06:54 PM EDT --
I'm passing on an email that I received from Open Voting Consortium . (Normally, I like to only post things I have written. I will always let you know if I post something I didn't write. This is . . . more
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April 29, 2006 10:30 PM EDT --
What Democracy?
Voting rights are all gone now.
Diebold can't count right.
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November 14, 2006 06:57 PM EST --
Found this on the news wires:
Civil rights groups filed a suit with German prosecutors on Tuesday seeking war crimes charges against outgoing Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld for the alleged abuse of . . . more
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June 11, 2006 08:52 PM EDT --
Being a single father of three children and helping to take care of my ailing father I must regretfully step aside and in doing this it will help booster Harry Mitchell's nomination in September. . . . more
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November 09, 2006 06:43 PM EST --
11/9/2006
Perhaps at last we are waking up from what has frequently and accurately been called our long national nightmare. The landslide Democratic victory on Tuesday seems almost to good to be . . . more
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May 03, 2006 04:21 PM EDT --
Hello, I just set up a new group for Gatherers to share their experiences with electronic voting. I have no experience voting that way myself, as my district uses punch cards. But I've heard stories . . . more
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September 20, 2006 05:09 PM EDT --
At lunchtime today I heard a story on NPR about electronic voting that has me back at gather looking for people's stories about their experiences.
1. No paper trail.
2. Setting machines up with a . . . more
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September 16, 2006 10:00 PM EDT --
I was reading the Author's Introduction of Alexis DeTocqueville's Democracy in America last night and I felt he had some interesting things to say:
To attempt to check democracy would be in that . . . more
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May 07, 2006 01:02 PM EDT --
Mission Akkomplished
by Ariel Dorfman
Counterpunch
5.07.06- I blinked at the words on my screen. I had been trolling the internet, looking for reasons why the US does not celebrate its workers on the . . . more
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January 30, 2006 01:43 PM EST --
Hearing on House Bill 90 by the Joint Committee on Elections
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
January 17, 2006
Testimony submitted by Rand Wilson, Communications Workers of America, District One . . . more
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July 21, 2006 09:53 AM EDT --
Council of Canadians Press Release
Ottawa 7.21.06- Maude Barlow, known internationally for her work on the right to water, was recently informed that she would not be interviewed by CBS News due to her . . . more
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November 05, 2006 07:00 AM EST --
Maybe this morning I'll get some more of my political angst off. It is so much on my mind these days. It is staggering how much one president and his administration, when aggressively staffed . . . more
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May 07, 2006 03:48 PM EDT --
by Gregg Aamot
Associated Press
St. Cloud, Mn., 5.07.06- Most motorists are feeling the pain as gasoline creeps toward, or over, $3 a gallon — but not Art Altrichter.
"This feels pretty . . . more
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November 13, 2006 06:21 AM EST --
Okay, not much is being said about it but here it is: If Congress impeaches Bush, and there has been quite alot of talk about this possibility, and Cheney resigns for any of a variety of reasons . . . more
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May 16, 2006 02:09 AM EDT --
Rewriting the Fourth Amendment
by Dave Lindroff
Counterpunch
4.15.06- Bush's nominee for head of the CIA, Gen. Michael Hayden, at a press conference, offered an interpretation of the Fourth Amendment . . . more
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February 10, 2006 02:49 PM EST --
Public participation in state politics is near an all time low, with serious consequences for the quality of our democracy and the ability of our elected leaders to make well-informed decisions.
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April 24, 2006 11:55 AM EDT --
The Boston Globe recently described how Massachusetts union officials can't agree on which gubernatorial candidate to support ("State labor unions fault records of Reilly, Patrick," Feb. . . . more
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