Tag: news
group name: electionreform
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October 23, 2006 01:17 AM EDT --
Book review of The Audacity of Hope (audio CD)
I rarely am impressed by the vision of a politician. They seem as of late to be so self consumed with raising funds and keeping power . . . more
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April 22, 2006 02:58 PM EDT --
Massachusetts Senator John Kerry, who won the last New Hampshire presidential primary, opposes Democratic party plans to dilute the primary's impact.
Kerry told the New Hampshire Union Leader the . . . 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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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 21, 2006 04:28 PM EDT --
On September 14, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 6061, the "Secure Fence Act," which calls for 700 miles of fence on the U.S./Mexico border. The Senate may debate and vote on this legislation . . . more
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April 23, 2006 01:56 PM EDT --
Yesterday, I posted about Kerry's opposition to a DNC advisory commission's plan to place one or two caucuses from more ethnically, racially and economically diverse states between Iowa's caucus . . . more
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May 18, 2006 03:40 PM EDT --
by Ray McGovern
ICH
5.18.06- Is Congress aiding and abetting the creation of a police state? Recently, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Pete Hoekstra, R-Mich., helped to give the CIA . . . more
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September 17, 2006 06:33 PM EDT --
New numbers from the GAO state that more immigrants are dying trying to cross into the United States from Mexico. Sad really...I wonder how the risk of death comes into play into the formulation of expected . . . 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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September 29, 2006 01:46 PM EDT --
For the past two weeks the Sunlight Network's Punch Clock Campaign has been collecting pledges from congressional candidates who agree to post their schedules on-line once they're elected. . . . more
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June 26, 2006 10:57 AM EDT --
The U.S. Supreme Court struck down a Vermont law that strictly limits how much money candidates for state office can raise and spend on their political campaigns.
By a 6-3 vote, the court ruled that the . . . more
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May 16, 2006 05:11 PM EDT --
by Jeffrey Klein and Paolo Pontoniere
New America Media
San Francisco, 5.15.06- Italian journalists and parliamentary investigators are hot on the trail of how pre-Iraq War Italian forged documents were . . . more
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May 08, 2006 09:06 PM EDT --
Military PR flies friendly skies
by Jason George
Chicago Tribune
5.08.06- United Airlines has begun showing an in-flight video about military glamor jobs that was produced and funded by the Department . . . more
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May 09, 2006 10:45 PM EDT --
Alphonso Jackson says deal was scuttled after contractor admits not liking Bush
by Christine Perez
Dallas Business Journal
5.09.06- Once the color barrier has been broken, minority contractors seeking . . . more
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August 08, 2006 05:13 PM EDT --
by Charles J. Hanley
Associated Press
8.08.06- Do you believe in Iraqi "WMD"? Did Saddam Hussein's government have weapons of mass destruction in 2003? Half of America apparently still . . . more
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April 16, 2006 10:28 PM EDT --
We elect our President though the electoral college. Should we keep the current system or change to one of the following reform proposals?:
Direct Election with Instant Runoff Voting
Proportional . . . more
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September 15, 2006 03:43 PM EDT --
Columbus, Ohio -- The Fair Minimum Wage Amendment was officially certified by the Ohio Secretary of State's office on Tuesday, Sept.5. The ballot initiative, which qualified with 363,183 signatures . . . more
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May 21, 2006 06:01 PM EDT --
by Gerri Peev
The Scotsman
5.20.06- Soldiers who object to taking part in a military occupation of a foreign country will face life in prison under measures due to be rubber-stamped in the House of Commons . . . 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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