Tag: us politics
group name: electionreform
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April 04, 2006 12:53 PM EDT --
[ This is a slightly modified version of an article I wrote for Blue Mass Group ]
As Andy noted on his blog last week, the 21st Century Democrats endorsed John Bonifaz for Secretary of the Commonwealth . . . 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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April 13, 2006 07:43 PM EDT --
A furor seems to have erupted recently among verified voting activists about HR 550, a bill that seeks to improve our voting laws by requiring a paper trail and audits. The key protagonists:
Rush Holt, . . . more
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April 19, 2006 02:51 PM EDT --
When I joined Gather, I swore up and down that I would stay away from political posts. I absolutely HATE politics (especially in the last 6 years), but unfortunately, the consequences of political decisions . . . more
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April 12, 2006 05:51 PM EDT --
I created a new group this afternoon, Election Reform and Voting Rights (electionreform.gather.com):
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A place to talk about election reform and voting rights, both to learn and to . . . 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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May 07, 2006 11:36 AM EDT --
Spam Daily News
5.07.06- ''This is totally ridiculous. I can't believe you're making this argument,'' Judge Harry T. Edwards told Jacob Lewis, an associate general counsel with . . . 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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May 03, 2006 09:20 AM EDT --
Bush might be the worst president ever, but some Republican governors are giving him a run for his money.
Stateside Dispatch
5.03.06- The story of American democracy is one of heroes and disappointments. . . . more
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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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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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April 16, 2006 12:19 AM EDT --
Remember the Pentagon Papers? Some senator from Alaska had the balls to read a classified document, word for word, into the Congressional Record, and all hell broke loose . Remember some guy . . . 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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October 23, 2006 04:30 PM EDT --
A recent CNN poll showed that one half of all Americans believe Congress is corrupt, and a third believes that their own Member of Congress is corrupt.
Reports have called the 109<sup>th</sup> . . . 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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August 22, 2006 11:43 AM EDT --
In the past several years, I've become very skeptical about the integrity of our democratic process. Increasingly, blogs, followed by traditional media, have revealed instances of voting machine . . . more
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May 05, 2006 05:51 PM EDT --
No. 3 Official at CIA Is Subject of Investigation Related to Bribery Probe (Could this be part of why Porter Goss resigned, or is it Hookergate?)
by Brian Ross, Richard Esposito and Rhonda Schwartz
ABC . . . 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 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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November 29, 2006 11:02 AM EST --
Exit polls after the mid-term elections showed that corruption was a key issue guiding the public’s decisions at the voting booths. The scandals endured by the GOP directly before the elections . . . more
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