by Julie Walsh
October 24, 2008 @ 10:54 am
Trust in the integrity of a government’s voting process is critical. If you don’t believe me, think Venezuela and Zimbabwe. In the US, public outcry is already beginning over widespread voting fraud issues, yet the government is doing little. Quin Hillyer, in his piece “No Righting Voting Wrongs in Ohio“, details what can and should be done to start to restore public trust in the system.
The nation’s highest court ruled Friday that, for now, a federal district court cannot force…
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by Hans Bader
October 23, 2008 @ 8:35 pm
by Hans Bader
October 09, 2008 @ 1:39 pm
by Hans Bader
October 05, 2008 @ 2:45 pm
The upcoming election has given me new relatives, all of them imaginary. The Obama campaign’s get-out-the-vote operation calls my house on an almost daily basis, trying to reach people who don’t live there, like Cyrus and Hassan Bader. But I’ve never heard of either of them, even though I share their last name. The Obama people have also tried repeatedly to reach my 18-month old daughter Sarah.
I live in a liberal bastion, Arlington, Virginia, where high voter turnout favors the Democratic Party. The Party hopes to…
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