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Rep. Hoyer urges action on ‘deeply disturbing’ anti-voter campaign
Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-MD) on Monday urged Congress to pass the Voter Empowerment Act, legislation that would make it easier to register to vote. “We ought to be building on that progress we made in 2008 by encouraging more Americans to register to vote and cast their ballots,” he said…
Hamas ‘temporarily’ suspends voter registration
The Hamas government in the Gaza Strip said on Monday it has “temporarily” halted voter registration just over a month after granting the electoral commission permission to work. In a statement, Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri cited various “obstacles” that needed to be resolved before the electoral commission could resume its work. “Hamas and the government in Gaza have provided the Central Election…
More than 1.5 million Texas voters could have registration suspended
More than 1.5 million voters could be purged from Texas voter rolls, according to an analysis by the Houston Chronicle. The newspaper warned Texans on Monday to keep an eye on their mail, so that voter registration cancellations do not go by unnoticed. One in 10 voters has already had…
House Democrats propose online voter registration
House Democrats on Thursday introduced voting legislation designed to counter restrictions on voting rights that have been enacted across the country since 2010. “The ability to vote should be easy, accessible and simple,” Rep. John Lewis (D-GA), the sponsor of the Voter Empowerment Act, said. “Yet there are practices and…
Fakin’ It
Yglesias had a great post this morning about the relative error rate in ACORN registrations – about 30,000 out of a million. The obvious point of all of this is to simply stop mass voter registration drives, keeping the number of new voters down to only the self-motivated. But there’s…
Black People: Scary, Lying And Probably Terrorists
The New York Post has a startling story on a man who filled out an astonishing 72 voter registrations for the nefarious group ACORN. The reason I use all of those adjectives is because this story is otherwise really stupid and completely pointless, but descriptive words draw the reader in.…
Voters Aren’t Votes
Here’s the entire thing about registering to vote: it’s the act of trading in a set of information about your self which may or may not allow to subsequently register your choice for a series of offices and issues at a time and place of someone else’s choosing. It is…
Reminder to Texas readers
Today is the deadline for voter registration. Stop by any of the voter registration tables around town to register, if you haven’t already (or just need an address change). By the way, I found this part of the article that I linked amusing: The drive, hosted by SG, UT Votes,…
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