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Survey & Ballot Systems (SBS) announces new feature that allows voters in member-based organizations to access online voting from mobile devices via quick response (QR) codes. Minneapolis, MN (PRWEB) March 30, 2012 SBS, a leading provider of election services and Internet voting systems, announced today that it will offer secure access to SBS online elections via QR code technology. Voters participating in organization elections hosted by SBS can now quickly login to online ballots...

COLUMBIA, S.C., March 30, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today, the South Carolina State Conference of the NAACP and individual Black college students moved to join a lawsuit to prevent the implementation of South Carolina's discriminatory voting law. In the lawsuit, South Carolina v. United States, South Carolina asks a federal court in Washington, D.C. to approve, under the Section 5 preclearance provision of the Voting Rights Act, a restrictive government-issued photo...

WASHINGTON, March 29, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- In an effort to modernize the tactics and operations of America's conservative grassroots organizations and campaigns in this critical election year, American Majority Action has announced a groundbreaking partnership with Political Gravity(TM), a leader in software technology, to take to market a new high-tech campaign management program. The new software called Gravity is a next-generation political technology tool and an all-in-one...

SAN FRANCISCO, March 29, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- craigslist founder Craig Newmark has issued an infographic that illustrates the impact of voting restriction laws on U.S. citizens. The infographic was published today on Newmark's craigconnects website. It explores the extensive actions taken by states to limit the opportunities for Americans to vote in general elections. "What I learned in high school civics class is that an attack on voting rights is virtually the same as an attack on...

I a new paper, a Simon Fraser University economist finds that robo-calling, if the phenomenon did occur, could have significantly influenced voter turnout and ballot results in the last federal election. Anke Kessler’s discussion paper is available on her website and on Worthwhile Canadian Initiative, an economics blog. Elections Canada is investigating New Democrat and Liberal party allegations that the Conservatives hired companies to robo-call voters in ridings across Canada,...

HARRISBURG, Pa., March 14, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Governor Tom Corbett today signed into law House Bill 934, also known as the Photo Voter ID bill, which will require Pennsylvanians to produce photo identification when they vote. "I am signing this bill because it protects a sacred principle, one shared by every citizen of this nation. That principle is: one person, one vote,'' Corbett said. "It sets a simple and clear standard to protect the integrity of our...

WASHINGTON, March 13, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Melanie L. Campbell, president and CEO of The National Coalition on Black Civic Participation and convener of Black Women's Roundtable, issued the following statement about the Department of Justice's rejection of the new voter ID law in Texas: "We support the US Department of Justice's decision to oppose the law passed in Texas last year requiring voters to show a photo ID, and hope that similar laws passed in other states...

An article released by Social Forces indicates that voter identification requirements have a substantially negative impact on the voting of all groups except for Asians. Particularly strong negative effects are seen for Blacks and Hispanics: a decrease in voting by 18 percent and 22 percent respectively. Even Whites show dampened turnout associated with voter ID policies. Yet for Asians, strikingly, voter ID has the opposite effect, boosting turnout by nearly 30 percent. This is an intriguing...

WASHINGTON, March 12, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Department of Justice today sent a letter rejecting Texas' voter identification law saying Hispanic voters in the state are as much as 120 percent more likely than non-Hispanic voters to lack a driver's license or personal state-issued photo ID. "The announcement by the Department of Justice this morning in opposition to Texas' voter ID law is a prime example of a government agency putting partisan politics above reality and the...

Politicians are supposed to represent the citizens. Yet public officials also represent groups they belong to and identify with, according to a new doctoral thesis from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. 'Public administrators are affected by their group affiliations and life experiences. If you have an immigrant background, it's going to affect how you do your job as a public official,' says Nazem Tahvilzadeh, researcher at the School of Public Administration and author of the thesis....