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HARRISBURG, Pa., July 20, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Secretary of the Commonwealth Carol Aichele today announced the creation of a new card that can be issued to voters who need photo identification under Pennsylvania's voter ID law. The Department of State voter cards, which will be issued by the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, will be available to registered voters who are not able to provide all of the documents they would normally need to obtain a photo ID from...
John Neumann for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online While some states are tightening restrictions on voting eligibility, Washington state opens its voter registrations with the ability to sign up via a Facebook app, writes Cyrus Farivar for Ars Technica. This week, a new Facebook app created by Redmond Washington-based Microsoft will provide a new interface to let voters access the MyVote system. The internet is not exactly new, except maybe for government entities. It was only in...
HOUSTON, June 27, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- True the Vote, a nonpartisan, nonprofit grassroots organization focused on preserving election integrity, and Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and fights government corruption, announced Tuesday that they have filed a Motion for Intervention defending the State of Florida's efforts to clean up voter registration lists against an Obama administration lawsuit (The United States of America v. State of Florida...
NEW YORK, June 11, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Local market consumer research firm, Scarborough, and leading political data solutions provider, TargetSmart Communications, today announced that they have forged a data relationship to combine TargetSmart's nationwide voter file with Scarborough's consumer data into a single integrated data set. The result is robust insights on voter trends and patterns by political party and in-depth information on important voter groups (such as Women,...
WASHINGTON, June 1, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Following are statements from Melanie L. Campbell, president and CEO of the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation (The National Coalition) and convener, Black Women's Roundtable and Salandra Benton, director of The Florida Coalition on Black Civic Participation and Florida Black Women's Roundtable regarding the recent court decision on Florida voting law (H.B. 1355). Melanie L. Campbell said, "The National Coalition on...
RALEIGH, N.C., May 15, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- During the state constitutional amendment referendum last week, election staff offered the chance to vote to what appeared to be a non-U.S. citizen. Poll workers declined suggestions by a Project Veritas Investigator that he retrieve his passport, making clear that he would be allowed to vote without any ID whatsoever. Project Veritas investigated individuals who appeared on jury duty rolls as being exempted for not being U.S....
NEW ORLEANS, May 4, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Yesterday, voting rights advocates won an important legal victory that will ensure that Louisiana's public assistance agency clients--the state's poorest and most marginalized residents--will be offered an opportunity to register to vote. In a forceful decision, a federal judge ruled in favor of the Louisiana State Conference of the NAACP that Section 7 of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (NVRA) requires that all...
NEW ORLEANS, May 2, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A panel of election experts at the W.K. Kellogg Foundation's grantee conference for America Healing outlined the most significant organized efforts to suppress voting rights for Latinos and African Americans over the last 100 years. At the same time, Native Americans have enjoyed a civic engagement success story in New Mexico. In the last two years, the nation has seen "the most wide-scale, most significant attacks on voting...
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...
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...
