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By PATRICK MARLEY Madison -- Officials and interest groups clashed Thursday over the meaning of Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen's lawsuit against the state's election authority, with some saying it would force thousands off the voter rolls and others arguing it would protect the rights of legitimate voters. Also Thursday, an election official said the lawsuit could force clerks to check data on about 1 million voters. And critics accused Van Hollen -- a Republican serving as the state...
To: POLITICAL EDITORS Contact: U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Office of Public Affairs, +1-202-461-7600 WASHINGTON, Sept. 8 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) announced today it has clarified its policy on assisting veterans' voter registration activities, with particular focus on inpatients and residents of VA community living centers, domiciliaries and patients with limited access to community voter registration resources. The Department will...
Patagonia, the outdoor apparel company, has formally launched its "Vote The Environment" campaign in advance of the presidential election this November 2008. The aggressive three-part campaign asks customers to (1) register to vote, (2) educate themselves on the environmental records of candidates and (3) place the environment at the top of their priority list in the voting booth. Due to its strong environmental slant, "Vote The Environment" places Patagonia at risk of customer criticism....
Rock the Vote and Comcast Corporation, the nation's leading provider of entertainment, information and communications products and services, announced today at the Tri-Caucus Youth Summit in Washington, D.C., that they have entered into a multimedia partnership to encourage young Americans, ages 18-29, to register to vote. The Summit was hosted by the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute (CHCI), the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, Inc. (CBCF) and the Asian Pacific American Institute...
By Seattle Times Jul. 16--With the Aug. 19 primary election approaching, the deadline for voter registration by mail and online is Saturday. Voter registration forms and instructions are available at the King County Elections Web site, www.kingcounty.gov/elections, and the Washington Secretary of State's Web site, www.secstate.wa.gov. Mail-in registrations are available in English, Spanish, Chinese, Cambodian, Korean, Laotian, Russian and Vietnamese. Online registration is available on...
By Jim Loney MIAMI (Reuters) - A Florida judge on Monday barred enforcement of a state law that imposed fines on civic groups for failing to meet state deadlines in their voter registration drives, ruling the law violated free-speech rights and discriminated against the groups. The order was a victory for the League of Women Voters of Florida and other groups that claimed the law effectively shut down non-partisan voter registration drives while allowing political parties to continue...
By Jim Loney MIAMI (Reuters) - A Florida law that fines civic groups conducting voter registration drives violates free speech rights, harms low-income and minority citizens and should be struck down, a lawsuit filed on Thursday said. The 2005 law has forced the League of Women Voters of Florida and other groups to shut down nonpartisan voter registration activities, while allowing political parties to continue, the suit, filed in U.S. District Court, claims. "This has completely shut...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Many states have fallen behind in efforts to upgrade voting equipment and improve voter registration and identification ahead of November's congressional elections, a report issued on Tuesday said. The report said nearly half of the states missed last month's federal deadline to implement changes required by the 2002 Help America Vote Act, which Congress passed to help restore confidence in the integrity of a process shaken by the drawn-out 2000 recount saga in...
By David Lewis MBANDAKA, Congo (Reuters) - The outboard motor strains and water threatens to pour in with every wobble of the dugout canoe ferrying 15 election workers, voting kits and a mountain of food steadily along the vast, brown Congo river. Hours later and 65 km (40 miles) further downstream the team arrive in Maita, a remote jungle village. Today Maita is little more than a collection of huts, but come Sunday thousands of people are expected to paddle here to take part in a...
