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Tag: Modernizing voter registration

Dragging voter registration kicking/screaming into the 21st century

September 18, 2012 Gloria Shur Bilchik 2012 Election, Civil Rights, Good government, Missouri region, States, Voting/Elections One comment

While Republican Secretaries of State in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Florida desperately try to limit access to voting by aggressively purging registration rolls, forward-looking voters’

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Don’t ask, just register everyone to vote

July 23, 2010 Gloria Shur Bilchik Campaigns, Civil Rights, Government, Politics One comment

Before every election, an army of campaign workers, political party loyalists and community organizers grab their clipboards and pens and try to get people

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