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How to fix long lines at polling places

February 14, 2013 Gloria Shur Bilchik 2012 Election, Civil Rights, Good government, Voting/Elections Leave a comment

No one should have to stand in line for three hours to vote in a presidential election. But that’s just what 102-year-old Desiline Victor had

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Can felons vote in your state? You got a problem with that?

October 26, 2012 Bobbi Clemons 2012 Election, Charity & Justice, Crime/Violence, Politics, States Leave a comment

One of the core beliefs of our country is that everyone has a right to vote. But what about the people who break our

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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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New idea to prevent voter suppression

August 24, 2012 Arthur Lieber Campaigns, Civil Rights, Courts, Voting/Elections Leave a comment

Washington Post opinion writer, Katrina vanden Heuvel suggests that the best way to protect voting rights and eliminate voter suppression is through a constitutional

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Vexation about DC representation

February 24, 2011 Gloria Shur Bilchik Congress, Voting/Elections One comment

One of the new Republican Congressional majority’s first moves in January 2011 was a smack-down of the 600,000 residents of Washington DC.  On the

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