Tag: voting rights
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Supreme Court Legalizes Voter Suppression
The headline’s from Project Vote’s post on OpenLeft, which also has a great quote from their board member Donna Massey: The real purpose of strict photo voter ID rules is to make it more difficult for some Americans to vote. It’s the voters who are less likely to vote who are also less likely to…
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“Double Bubble Trouble”: Massive voter disenfranchisement in California — and Washington?
The LA Registrar of Voters says it may not be possible to determine voter intent! Please sign Courage Campaign’s “Count every vote” petition asking for a full recount! 25,000 signatures so far; latest update and some discussion about “intent” on Courage Campaign’s page here. PeteTV has a video and transcript at So this is what…
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Why the New Hampshire recount is important
There are a couple of excellent posts up on why even though there are plausible explanations for the discrepancies in candidates’ results between hand-counted and machine-counted precincts, the recount in the New Hampshire primary is a good thing. In Off the Bus on the Huffington Post, after giving some background on the vulnerabilities of the…