New Orleans In trying to suppress citizen rights to vote the use of provisional ballots are a sop thrown to the disappointed voter largely to pretend that their votes will count. This fiction is starting to fall on hard times. In the elections being reported in Kenya’s national elections where millions waited in mile-long lines …
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Problems are Epidemic in the States Due to Voter Registration
New Orleans The headlines only tell part of the story when it comes to the emerging crisis in voter registration systems and the simple act of voting. I haven’t gone through the whole Pew Trust report on state problems according to their election performance index covering 2008 and 2010, but I’ve read enough to know …