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Rand Paul’s rewriting of his own remarks on the Civil Rights Act

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Glenn Kessler - Apr. 11 (Fact Check) - "It's a mischaracterization of my position. I've never been against the Civil Rights Act, ever, and I continue to be for the Civil Rights Act as well as the Voting Rights Act. There was a long, one interview that had a long, extended conversation about the ramifications beyond race, and I have been concerned about the ramifications of certain portions of the Civil Rights Act beyond race, as they are now being applied to smoking, menus, listing calories and things on menus, and guns. And so I do question some of the ramifications and the extensions but I never questioned the Civil Rights Act and never came out in opposition to the Civil Rights Act or ever introduced anything to alter the Civil Rights Act." Read full article ...

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NAACP: New Election Commission Needed to Address Voter Suppression, Attacks on Voting Rights

Fri, 15 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0800

Democracy Now - By amy Goodman,Juan Gonzalez,Benjamin Jealous - Feb. 15 (Investigative Report) - During his State of the Union Tuesday, President Obama announced the formation of a new bipartisan commission to fix the nation’s broken voting system. In the audience was 102-year-old Desiline Victor who waited for hours to cast her ballot in the last election. Victor lives in Florida, where an estimated 200,000 voters failed to vote after becoming frustrated by the long lines. We speak to NAACP President Benjamin Jealous about how long lines is just one of many forms of voter suppression that the commission needs to address. [Transcript to come. Check back soon.]

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Kerry gets overwhelming Senate backing to lead State Department

Wed, 30 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Anne Gearan - Jan. 30 - The Senate overwhelmingly approved Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) as the next secretary of state Tuesday afternoon, with three Republican “no” votes. The vote was 94 to 3, clearing the way for Kerry to formally take over from Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Friday. Read full article >>

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Burma ceasefire 'holds' in rebel-held Kachin areas

Sat, 19 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800

BBC News - By Jonathan Head - Jan. 19 (News) - A ceasefire announced by the Burmese military fighting rebels in Kachin state appears to be holding, the BBC's Jonathan Head reports from the area.

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Ten Right Wing Election Myths Debunked by Reality in 2012

Wed, 14 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0800

AlterNet - By Steve Rosenfeld - Nov. 14 (Opinion) - The voting rights part of this fact-averse bubble had many dimensions: from who is and isn’t registered to vote; to when and where people wanted to vote; to what a voter must do at the polls to get a ballot; to how voter lists are updated—and who can be trusted to oversee the process. What follows are 10 lies pedaled by the Right during the 2012 campaign.

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Millions of Voters Demand Constitutional Amendment to Overturn Citizens United

Sat, 10 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0800

truth-out.org - By Mike Ludwig - Nov. 10 (News Report) - Grassroots campaigns with the lofty goal of amending the US Constitution to overturn the Supreme Court's landmark 2010 Citizens United ruling got a thumbs up from millions of voters across country on Election Day.

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Citizens United Rejected By Voters In Montana, Colorado

Wed, 07 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Paul Blumenthal - Nov. 07 (News Report) - In Colorado and Montana voters overwhelmingly stated their disapproval of the campaign finance climate that emerged in the wake of the Supreme Court's 2010 Citizens United ruling by voting for resolutions calling for a constitutional amendment to overturn of the ruling and end so-called corporate personhood. Pushed by a coalition of reform groups, voters in both states passed resolutions with more than 70 percent approval, and with support from both sides of the aisle.

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In Key Florida Battleground, Tea Party-Linked "True the Vote" Challenges Voters at the Polls

Tue, 06 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman, Myrna Perez, Brentin Mock - Nov. 06 (News Report) - Election Day 2012 has arrived, and the battle over voter suppression has reached a fever pitch in battleground states. We go to Virginia, where volunteers with the tea party-linked group True the Vote are challenging voters at the polls. We speak with Brentin Mock, the lead reporter for Voting Rights Watch 2012, a collaboration between The Nation magazine and Colorlines.com. Mock also describes voter suppression efforts in Florida, where True the Vote has also targeted alleged felon voters who will be asked to submit a provisional ballot if they attempt to vote today. [Transcript to come. Check back soon.]

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Threat of voter suppression

Mon, 05 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0800

CNN - Nov. 05 (Opinion) - Two days before the election, tensions are running high and poll numbers are being crunched every few hours. Nowhere is this truer than in Ohio -- the pathway to victory. So there was a collective gasp Friday when a last-minute directive from Ohio's secretary of state, a Republican, threatened to invalidate a number of provisional ballots.

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Hack the vote: Russian election chief rips US elections, voting machines

Wed, 31 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0700

rt.com - By Robert Bridge - Oct. 31 (News Report) - Russia’s Central Election Commission chief has ranked the American electoral system among the “worst in the world.” One of the main problems with the US electoral system is the lack of transparency, Vladimir Churov argues in an article published in Wedn

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GOP Looks in Mirror, Spots Voter Fraud

Tue, 30 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0700

readersupportednews.org - By Jim Hightower - Oct. 30 (Special Report) - these self-appointed guardians of ballot integrity haven't had much luck in sniffing out, you know, actual documented cases of such fraud. But, whew, what's that smell? Why it's Bruce Fleming, a Republican running for county commissioner in Sugar Land, Texas - which happens to be the home of True the Vote's founder, Catherine Engelbrecht. Fleming turns out to be a blatant, serial violator of our nation's laws to protect - you got it - voter integrity. In 2006, 2008, and 2010, he voted in person in Sugar Land, and also by mail in Yardley, Pennsylvania, where he and his wife Nancy own a home. In 2010, she also voted in both Texas and Pennsylvania - a gross double-dipping felony.

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Retired NSA Analyst Proves GOP Is Stealing Elections Part I

Sun, 28 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0700

readersupportednews.org - By Denis Campbell - Oct. 28 (Investigative Report) - Why is Mitt Romney so confident? In states where the winner will be decided by less than 10%, of the vote he already knows he will win. This is no tinfoil hat conspiracy. It's a math problem. And mathematics showed changes in actual raw voting data that had no statistical correlation other than programmable computer fraud. This computer fraud resulted in votes being flipped from Democrat to Republican in every federal, senatorial, congressional and gubernatorial election since 2008 (thus far) and in the 2012 primary contests from other Republicans to Mitt Romney.

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GOP Voter Fraud Accusations Suddenly Blowing Up In Their Faces

Thu, 25 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0700

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Breaking: GOP Caught Red Handed, Election Fraud in Indiana

Thu, 25 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Daily Kos - Oct. 25 (News) -

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America: Land of Shady Elections

Tue, 23 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0700

readersupportednews.org - By Carl Gobson - Oct. 23 (Opinion) - If a country proclaimed itself as the standard-bearer for Democracy around the world, while a son of one of that country's presidential candidates owned voting machines in a state known for swinging elections, would you take that country's claims seriously? Would you believe that nation's claims of love for Democracy if a team of UN observers were sent to that nation's polling locations on Election Day to monitor a hyper-partisan voter intimidation group?

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Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress - YouTube

Thu, 27 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0700

YouTube - By Lawrence Lessig - Sep. 27 (Speech) - video

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US debt as convention gate-crasher: Can either party solve problem on its own?

Wed, 29 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Christian Science Monitor - By Mark Trumbull - Aug. 29 (News Analysis) - Republicans and Democrats say they have the answer to the US debt problem, but economists increasingly say the peril to the economy is so severe that bipartisan compromise is the best solution. ...

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Voter Suppression Efforts & The Real Voter Frauds

Tue, 07 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0700

freespeech.org - By Thom Hartmann - Aug. 07 (Special Report) - Video

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Ex-Lobbyist Convicted For Corruption Is GOP's New 'Voter Fraud' Expert

Sat, 04 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Ryan Reilly - Aug. 04 (Investigative Report) - A former lobbyist convicted in the Jack Abramoff congressional lobbying scandal has found a new line of work while still on probation: becoming a spokesman and self-appointed expert on allegedly rampant illegal voting by Democrats, according to an excellent report by Ryan Reilly in Talking Points Memo.

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Judges Seem Ready To Mess With Texas' Voter ID Law

Sat, 14 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Talking Points Memo - By Ryan J. Reilly - Jul. 14 (Opinion) - A panel of three federal judges in D.C. posed skeptical questions on Friday about Texas’ voter ID law during closing arguments in a trial about whether the measure is discriminatory.

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Pennsylvania Pays Romney Bundler's Lobbying Firm To Publicize Voter ID Law

Tue, 10 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Talking Points Memo - By Ryan J. Reilly - Jul. 10 (Opinion) - The man behind a company that got a big state contract to educate Pennsylvania voters on the commonwealth's restrictive new voter ID law is a fundraiser for presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney. Ads created by his company, a Republican lobbying group, encourage Pennsylvania residents to obtain state-issued photo identification so they don't "miss out" on their right to vote.

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Follow the Dark Money

Tue, 19 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Mother Jones - By Andy Kroll - Jun. 19 (Opinion) - " There are two things that are important in politics. The first is money and I can't remember what the second one is. "— Mark Hanna , 19th-century mining tycoon and GOP fundraiser.

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Florida’s voter purge explained

Mon, 18 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Rachel Weiner - Jun. 18 (News Analysis) - Laws designed to clamp down on voter fraud have been causing controversy all over the country. But in Florida, an attempt sparked by Gov. Rick Scott (R) to remove non-citizens from the voter rolls has become particularly heated, devolving into dueling lawsuits, with officials refusing to carry out directives from the secretary of state. ...

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How To Sweep Dark Money Out of Politics

Mon, 18 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Mother Jones - By Monika Bauerlein, Clara Jeffery - Jun. 18 - Justice John Paul Stevens had seen a lot of precedent overturned by the time the Supreme Court ruled on Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission in January 2010. Appointed to the court by Gerald Ford after a career as a distinguished Republican jurist, he'd been there for contentious cases on abortion, the death penalty, Gitmo, you name it. But none had prepared him for the way the court's new conservative majority, led by John Roberts, seized on an obscure campaign finance case expected to produce a narrow ruling and used it to shred nearly four decades of federal law. The majority opinion in Citizens United takes up 57 pages, but it's pretty efficiently boiled down as follows: (1) Money is speech; (2) corporations are people; (3) therefore, under the First Amendment, the government can't stop corporations from spending money on politics pretty much however they choose. Stevens penned an impassioned 90-page dissent lambasting the "glittering generality" of this construction. "Although ...

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Money Unlimited

Mon, 21 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

New Yorker - By Jeffrey Toobin - May. 21 (Special Report) - When Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission was first argued before the Supreme Court, on March 24, 2009, it seemed like a case of modest importance. The issue before the Justices was a narrow one. The McCain-Feingold campaign-finance law prohibi

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