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...voter registration is an especially welcome technique, as it allows young people to employ a convenient and familiar medium to register. We hope that these organizations continue their mission past the voter registration deadlines to Election Day by urging and assisting registered voters to actually get to the ballot...
...remain a pliant tool of the Kremlin, that means more unchecked control for the president. But just to make sure it stays that way, Putin wants every member of the Duma, the lower house of parliament, to be elected using party lists—that is, in the ballot box voters choose a party instead of a particular candidate. This offers obvious advantages to the large, resource-laden pro-Putin parties with widespread name recognition and eliminates the possibility for charismatic outsiders to win a seat based on raw popular appeal. Making all Duma elections party-list elections will also...
...next four years, while presidential candidates would be forced to ask us for our votes and not just enjoy our oil exports or our appetite for Big Macs and Hollywood blockbusters. If the U.S. invades one of us - or makes a Titanic sequel - we can respond at the ballot box. There would be gains for the U.S., too. More voters means more competition for influence and even bigger piles of cash for the Republicans and the Democrats. (Campaign contributions from foreign nationals, currently illegal, would be part of the deal.) Global voting would create exciting geopolitical swings and counterswings...
...students and other volunteers fix a voting rights problem? First, they get trained and then they get inside the polling places. When voters are mistakenly told they do not qualify for a provisional ballot or unnecessarily asked for photo identification, it often results from poll workers being unfamiliar with the law. Just Democracy plans to send law students and undergraduates trained in local election law to polling places where they can serve as resources for the election administrators...
...they will be working with election officials to preserve the integrity of the voting process. Just Democracy volunteers will operate under a non-partisan banner because Americans of all political stripes must support the premise that an eligible voter acting within the law has the right to cast a ballot. And finally Just Democracy volunteers will be demonstrating that this generation cares about protecting the rights for which previous generations of Americans have worked so hard...