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...influence. Arizona has witnessed a 20 percent increase in voter turnout, more competitive races and an upsurge in minority elected officials. In Massachusetts, however, state legislators, content with their comfortable incumbencies and reluctant to face a rash of publicly funded challengers, defied the voters and refused to implement the new system...
...place a proposition on the statewide ballot is a fee of $200 and signatures of registered voters equal to 5 or 7 percent—depending on the type of initiative—of the turnout of the previous gubernatorial election. Unfortunately, what progressives fought so hard to implement has now been hijacked by special interest groups that mask their agendas through massive marketing campaigns...
...passed the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) in 2002, earmarking some $4 billion to streamline voting standards and allow states to modernize their voting systems. Although they passed the act, Congress and the White House were slow, perhaps recklessly so, in setting up the Election Assistance Commission (EAC) to implement it. So while states helped themselves to funding for new voting machines, the EAC developed no national standards for using them. Likewise, HAVA mandated provisional voting so that nobody would be refused a ballot for the wrong reason. But the law was ambiguous in some key areas, opening the door...
...this lackluster response does not come as a surprise, considering that the substantive parts of the review happen behind closed doors. We are confident that if the review committees were to release public notes of their proceedings and provide the community with detailed proposals for how they plan to implement the review, students would have plenty of specific concerns and opinions to offer. Until then, it is no wonder that so many students feel disconnected from and distrustful of the process...
...police entered the building, arresting the host and the woman who used a wooden spoon as a spanking implement, Santiago says guests became deathly afraid. “They were worried about losing their jobs. They were worried about their children,” she says...