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...Monday, at first-year registration, voter registration forms were included in the College registration packet. This was in line with new federal policy requiring colleges to make a "good faith effort" to register their students to vote. In addition, the nonpartisan Community Action Committee of the Institute of Politics (IOP) set up computers to help students request absentee ballots from their home states through www.voter.com. Though these services will not be available today for upperclass registration, the IOP does plan to table in the dining halls and remind students to send in those ballots and go to the polling stations...
...would like to point out an omission in your editorial criticizing the Bush campaign's manipulation of the debate process for political advantage (Editorial, Sept. 13). In fact, both parties use presidential debates and the bipartisan (but not nonpartisan) debate commission to exclude smaller party candidates from the political process. The commission's current criteria for inclusion in the debates is 15 percent support in several pre-debate polls. This makes it impossible for a candidate, without a large amount of money to spend and without the free publicity the major party candidates receive from the news media and from...
Members of the Institute of Politics' (IOP) nonpartisan Community Action Committee organized the efforts to provide first-years the chance to vote in the upcoming election. First-years were encouraged to register and request ballots, though the process was voluntary...
...study, conducted by Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation, a nonpartisan research center, was lauded across political lines, and could move more states to follow Minnesota's lead. Today most states focus on reducing the welfare case load through short-time limits on benefits, offering little of the transitional help that Minnesota credits for its success...
...elected. Al Gore attacked Bush as a tool of the N.R.A. Bush, while long friendly to the gun lobby, tried to distance himself from it. "It's stomach churning," says Donna Dees-Thomases, chief organizer of the Million Mom March. "But it's still important for us to remain nonpartisan. There are still Republicans who want to do the right thing" on gun control...