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Voteprotect.org is a website run by a handful of nonprofit organizations including VerifiedVoting.org and the Electronic Frontier Foundation which collected and organized reports of voting irregularities during last Tuesday’s election. A cursory look at their data on problems related to the voting machines themselves reveals some interesting trends. The entire state of Massachusetts, where votes are recorded in large part by older optical scanning equipment, reported a total of 7 such incidents out of nearly 3 million ballots—one for every 500,000 or so votes cast. Palm Beach County had 27 machine related incidents...
...couples who have taken the 12-week Pennsylvania course since it was launched in July 2003 would probably line up on the side of getting all the help they can get. The classes are run by Community Services for Children (CSC), a nonprofit organization that oversees Head Start programs in Allentown, Pa. On Monday nights, couples convene at a Boys & Girls Club, dropping off their children with caregivers provided by the program. The moms and dads share canned soda and free dinners such as chicken, potatoes and gravy before the two instructors--Gregory Edwards, author of the program's curriculum...
DROPPED. MISS AMERICA, from ABC, leaving the iconic beauty pageant without a network home for the first time since its first televised pageant 50 years ago. The move, a result of sinking ratings, has the potential to devastate the 84-year-old nonprofit organization, which was financially dependent on its income from the annual broadcast. Pageant officials say they are optimistic that the show will appear on another channel...
...American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (AACRAO) and the National Association of Independent Colleges Universities (NAICU)—two nonprofit groups that promote student voter registration—said that the IOP study uses faulty methodology and relies on a small, nonrepresentative sample size...
America Coming Together (ACT), a nonprofit that helps Democratic candidates, plans to drag voters to the polls for an entire month. Ruben Marinelarena, an ACT organizer who graduated from Harvard last year, is responsible for ensuring that 6,000 Democrats who don’t always vote on election day get their vote counted before November 2. In a state where 366 votes decided the last election, Ruben’s job is no joke. Democrats have every reason to believe that if Ruben succeeds, John Kerry will win New Mexico. Democrats enjoy a 5 to 3 advantage among registered...