Word: pollinger
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The students’ fledgling voter-rights effort, Just Democracy, aims to send as many as 2,000 law student volunteers to monitor “high-risk” polling places across the nation on Nov. 2. The group’s founders said the volunteers will offer checklists...
Just Democracy co-founder Micah B. May, a second-year law student, said many voters encounter polling places that lack handicap access or bilingual ballots. He also said eligible voters are sometimes turned away after being mistaken for unregistered voters or convicted felons who have lost their right to vote...
“What would help more—if they got a thousand people to actually work the polling places,” Reynolds said. “The best way to make sure people aren’t disenfranchised is to become part of the process rather than...
For now, though, the group has confirmed chapters at only 10 schools, including New York University, Stanford University and the University of Chicago. And it has yet to determine a definite list of “high-risk” polling areas where volunteers will focus their efforts.
Gorton, Dresner and Shumate jump at the offer--for the challenge, the glory and a fat pile of money--but there are catches. The thuggish Yeltsin cronies who hire them insist on total secrecy and keep them virtual prisoners in a hotel. They cannot meet the candidate, who is often...