Word: voter
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...inviolable commandment: "Touch our opponent's private property, their signs, etc., and you will be fired." In early February my opponent's spouse was fined $640 for destroying my signs. Oh, how justice can be healing! On Feb. 26, a congressional committee voted to hold hearings on voter fraud in my still-contested election. That makes five ongoing election-fraud investigations in California's 46th District. I sign myself as the "once and future Congressman"... ROBERT K. DORNAN Garden Grove, California
...duck this bullet, thanks to a tribal faction that insi sts its business committee had no authority to cut the check in the first place. For its part, the DNC says that if the tribe won't take back the money, it will be spent on Native American voter registration and voter participation activities...
...frames her work in a simple, philosophical way that points to a complex, dynamic idea of politics. Not only is politics "a way for transformation" serving the individual voter and family. It is also "community-building," she explains...
...campaign reform to be meaningful, there has to be a limit on the length of time as well as on spending [NATION, Feb. 3]. With all the print and electronic media coverage available to the public, it is an insult to the intelligence of the American voter for a political campaign to last more than three months. It doesn't take an Einstein to figure out that a shorter campaign would be far less costly. Of course the media and other organizations that make billions of dollars running political ads and covering the campaign would probably fight the idea...
...preventing Arkansas from branding legislators who do not vote for term limits. The case involved Amendment 9, a state ballot initiative stipulating that elected officials who did not enthusiastically support a particular version of a term limits bill would get a nasty reminder come election day: the words "Disregarded Voter Instruction on Term Limits" would be placed on the ballot next to their names. Opponents have called the measure a "Scarlet letter" in ridicule, while supporters have defended their efforts as representative of the public will. The Arkansas court struck down Amendment 9 as unconstitutional, saying it violated the Constitution...