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...Voter ID Rules: About a dozen states have enacted stricter voter ID laws in the last few years, and these laws usually require voters to produce a photo ID before obtaining a ballot. Since not every potential voter has a photo ID, many of these measures have been contested in state and federal courts by plaintiffs charging the state's with voter suppression, and several have been modified even in the last week. Ohio, for example, was forced by court ruling just last Wednesday to loosen its new ID requirements. A similar walk-back occurred in Georgia, where voters...
...That's about the amount by which the minimum wage would increase under ballot initiatives in Arizona, Colorado, Missouri, Montana, Nevada and Ohio. And as support for the initiatives hovers at around 70%, according to polls in those states, analysts expect widespread backing for the measures to help drive voter turnout on behalf of progressive candidates...
...first to be a breath of fresh air. Certainly any person is free to think about any religion as he will and to communicate his thoughts freely. Golding reasons that a person may communicate his feelings about a religion by voting against an adherent of a religion which the voter holds to be erroneous or unhealthy or just plain wrong. Yet Golding’s argument jars common sense. The wise voter must consider the candidate as an individual and with specific regard to public issues. Secondly, there are immense differences in individual beliefs among adherents of any religion...
...Census Bureau reported that people of Hispanic origin represented 8.2 percent of all U.S. citizens but only 6 percent of actual voters. Voter turnout was 47.2 percent among registered Hispanic voters, lower than every demographic except for Asians...
...since it appears that whoever sent it was relying on voter lists, there was no way to know whether the recipient was an illegal immigrant or a U.S.-born Latino whose family had lived in California for a century. According to a spokesman for California Attorney General Bill Lockyer, whose office is investigating the matter to see if voter intimidation laws were violated, those who received the letter included "fourth-generation Californians...