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...Dean’s critics have already started predicting the demise of the Democratic Party. Robert Novak, that fast friend of the Democratic Party, claims that Dean will make the Democratic Party too liberal to win national elections. We have yet to hear that any voter supported George W. Bush because they didn’t like Terry McAuliffe (the DNC’s current Chair), but even if the DNC Chair is as important as Novak seems to think, Democrats have nothing to fear from the Doctor. Dr. Dean’s proposals have emphasized empowering local activists...
Every time a state party finds a donor or a volunteer, they give a voter a sense of ownership in their state Democratic Party. The more state Parties focus on grassroots fundraising, the more they will mobilize local activists. Democrats have had problems with new campaign finance laws because the DNC has relied too heavily on large donations. State parties are more embedded in local communities. They may find those middle-class potential donors that the national party has ignored. If not, their search will put them in touch with voters that the DNC hasn’t talked...
...HAVA has a tremendous amount of regulations, and protection from voter fraud,” Pope said. “We don’t need the older [laws] at the state level anymore...
Phillips said some of the stories were extreme enough to merit investigation: one student, who had registered when he was eighteen, led efforts to increase voter registration at his high school, and even voted in previous elections, was told he had never registered when he applied for his absentee ballot...
Romina Garber ’06, a Miami native who is also a Crimson editor, publicized her difficulties with voting in her monthly column in The Miami Herald. The column, entitled, “This is No Way to Treat an Eager First-Time Voter,” included an account of her numerous failed attempts to have her absentee ballot sent to her Harvard address...