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Twenty-five students from the Institute of Politics and representatives from three other student groups visited Roxbury and Dorchester on Saturday to register voters in underrepresented neighborhoods. At their final campaign at Oktoberfest on Sunday, the IOP wrapped up a month-long voter registration drive with the Cambridge Election Committee. The IOP’s last efforts, assisted by the Philips Brooks House Association, the Black Men’s Forum, and Students Taking on Poverty, come before this week’s voter registration deadline in Massachusetts. The students registered hundreds of voters over the weekend...
...American citizen and could register to vote, I would be concerned. I would be calling my local elections office and printing a Massachusetts voter registration form in anticipation of the deadline tomorrow. I would do this because states across the country are lost in bureaucratic labyrinths before the vote on November 4—and they risk losing us with them...
...With nine million new voters in America this election season, one would think elections offices would have plenty of work adding people to their voter rolls and sending out absentee ballots. In fact, attempts to comply with the 2002 Help America Vote Act (HAVA) have had egregious consequences. At least nine states have been found to accidentally and illegally remove voters from their lists. Moreover, increasingly strict identification requirements are holding up registrations and absentee ballots for unknown thousands of people...
...were hanging the McCain/Palin sign out front as I drove away), Obama's in Woodbridge has been up and running since July, and has the dingy, cluttered, lived-in feel that every campaign office eventually acquires. The campaign's "Votebuilder" software - with house-by-house data on every registered voter in the area - dominated a bank of computer screens, and the walls were covered with cartoons, volunteer signatures and lists of "star phonebankers." Young volunteers bustled in and out with stacks of clipboards and canvassing materials to hand to the volunteers who were showing up by the carful...
...recounting of the 1965 Selma-to-Montgomery march is credible without listing Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Ralph Abernathy, Joseph Lowery, Bernard LaFayette, John Lewis, James Foreman and Dick Gregory. All seven were jailed in Alabama fighting for African-American voter empowerment...