Word: voting
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...conservative scare tactics always confuse voter-registration fraud, which is as harmless as illegitimately filling out a registration form, with voter fraud: when illegitimate people actually vote. Take poor Uremia Rojas, who told Fund that “a man with a clipboard knocked on my door and had me sign something so I could vote by mail. I was skeptical but signed and got a ballot. I never really wanted one.” I understand it can be distressing to possess a ballot that you don’t really want to fill out, but here?...
There’s a really simple remedy to voter fraud, insofar as it even exists, and that is universal voter registration. You can’t pretend to be eligible to vote if everyone’s automatically registered. This is one area among many in which the U.S. lags behind other advanced democracies. Of course, Republicans dread the possibility that we might catch up; an influx of young, poor, and minority voters would cost them many an election...
...vows that "there will be hell to pay" if his language gets stripped out of, or weakened in, the final legislation. Senate moderates like Ben Nelson and Kent Conrad have stopped short of demanding the exact Stupak language, but have warned that weak abortion restrictions could force them to vote no on health reform. Abortion-rights advocates, who are still stunned by the last-minute deal that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi made to allow a vote on Stupak's controversial measure, claim the provision will greatly limit the availability of abortions, especially for low-income women. They have dubbed...
...Before the Nov. 7 House vote on health reform, the advocacy organization Health Care for America NOW! (HCAN) had lobbied vulnerable Democratic House members by promising to back them with ads if they supported health reform. In the wake of the vote, the group amended that pledge, saying it would not apply to those who helped pass health reform if they also voted for the Stupak amendment. NARAL Pro-Choice America president Nancy Keenan is publicly mulling going one step further and supporting primary challenges against Stupak-voting Democrats. "Nothing's off the table," she told Jill Lawrence at PoliticsDaily...
Sperduto echoes this sentiment. “If you don’t care about the UC, then vote for Long-Johnson because neither do they,” he said. “If you do care, then vote for Long-Johnson because there is no ticket with better competence to do whatever it is the UC does...