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Showing posts with label voter registration. Show all posts
Showing posts with label voter registration. Show all posts
Sunday, February 19, 2017

From the Texas Tribune: Federal judge sanctions Texas in voter registration lawsuit

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More on both voter registration, and conflict between the state of Texas and the national government. - Click here for the article . A fed...

From the Monkey Cage: Trump wants voter registration investigated. This is how 20 states are already doing it.

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Here's a topic that bridges 2305 and 2306. - Click here for the article . In a Wednesday morning tweet, President Trump returned to hi...
Tuesday, October 18, 2016

From the Houston Chronicle: Texas hits voter registration milestone, but what does it mean after 2016?

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For 2305 and 2306. - Click here for the article . On Thursday, Carlos H. Cascos, the Texas secretary of state, reported that 15 million T...
Friday, February 19, 2016

From NPR: Automatic Registration Is The Latest Chapter In Fight Over Voting Rights

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For our look at elections. - Click here for it . President Obama backed a bill in Illinois last week that would automatically register ...
Thursday, November 12, 2015

The Galveston County Tax Assessor and Collector defends herself

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There apparently snafus regarding registration in the recent election. She offers an explanation. - Click here for the link . The article...
Tuesday, November 10, 2015

Automatic registration

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Suddenly this has become a flash point of sorts, one that divides the parties. Democrats do better when turnout is higher, so they ant to ma...

Odds and ends for today's 2306

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- Tim Cole Commission begins work, optimistic for recommendations . Richard Miles was just 19 years old when his nightmare began.  In 1994,...
Wednesday, November 6, 2013

Gallup: In U.S., Voter Registration Lags Among Hispanics and Asians

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This confirms some points we made in 2305 earlier today about ethnic disparity in registration and voting. U.S. Hispanics and Asians are ...
Thursday, September 12, 2013

Meet the Unites States Election Assistance Commission

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The article linked to in the previous story mentions this agency, so here's a link to it .
Tuesday, June 18, 2013

From Slate: This Time, Scalia Doesn’t Want to See Your Papers

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I'm linking to this because the story highlights a part of the constitution we went over in class today and how it explains Justice Sca...
Thursday, May 16, 2013

State voter laws

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Here's an overview of four types of voter laws being considered in state legislatures and the partisan battles over each. Support depen...
Thursday, September 20, 2012

Conflict over purging voter rolls continues

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A recent controversy between the state of Texas and individual counties in the state has emerged over whether the state can force counties t...
Monday, September 17, 2012

Texas AG wins court decision on registration rules

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After a couple significant loses, the Texas AG won a court ruling allowing the state to proceed with a rule regulating third party voter reg...