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Topic: Election day registration


  
  Pledge of Action to Stop a Stolen Election   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Election Day Registration (EDR), also known as same-day voter registration, permits eligible citizens to register and vote on Election Day.
EDR significantly increases the opportunity for all citizens to cast a vote and participate in American democracy.
This year's presidential election is the first since the 2002 McCain-Feingold law banned soft-money contributions from corporations, labor unions and wealthy individuals to the national political parties.
www.nov3.us /reform.php   (2893 words)

  
 Residency Requirements for Voting
The Supreme Court decision of March 21, 1972, declared lengthy requirements for voting in state and local elections unconstitutional and suggested that 30 days was an ample period.
Registration deadline 14th day before election; registration and party enrollment deadline by 12 noon the day before primary.
Registration certificate not valid for 30 days, but if you move within the state you can vote in old precinct during the 30 days.
www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0781452.html   (500 words)

  
 Features and Commentaries Archive
Election Day Voter Registration (March 1, 2004) Super Tuesday won't be very super to those voters who failed to register in time.
Instead of Non-Partisan Elections, Consider Some Real Reforms (June 16, 2003) Mark Green criticizes Mayor Michael Bloomberg's attempt to put the issue of non-partisan elections on the ballot in November, explaining why he calls it "the wrong answer to a non-problem," and suggesting some real "pro-democracy reforms" for Bloomberg's charter commission to consider.
It Is Time For Non-Partisan Elections In NYC (May 26, 2003) Voters in most of the country's largest cities choose their mayors in elections in which candidates run not as Democrats or Republicans but as individuals.
www.gothamgazette.com /archive/featurecommentary   (9385 words)

  
 yVOTEONLINE | noshows2000
Only about 44.9 percent of the Americans voted in national elections, both presidential and congressional, during the 1990s, according to a survey by the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance, a Stockholm-based organization that analyzes global voter turnout.
Because registration in the United States is voluntary and "often rather cumbersome," with the responsibility resting on the citizen rather than the government, registration is depressed, Lijphart noted.
Of the 86 countries labeled democratic by the Freedom House in 1996 that hold their election on one single day, almost half held their latest election on a Sunday, International IDEA reported.
www.yvoteonline.org /noshows2000_st_foreign.shtml   (747 words)

  
 elected.ca - Election   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Eleven Iraqi soldiers were killed and two wounded Saturday when a roadside bomb detonated next to their convoy and...
The ruling party in China's Taiwan Province, the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), was defeated by the Pan Blue Alliance led by the Chinese Kuomintang Party (KMT), in a local election on Saturday.
U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan has decided to fire the head of the U.N. election unit, who has became a star in the world body for supervising polls in dangerous places like Afghanistan and Iraq, two U.N. officials sa...
elected.ca /Election/reference/search   (249 words)

  
 onewwworld.com: a guide to business, strategy, and stupidity
In this past election several million good and decent citizens went to the polls believing in the rapture index.
Acting on principle is not necessarily a weakness, as Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan demonstrated during the cold war.
Employees of a private voter registration company allege that hundreds, perhaps thousands of voters who may think they are registered will be rudely surprised on election day.
www.onewwworld.com   (4995 words)

  
 VTP Reports and Publications   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The Next Big Election Challenge: Developing Electronic Data Transaction Standards for Election Administration, R. Michael Alvarez and Thad E. Hall, July 2005.
California Votes: Election Day Registration in California, R. Michael Alvarez and Stephen Ansolabehere, May 2002
Making Voting Easier: Election Day Registration in New York, R. Michael Alvarez, Jonathan Nagler and Catherine H. Wilson.
vote.caltech.edu /reports   (736 words)

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