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ACORN is no longer suing a county prosecutor as it seeks to strike down a state law used to prosecute voter-registration workers who allegedly employed a quota system in the Pittsburgh area.
A western Wisconsin farmer is the first person convicted of violating a law requiring owners to register their livestock with state officials.
Investment banking and alternative asset management firm JMP Group Inc. said Tuesday it filed a shelf registration statement with federal regulators to sell up to $100 million in securities.
The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now and the American Civil Liberties Union have filed a federal lawsuit seeking to strike down a state law used to prosecute voter-registration workers who allegedly employed a quota system in the Pittsburgh area.
Seven Pittsburgh-area ACORN workers were charged with falsifying voter registration forms, with six accused of doing so to meet the group's alleged quota system before last year's general election.
U.S. officials say Europeans and others who travel visa-free to the United States must start registering their trips electronically as part of a new online security screening process which takes effect Jan. 12, 2009.
Where's my absentee ballot? Why did they take my name off the voter registration rolls? What happened to the signup card I filled out weeks ago? With just one full business day left before Election Day, last-minute questions like these are flooding in to election offices and voter advocacy groups.
In the year 2000, we suffered through Florida's hanging chads and lingering lawsuits. In 2004, we agonized over the long lines at polling places, plus Ohio's provisional ballots. On Election Day this year, what problems will emerge as the choke points for the voting process?
No one doubts that a record number of Americans have signed up to vote in Tuesday's presidential election — but just how big will the record be? The latest figures show that more than 184 million potential voters have registered, which could represent four out of five Americans older than 18.
Michigan must not throw registered voters off the rolls, even if their voter ID cards were returned as undeliverable, an appeals court said Thursday.
The only "agent of change" Princess ever supported was the person who freshened the water in her fishbowl. So election officials in Chicago's northern suburbs want to know why voter registration material was sent to the dead goldfish.
Ohio Republicans are trying to scare newly registered voters by filing numerous lawsuits that question their eligibility, the state's Democratic governor said Monday.
Ohio's elections chief has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene in a dispute over whether the state is required to do more to help counties verify voter eligibility.
Led by a surge in Democratic voter signups, Oregon voter registration has set a record for the Nov. 4 election.
A federal appeals court ordered Ohio's top elections official to set up a system by Friday to verify the eligibility of newly registered voters and make the information available to the state's 88 county election boards.
A judge has ordered Michigan election officials to stop automatically canceling a voter's registration if the card is returned as undeliverable.
With the registration deadline only a day away, New Jersey election officials say they're struggling to keep up with a record tide of new voter registrations.
Democratic registration has surged by 13 percent and Republican ranks have shrunk by 1 percent as a record 8.6 million people in battleground Pennsylvania registered to vote in the presidential election.
A coalition of citizen groups urged Gov. Rick Perry on Friday to use emergency powers to extend the Oct. 6 voter registration deadline for Texas counties hit hardest by Hurricane Ike.
Five days a week, Linda Graham trolls tattered neighborhoods of this once thriving steel city outside Pittsburgh for unregistered voters she can sign up as Democrats — one of thousands of unknown volunteers whose work outside the limelight has already altered the basic arithmetic of the November election.
Europeans and others who travel visa-free to the United States can start registering in August for a new online security screening check that will become mandatory in January to enter the U.S., officials said Monday.
The United States said Tuesday that visitors from closely allied countries like Britain and Japan will soon have to register personal details online at least three days before arrival.
Travelers who don't need visas to enter the United States will be required to register online with the U.S. government at least three days before they visit, a security regulation set to begin next year.
Voter excitement, always up before a presidential election, is pushing registration through the roof so far this year — with more than 3.5 million people rushing to join in the historic balloting, according to an Associated Press survey that offers the first national snapshot.
More than four times as many blacks have registered to vote in North Carolina during the first few months of 2008 as four years ago, a sign that bodes well for Sen. Barack Obama in the state's May 6 Democratic presidential primary.
EU registration for Part III students - ARB answersAcross Europe, and under EU law, the system that must be applied by all member countries to allow free movement of architects is one of automatic recognition of other member states' academic qualifications and any other requirements for registration that are in place in the app …
ACORN Threw Out Republican Voter Registrations In February of 2008, Fathiyyah Muhammad of Jacksonville, Florida, heard that ACORN was paying three dollars for each vote you could register.
Nev. Sec. of State: ACORN Illegally Hired Prisoners for Voter Registration DrivesNevada Secretary of State Ross Miller, a democrat, told Eric Shawn on FOX News that ACORN was hiring convicts still in prison -CONVICTED OF IDENTITY THEFT- for canvassing voters.
What a week! I quit counting some time ago. A man accused of sexually assaulting a 4 year old girl multiple times with a screwdriver. Violent sex offenders breaking into homes at night and attempting to assault 14 year old girls.
Why are the rules for registration as an architect of more stringent for UK-educated students that for EU-educated students?As a part II student studying for the RIBA part III examinations in order to be registered as an architect, I was shocked to find out that an EU student can gain entry to the register by simply demonstrating four years of academic qualification and two years of professional exper …
California bill would tighten rules on tattoos, piercing Tattoos were once a standard way for a guy to thumb his forearm at authority. But veteran tattoo artist Courtney McIntyre says more authority may be what's needed to better protect customers of the expanding body-art industry.
Children are being sent home with forms that ask for their racial background. These forms have the child's name address and phone number and other private information preprinted on them. Many parents are really upset about this and want to know what it's for.
Questions arise on monitoring of sex offenders Every April 5 for the past 10 years, Phillip Garrido registered on his birthday with the Contra Costa Sheriff's Office as a convicted sex offender.
MP to sue State to stop registersThe Unity List MP Per Clausen and two other former left-wing activists are to sue the state claiming the domestic intelligence service PET illegally registered them during the 1980s.
New Montana Gun Law Seeks To Circumvent *ALL* US Gun Control Legislation. No Serial Numbers, No Criminal Records Checks, No Waiting Periods, No Paperwork -- All Of It.If guns and ammunition are manufactured inside the State of Montana for sale and use inside that state then the federal firearms laws have no applicability since the federal government only has the power to control commerce across state lines.
UK finger-printing children: "It's part of an enormous softening-up exercise, targeting society's most impressionable, so they'll accept cradle-to-grave state snooping and control."As voters express concern about surveillance technology, is it becoming second nature to the Facebook generation – used to publishing intimate details of their private lives on the worldwide web – who, in later life, may be less vociferous in their opposition to such schemes?
City Puts Landlords On Notice Public safety officials in the city of Pittsburgh are ready to start cracking down on landlords who repeatedly fail to reign in disruptive tenants.
Registration: The Nazi ParadigmNew research into Adolf Hitler's use of firearms registration lists to confiscate guns and the execution of their owners teaches a forceful lesson -- one that reveals why the American people and Congress have rejected registering honest firearm owners.
Cheaper health insurance for organ donor registrationFive Dutch health insurers on Monday announced a discount of up to 120 euros, or between five and ten percent, for policy-holders who register whether or not they wish to donate their organs after death.
First of all I would just like to note that these comments come from a very European perspective…. In my opinion, one of the imperatives of Obama presidency's first (and I do hope, not the only) term in office, is to at least start some sort of election reform.
At the Polls: Lines and Lawsuits - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.comThis is a collection of blog reports by the NY Times Caucus Blog Political bloggers made from around the country at the polls in the battleground states, with the candidates and campaign staffs, and elsewhere.
Video: How to Protect Your VoteWith a record number of new and infrequent voteres headed for the polls on Tuesday, this new Obama video educates viewers about the tactics that are used to suppress the vote.
Florida voter registration trends favor DemocratsWith a nearly 658,000-voter registration edge over Republicans, Democrats have flipped two battleground counties since the last presidential election, turned the crucial Interstate-4 corridor more to their favor and made South Florida an even deeper shade of liberal blue -- large …
How to Make Your Vote as Easy as Possible: An Online GuideHow to vote early, find your polling place, check your registration, know what ID to bring, report problems, call a lawyer and more.
ACORN, Voter Purges, both campaigns sending lawyers to the polls: the American electoral system is broken. This is hardly news to the tiny fraction of Americans who are paying attention and yet virtually nothing has changed since the debacle in Florida in 2000.
Madisonian dumped from voter rolls because he was 'dead'As 40-year residents of the same Madison house, John and Marge Jacoby always vote at the same polling place without any problems — until this year.
It's certainly thrilling to see the results of presidential polling data, virtually all of it favoring Obama. It's even more thrilling to look at the electoral map and see that, according to the polls, McCain has a difficult task at hand.
We need to know the full extent of Sen. Obama's relationship with ACORN, who is now on the verge of maybe perpetrating one of the greatest frauds in voter history in this country, maybe destroying the fabric of democracy. --John McCain, 3rd Presidential Debate, October 15, 2008
GOP SLAPPs ACORN In Ohio The GOP is going all out in their ridiculous assault on ACORN. The Buckeye Institute, a conservative think tank in Ohio, has filed suit in a state court on behalf of two voters.
Trouble in the Magic KingdomVoter fraud is an endemic and prolific problem in contested states and predominantly affects Republicans. Democrats use the same, empty rhetorical trick to facilitate it: race baiting.
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