AltWeeklies Wire
Down to the Wire: Voter Suppression Is Alive In the Heartland
It could be Florida, 2000 all over again -- or it could be worse. If the 2004 Presidential Election really is as close as most believe, the margin of victory may well depend on the suppression of votes, a practice that reached its peak in the Jim Crow South, but that has always cast a shadow on America’s aspirations to full democracy. Second of two parts
Random Lengths News |
Paul Rosenberg |
10-23-2004 |
Politics
Tags: suppression, voter
Florida and Beyondnew
In the wake of the Florida debacle, Congress passed the Help America Vote Act, which provided $3.86 billion to replace ossified punch-card systems with silicon-based voting machines and improve voter education. Now gadflies and activists say the new machines, most notably touch-screen voting terminals, could prove as problematic as their analog predecessors.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
A. C. Thompson |
08-05-2004 |
Politics
Road Trip for Changenew
Voter registration groups, including Stand Up! Florida and DrivingVotes.org, have sprouted up in the last year, sending dozens of Bay Area denizens on swing state registration drives.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Megan Cahn |
08-05-2004 |
Politics
Tags: Florida, fraud, states, Up, vote, Moveon.org, voter, swing, count, drivingvotes.org, registration, stand, standupflorida.com
Regime Changenew
Here are 10 things you can do to defeat Bush and save this country.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Bay Guardian Staff |
08-05-2004 |
Politics
