Voter Participation

Election Regulations and Voter Disengagement

Sundeep Iyer | Posted 05.03.2012

Read More: Voter ID Laws, Voter Participation, Voter Disenfranchisement, Super PACs, Voting, Campaign Finance, Elections, Elections 2012, Election Regulations, Politics News
Sundeep Iyer

Congress alone cannot completely counteract the harmful effects of the new rules governing our elections. But in an election cycle where these rules threaten to undermine voter participation, Congress must act now to soften the blow.

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2011 Changes to Voting Rights: Unnecessary Solutions to Non-Existent Problems

Jim Condos | Posted 03.21.2012

Read More: Jim Condos, 2012 Election, Voters, Voting Rights, Vermont, Elections 2012, Vermont Politics, Voter Participation, Voter ID Laws, Democracy, Voter ID, Voter Fraud, Voting, Politics News
Jim Condos

Denying eligible voters the ability to use their constitutionally protected right to participate is the real voter fraud.

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Why Tuesday?

Amb. Andrew J. Young | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Voter Participation, Election Day, Midterm Elections, Why Tuesday, Voting-Rights-Act-1965, Voting Rights, Impact News
Amb. Andrew J. Young

Last week, American voters swept in a new crop of leaders, and once again brought change to Washington, DC. What has not changed, however, is the precariously low voter participation in our nation.

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Colombia: and the Winner Is, Antanas Mockus

Aldo Civico | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Antanas Mockus, President Alvaro Uribe, Latin America, Latin America Policy, Colombia, Voters, Juan Manuel Santos, Alvaro Uribe, Voter Participation, Democracy, Green Party, Alvaro Uribe Government, Participation, World News
Aldo Civico

Over the past ten days, I was amazed to see window with signboards for Antanas Mockus, the presidential candidate of the Green Party. It's the Colombian version of the Obama syndrome.

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Small And Apart

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cuba, Citizen, Informal Workers, Voter Turnout, Voter Activism, Political Ads, Voter Participation, Political Billboards, Politics News
Yoani Sanchez

Last week we were talking about ants, people and the small traditions that sustain us day to day. Well, a few meters from my house I found this bil...

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I'd Love To Choose

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cuba, Citizen, Voting, Hugo Chavez, Venezuela, Hugo Chavez Venezuela Referendum, Venezuela Constitution Amendments, Voter Participation, Venezuela Voting, Politics News
Yoani Sanchez

It has risen up, these days, the desire to fold the ballot, to push it into the slot and to know that with it goes my stentorian shout that demands: "to choose."

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2008 Seeing Record Voter Turnout In State After State

Los Angeles Times | Scott Martelle | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Voter Participation, 2008 Voter Turnout, 2008 Elections, 2008 Election, Voter Turnout, Politics News

POST-ELECTION DAY UPDATES: 2008 Voter Turout The Best In Generations, Perhaps Centuries The presidential primary season has not yet confirmed a...

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Apocalyptic Get Out The Vote Video

HoomanTV | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Youth, Youth Vote, Voter Registration, Voter Participation, Get Out the Vote, Likely Voters, Green News

The number of young people who don't vote is always shocking, and it never seems to get much better. There are plenty of youth-targeted get out the vo...

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