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Oct 15, 2012	Do facts matter? QUOTE: it is not clear what impact the fact checkers are having on the public at large or, nearly as important, on the politicians. They keep laying out the facts and the politicians keep stretching the truth. There is little evidence that the public is outraged by any of the revelations nor that it has any real influence on how the politicians conduct themselves...	CNN (Cable News Network)
Aug 16, 2012	Elections Shape Judicial Sentencing, Study Finds QUOTE: Making sure to account for whether cases were resolved via plea bargain or trial, and the criminal history of defendants, the authors identified a 10% increase in sentence length from the start of a judge’s term to the election (or, for judges who ran opposed, to the filing deadline for running, several months earlier).	Wall Street Journal, The (WSJ)
May 09, 2012	North Carolina's ban on gay marriage sparks cheers, jeers QUOTE: North Carolina voted Tuesday to outlaw same-sex marriage, which was already prohibited in the state. Supporters pushed for the constitutional amendment, arguing that it is needed to ward off future legal challenges.	CNN (Cable News Network)
Mar 27, 2012	Florida’s New Election Law Blunts Voter Drives QUOTE: Florida, which is expected to be a vital swing state once again in this year’s presidential election, is enrolling fewer new voters than it did four years ago as prominent civic organizations have suspended registration drives because of what they describe as onerous restrictions imposed last year by Republican state officials.	New York Times
Dec 23, 2011	Justice Dept. Cites Race in Halting Law Over Voter ID QUOTE: The Justice Department on Friday blocked a new South Carolina law that would require voters to present photo identification, saying the law would disproportionately suppress turnout among eligible minority voters....an aggressive stance in reviewing a wave of new state voting restrictions, largely enacted by Republicans in the name of fighting fraud.	New York Times
Sep 25, 2011	Saudi king: Women will be allowed to vote and run for office QUOTE: the king said women will be allowed to nominate candidates for the next set of municipal elections. Although he did not use the word "vote," allowing women to take part in the nomination process would amount to voting within Saudi Arabia's system.	CNN (Cable News Network)
Sep 03, 2011	Arizona Redistricting Panel Is Under Attack, Even Before Its Work Is Done QUOTE: the Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission, with two Republican members, two Democratic members and an independent chairwoman, has found itself subject to such fierce attacks that its work is being questioned even before that work has been done. The stakes are high — explosive population growth over the last decade, especially among Latinos, entitles the state to one more Congressional seat, its ninth.	New York Times
Jul 11, 2011	All Hail the (Democratic) King (Op-Ed) QUOTE: ...Morocco’s July 1 constitutional referendum may be the most significant development in the Arab world all summer. For the first time since the Arab Spring began, a population broadly embraced its leader’s reforms and scaled back antigovernment demonstrations.	New York Times
Jun 27, 2011	Justices Strike Down Arizona Campaign Finance Law QUOTE: the Supreme Court on Monday struck down an Arizona law that provided escalating matching funds to candidates who accept public financing...The majority said the law violated the First Amendment rights of candidates who raise private money.	New York Times
Jun 20, 2011	Power Broker Steps Down After Years of Whispers QUOTE: For nearly three decades, Warner, 68, has also been a powerful but polarizing figure in regional and international soccer circles. On Monday, he resigned his positions as the vice president of FIFA, soccer’s world governing body, and as the president of soccer’s North American, Central American and Caribbean region, known as Concacaf. He had been accused in a bribery scheme involving as much as $1 million and had been suspended from all soccer activities...	New York Times
Mar 28, 2011	Capital Injustice QUOTE: Washingtonians still have no meaningful voice in Congress and lack full authority over their own affairs... (Washington’s) second-class citizenship is a legacy of racial injustice and, more recently, partisanship in Congress.	New York Times
Dec 29, 2010	An Election Gone Wrong Fuels Tension in Kabul QUOTE: Instead insecurity, disaffection and fraud, particularly in the south, left the country’s largest and most important ethnic group, the Pashtuns, with sharply reduced representation. The results have been vigorously disputed for three months and have pushed the country to the brink of a constitutional crisis.	New York Times
Nov 05, 2010	Money doesn't buy many wins for self-funded candidates QUOTE: Tuesday's midterms featured an unusually large crop of moguls who sought to ease their way into power by pouring millions of their own dollars into their campaigns. In most cases, they failed spectacularly.	Washington Post
Nov 03, 2010	Ouster of Iowa Judges Sends Signal to Bench QUOTE: An unprecedented vote to remove three Iowa Supreme Court justices who were part of the unanimous decision that legalized same-sex marriage in the state was celebrated by conservatives as a popular rebuke of judicial overreach, even as it alarmed proponents of an independent judiciary.	New York Times
Jun 24, 2010	House Approves Legislation That Mandates the Disclosure of Political Spending QUOTE: The House on Thursday approved legislation to curtail the ability of corporations and other special interest groups to influence elections by requiring greater disclosure of their role in paying for campaign advertising. The bill is intended to counter a Supreme Court ruling in January that the federal government may not ban political spending by corporations and other advocacy groups, like labor unions.	New York Times
Jun 11, 2010	Who’s Alvin Greene? State Asks After Vote QUOTE: everyone wants to know how Mr. Greene, an unemployed Army veteran who had been completely unknown until Tuesday, inexplicably defeated a heavily favored former legislator and judge to become the state’s Democratic nominee for the Senate — and the state’s latest political circus act.	New York Times
Jun 11, 2010	Across Iran, Anger Lies Behind Face of Calm QUOTE: Through a widespread, sustained and at times brutal crackdown, the government has succeeded in suppressing a protest movement that shook the nation for months after the re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, which the opposition said was fraudulent. But the veneer of calm masks what many here call the “fire under the ashes,” a low-grade burn of cynicism and distrust.	New York Times
Jun 09, 2010	Calif. Voting Change Could Signal Big Political Shift QUOTE: message Californians sent when they voted Tuesday to radically rejigger elections in the nation’s most populous state. Under Proposition 14, a measure that easily passed, traditional party primaries will be replaced in 2011 with wide-open elections. The top two vote-getters — whatever their party, or if they have no party at all — will face off in the general election.	New York Times
May 26, 2010	California Puts Vote Overhaul on the Ballot QUOTE: a [California-Ed.] ballot measure that would replace traditional primaries in state and Congressional elections with, effectively, two rounds of voting. All candidates would run in the first round, and the top two vote-getters — regardless of party affiliation, or unaffiliation — would then face each other in the general election. Voters’ ultimate choice could be two Republicans or two Democrats, or two candidates with high name recognition, or deep pockets, or populist appeal.	New York Times
May 21, 2010	Take Justice Off the Ballot QUOTE: a balance between lifetime appointment and partisan election by providing for the open, public nomination and appointment of judges, followed in due course by a standardized judicial performance evaluation and, finally, a yes/no vote in which citizens either approve the judge or vote him out. This kind of merit selection system — now used in some form in two-thirds of states — protects the impartiality of the judiciary without sacrificing accountability.	New York Times
May 11, 2010	Iraqi Deal to End De-Baathification QUOTE: Iraqi politicians have reached an agreement to halt a four-month campaign to bar candidates from politics for ties to the Baath Party, American and Iraqi officials said, papering over the sectarian tensions it unleashed, at least for now, and removing an obstacle in the long-delayed process of forming a new government.	New York Times
May 07, 2010	Unclear Result in Britain Puts Focus on Electoral Rules QUOTE: '[The British] system, designed for two-party politics, always fails to deliver a Parliament that reflects the way people voted,” Mr. Dé said. “Third parties are always punished, and fourth parties are often invisible.'	New York Times
May 04, 2010	Free Speech Through the Foggy Lens of Election Law (Sidebar) QUOTE: Corporate contributions to candidates are still banned, but corporations may now spend freely in candidate elections. The distinction between contributions and spending has not been popular in the legal academy.	New York Times
Oct 24, 2009	Why Russians Ignore Ballot Fraud QUOTE: The apparent brazenness of the fraud and the absence of a spirited reaction says a lot about the deep apathy in Russia, where people grew disillusioned with politics under Communism and have seen little reason to alter their view.	New York Times
Oct 21, 2009	Sequoia e-voting code reveals possible FEC rule violations QUOTE: Though still in its initial stages, the review [by the Election Defense Alliance] has already uncovered evidence indicating that the [Sequoia] voting machines are programmed in a manner that falls afoul of rules and guidelines established by the Federal Election Commission.	Ars Technica
Oct 19, 2009	How the Afghan Election Was Rigged QUOTE: No one will ever know how Afghans voted in their country's presidential elections on Aug. 20, 2009. Seven weeks after the polling, the U.N.-backed Electoral Complaints Commission (ECC) is still trying to separate fraudulent tallies from ballots.	Time Magazine
Oct 11, 2009	On Cluttered Ballots of India, Families Proliferate QUOTE: political dynasties, large and small, have proliferated so rapidly [in India] that many analysts believe nepotism is corroding the political system.	New York Times
Sep 16, 2009	A third of Karzai votes may be fraudulent, EU official says: The EU's monitor for Afghanistan election suggests that 1.1 million of the incumbent president's votes must be investigated. QUOTE: The Afghan elections... received another body blow Wednesday when the head of the European Union's election-monitoring commission said that as many as 1.1 million votes cast in the vote were "suspect."	Christian Science Monitor
Sep 14, 2009	Threat Level Privacy, Crime and Security Online Antitrust Concerns Swirl Around Sale of Diebold Voting Machines QUOTE: Sen. Charles Schumer asked the Justice Department’s antitrust division on Monday to investigate the recent sale of Diebold’s voting machines division to a competitor, saying the deal raises anti-competitiveness concerns and has “adverse implications on how our country votes.”	Wired
Sep 03, 2009	Son of Late Gabon Leader Declared Winner in Vote QUOTE: The Bongo family extended its 41-year reign over this resource-rich country on Thursday as the son of Africa’s longest-serving ruler was declared the winner of a disputed presidential election.	New York Times
Aug 24, 2009	Karzai Opponent Alleges 'Widespread' Voter Fraud QUOTE: The allegations of fraud, combined with the slow pace of vote tabulation and the cumbersome process for investigating complaints, are raising political tensions as the nation [Afghanistan] waits to see whether its second presidential election will produce a result that Afghans can trust.	Washington Post
Aug 20, 2009	A very British coup: The Turks and Caicos loses independence QUOTE: THE self-rule that the Turks and Caicos islands have enjoyed for 33 years was taken away on August 14th, when Britain removed their elected premier, cabinet and assembly, and suspended most of their constitution.	Economist
Aug 20, 2009	Tom Ridge kisses and tells on Bush’s ‘terror levels’ (The Vote Blog) QUOTE: [former head of the Department of Homeland Security Tom Ridge] says two top Bush officials – Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Attorney General John Ashcroft – pressured him to up the terror alert level before the 2004 election...	Christian Science Monitor
Aug 13, 2009	Researchers "hack the vote" in real-world e-voting attack QUOTE: A group of security researchers has published a fascinating study that demonstrates how to hack a Sequoia AVC Advantage voting machine.	Ars Technica
Aug 05, 2009	Now sworn in, Ahmadinejad could crack down harder: Top opposition candidates, including defeated presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi, are among those who may be targeted. QUOTE: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was officially inaugurated for a second term Wednesday... Now Tehran is holding its breath, wondering if Ahmadinejad will seek to consolidate his position by widening his ongoing crackdown against reformers and his political opponents.	Christian Science Monitor
Jul 07, 2009	In Iran, a Struggle Beyond the Streets QUOTE: In postelection Iran, there is growing unease among many of the nation’s political and clerical elite that the very system of governance they rely on for power and privilege has been stripped of its religious and electoral legitimacy, creating a virtual dictatorship enforced by an emboldened security apparatus, analysts said.	New York Times
Jun 25, 2009	The Voting Rights Act: Sacred, or outdated QUOTE: Critics raise two objections. Draconian federal control of local electoral rules was justified in 1965, they say, but not now. Also, the Voting Rights Act has been interpreted to require states to cobble together majority-black voting districts wherever possible.	Economist
Jun 22, 2009	Amid Crackdown, Iran Admits Voting Errors QUOTE: Iran’s most powerful oversight council announced on Monday that the number of votes recorded in 50 cities exceeded the number of eligible voters there by three million...	New York Times
Jun 21, 2009	Police Unleash Force On Rally in Tehran: Obama, in Boldest Terms Yet, Presses Iran to Halt Violence Against Own People QUOTE: Fiery chaos broke out in downtown Tehran on Saturday as security forces blocked streets and used tear gas, water cannons and batons to break up a demonstration against the reelection of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Security forces were seen firing warning shots into the air, but there were also unconfirmed reports that several people were hit by gunfire.	Washington Post
Jun 16, 2009	Signs of Fraud Abound, But Not Hard Evidence QUOTE: There are many signs of manipulation or outright fraud in Iran's disputed election results... but the case for a rigged outcome is far from ironclad...	Washington Post
May 05, 2009	Acorn Charged in Voter Registration Fraud Case in Nevada QUOTE: A prominent antipoverty organization [ACORN] that drew criticism from Republicans during last year’s presidential race was charged by Nevada officials Monday with engaging in voter registration fraud.	New York Times
Apr 27, 2009	On Voting Rights, Test of History v. Progress QUOTE: The central question before the [Supreme] court, though, is this: Did Congress overstep its constitutional power in 2006 by reauthorizing Section 5 of the act [Voting Rights Act of 1965], which requires states and localities with a history of discrimination to obtain federal permission before making changes to their voting procedures?	New York Times
Apr 24, 2009	In Olympic City, an Uneven Playing Field for Vote QUOTE: opposition candidates [for the office of mayor of Moscow] and many citizens complain that the local administration — in what is by now a familiar pattern in Russia — has used heavy-handed tactics to strangle the competition and promote the candidacy of the acting mayor, Anatoly Pakhomov, of the Kremlin-backed party United Russia.	New York Times
Mar 11, 2009	Voting Rights Elude Some Florida Ex-Felons, Study Says QUOTE: Florida’s procedures for restoring voting rights to convicted felons are so cumbersome, bureaucratic and confusing that some ex-convicts are being denied their rights, according to a report by the American Civil Liberties Union of Florida.	New York Times
Jan 03, 2009	Senate GOP prepared to fight if Dems try to seat Franken QUOTE: Minnesota's other senator, Democrat Amy Klobuchar, told the Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune this week that if the state Canvassing Board -- which is tasked with tallying votes -- certifies a winner, the Senate should "consider seating that person pending litigation." Klobuchar's statement prompted Cornyn, a Republican from Texas and the chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, to threaten a filibuster to block Democrats from seating Franken before an official certificate is signed by Ritchie and Pawlenty.	CNN (Cable News Network)
Nov 03, 2008	Campaign Calls to Cellphones Invade Privacy, Voters Say QUOTE: Telemarketing to cellphones for general consumer purposes, such as car warranty sales pitches, was outlawed in 2003 so as to not penalize consumers, whose cellphone plans typically require that they pay for minutes used. But an exemption in the law allowed political candidates to call people, whether on their cellphones or their landlines.	Washington Post
Oct 24, 2008	'Race question mark' over US town QUOTE: Fayette County residents on the race issue "I'm not voting for Obama, he's black."	British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
Oct 24, 2008	The Future of Term Limits Is in Court QUOTE: Now that the City Council has approved changing term limits to allow Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg to run again, this much is certain: The battle will move to the courtroom. Two lawsuits challenging the move are already in the legal system and more are expected.	New York Times
Oct 24, 2008	Group’s Tally of New Voters Was Vastly Overstated QUOTE: Republicans had been prepared for months to make an issue of Acorn’s registration drive....Democrats and officials with Acorn accuse Republicans of trying to manufacture a controversy to deflect attention from alleged voter suppression activities in several states.	New York Times
Oct 19, 2008	Many Holes in Disclosure of Nominees’ Health QUOTE: Fifteen days before the election, serious gaps remain in the public’s knowledge about the health of the presidential and vice-presidential nominees. The limited information provided by the candidates is a striking departure from recent campaigns, in which many candidates and their doctors were more forthcoming.	New York Times

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