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May 16, 2004	Pioneers Fill War Chest, Then Capitalize QUOTE: Of the 246 fundraisers [for Bush] identified by The Post as Pioneers in the 2000 campaign, 104 -- or slightly more than 40 percent -- ended up in a job or an appointment.	Washington Post
May 03, 2004	Who Hacked the Voting System? The Teacher QUOTE: [Professor Rubin's--Ed.] report painted a grim picture: "We conclude that, as a society, we must carefully consider the risks inherent in electronic voting, as it places our very democracy at risk."	New York Times
Apr 30, 2004	Study Finds 25 Nations Hindered by Corruption QUOTE: A survey of government accountability and openness in 25 countries around the globe has found that each one is challenged by corruption and lacks sufficient protections against electoral abuses, including developed democracies such as the United States, Germany and Japan.	Washington Post
Apr 27, 2004	China Bars Steps by Hong Kong Toward More Democratic Voting QUOTE: Beijing on Monday barred popular elections for Hong Kong's chief executive in 2007 and ruled out any expanded voting by the general public for the legislature in 2008...	New York Times
Apr 26, 2004	Florida Legislators Take on a Voter Right QUOTE: Florida is among 24 states that let residents bypass their elected leaders and put proposals to amend the Constitution directly on the ballot...But lawmakers have long complained that the process unfairly burdens the state by mandating expensive new programs.	New York Times
Apr 23, 2004	A Vote Fix at Fox, Or Just 'Idol' Gossip? QUOTE: Viewers stunned by voting results on "American Idol" this week began tossing the "c" word around again. That's "c" as in "conspiracy."	Washington Post
Feb 23, 2004	Low Turnout Tells Tale of Iranian Vote QUOTE: ...said the dynamics of the [Iranian--Ed.] law-making body would be driven by the knowledge that the conservative side won its majority by barring competitors.	Washington Post
Jan 17, 2004	Supreme Court Hands Texas GOP a Redistricting Victory QUOTE: As do most states, Texas has a long tradition of congressional redistricting plans foisted on the minority party by the majority.	Washington Post
Nov 03, 2003	File Sharing Pits Copyright Against Free Speech QUOTE: Diebold Election Systems, which makes voting machines, is waging legal war against grass-roots advocates, including dozens of college students, who are posting on the Internet copies of the company’s internal communications about its electronic voting machines.	New York Times
Sep 23, 2003	Cheering for Carol QUOTE: ...the only woman in the race has more people questioning her motives and legitimacy than the only vegan in the race, Kucinich....If Braun is running only for her ego, what about the nine men?	Washington Post Writers Group
Aug 11, 2003	Democrats Unlikely to Retake House QUOTE: ...the states used 2000 census data to redraw congressional maps and lock hundreds of House members into safe districts -- thus helping to protect the Republican majority...	Washington Post
Jun 30, 2003	Apathetic Voters Seem Likely to Prolong Mexican Stalemate QUOTE: The PRI still holds a plurality in the Senate and the lower House of Congress, and it has stymied Mr. Fox's proposals for changing Mexico at almost every turn....Mexico has the world's toughest term limits: no one at the federal level can be re-elected, not members of Congress, senators or presidents.	New York Times
Feb 27, 2003	Voting Software Firm Gets Sued QUOTE: In a case calling into question the thoroughness of the certification process for touch-screen voting systems, a former engineer for an election software company has filed a lawsuit against his ex-employer, claiming executives ignored his warnings of potential defects.	Wired
Feb 01, 2003	Silicon Valley to Vote on Tech QUOTE: For Santa Clara County, home to the likes of Cisco Systems, Sun Microsystems and Hewlett-Packard, it's become something of an embarrassment that election officials continue to use some of the most outdated voting technology in operation.	Wired
Dec 19, 2002	Republicans Are Still Playing the Race Card QUOTE: Democrats could refrain from any further role in making Lott the poster boy for smarmy Republican racial politics. In return, Republicans could quit the smarmy racial politics.	Newsday
Nov 21, 2002	Drug Industry Seeks Ways to Capitalize on Election Success QUOTE: Having spent more than $30 million to help elect their allies to Congress, the major drug companies are devising ways to capitalize on their electoral success by securing favorable new legislation and countering the pressure that lawmakers in both parties feel to lower the cost of prescription drugs, industry officials say.	New York Times
Oct 30, 2002	Voting technology: Will the chads still hang? QUOTE: But the danger, say observers of reform, is that it focuses too heavily on technology and not enough on the human element of voting - finding and training dedicated poll workers and educating voters.	Law.com
Oct 11, 2002	Nigeria Vote: Peace Through Tech? QUOTE: Nigerian officials are investing $30 million in technology that they hope will allow the country to have a peaceful presidential election next April.	Wired
Oct 09, 2002	Sometimes It's One Voter, 2 ID Cards QUOTE: Pakistan votes on Thursday, for a new Parliament that its military government calls the harbinger of a brave new democracy, and as in elections past, the National Identity Card has many people smelling a rat.	New York Times
Oct 03, 2002	Court Orders Lautenberg Put on Ballot: GOP to Appeal N.J. Justices' Ruling to U.S. Supreme Court QUOTE: Republicans immediately announced plans to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court to keep Sen. Robert G. Torricelli (D) on the ballot despite his withdrawal from the race on Monday.	Washington Post
Oct 02, 2002	New Jersey Dispute on Torricelli Stand-In Heads to Court QUOTE: ...Democrats and Republicans headed for the New Jersey Supreme Court today to argue over whether a candidate picked by the Democrats to replace Robert G. Torricelli in the race can be placed on the Nov. 5 ballot.	New York Times
Sep 20, 2002	Court Blocks D.C. Vote on Medical Use of Marijuana QUOTE: Efforts to legalize marijuana for medical purposes in [Washington DC]were blocked yesterday when a federal appeals court overturned, without explanation, an earlier court ruling...	Washington Post
Sep 18, 2002	Rockville Mulls Giving Vote to Resident Aliens QUOTE: Officials have asked a commission reviewing the city charter to explore whether Rockville, like five Maryland municipalities and a handful of other communities nationally, should permit legal immigrants who are not citizens to cast ballots in municipal elections.	Washington Post
Sep 16, 2002	With much at stake, few Kashmiris head to the polls QUOTE: Violence and the election's failure to address Kashmir's future are expected to keep many from voting Monday.	Christian Science Monitor
Sep 15, 2002	The Stalling of Election Reform QUOTE: Congress should immediately put aside its partisan differences and pass legislation ensuring that every qualified American can vote and that all votes will be counted.	New York Times
Aug 16, 2002	Md. Officials Question Motives of Ethics Inquiries QUOTE: Twelve politicians who might otherwise have been out campaigning sat in a dimly lighted conference room discussing allegations of misbehavior lodged against six of their colleagues...	Washington Post
Aug 15, 2002	Child Welfare a Hot Issue in Fla. Governor's Race: Gov. Bush Names New Head for Department of Children and Families QUOTE: ...the outsize problem of fixing Florida's sprawling and deeply troubled child welfare system persists and, according to many child advocates, is growing by the day, making it a touchstone issue in the governor's election this fall.	Washington Post
Aug 14, 2002	Where Freedom Reigns QUOTE: The more time you spend in India the more you realize that this...country is one of the world's great wonders — a miracle with message. And the message is that democracy matters.	New York Times
Aug 13, 2002	Questions Raised About Donors to Georgia Lawmaker's Campaign QUOTE: The reelection campaign of Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-Ga.) has received campaign contributions from at least 18 donors who are either officers of Muslim foundations under investigation by the FBI, have voiced support for Palestinian and Lebanese terrorist organizations or have made inflammatory statements about Jews.	Washington Post
Aug 11, 2002	I'll Tell You What's Wrong with Petitions (No Signature Required) QUOTE: Massive signature requirements impose a pointless burden on outsider candidates that becomes an all-consuming drain on their campaigns.	Washington Post
Aug 04, 2002	Bush's Shame QUOTE: ...when a kangaroo court in Egypt, apparently acting on orders from President Hosni Mubarak, sentenced an ill, 63-year-old Saad Eddin Ibrahim to seven years at "hard labor" for promoting democracy...the Bush-Cheney team sat on its hands.	New York Times
Aug 02, 2002	Nevadans Weigh Proposal to Make Marijuana Legal QUOTE: After voting two years ago to ease state drug laws, Nevada voters could go even further this year, making their state the first to legalize marijuana and derive taxes from a regulated sales system.	New York Times
Aug 01, 2002	Townsend Calls Probe 'Political Garbage' QUOTE: Lt. Gov. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend angrily denounced a federal investigation of her crime control office ...and accused U.S. Attorney Thomas M. DiBiagio of collaborating with her Republican gubernatorial opponent to smear her record as Maryland's crime czar.	Washington Post
Jul 31, 2002	Seoul National Assembly Rejects Woman As Prime Minister QUOTE: South Korea's national assembly today overwhelmingly rejected President Kim Dae Jung's attempt at appointing a woman as prime minister after a bruising debate...	New York Times
Jul 31, 2002	Dirty Money, Dirty Politics QUOTE: In a matter of days, drug dealing, money laundering and a deposed dictator have moved to the forefront of a Texas governor's race that has turned dirty early in this election year.	Washington Post
Jul 16, 2002	More Petition Woes for Mayor QUOTE: [A] campaign official charged with preparing the nominating petitions acknowledged in an interview yesterday that he and his helpers may have violated election laws in collecting [Williams'] signatures.	Washington Post
Jul 02, 2002	Mexican Corruption Suspect Surrenders to U.S. in Houston QUOTE: charges that [Rogelio Montemayor Seguy] he approved over $200 million in questionable payments [from Pemex]....funneled through the union to the presidential campaign of Francisco Labastida Ochoa, the candidate of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI	New York Times
May 24, 2002	Justice Dept. Urged to Widen Fla. Probe: Groups: Voter List Purges An Issue QUOTE: Some civil rights groups complained yesterday that the [Justice Dept.] inquiry should tackle a more controversial issue: Florida's purge of voter registration lists, which allegedly denied many minority voters access to the ballot box in November 2000.	Washington Post
May 03, 2002	What Is Democracy Anyway? QUOTE: ...South Asia as a whole is both impressive in the way it has sustained democracies and depressing in how poorly the democracies have often served their citizens.	New York Times
Nov 16, 2001	Small Vote for Universal Care Is Seen as Carrying a Lot of Weight QUOTE: ...a vote this month in Portland on whether Maine should become the first state with universal health care....The state's primary health insurer spent hundreds of thousands of dollars — more than some Congressional candidates here spend — to try to defeat the referendum...	New York Times
Nov 12, 2001	Study of Disputed Florida Ballots Finds Justices Did Not Cast the Deciding Vote QUOTE: A comprehensive review of the uncounted Florida ballots from last year's presidential election reveals that George W. Bush would have won even if the United States Supreme Court had allowed the statewide manual recount of the votes that the Florida Supreme Court had ordered to go forward.	New York Times
Aug 09, 2001	Iranian President Vows to Press Forward On Reform QUOTE: ...President Mohammad Khatami...vowed to enact reforms clearly demanded by Iranian voters and warned his formidable opponents that failure would reflect badly on the very idea of Islamic government.	New York Times
Aug 08, 2001	Data Permanently Erased From Florida Computers QUOTE: The examination...also found that some information had probably been permanently erased earlier this year after new operating systems were installed on three of the four computers...	New York Times
Aug 04, 2001	Responsibilities, Rights Linked QUOTE: ...American Bar Association hopes to combat that aspect of civic imbalance with a new wallet-sized card it is distributing nationwide, listing voters' rights and responsibilities on Election Day.	Sun-Sentinel (Florida)
Jul 31, 2001	Ford-Carter Election-Overhaul Panel Makes Recommendations QUOTE: A commission headed by the former Presidents Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford today recommended a major overhaul of the nation's election system...	New York Times
Jul 10, 2001	Blacks Question Va. Redistricting Plan QUOTE:	Washington Post
Jun 09, 2001	Rights Panel Criticizes Florida's Bush, Harris: Justice Dept. Probe of 2000 Vote Is Sought QUOTE: The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights yesterday approved a report that harshly criticized Florida leaders for allowing problems during last November's presidential election...	Washington Post
May 29, 2001	On Iran's Ballot, A Cleric Linked To Assassinations: Ex-intelligence Minister's Campaign Is Viewed As Effort to Clear His Name QUOTE: ...some do think of Fallahian as....the man allegedly behind a government conspiracy to kill Iranians at home who have criticized the country's conservative Islamic system.	Washington Post
May 17, 2001	Iranians Winnow Election List: Women and Liberals Are Out QUOTE: The Council of Guardians, which screens candidates for Iranian elections, announced today that it was rejecting all but 10 of the more than 800 who sought to run in the June 8 presidential race. Among those rejected were all of more than two dozen women and candidates known for their liberal views.	New York Times
May 11, 2001	Second Review of Florida Presidential Vote Is Inconclusive QUOTE: ...George W. Bush would have narrowly won a hand recount [of Florida's uncounted Election 2000 ballots] under the strictest standards for judging votes, while Al Gore would have won under the most liberal standards.	New York Times

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