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Salem college students say their registrations were switched SALEM, Ore. - Dozens of Salem-area college students say they unknowingly registered to vote as Republicans this month after signing what they thought were petitions to bring down car insurance rates....
Posted: Thu, Oct 28, 2004 8:14pm PDT
Why the Afghan Election Has No Credibility. The Afghan election has no credibility for the simple fact that instead of counting the ballots at the precincts where the Afghan people voted the organizers of the election - the U.S. government - decided to do what they did in the Batista election in Cuba prior to the Cuban revolution. They decided to move the ballot boxes to Kabul citing the need for secure counting....
Posted: Thu, Oct 28, 2004 6:46pm PDT
Outta here in '05? <br>If Bush is re-elected, some Americans may leave the country. A growing number of people have gone beyond the Election 2004 water-cooler talk -- “Well, there’s always Canada!” – to make specific plans to leave the country. Though a mass exodus after November third remains unlikely, these potential expats represent a trend of people who see “American values” as a depreciating currency....
Posted: Thu, Oct 28, 2004 6:29pm PDT
Bush Supporters and their Denial of Reality "The refusal to allow criticismand anything different from their view of the world is alarming. As the survey shows, people can stand behind Bush without having to deny that arguments justifying war have proven false.."...
Posted: Thu, Oct 28, 2004 5:15pm PDT
An Open Letter to Former Naderites Running Scared in 2004* An Open Letter to Former Naderites Running Scared in 2004*...
Posted: Thu, Oct 28, 2004 4:20pm PDT
Renee's Riders pedaled to the Portola District last Sunday - the final bike ride. (video/quicktime 22.7MB) This Sunday morning's (Oct. 31) activities:
Meet at Campaign Headquarters (977 Shotwell, near 24th) at
*10am - Door hanging
*11am - Car caravan through District 9 to take early voters to City Hall
Phone: (415) 248-1620
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The last bike ride covered the entire 9th Supervisorial District: the Mission, Bernal Heights, and the Portola District. Three-minute QT movie. 23MB....
Posted: Thu, Oct 28, 2004 4:07pm PDT
Richie Robb: Republican Elector From West Virginia Says He Won't Vote For Bush If President Bush wins West Virginia, one of the state's five Republican electors says he might not vote for Bush to protest the president's economic and foreign policies....
Posted: Thu, Oct 28, 2004 3:44pm PDT
SF events 10.28 SF voter Guides: http://www.indyvoter.org/sanfrancisco
http://www.sfprogressives.com/mt/archives/000098.html
also SF Bay Gaurdian @ newsrack: http://sfbg.com...
Posted: Thu, Oct 28, 2004 3:40pm PDT
Fun with voters in Ohio 
Voters in Lake County, Ohio received the following in their mail recently....
Posted: Thu, Oct 28, 2004 1:34pm PDT
States 'can postpone' U.S. elections Both President Bush and some State's - including Florida, New York and California - can potentially postpone the election in "emergency circumstances".
Over the last 4 months, three Congressional Research Service reports addressed election postponement, their findings unsettling - Congress appears duly "concerned"....
Posted: Thu, Oct 28, 2004 12:37pm PDT
Racial and Class Warfare on November 2nd Republicans plan to challenge the right of people of color and low income people to vote on 11/2...
Posted: Thu, Oct 28, 2004 11:52am PDT
* Political Right - Left And The Middle * By definition one would assume that - - Right - - is correct. Or is it?
The political right is neither right in its conduct, nor in its intention nor in its supposed knowledge of the world and people. The political right and their talking heads in the Christian mass media know so little about so much....
Posted: Thu, Oct 28, 2004 11:03am PDT
‘Smoking e-mail’ implicates Jeb Bush in vote suppression The Sarasota Herald Tribune obtained a “smoking e-mail” proving that Florida Gov. Jeb Bush was “personally involved” in ramrodding a new voter purge list for the 2004 election, even though the data firm that prepared it warned of its many “flaws.”
In an exchange of e-mails last May 4, Jeff Long of the Florida Secretary of State’s office wrote that the firm “recommended to the Gov. that they ‘pull the plug’ on the CVDB (Central Voter Database) primarily because they weren’t comfortable with...
Posted: Thu, Oct 28, 2004 9:41am PDT
Republicans marshal “poll watchers” to suppress working class vote The Republican Party has announced plans to place thousands of recruits in polling places in many closely contested states on Election Day. These so-called “poll watchers” will be tasked with challenging the credentials of would-be voters in predominantly Democratic urban centers....
Posted: Thu, Oct 28, 2004 9:40am PDT
Man threatens to run down controversial election figure Police have arrested a man who threatened to run over US Representative Katherine Harris, the former Florida secretary of state critics blame for much of the 2000 presidential election debacle....
Posted: Thu, Oct 28, 2004 9:32am PDT
Secret Document Suggests GOP Preparing to Challenge Black Vote in Florida Investigative reporter Greg Palast exposes a secret document within the Republican Party in Florida that contains nearly 1,900 names and addresses of voters in the predominantly black and Democratic areas of Jacksonville. The so-called "caging list" could be used to block and harass African-American voters....
Posted: Thu, Oct 28, 2004 9:15am PDT
A letter in the interest of the America we love 
A letter in the interest of the America we love...
Posted: Thu, Oct 28, 2004 5:33am PDT
Shelley Corruption Scandal Impacts S.F. Voter Education Funds (audio/mpeg 4.0MB) Partisan drama unfolds: With Secretary of State Kevin Shelley the subject of state legislative and federal corruption investigations, the Schwarzenegger administration decided to freeze voter education funds that would have been disbursed by Shelley under the Help America Vote Act (HAVA). In response, the ministers of a number of San Francisco African-American churches held an emergency press conference in front of the State Building, blasting Gov. Schwarzenegger as part of an "axis of ...
Posted: Thu, Oct 28, 2004 2:33am PDT
Voters still without ballots in a jam Supervisor of Elections Theresa LePore said she had mailed out 128,000 ballots through Monday. Requests made through Sunday have been taken care of and about 7,000 are being mailed out each day, she said.
Hood's cheery optimism wasn't shared by party officials or those worried that they won't get their ballots soon enough to mail them back to arrive before Tuesday's 7 p.m. deadline. They spoke darkly of election office phones that constantly ring busy, questions that go unanswered, sample ...
Posted: Wed, Oct 27, 2004 9:30pm PDT
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