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Details various aspects of diagnosing and managing diseases of the ear, upper respiratory tract, oral cavity, and pharynx in small animals. Each chapter introduces a series of cases, describes how specialists handled them, adds broader support information, and concludes with other disorders that could affect the same anatomical area.
Veterinary medicine continues to evolve and progress, as concepts change, new disorders are recognised and novel diagnostic approaches are reported. This book brings together a wide variety of cases and clinical situations which are related to disorders and diseases affecting organs of the abdominal cavity and the endocrine/metabolic system.
This book provides a comprehensive overview of small animal neurology covering the diagnosis and treatment of all clinical problems. It contains detailed information on neurological examination procedures, neuropathology and genetic disorders.
This book covers normal anatomy and specific clinical conditions of the nervous system, musculoskeletal system, abdomen, thorax, and head and neck. It also contains several chapters on disease of the brain and spine, including inflammatory, infectious, neoplastic , and vascular diseases, alongside congenital and degenerative disorders.
A comprehensive, modern treatment of the subject dealing with all organ systems and including important molecular aspects of animal development.
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Takes a problem-oriented approach to clinical diagnosis, and outlines core information necessary to effectively evaluate the major medical problems in dogs and cats. Continues to serve as a vital tool in accurate and appropriate diagnosis for small animal veterinarians, emergency and critical care veterinarians.
A practical reference for the ever increasing number of veterinarians call upon to treat patients with cancer. Chapters are organized by body system and take a case-based approach, providing helpful algorithms covering diagnosis, treatment and management that will aid in making the appropriate clinical decision.
This Introduction gives an overview of cancer biology and explains the principles of available therapies. There is an up-to-date discussion on new and developing techniques and treatments, and guidance on when these are indicated. The book covers all common, most less common and some rare aspects of small animal oncology.
Covers both the theoretical principles behind the use of ultrasound in small animal practice and the practical approach to image interpretation. In-keeping with the user-friendly style of Frances Barr's book, the book is extensively illustrated with photographs and accompanying line drawings.
In this book, Karen Tobias explains the tips and tricks that experienced surgeons use to make a procedure easier, faster and more successful. She provides clear, concise, detailed and well-illustrated instructions on how to complete all the common procedures performed in small animal practice.
Combines a book and CD-ROM to include 450 educational handouts that cover everything your clients need to know about their pet's condition. The content ranges from basic descriptions of illnesses and frequent signs, to preventive measures and expected outcomes, all on a single page.

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Want to serve an extra-special vegetable side dish? This tempting recipe might just do the trick. The combination of flavorful ingredients dresses up ordinary brussels sprouts. Enjoy!
— Donald Roberts, Amherst, New Hampshire
For a pretty side dish, try this lovely combination of fresh vegetables from Page Alexander of Baldwin City, Kansas. Tossed with a buttery sauce seasoned with lemon and dill, the delicious and nutritious blend cooks in minutes on the stove.
This vegetable medley has become a family dinner tradition for Thanksgiving and Christmas. Even though our three children are now married, when we get together for the holidays, this dish is always on the menu. It's as important to them as the turkey!
I GREW UP on a farm in southern Louisiana, so we had fresh vegetables most of the year.
Mother served brussels sprouts at least twice a week. Fresh from the garden, they were sweet and tender. Now I make this recipe all year using frozen sprouts.
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LOS BANOS, Calif. (KFSN) --Los Banos police officer Dusty Norris is charged with having a sexual relationship with a student.
Court documents obtained by Action News reveal, according to the victim, a pattern of inappropriate, aggressive sexual advances towards her. Norris' attorney said the report, which claims the crimes happened 10 years ago, doesn't prove anything.
"In fact, there are many things in there where the individual claimed items existed that would corroborate the statements, and it turned out, none of these items existed," said Chris Loethen, defense attorney.
Also in the court documents in the case showed the Los Banos Police Department was first made aware of possible crimes by Norris. After they assigned him to interview the victim in the sexual assault case against Los Banos High School teacher Gary Bettencourt. Instead of interviewing the victim, Norris instead confronted Bettencourt about the allegations. An action fellow officers thought was suspicious and out of character.
Then, a forensic analysis of Bettencourt's phone uncovered a nude photo of Norris, which investigators learned may have been kept to blackmail Norris in the future.
Officers said, it turns out both Bettencourt and Norris had sexual relationships with the same student. In her police interview, the victim admitted she had four separate sexual encounters with Norris. Three while she was a student and he was her teacher, the fourth after he had changed careers and was a Los Banos police officer. She was participating in a ride-along during the last incident.
All four crimes happened while she was 16 and 17-years-old.
The victim told police within a month of her taking Norris' class the two began sending sexually explicit text messages to each other. One time, she said Norris even exposed himself to her during class when other students weren't looking.
Norris' attorney said he plans on pleading not-guilty on Thursday.
He's also facing a misdemeanor for being a mandated reporter and not telling authorities about the sexual child abuse committed by Bettencourt.

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Sat 9/8 @ 4-8PM
Engineer John Robertson has an affinity for boats and sailing, passed down from his grandfather and great grandfather who ran supply boats for freighters on the Great Lakes. That’s provided a favorite subject for his black and white photography which he’ll be showing in “Sentinels of the Great Lakes,” opening at Eastwood Heights Furniture and Gallery with a reception Sat 9/8 @ 4-8pm.
“My interest in photographing the Great Lakes lighthouses was inspired by my father’s obsession — he hand-built over 70 museum-quality scale models of lighthouses,” he says. “These black and white images, many captured offshore, on a deck pitching from the waves, depict the beauty of these aging Great Lakes Sentinels.”
The show runs through Mon 10/15.

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Robotic Exo-Skeleton Allows Paralyzed Madison Vet to Stand Up and Walk
You probably remember learning about exo-skeletons back in biology class – beetles have them. So do lobsters. Well now, we can add humans to that list.
Several companies have developed exo-skeletons that give people super-human abilities, like carrying extremely heavy loads. But these robotic suits are also doing something much simpler - helping people who are paralyzed, stand up and walk.
Army veteran Dan Rose has spent the last three years in a wheelchair, after an explosion in Afghanistan left him paralyzed from the chest down. Doctors told the then 26 year old, he’d never walk again.
Things turned out a little differently.
Today, Rose, with long brown hair tucked under a backwards baseball cap, is standing in his apartment in Madison with the help of his new motorized exo-skeleton suit. It looks like something Hollywood actors wear to fight bad guys in sci-fi movies.
Rose’s cousin, Nick Roush, places Rose’s feet in bindings, tightens Velcro straps around his legs and chest and locks the suit’s hip joints. When everything’s secure, Rose is ready to move.
He takes slow, stilted steps in his black Chuck Taylors by carefully positioning each leg, shifting his weight and then triggering the exo suit to move by pushing buttons on a pair of crutches.
“It’s just a whole new perspective like, I can see over stuff now. I’m taller than the refrigerator, like I don’t have to kill myself trying to get something out of the freezer,” he says.This month marks the three-year anniversary of the bomb blast in Afghanistan that changed Rose’s life forever.
He was a combat engineer and his job was to drive around looking for roadside bombs.
“You know every morning that we’d go outside the wire, it’d be like touching the stove. One day that stove’s gonna be hot. Everybody knew it that the stakes were extremely high,” he says.
The day the stove was hot, the enemy detonated 1000 pounds of explosives directly under his truck, ripping it in half. Rose says after the blast he remembers hearing his driver moaning.
“I asked him what was wrong and he told me I was standing on him and so I tried to move my legs or whatever and I was like, is that better? And he was like, well you didn’t even move your legs. I was like, what the hell you mean? I was like, well, hit them. So he starts hitting my legs or whatever and I’m like, well, I can’t feel them so I’m like, well, son of a bitch, I’m paralyzed,” Rose says.
He says there were many dark days after surgery confirmed his spinal cord was completely severed. He says his outlook began to change after he agreed to try downhill skiing, and it felt great. That led to wheelchair basketball, sled hockey, even adaptive mountain biking. And now, Rose is back to walking.
His $130,000 exo-skeleton was donated from a non-profit called Soldier Socks.
People with paralysis are using similar suits in hospitals and rehab centers, but very few people actually own a device to use at home.
Jennifer Macievich is a physical therapist with Ekso Bionics, the company that makes Dan Rose’s suit. She trained his cousin and a friend to be spotters.
“Dan’s part of our study where we’re trying to decide whether or not using the device with a lay person who doesn’t have medical training is safe and effective. And he’s using this device as a home exercise unit. It’s not something he puts on and is gonna walk around in all day,” Macievich says.
“People shouldn’t think of it as an Iron Man suit, ok. It’s not one of these things we can put on a guy and he becomes a superman,” says Dr. Ken Lee, director of the Spinal Cord Injury Center at the Milwaukee VA hospital.
He says says while these exo suits are really cool, for now, let’s forget comparisons to RoboCop. The technology has limitations, but it does offer health benefits for people with paralysis who have enough upper body strength to use the devices.
“By moving, his joint stays limber. Spasticity, which a lot of patients go into spasms, and that can also get decreased as well. Their muscles stayed toned up appropriately, rather than tight or atrophying,” Lee says.
Dan Rose says after using his suit, he’s exhausted, but his body feels relaxed, and his legs and feet, which are usually cold, are warm.
It also just makes him happy to at eye level with people again. But I wondered, is it frustrating, getting to feel a bit like your old self, but not without harnesses and bindings and spotters?
Rose says, not at all. He feels lucky.
“I know guys who are tetraplegic where they don’t have full hand function and so just the fact that I can reach out, tie my own shoes, grab whatever, is huge. I guess as bad as things are they could always be a lot worse, so just be happy with what you got,” he says.


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The voting systems in use for the nation's first three all-important electoral contests in the 2012 primary --- from Iowa to New Hampshire to Saturday's South Carolina Primary --- go from pretty great to intolerably horrible. And then comes Florida, which deserves its very own special category, thereafter.
The "First-in-the-Nation" caucuses in Iowa allowed voters to vote on hand-marked paper ballots, counted by hand in front of the public at the caucus site, with results announced to everyone right then and there before being called in to GOP headquarters and before ballots were move anywhere. The wonderfully transparent system allowed for Republican voters by the Iowa GOP (which they hypocritically fight against allowing for everybody else in other states, and even in their own during general elections) is just about as close as we general get in this country to Democracy's Gold Standard. It's also what allowed reporting errors to be discovered and confirmed by the public after an election with some 122,000 votes counted transparently within an hour or so of polls closing, leading to almost nobody charging "fraud" even though just 34 votes are said to separate first and second place in the certified results of the impossibly, and historically, close election.
As of the "First-in-the-Nation" primary in New Hampshire, however, election transparency for voters and their ability to oversee their own elections began to disappear. While a lucky 10% of voters enjoyed hand-marked, publicly hand-counted paper ballots, the rest of the state's voters were allowed to vote on hand-marked paper ballots, but forced to tolerate secret tabulation on oft-failed, easily-manipulated Diebold optical-scan systems programmed by a company (LHS) with a history of criminal behavior and convictions. The results from those 90% of Granite State voters may have been tallied accurately by the Diebold op-scanners or, as seen in the disastrous 2008 Presidential Primary, not. Since NH doesn't bother to actually check to see if their machines tallied the hand-marked paper ballots correctly, we're unlikely to ever know if they did --- barring a recount request where, by then, the secure chain of custody of the paper ballots would be uncertain (to put it mildly.)
And now we come to the "First-in-the-South" Republican primary in South Carolina, where all evidence of how voters vote disappears entirely as the voters will be forced across the entire state to vote on easily-manipulated, oft-failed, 100% unverifiable touch-screen voting systems made by the nation's largest voting machine company, ES&S. When the machine-reported results are announced tomorrow night they will either be accurate or not. Either way, there will never be a way for anybody to know one way or the other as there will be nothing to prove how voters voted and nothing to "recount", even if anybody wanted to.
Appropriately enough, perhaps, Saturday's primary in the Palmetto State will offer 100% "faith-based" voting, since it will be scientifically impossible to prove that even a single vote for any candidate on the ballot has been recorded accurately by the ES&S iVotronic touch-screens as per any voter's intent. Known what we mean, Alvin Greene?...
The machines that will be in use on Saturday in South Carolina are the very same ones that reported an unknown, unemployed, seemingly-illiterate man named Alvin Greene --- who had done no campaigning, had no campaign staff, had no campaign money and no campaign website --- had unverifiably defeated Vic Rawl, a four-term state legislator and circuit court judge who had campaigned and raised money across the entire state, for the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate in 2010.
They are the same brand and model of machines (some of them, quite literally, the very same physical machines!) that were used in Florida's contested Congressional District 13 race for the U.S. Congress in 2006 when they inexplicably lost some 18,000 votes in a race ultimately awarded to the Republican candidate Vern Buchanan over Democrat Christine Jennings by just 369 votes. After that election (the one, ironically, held to fill the seat of Republican Rep. Katherine Harris who had previously been the Sunshine State's partisan Sec. of State during the 2000 Presidential debacle Florida momentarily wised up and largely banned touch-screen voting entirely across the entire state. Many of the state's wholly-unverifiable voting machines were then sent to the landfill, but many others were sold to the state of South Carolina.
The 100% unverifiable ES&S iVotronics that are used across the entire state of South Carolina are also the same type of machines that led to impossible numbers in Monroe County Arkansas' primary election in May 2010, when, as The BRAD BLOG reported exclusively, thousands of votes seem to have simply vanished after being reported by the Secretary of State on Election Night. To this day, neither state nor county officials are able to explain what happened.
They are also the same type of machines that were used in Clay County, Kentucky in 2006 when election officials actually changed the votes of voters on the machines after the voters had left "the booth". Eight top officials from the county's Election Commission --- including the County Clerk, a Circuit Court Judge and the School Superintendent --- are all now serving a collective 156 years in the federal penitentiary for those election fraud crimes.
As well, the ES&S iVotronic system is the same one that was discovered to have been "remotely accessed" on "multiple occasions", including for 80 minutes the day before the 2010 general election, in Republican-leaning Venango County, PA, as recently revealed by a forensic audit carried out by two Carnegie Mellon computer scientists --- both of whom were threatened with lawsuits by ES&S for daring to examine their machines. The Republican-majority Board of Elections in the small, rural county had commissioned the study after problems in several recent elections, as the Chairman of the Election Board told us, resulted in inexplicable undervotes, reported touch-screen vote-flipping, and even zero votes registered for several candidates in some locations during recent elections.
They're the same machines that also registered ZERO voters for an Arkansas mayoral candidate in a 2006 run-off election, even though both he and his wife insist they had voted for him, at the very least.
And yes, they're the very same machines which resulted in a 2008 train-wreck in South Carolina itself, when they failed to even boot up across the entirety of Horry County at the beginning of the day during that year's Republican Primary election, forcing voters to scramble for pieces of paper --- even scraps of paper towels --- to try and cast a vote, since there were not enough emergency paper ballots on hand to overcome the disaster.
Other than that --- and this long and storied history of other disastrous ES&S failures --- the 100% unverifiable voting machines that will be used across the entire Palmetto State in Saturday's all-important "First-in-the-South" primary election are great!
Since these machines are used across the entire state, expect Election Day stories of machine failures and the usual reports of votes flipping before voters' eyes on the touch-screens. For those who may have chosen to vote absentee in SC, as the only way to be allowed a vote on a paper ballot, many, no doubt, are disappointed that their votes for Jon Huntsman or Rick Perry were all but "wasted" as those two have both dropped out of the race since voters began mailing in absentees. If only those voters had been allowed to vote on paper on Election Day, like those in the civilized world.
We recommend concerned citizens take photos of voting machine poll tape results printed out at the end of the day when polls close at each precinct. Sometimes that can come in handy if there are questions about reported results later. But other than that, whatever the state and media tell you are the results of the election --- no matter how "unexpected" those results may or may not be --- will most likely be the results of the election, whether they actually reflect the way voters attempted to vote or not.
It's a helluva way to run the "World's Greatest Democracy", ain't it?
But, don't worry, Florida's primary is just 10 days later, and Early Voting there starts Saturday as well. So what could possibly go wrong?
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Clean, Fair, Transparent Elections -
In 2013, some state legislators continue to push laws that would make it harder for eligible American citizens to vote. But there’s good news, too. More and more states are pressing measures to improve elections.
Below you will find a regularly-updated, comprehensive roundup of introduced, pending, active, and passed voting laws. (See a detailed summary of restrictive legislation, as of April 5th.)
Numbers Overview Since the beginning of 2013, restrictive voting bills have been introduced in more than half the states:
At least 80 restrictive bills were introduced in 31 states.
Of those, 62...
Brennan Center for Justice 23 Apr 2013 Hits:858 Resources and Papers
The story starts simply enough: African-Americans and Hispanics across Georgia were registered to vote at levels lower than their white state-mates, so the New Georgia Project was started by the non-profit Third Sector Development to register new voters, concentrating on minority communities.
And that is exactly what the New Georgia Project did.
Over the last few months, the group submitted some 80,000 voter registration forms to the Georgia secretary of state's office — but as of last week, about half those new registrants, more than 40,000 Georgians, were still not listed on...
Gregg Levine | Aljezeera America 20 Oct 2014 Hits:1053 CFTE Articles
On September 11, the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), a major beltway advocacy group, filed suit against the Department of Defense (DoD) for withholding records on security testing of electronic voting systems for use by overseas service members. EPIC has requested the security reports in July under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).
The suit alleges that the DoD had no intention of disclosing the test results as it had publicly promised to do to Congress nearly 2 years previously. The United States District Court for the District of Columbia had...
Gerry Bello | Free Press 05 Oct 2014 Hits:485 CFTE Articles
Over the last couple days, voter registration booths have been popping up in Ferguson. There was one by the ruined site of the recently burned-down QuikTrip convenience store, which has become a central gathering site of the protests, and another near the site where Michael Brown was shot.
Voter turnout was just 12 percent in Ferguson's last municipal election, and in a city that's 60 percent black, virtually all city officials are white. In December, the black superintendent of the Ferguson-Florissant school district was fired by the then all-white school board, and...
Tasneem Raja | Mother Jones 28 Aug 2014 Hits:1034 CFTE Articles
On April 15, 2014 Governor Andrew Cuomo of New York State quietly signed into lawthe National Popular Vote, making New York the 10th state -- along with the District of Columbia -- to support this effort, while also boosting the total numbers to 165 of the 270 electoral votes needed to make a true national popular vote a reality. Every member of Congress has one Electoral College vote, which, along with D.C.'s three votes, makes a total of 538. Not an issue that receives much media coverage, this bill could be the...
Pearl Korn | Huffington Post 17 Jun 2014 Hits:879 CFTE Articles
Working ballot by ballot, county by county, the Republican Party is attempting to alter voting laws in the biggest and most important swing states in the country in hopes of carving out a sweeping electoral advantage for years to come.
Changes already on the books or in bills before state legislatures would make voting harder, create longer lines, and threaten to disenfranchise millions of voters from Ohio to Florida, Pennsylvania to Wisconsin, Georgia to Arizona and Texas.
Efforts underway include moving election days, ending early voting and forcing strict new voter ID...
Zachary Roth | MSNBC 25 Nov 2013 Hits:996 CFTE Articles
From courtrooms to the streets, civil rights advocates and grassroots organizations nationwide are doubling down to protect voters. Over the past few years, we witnessed an aggressive assault on voting rights, with a wave of policies making it harder to vote either passed or proposed in a majority of states. These measures included laws requiring current state-issued photo ID to vote, cuts to early voting and same-day registration and “show me your papers” proof-of-citizenship practices. The unprecedented attacks on democracy disproportionately affect voters of color. They are widespread, targeted and...
Judith Browne Dianis | BET 25 Nov 2013 Hits:1008 CFTE Articles
Some states that have tightened their voter identification laws are using workarounds to avoid voting problems for women whose names have changed because of marriage or divorce – even as opponents of the laws warn there is still potential to disqualify female voters.
Voter ID laws are intensely controversial: the Justice Department is currently suing Texas and North Carolina to block their new, stricter laws, and lawsuits in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin have also prevented voter ID laws from being implemented. Legislators supporting voter ID laws say they are necessary to prevent...
Martha T. Moore | USA Today 03 Nov 2013 Hits:817 CFTE Articles
A measure to scrap a new Republican-backed election law has enough signatures to qualify for the 2014 ballot, but legal challenges are expected.
A ballot measure to overturn a Republican-backed state bill that made sweeping changes to Arizona election law was certified this week as having more than enough valid signatures, but on Friday opponents vowed to challenge those signatures in court.
The effort to block the measure is the latest round in a growing fight in Arizona that revolves around voter participation and allegations of fraud.
Democrats contend that the Republican-led Legislature...
Cindy Carcamo | Los Angeles Times 02 Nov 2013 Hits:569 CFTE Articles
It is the kind of thought that rarely passes the lips of a member of the federal judiciary: I was wrong.
But there was Richard A. Posner, one of the most distinguished judges in the land and a member of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, saying he was mistaken in one of the most contentious issues in American politics and jurisprudence: laws that require people to show identification before they can vote.
Proponents of voter identification laws, who tend to be Republican, say the measures are necessary...
John Schwartz | The New York Times 18 Oct 2013 Hits:1006 CFTE Articles
The man who wrote Arizona's "Papers Please" law before running for Kansas Secretary of State in 2010 on the premise of stamping out "voter fraud" there ... before winning and subsequently not being able to find much, if any of it, at all, is nonetheless still at work attempting to keep legitimate voters from being able to cast their vote under the premise that thousands of non-citizens are somehow, secretly, illegally voting in the state of Kansas.
"In Kansas, the illegal registration of alien voters has become pervasive," Kris Kobach's personal...
Brad Friedman | The Brad Blog 18 Oct 2013 Hits:1018 CFTE Articles
ALEXANDRIA Virginia Democrats on Tuesday filed a federal lawsuit against Republican Ken Cuccinelli, Gov. Bob McDonnell and the state elections board, claiming tens of thousands of voters are at risk of being wrongly purged from voter rolls ahead of the state’s gubernatorial election. The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Alexandria, was not listed on the court’s electronic docket, but a copy was obtained by The Associated Press. The Democratic Party of Virginia accuses election officials, including Cuccinelli in his role as Attorney General, of pressing forward with a...
Associated Press 04 Oct 2013 Hits:831 CFTE Articles
Suppression of the black vote has been a flashpoint since June, when the U.S Supreme Court struck down a key section of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. The decision opened the door for historically racist regions(mostly in the South) to pass anti-voter laws such as ID requirements that disproportionately disenfranchise Black, Latino and poor people—who happen to overwhelmingly vote Democratic. The GOP is happily charging ahead.
But a robust counteroffensice is underway, buoyed by the 50th anniversay of the March on Washington. Speakers such as presidents Barack Obama, Bill Clinto, and...
James Thindwa | In These Times 23 Sep 2013 Hits:886 CFTE Articles
Attorney General Eric Holder said Friday that the Justice Department will continue its efforts to protect voting rights in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision which gutted the Voting Rights Act earlier this summer.
During remarks to the Congressional Black Caucus, Holder explained that the lawsuits filed to stop Texas’s discriminatory redistricting and voter ID laws are “just the beginning.”
“Thanks to the hard work of our Civil Rights Division, we are continuing to refine and re-focus current enforcement efforts across the country,” he said. “And while the suits we’ve filed...
Morgan Whitaker | MSNBC 23 Sep 2013 Hits:825 CFTE Articles
It will probably come as a surprise to most Americans that there is no affirmative right to vote in the U.S. Constitution as is the case, for example, with the 1st Amendment’s express affirmation of citizens’ constitutional rights relative to speech, press, religion, assembly and petition—rights which are fundamental to the maintenance of a liberal democracy.
Yet, we speak often of the right to vote in reverential terms and with the belief that it is as fundamental a right as those rights ensconced in the Constitution. Consent of the governed is...
Edwin Brown | Independent Voice 23 Sep 2013 Hits:850 CFTE Articles
Much has been justifiably made about the damage the Roberts Supreme Court has done to voting rights in their recent decision, Shelby County v. Holder. However, a potentially more insidious plot denying the precious right to vote is occurring in my own state of Michigan, where Republican Governor Rick Snyder has appointed an emergency manager to run Detroit in place of the duly elected mayor and City Council. Even more troubling, the governor did so after Michigan voters had rejected the emergency manager law at the ballot box, when late...
Rep. John Conyers, Jr | Huffington Post 16 Sep 2013 Hits:569 CFTE Articles
The Justice Department is preparing to take fresh legal action in a string of voting rights cases across the nation, U.S. officials said, part of a new attempt to blunt the impact of a Supreme Court ruling that the Obama administration has warned will imperil minority representation.
The decision to challenge state officials marks an aggressive effort to continue policing voting rights issues and follows a ruling by the court last month that invalidated a critical part of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Justices threw out Section 5 of the landmark...
Sari Horwitz | The Washington Post 25 Jul 2013 Hits:742 CFTE Articles
The Senate Judiciary Committee held its first hearing today on the Voting Rights Act since the Supreme Court gutted the landmark civil rights law last month. The key witnesses were civil rights icon Representative John Lewis and Representative James Sensenbrenner, the former chair of the House Judiciary Committee who led the effort to overwhelmingly reauthorize the VRA in 2006.
In his testimony, Lewis described how he almost died fighting for the right to vote in 1965 and how friends of his never made it out of Mississippi alive. “I remember these...
Ari Berman | The Nation 22 Jul 2013 Hits:832 CFTE Articles
Access to the polls has not always been assured for all Americans, and before the Voting Rights Act of 1965, many were subjected to so-called literacy tests and poll tax.
The law was created to tackle such injustices, but in June, the of the legislation. Section 4 established a formula determining which states and localities had to get federal approval (known as pre-clearance) before changing their voting procedures.
The provision applied to nine states, mainly in the South, with a history of voter discrimination. The court deemed it unconstitutional for relying on...
Staff | NPR 22 Jul 2013 Hits:724 CFTE Articles
In a 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court has ruled Section 4 of the 1965 Voting Rights Act unconstitutional.
“Section 4’s formula is unconstitutional in light of current conditions,” Chief Justice John Roberts wrote. “Coverage today is based on decades-old data and eradicated practices.”
The Court did not issue a holding on Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act. Basically, what this means is that while the Justice Department still has the authority to approve voting-related statutes in areas with a history of racial discrimination, the formula used to determine what those areas...
Aaron Blake | The Washington Post 25 Jun 2013 Hits:956 CFTE Articles
States may not require additional proof of citizenship on federal forms designed to streamline voter-registration procedures, the Supreme Court ruled Monday.
The court rejected a requirement passed by Arizona voters in 2004 that potential voters supply proof of eligibility beyond an applicant’s oath on the federal form that he or she is a citizen.
The court ruled 7 to 2 that the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 trumps Arizona’s Proposition 200.
The federal law “precludes Arizona from requiring a federal form applicant to submit information beyond that required by the form itself,”...
Robert Barnes | The Washington Post 17 Jun 2013 Hits:1360 CFTE Articles
A pair of Democratic congressmen is pushing an amendment that would place an affirmative right to vote in the U.S. Constitution. According to Rep. Mark Pocan (D-WI), who is sponsoring the legislation along with Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN), the amendment would protect voters from what he described as a “systematic” push to “restrict voting access” through voter ID laws, shorter early voting deadlines, and other measures that are being proposed in many states.
“Most people believe that there already is something in the Constitution that gives people the right to vote,...
Hunter Walker | TPM 28 May 2013 Hits:923 CFTE Articles
"The right of voting for representatives is the primary right by which other rights are protected," wrote Thomas Paine in 1795.
Yet contrary to popular belief, there is no affirmative right to vote in the U.S. Constitution. This gap in our founding document has provided an opening for the wave of voter suppression measures that swept the country in recent years, and before that, the poll taxes and Jim Crow restrictions that disenfranchised millions. This week, two Congressmen -- both from states at the epicenter of today's voting rights struggles --...
Brendan Fisher | PR Watch 19 May 2013 Hits:2118 CFTE Articles
Federal Amendments of the 113th Congress
H.J.RES.29 introduced on February 15, 2013 by Rep. Richard M. Nolan. Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States providing that the rights extended by the Constitution are the rights of natural persons only.
H.J.RES.25 introduced on February 6, 2013 by Rep. Donna Edwards. Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to clarify the authority of Congress and the States to regulate the expenditure of funds for political activity by corporations.
S.J.RES.5 introduced on January 28, 2013 by Sen. Max Baucus. A joint resolution proposing...
26 Mar 2013 Hits:1078 CFTE Articles
Posted Monday, March 4, 2013 by Molly Miller
From Campus Progress (Center For American Progress)
For many young people, even modest campaign contributions cut into a narrow personal budget. It's no wonder, then, that there is now such wide opposition to the 2010 Citizens United ruling, which established that corporations and s could make unlimited campaign contributions. Recently, West Virginians for Democracy took their discontent to the state capitol, calling upon state legislators to support a resolution that would encourage Congress for a constitutional amendment that would nullify the ruling.To date, eight...
Molly Miller 26 Mar 2013 Hits:815 CFTE Articles
From Progressive States Network
Charles Monacoon March 1, 2013 - 6:00pm
At least 6 of the 9 states covered in full by Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act saw voter suppression efforts passed by their legislatures in 2012.
(Sources: Center for American Progress, Campus Progress and Fair Elections Legal Network)
26 Mar 2013 Hits:1150 CFTE Articles
As President Obama unveiled a statue of Rosa Parks at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, the Supreme Court considered overturning a key achievement of the civil rights movement: the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Signed in 1965 by President L. Johnson, the law requires several states and counties with a history of racial discrimination to clear election-related changes with the federal government. While the Supreme Court’s four liberal justices appeared willing to back the Voting Rights Act, conservative justices were much more critical. Justice Antonin Scalia described the law as a...
Democracy Now 26 Mar 2013 Hits:888 CFTE Articles
Dr. David Gill isn’t a “mad scientist,” nor was he, as a Bloomington, Ill. emergency room physician, out to destroy Medicare. However, the American Action Network (AAN), a 501(c)(4) “social welfare organization,” spent $1.5 million in 2012 telling the voters of the 13th Congressional District in Illinois exactly that. As a result, Gill, a Democrat, was forced to spend much of the waning days of his campaign responding to these anonymously funded attack ads. He lost his race against U.S. Rep. Rodney Davis (R-Ill.) by only .36 percent.
Now Gill is...
Rick Cohen | Nonprofit Quarterly 21 Feb 2013 Hits:1146 CFTE Articles
Desmond Meade stood with his wife on the National Mall on that sunny Inauguration Day, listening to a speech delivered by a president he did not vote for. But he followed attentively, hoping to hear just a few words that might address a man like himself:
African-American, one-time homeless, recovered from substance abuse, and formerly incarcerated. His felony status kept him from voting for Obama, because as a Florida citizen he is not eligible to vote at all. He would leave D.C. disappointed, not only because he heard nothing about felony disenfranchisement,...
Brentin Mock | The Nation 09 Feb 2013 Hits:755 CFTE Articles
WASHINGTON — With studies suggesting that long lines at the polls cost Democrats hundreds of thousands of votes in November, party leaders are beginning a push to make voting and voter registration easier, setting up a likely new conflict with Republicans over a deeply polarizing issue.
White House officials have told Congressional leaders that the president plans to press for action on Capitol Hill, and Democrats say they expect him to highlight the issue in hisState of the Union address next week. Democrats in the House and Senate have already introduced...
JEREMY W. PETERS | The New York Times 05 Feb 2013 Hits:1032 CFTE Articles
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) and Reps. John Lewis (D-Ga.), James Clyburn (D-S.C.), and Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) introduced tandem legislation to update the nation’s antiquated voting systems.
The bills launched last week on the 49th anniversary of the 24th Amendment, which eliminated the poll tax. They closely follow the Brennan Center’s longstanding recommendations for voting reform.
“The ramshackle voter registration system is a prime cause of long lines and Election Day chaos. We have a chance to modernize our elections so that every eligible citizen is on the rolls, with...
Brennan Center for Justice 31 Jan 2013 Hits:1560 CFTE Articles
As Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus promotes one of the most blatant assaults on democracy in modern times—a scheme to gerrymander the Electoral College so that the loser of the popular vote could win key states and the presidency—the number-one question from frustrated citizens is: What can we do about it?
After so many assaults on voting rights and the electoral process itself have been advanced, it is easy to imagine that Priebus, Karl Rove and their team could get away even with so audacious an initiative as the rigging...
John Nichols | The Nation 29 Jan 2013 Hits:900 CFTE Articles
As it is said when it comes to voting technology: As California goes, so goes the nation. To that end, there is some disturbing news on the horizon from BlackBoxVoting.org as the Internet Voting virus threatens to spread to the Golden State.
If you're not familiar with the many insane dangers of this idea, and if the Academy Awards' recent nightmare wasn't enough, here's an article or two or three or four from the past year or two here which should do well to appropriately scare the hell out of you.
Brad Friedman | BradBlog 29 Jan 2013 Hits:916 CFTE Articles
President Barack Obama won a commanding victory in this November’s elections, defeating Republican candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney by nearly 4 percentage points in the popular vote. In doing so, President Obama became the first president to twice win more than 51 percent of the popular vote since President Dwight D. Eisenhower did so in 1956.
If a Republican plan to rig the Electoral College had been in effect in 2012, however, it is reasonably likely that President Romney would be the one...
Ian Millhiser | Center for American Progress 25 Jan 2013 Hits:1110 CFTE Articles
Mickey Duniho: Evidence of Vote Counting Fraud in Pima County?
Editor's Note: With the analysis is a full video of the Election Integrity Commission's emergency meeting held on October 26th to hear retired NSA analyst Michael Duniho's
explanation of how his study of local elections support nationwide trends found in a paper published by Francois Choquette and James Johnson. Commission member Dr. Tom Ryan has a PhD in computer programming and agrees with what Duniho has discovered. The video begins with Benny White...
27 Dec 2012 Hits:1459 CFTE Articles
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by Jill Simpson and Jim March [Download PDF of this article (MOVE Act nov 5th article.pdf ~2.5 Mb).]
The federal MOVE Act of 2009 (Military Overseas Voting Empowerment) was supposed to improve ballot access for every sort of overseas and/or military-away-from-home voter.
It had the unfortunate side-effect of opening up the single worst security hole in the US election process ever seen. This is...
27 Dec 2012 Hits:2386 CFTE Articles
“I want to thank every American who participated in this election,” President Obama said in his acceptance speech Tuesday, “whether you voted for the very first time or waited in line for a very long time.”
At the mention of long waits, Obama paused. “By the way, we have to fix that.”
Election Day saw news story after news story about interminable lines at polling stations. In some areas, people waited for two hours, three hours or more. To many observers, it seemed ludicrous that a country as advanced and as wealthy...
Brad Plumber | The Washington Post 09 Nov 2012 Hits:1007 CFTE Articles
Two of the pivotal field offices in the country making phone calls to voters in swing states aren’t in Ohio or Colorado—they’re in Idaho Falls and Rexburg, Idaho.
Frank VanderSloot, head of a controversial “multi-level marketing” corporation that sells dietary supplements and cleaning supplies, is donating two of his company’s offices to Americans for Prosperity (AFP) to “create one of the largest call enters in the nation.”
Lee Fang | The Nation 30 Oct 2012 Hits:1187 CFTE Articles
The Free Press has previously reported, Scytl, a Barcelona based e-voting company will be counting votes in 26 states. They will be doing so through something called the Federal Overseas Voting Program or FVAP. FVAP is a program designed to allow military personnel and other overseas Americans to vote in their home districts seamlessly through electronically delivered absentee ballots.
Intercepting and changing these ballots, as well as voting electronically on behalf of service people that have no idea such a thing is happening, is...
Gerry Bello and Bob Fitrakis, The Free Press | Report 22 Oct 2012 Hits:1794 CFTE Articles
Electronic voting machines owned by Mitt Romney's business buddies and set to count the votes in Cincinnati could decide the 2012 election.
The narrative is already being hyped by the corporate media. As Kelly O'Donnell reported for NBC's Today Show on Monday, October 8, Ohio's Hamilton County is "ground zero" for deciding who holds the White House come January, 2013.
O'Donnell pointed out that no candidate has won the White House without carrying Ohio since John Kennedy did it in 1960. No Republican has ever won...
Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman | Common Dreams 14 Oct 2012 Hits:1380 CFTE Articles
Nine Republican governors have the power to put Mitt Romney in the White House, even if Barack Obama wins the popular vote.
With their secretaries of state, they control the electronic vote count in nine key swing states: Florida, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Iowa, Arizona, and New Mexico. Wisconsin elections are under the control of the state's Government Accountability Board, appointed by the governor.
In tandem with the GOP's massive nation-wide disenfranchisement campaign, they could---in the dead of election night---flip their states' electronic votes to Romney and give him a victory in...
Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman 26 Sep 2012 Hits:6448 CFTE Articles
Because Bev Harris of Black Box Voting found a scheme of digital voter suppression in Shelby County (Greater Memphis), TN, by inspecting the voter history databases compared over several elections, activists are being encouraged to submit public records request for these databases.
In Shelby County, which is in the district of Rep. Steve Cohen, a rare Democratic House member from TN, voter histories were being retroactively erased to allow the voters to be purged as Inactive. 98% of the voters affected were African-American Democrats.
To deter this scheme elsewhere - especially where...
Mimi Kennedy - PDA Advisory Chair 25 Sep 2012 Hits:1139 CFTE Articles
In a setback for those trying to curb the secrecy behind election year 'issue ads' funded by shadowy special interests groups, the DC Circuit Court today overturned a lower federal court’s ruling which made public disclosure of such spending a statutory requirement.
The earlier decision, in the case Van Hollen v. Federal Election Commission, stipulated that nonprofit 501(c)(4) organizations like Americans for Prosperity and Karl Rove's Crossroads GPS as well as 501(c)(6) associations like the Chamber of Commerce and the American Petroleum Institute would...
Common Dreams Staff 22 Sep 2012 Hits:1164 CFTE Articles
Why would I even ask that question? I've been trying (with virtually no success) to get everyone to drop the election obsession and focus on activism designed around policy changes, not personality changes. I want those policy changes to include stripping presidents of imperial powers. I don't see as much difference between the two available choices as most people; I see each as a different shade of disaster. I don't get distressed by the thought of people "spoiling" an election by voting for a legitimately good candidate like Jill Stein. ...
David Swanson | War Is A Crime 18 Sep 2012 Hits:1026 CFTE Articles
Pity the poor Blue Dog. The ranks of self-proclaimed conservative Democrats have been decimated in recent years, victims of increasing polarization in Washington and the sweeping Republican takeover of the House in 2010.
But a new advocacy group has popped up this year with hopes of bolstering the remaining Blue Dogs and perhaps even helping a few new centrist lawmakers win election to Congress.
The nonprofit group, called Center Forward, has poured nearly $4 million into broadcast commercials aimed at helping conservative House Democrats keep their...
Don Eggen | The Washington Post 13 Sep 2012 Hits:1146 CFTE Articles
Having a home is not a prerequisite to vote in the United States. But activists and homeless service providers still face major challenges trying to help homeless Americans register.
Pitts v. Black (1984) and several subsequent cases in the 1980s and '90s established that homeless people could not be denied the right to vote because they did not live in a traditional residence. A shelter, park or street corner can be designated as a residence. In states that require...
Jin Zhao | AlterNet 10 Aug 2012 Hits:1177 CFTE Articles
Your presence is needed to send a message that elections matter and they must be verifiable.
Fact: “At the present time it is easy to cheat using our election computers and impossible to challenge a rigged election. The ease of cheating when matched with the impossibility of challenging any specific election requires court intervention in order to protect the purity of elections and ensure that we will have free elections.” Attorney Bill Risner
New Motion filed Aug 6th: The county ‘we only cheated once’ argument: http://tinyurl.com/cp928z7
John R Brakey | AuditAZ 08 Aug 2012 Hits:1232 CFTE Articles
Could a narrow focus on Citizens United actually set back our drive for democracy?
That's been a real worry of mine, but my thinking has been fussy. So I was relieved to see Matt Bai, the New York Times Magazine's political correspondent, take on the challenge of deciphering what can and cannot be laid at the feet of this awful ruling.
In "How Did Political Money Get This Loud?" Bai suggests that Citizens United mainly "intensified" unintended consequences of earlier reforms. He argues that the burst of political spending...
Frances Moore Lappé | Common Dreams 31 Jul 2012 Hits:1368 CFTE Articles
NEW CERTIFICATIONS, PLANNED EXPANSION:
Black Box Voting has been investigating and reporting on this disconcerting trend for nine years now. Everything we've been reporting has not only turned out to be true, but is increasing. A press release today about the planned expansion of Unisyn into more USA locations renews attention on foreign ownership of corporations selling voting systems into the United States.
Unisyn is owned by a Malaysian gambling outfit. Another major elections industry player, Canada's Dominion, purchased the massive Diebold Election Systems division (which it shares with ES&S); Dominion also...
Black Box Voting 20 Jul 2012 Hits:1260 CFTE Articles
Leaders in the House of Representatives introduced The Voter Empowerment Act of 2012 to protect and promote our freedom to vote. This bill seeks to provide more access to the ballot, more efficiency in our election systems, and more accountability in our elections.
The ability to cast a ballot that will be counted is a fundamental freedom that protects the other essential rights that Americans hold dear. The freedom to vote is how Americans, regardless of privilege or economic status, maintain the power to hold...
DEMOS 20 May 2012 Hits:1181 CFTE Articles
WASHINGTON -- Advocacy groups spending millions of dollars in the 2012 campaign are now faced with the prospect of having to reveal the donors who have been secretly financing their efforts after a federal appellate court panel refused to block a lower court order requiring the move.
In a 2 to 1 decision issued Monday evening, a U.S. Court of Appeals panel in Washington declined to stay a ruling by a federal judge requiring organizations that run election-related television ads to disclose their donors.
Matea Gold | LA Times 17 May 2012 Hits:1130 CFTE Articles
We saw him just the other day. He makes a great impression: well dressed, articulate, at ease in front of an audience. He is young (forty,) passionate about his convictions, well-versed in domestic and foreign policy. His positions would warm the heart and conscience of any liberal/progressive Democrat. He has graduate degrees, has worked to educate and train convicts, teaches history to middle and high school students, and has taught college and graduate courses. He does work for the Humane Society. His resources exceed...
Sam and Stephanie Levine | PDA Palm Beach 18 Mar 2012 Hits:1221 CFTE Articles
A federal court has rejected an appeal from the Republican National Committee to modify a 30-year-old legal agreement that prevented it from engaging in one of the most offensive forms of voter suppression: targeting minority voters whose credentials were to be challenged once they enter polling places.
The unanimous opinion of the three-judge-court of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit was a stunning rebuke of an ongoing effort by the RNC to use any means necessary to game the outcome of elections.
Steven Rosenfeld | Sourced from AlterNet 08 Mar 2012 Hits:1960 CFTE Articles
SUMMARY While it seems like everything can be done online these days, that's not actually the case when it comes to elections. Science correspondent Miles O'Brien explores the security, logistical and secrecy challenges of Internet voting.
JUDY WOODRUFF: Now another kind of election story, as both parties ramp up their efforts to get voters to the polls this fall.
NewsHour science correspondent Miles O'Brien explores why most people still can't vote online.
NATALIE TENNANT, West Virginia secretary of state: We don't have archives. There are some secretaries around the...
Miles O'Brien | PBS News Hour 19 Feb 2012 Hits:1630 CFTE Articles
THE 2012 general election campaign is likely to be a fight for every last vote, which means that it will also be a fight over who gets to cast one.
Partisan skirmishing over election procedures has been going on in state legislatures across the country for several years. Republicans have called for cutbacks in early voting, an end to same-day registration, higher hurdles for ex-felons, the presentation of proof-of-citizenship documents and regulations discouraging registration drives. The centerpiece of this effort has been a national...
Alexander Keyssar | New York Times Opinion 19 Feb 2012 Hits:1416 CFTE Articles
A movement to reform the Electoral College and elect the president based on the national popular vote has half the states it needs.
Republican Senator Mitch McConnell calls it “absurd and dangerous.” The Wall Street Journalsays it deserves to “die.” The Heritage Foundation calls it “unconstitutional.” The Washington Post calls it “flawed.” A Republican National Committee resolutionsays it is a radical, un-American, “questionable legal maneuver.”
It is awarding the presidency to the candidate who wins the most votes.
“The United States is not a democracy and shouldn’t be,” said Michael Munger, Duke University’s Political Science...
Steven Rosenfeld | AlterNet 07 Feb 2012 Hits:2525 CFTE Articles
The argument over whether voters should have to present photo identification at the polls usually splits along party lines. Republicans who favor the requirement say it prevents ballot fraud. Democrats and election rights groups who oppose it say it is meant to suppress turnout.
And people of all political stripes wonder what all the fuss is about.
Most Americans are accustomed to whipping out photo IDs at work, the bank or even their own apartment buildings. And their driver's license — perhaps the most common...
Corey Dade | NPR 28 Jan 2012 Hits:1340 CFTE Articles
The voting systems in use for the nation's first three all-important electoral contests in the 2012 primary --- from Iowa to New Hampshire to Saturday's South Carolina Primary --- go from pretty great to intolerably horrible. And then comes Florida, which deserves its very own special category, thereafter.
The "First-in-the-Nation" caucuses in Iowa allowed voters to vote on hand-marked paper ballots, counted by hand in front of the public at the caucus site, with results announced to everyone right then and there before being called in...
Brad Friedman | The Brad Blog 20 Jan 2012 Hits:4106 CFTE Articles
As we enter another election cycle, our most urgent challenge will be to ensure that the right to vote and the right to have that vote counted is protected. It comes as no surprise that this “basic right, without which all others are meaningless” has come under massive attack as we prepare to re-elect the first Black POTUS, who was swept into office by voters of color, youth and women.
Voter suppression efforts take a variety of forms. Certainly there are the blatant efforts to legislatively restrict...
Nancy A. Heitzeg, Critical Mass Progress | News Analysis 08 Jan 2012 Hits:1705 CFTE Articles
Senators Ben Cardin (Md.) and Charles Schumer (N.Y.) have introduced a bill that would impose greater criminal and civil penalties for individuals who attempted to trick voters for political gain.
The legislation is an effort to crack down on misleading campaign literature like the 2010 Maryland “robocall” incident during the state’s gubernatorial election.
“Efforts to mislead and confuse eligible voters by distributing false and deceptive voting information and campaign literature is part of what seems to be a larger strategy to keep certain voters away from the...
Jon Christian | Sourced from Campus Progress 17 Dec 2011 Hits:1379 CFTE Articles
"We need to pay attention to this, " says Ed Schultz. "171 electoral votes are in play."
He calls it a series of laws that could have a "political tsunami" effect ont he rights of groups like the elderly, the poor, minorities, the rural and students to vote in the next election--and potentially even have an effect on the election's outcome. These are "laws across more than a dozen states designed to severely reduced voter participation." And the voters from these groups are Democratic constituents.
Sarah Seltzer | Sourced from AlterNet 17 Dec 2011 Hits:1204 CFTE Articles
Austin, Texas - Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. on Tuesday entered the turbulent political waters of voting rights, signaling that the Justice Department would be aggressive in reviewing new voting laws that civil rights advocates say will dampen minority participation in next year’s elections.
Declaring in a speech that protecting ballot access for all eligible voters “must be viewed not only as a legal issue but as a moral imperative,” Mr. Holder urged Americans to “call on our political parties to resist the...
Charlie Savage, New York Times News Service | Report 14 Dec 2011 Hits:1433 CFTE Articles
Last-minute robo-calls in 2010 tried to discourage African-American vote
A Maryland jury on Tuesday convicted Paul E. Schurick, the 2010 campaign manager for Republican ex-Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr., of four counts of election law violations stemming from an Election Day decision to make thousands of recorded telephone calls into African-American homes telling likely voters that the Democratic candidate was on his way to winning -- implying there was no need for them to vote. The gambit came after exit polls showed Ehrlich losing.
Steven Rosenfeld | Sourced from AlterNet 06 Dec 2011 Hits:1342 CFTE Articles
Dwight Eisenhower backed the 18-year-old vote nearly 60 years ago. Richard Nixon backed it a decade and a half later. Forty years ago, every Republican in the Senate supported amending the Constitution to lower the voting age to 18 across the nation. Only 19 Representatives opposed the amendment in the House.
The key argument: If you're old enough to get drafted and die and kill for your country, you're old enough to cast ballots for the people likely to order you into battle. The only way...
Meteor Blades | Sourced from Daily Kos 05 Dec 2011 Hits:1427 CFTE Articles
DCCC Chairman Steve Israel announced a major Voter ID education initiative to be headed by House Assistant Leader Jim Clyburn (D-SC).
“The DCCC will be announcing a major voter protection initiative headed by Jim Clyburn that will deal with legal, public relations and related strategies to make sure every American who has the right to vote is able to vote,” Chairman Israel said.
“If the Democrats have one scintilla of a chance of either taking the House back or keeping the Senate or retaining the Presidency we...
Lauren Victoria Burke | Politics 365 22 Nov 2011 Hits:3316 CFTE Articles
“This year, thirty-four state legislatures introduced bills requiring photo identification in order to vote. This rash of legislation classifies several previously accepted IDs as unacceptable, and will affect roughly 21 million Americans if they are passed.”
Ninety-seven-year-old Emma Lee Green balances an armload of old books and yellowing papers around the stacks of musty files in her San Bernardino attic. She remembers well the days of Jim Crow, poll taxes and literacy tests that barred many African-American citizens from the voting booth.
Americans set their...
Chris Levister | New America Media 19 Nov 2011 Hits:1385 CFTE Articles
House Democratic members held a forum on recent voter identification requirements in Kansas, Tennessee, and Wisconsin, which had passed voter identification measures requiring a photo ID to vote. They focused on the potential impact of these laws on minority, low-income, elderly and student voters.
C-SPAN 14 Nov 2011 Hits:1069 CFTE Articles
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Although extra funding has been confirmed for Co Leitrim’s Housing Adaptation Grant Scheme, the scheme will remain closed to new applicants the Leitrim Observer has learned.
Last week Minister for Housing and Planning, Jan O’Sullivan TD, confirmed that the Housing Adaptation Grant allocation to Leitrim County Council had been revised upward from €66,000 to €129,962.
“Leitrim County Council have been in contact with my Department’s officials and it appears that, due to a misinterpretation of what was required, an incorrect figure for commitments was entered in the returns to the Department. A revised figure has now been received and I am pleased to say that the council’s revised allocation for 2013 now stands at €129,962,” said Minister O’Sullivan in a letter on the matter.
However, despite the increase a spokesperson for the Council has confirmed that the funding is not sufficient to facilitate the re-opening of the grant scheme in the current year.
Leitrim County Council already has €101,000 of the current funding committed. This includes €40,400 already paid out under the scheme in 2013 as well as €33,500 in approved applications on hand where payment request have not been made to date. The €101,000 also includes a further €27,000 in applications currently being processed.
“Consideration will be given to our capacity to accept a small number of emergency applications within the very constrained resources available,” added the spokesperson for the Council.
Sligo/ North Leitrim Deputy Tony McLoughlin has welcomed news of the increase in allocation for Co Leitrim noting that, within the context of grant reductions across the board, this at least left the county with “a more reasonable figure” for 2013.
“I would prefer to see more funding under this heading from the department however given the current economic situation we find ourselves in further funding at this time is not possible,” he admitted.
Minister for Small Business and local Sligo/North Leitrim representative, John Perry TD also welcomed the funding increase
“These support grants have a major impact on the quality of life for the recipients, and I have seen first-hand how these grants have helped people in Leitrim,” he said.
“I am confident that this allocation will help those in need as well as showing this Government’s continued commitment to protecting the most vulnerable in our society.”
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My husband has family in England so we travel over to see them as much as we can.
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Wednesday, March 29, 2017
Two Gingerbread Houses Almost Finished
I stitched both of these Gingerbread Houses by Handblessings Designs while I was in Southern Illinois. I was almost finished on Sunday afternoon, when I ran out of white floss with only 2 stitches left to go! This design uses Perle Cotton #8....and every shop that carries DMC and is open on Sunday was out of it! It is quite frustrating!

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Panther projects in works center on lives of Angela Davis, Bobby SealeThe Black Panthers are making a comeback. Two English-language European film projects aim to bring leading figures from the Black Power movement of the 1960s to the big screen soon.
Franco-Algerian producer-writer-director Rachid Bouchareb, whose "London River" screens in competition at the Berlin International Film Festival, is setting up a movie on the early life of Angela Davis, a leading figure of the civil rights movement and one-time FBI renegade.
Meanwhile, Berlin-based Egoli Tossell Films, whose latest picture, "Hilde," screens as a Berlinale Special Gala, is in preproduction on a feature based on Black Panther co-founder Bobby Seale.
Davis became a cause celebre when she was fired from her post as a professor at UCLA for being a Communist. She later found herself on the FBI's most-wanted list after guns used in a fatal courtroom breakout were traced to her. She eventually was acquitted.
Bouchareb plans to shoot in summer 2010 with a budget in the region of $20 million-$30 million. The script is by novelist Yasmina Khadra, whose book "The Attack" has been optioned by Focus Features. Bouchareb has his lead actress firmly in mind: "I want Beyonce Knowles to play Angela Davis," he said.
Egoli Tossell's film is titled "A Lonely Rage" and is based on Seale's autobiography. Alongside Panther co-founder Huey Newton, Seale adopted the radical stance of "freedom by any means" and faced trial on charges of inciting riots and murder. The charges eventually were dropped.
Paul Herzberg is writing the script for "Rage," with Seale as a consultant. Egoli Tossell head Jens Meurer is producing. (partialdiff)


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Big Spring Independent School District trustees will hear a report on proposed new student attendance zones when they hold their monthly meeting at 5:15 p.m. Thursday in the high school board room.
With four new elementary campuses being built and one campus â€” Bauer Elementary â€” scheduled for closure in the near future, BSISD's attendance zones and bus routes will have to be reworked for the 2012-2013 school year, Assistant Superintendent Danny Ferrell said.
The Big Spring Police Department reported the following activity between 7 a.m. Tuesday and 7 a.m. today:
â€¢ CARLOS G. DIAZ, 22, of 600 Johnson, was arrested Tuesday on warrants for open container in a motor vehicle â€“ driver and expired registration.
â€¢ PALADIO GARZA JR., 30, of 3100 Webb Lane, was arrested Tuesday on a charge of driving while license suspended/invalid with a previous conviction.
â€¢ ALEXANDER QUINTANA, 31, of 610 N.W. Seventh St., was arrested Tuesday on a warrant for assault causing bodily injury.
The Howard County Sheriffâ€™s Office reported the following activity:
Preliminary autopsy results on a Big Spring man who died shortly after being found in a roadway last week confirm he was the victim of a hit and run accident, according to law enforcement officials.
Eleutario Torres Padron, 62, was discovered in the roadway by passerbys Thursday evening near the intersection of Sgt. Paredez and Trades Avenue on the city's north side, according to police reports.
Howard County Justice of the Peace Kathryn Wiseman said Monday preliminary autopsy results confirm Padron was struck by a vehicle before being left in the road.
Howard County commissioners approved a number of routine items Monday, including a $1,300 expenditure at the county jail that will make it easier to house inmates, according to jail officials.
According to Jail Administrator Mike Dawson, the inability to isolate water sources in jail cells â€” specifically to showers and sinks â€” has made it tough to house a smaller number of inmates than designed for the areas.
However, some rather inexpensive valves and some plumbing know-how will fix that problem, Dawson told commissioners.
The Big Spring Police Department reported the following activity between 7 a.m. Monday and 7 a.m. today:
â€¢ WILLIAM SCOTT SIMPSON, 49, of 1300 Stanford, was arrested Monday on a charge of public intoxication.
â€¢ ARTHUR LYNN RICHARDSON, 48, of 906 Douglas, was arrested Monday on warrants for failure to maintain financial responsibility (two counts) and speeding.
â€¢ JUAN ARNULFO CARDINA, 26, of 109 Algerita, was arrested Monday on a warrant for driving while intoxicated â€“ open container.
True to his word, Big Spring Mayor Tommy Duncan is set Tuesday night to request a special election be held in May to use economic development funds for an $11 million re-vamp of the city's water and wastewater facilities through a controversial 4B project.
FORSAN — It's a new year, but many of the issues facing Forsan Independent School District in 2012 will be familiar ones.
Ask Superintendent Randy Johnson about what FISD is eyeing in t2012 and the first answer he will give you is the same that has concerned school districts the past few years — how to deal with shrinking state allocations.
The Big Spring Police Department reported the following activity between 9 a.m. Saturday and 7 a.m. today:
â€¢ LYNDSEY RACHELLE KELLY, 23, OF ODESSA, was arrested Sunday on charges of use or possession of illegal smoking materials and possession of drug paraphernalia.
â€¢ STEPHEN BRETT SISSON, 22, of Stanton, was arrested Sunday on charges of use or possession of illegal smoking materials, prohibited weapons and possession of drug paraphernalia.
Snowy weather has forced school district officials at Big Spring, Forsan and Coahoma to dismiss classes early today.
Classes at the three districts will let out at noon today and all athletic activities scheduled for tonight have been postponed until a later date or cancelled outright.
In addition, the monthly meeting of the Forsan ISD board of trustees scheduled for 7 p.m. tonight has been cancelled.
UPDATE (1:35 p.m.): Coahoma and Forsan officials said Tuesday classes will begin at 10 a.m.


The plug-in electric car market in Ireland is up 20% this year, having registered 524 units, increasing the total stock of passenger plug-ins to over 2,200 units.
The Hyundai Ioniq Electric (160 registrations) is the first model since 2012 to seriously challenge the leadership of the Nissan Leaf (179 units), winner of all best-seller awards since 2011.
Third placed is the BMW 330e (77 units), currently the best-selling PHEV in Ireland.
Looking at sales by technology, all-electric cars are recovering ground in this historically BEV-friendly market, with registrations up 29% in 2017, to 367 units, while PHEVs are growing only 3% this year, to 157 units, representing only 24% of the whole PEV market.
Looking at the manufacturers ranking, Nissan is in the leadership, with 35% share, but Hyundai (31%) is growing, while BMW is Third, with 19% share.[source: EAFO]


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Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry is set to visit the Valley next week. The Massachusetts senator will hold a large fund-raiser next Thursday and speak the following day before a national meeting of the centrist Democratic Leadership Council at the Arizona Biltmore.
The Kerry fund-raiser will be a private affair and will feature big-ticket contributors. It will be held in the Valley but the location is still being determined. This is the first Arizona visit for Kerry since the state's February 3 primary.
President George W. Bush has garnered more business backing than Kerry this election season in Arizona as well as nationally
However, there are a some deep pocketed Democrats in the Valley business community. Kerry has also made job growth and restoring the domestic manufacturing base top campaign issues.
John Sperling, the founder of the University of Phoenix and its parent company Apollo Group, and state Democratic party chairman Jim Pederson are substantial contributors to Democratic candidates and causes.
Pederson has become one of the state's top two or three Democrats. He's been in the forefront in Kerry's Arizona efforts and could run for governor or the U.S. Senate in 2006. Pederson is a top Valley real estate developer.
Sperling is a top advocate of legalizing marijuana for medical uses and decriminalizing the substance. Sperling has helped fund ballot referendums on those issues in Arizona and other states.
Kerry supports allowing patients with severe health problems to use marijuana for medicinal purposes if they have their doctor's approval. Bush opposes medical marijuana and his administration has enforced illicit drug laws.
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Coldplay have announced that they are set to release a little teaser for their latest album, this Friday. The band have confirmed that the song will be titled ‘Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall’ and is likely to be the debut single from the album.
The forthcoming album, which is as of yet untitled, will be Coldplay’s fifth studio album and they have revealed that the timing is perfect for a new song. Drummer Will Champion said, "We're about to play a bunch of summer festivals so it's as good a time as any to put out a new song.”
Champion went on to add, "Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall' will be available digitally on Friday, June 3 at 12pm (BST), except in the UK where it'll come out on the stroke of midnight between Saturday, June 4 and Sunday, June 5. We'll also stream it here on Friday and give it a run out at Rock Im Park."


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Mining Methods, by W. R. Crane, gives the cost of operating a 3in. drill in granite. At the North Star mines machine men cost 3 a shift or 43c. a ton machine power, 40c. a shift or 6c. a ton repairs and lubrication, 42c. a shift or 6c. a ton drill steel and sharpening, 75c. a shift or 10c. a ton total for drilling, 4.57 a shift or 65c. aGet Price
Available Cost Models. Each of the models is developed from first principles based on typical mining criteria for rock densities, swell factors, drill penetration rates, etc. Industrystandard estimating methods are used for equipment selection, personnel allocation, and cost estimation.
Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the Earth, usually from an ore body, lode, vein, seam, reef or placer deposits form a mineralized package that is of economic interest to the miner. Ores recovered by mining include metals, coal, oil shale, gemstones, limestone, chalk, dimension stone, rock salt, potash, gravel, and clay.
While California gold rushes became history, Nevada mining was just beginning and would spur the development of modern industry. In 2018, California produced 140,000 troy ounces of gold, just a fraction of the 5.58 million oz coming out of Nevadas ground.
Most lithium is commercially produced from either the extraction of lithiumcontaining salts from underground brine reservoirs or the mining of lithiumcontaining rock, such as spodumene. Lithium production from clay sources is expected to become commercially viable, though perhaps not until 2022. Lithium is a metal commonly used in batteries
As a second income, cryptocoin mining is not a reliable way to make substantial money for most people. The profit from mining cryptocoins only becomes significant when someone is willing to invest 3000 to 5000 in upfront hardware costs, at which time you could potentially earn 50 per day or more.
The cost of sorting 1 ton of 68.64 ore from the runofmine product is 1.95. Expressed in another way, the sorting cost per ton of runofmine ore is 1.956.51 or 0.30. The cost of mining 1 ton of runofmine ore is 2.34. The cost of transporting ore from the mine to the mill on contract is 1 per ton.
Bringing down mining operating costs is not very difficult. However, its sustainability is a different challenge altogether. To bring down costs so that they stay down, companies can try the following Create processes and methods that improve operations that can sustain for a long time.
Since minimal blasting is required once production begins, operating costs for block caving are generally lower than that of other mining methods, ranging from 2.505tonne. Some block caving operations have mining costs that are less than those of open pit mining operations, which is considered to be the cheapest mining method.
CONTENTS Abstract 1 Introduction 2 Acknowledgments 2 Section1.PlacerMineDesign Exploration 3 Panning 4 Churndrilling 4 Bucketdrilling 4 Rotarydrilling 5 Trenching 5 Seismicsurveys 5 Mining 5 Backhoeshydraulicexcavators 6 Bulldozers 6
The results show that cost uncertainties likely have a critical impact on the profitability for when the mine operates the stable extraction rate with the presence of over mining and processing costs.
Costs can be simply defined as the money or resources associated with a purchase business transaction or any other activity. Different industries adopt different methods of ascertaining costs of their products depending on the nature of the production and the type of output.
Choosing a mining method. The various methods of mining a coal seam can be classified under two headings, surface mining and underground mining. Surface and underground coal mining are broad activities that incorporate numerous variations in equipment and methods, and the choice of which method to use in extracting a coal seam depends on many technological, economic, and social factors.
Underground hard rock mining refers to various underground mining techniques used to excavate hard minerals, usually those containing metals such as ore containing gold, silver, iron, copper, zinc, nickel, tin and lead, but also involves using the same techniques for excavating ores of gems such as diamonds or rubies. Soft rock mining refers to excavation of softer minerals such as salt, coal
A discussion of Underground Mining also loses much of its value unless costs are considered, because the expectation of profit is the only excuse for carrying on mining at all. As conditions vary they cause fluctuations in cost and there are few operations to which a definite cost can be assigned.
Mining Methods, by W. R. Crane, gives the cost of operating a 3in. drill in granite. At the North Star mines machine men cost 3 a shift or 43c. a ton machine power, 40c. a shift or 6c. a ton repairs and lubrication, 42c. a shift or 6c. a ton drill steel and sharpening, 75c. a shift or 10c. a ton total for drilling, 4.57 a shift or 65c. a
There are four main mining methods underground, open surface pit, placer, and insitu mining. Underground mines are more expensive and are often used to reach deeper deposits. Surface mines are typically used for more shallow and less valuable deposits. Placer mining is used to sift out valuable metals from sediments in river channels, beach sands, or other environments.
Coal Skimming or Sink and Fl oat method. Hard rock Mining Methods. 1 Room and pillar. 2 Bench and Fill B amp F stoping. 3 Cut and Fill C amp F stoping. 4 Stull stoping. 5 Squareset stoping
Most underground mining methods have prohibitively high operating costs, which only allow high grade deposits to be mined. Block caving has a high production rate, which means high capital costs at the start of the project but relatively low operating costs. If there is enough ore, initial capital will be recouped over the life of the deposit.
Report issued by the U.S. Bureau of Mines discussing tungsten mining operations conducted in Lincoln County, Nevada. As stated in the summary, 34this paper is one of a series being prepared by the Bureau of Mines on exploration, development, mining methods and costs at various mines in the United States34 p. 1. This report includes tables, maps, illustrations, and a photograph.
Openpit mining methods are applicable to mining ore deposits that apex at or near the surface. If the deposit apexes below the surface, the overburden and barren capping overlying the ore must be removed in advance of openpit mining. The removal of this material is known as stripping. The strippingpit limits must be extended beyond the limits of the ore pit to provide a bench, and the pit

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