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Hey Yall, This just happened to my husband and I wanted to alert you all to this. Apologies if I have filed this under the wrong category; moderators please fix as necessary. My husband and I live in the San Francisco area and are registered to vote by mail permanently. We both successfully voted in the California Republican primary earlier on February 5. In September I received a notice that I would get my Presidential ballot in early October but he did not. When I got mine last week but he did not get his, he called the voter registration...

ACORN's hypocrisy also extends to its stand on the minimum wage. While it has often attempted to force minimum-wage increases on private businesses through ballot initiatives and local ordinances, ACORN tried to exempt itself from California's minimum-wage requirements. According to EPI, "ACORN argued that being forced to pay higher wages would mean that they would hire fewer employees — the very dilemma faced by businesses. Incredibly, ACORN stated that paying its employees a lower wage would allow them to be more sympathetic to the low- and moderate-income families they were attempting to help. ACORN argued that abiding by the state...

ACORN Says It Can't Prevent All Registration FraudLast Edited: Wednesday, 08 Oct 2008, 8:23 PM EDT By The Associated Press CLEVELAND -- An organization under scrutiny across the country for voter registration irregularities has told Ohio election officials it cannot eliminate fraud from its operations. The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN, said Tuesday that inefficiency and lack of resources were to blame for problems including duplicate registrations and workers filling out registration cards to make quotas. The group, which works to get low-income people to vote, has turned in at least 65,000 cards to the Cuyahoga...

A leading critic of Islam isn't surprised there has been virtually no coverage or action taken against a Muslim group that has been running an illegal "get out the vote" campaign in swing-state mosques. The group, Muslim Americans for Obama [MAFO], insists that all of its voter registration activity is non-partisan, despite the fact that its mission statement says it was launched in August 2008 "to provide a vehicle for Muslim-American supporters of Barack Obama to organize and mobilize our fellow citizens to get out the vote to elect Barack Obama the next president of the United States." Continuing, the...

You may already be registered to vote, but you probably know several people who are not. If they're not registered by today, they can't vote in this critical election. This election is going to hinge on unprecedented voter turnout -- especially in Virginia. Make sure you're registered. Then encourage your friends, family, and colleagues to do the same. Virginia voter registration forms must be postmarked by today -- so be sure to check what time your local post office closes. Ideally, people should register IN PERSON at their local city or county voter office.

Finding out how to vote is now quick and easy. Using this tool you can: * 1. Register to vote. * 2. Request to vote absentee. * 3. Find your polling location. This should only take about 3 minutes.

STEUBENVILLE -EMPTY ENVELOPE — Brian D’Amico, vice president of the College Republicans at Franciscan University of Steubenville, holds the torn and empty envelope that was received Friday at the Jefferson County Board of Elections. D’Amico said he had mailed the envelope containing 115-130 voter registration forms a week ago but it was stamped at the Youngstown postal center as “received unsealed.” Some voter registration forms originally thought to be missing were delivered today to the Jefferson County Board of Elections. Diane Gribble, director of the board of elections, said 56 voter registration cards were delivered today from the Pittsburgh post...

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William Greene would like to register his guns with the city of Chicago. So would Charles Wilson, Ronald Wallace, Alberto Ortega, J. Anthony Clark, Nashaat Mhanna, Thomas Scileppi and Darrell Powell. And for the life of me, I don't really understand why we shouldn't let them. Each of the eight men appeared before a city hearing officer Tuesday to argue that the Chicago Police Department erred in rejecting their efforts to register -- or in many cases re-register -- their firearms. I was in attendance mostly by accident, thinking I'd be seeing cases brought under the city's handgun ban ordinance....

Louisiana Secretary of State Jay Dardenne said Tuesday he will meet today with a Democrat-affiliated group responsible for a voter registration effort that is inundating East Baton Rouge and other parish registrars with bogus and incomplete applications. Dardenne said his investigators are trying to determine if any state election laws have been violated as thousands of voter registration cards have been dumped on registrars offices through the efforts of VIP. “We have some very real concerns about the data we are getting from them,” Dardenne said. VIP is a Washington, D.C., group hired by national Democrats to register some 70,000...

I suppose you can't fault a candidate for not volunteering for the military, particularly in the late 1970s when Obama came of military age. However, I do think it is important to know whether a male candidate for Commander-in-Chief registered for the draft. I remember doing it in 1981. Obama should have in 1979. I wonder if he did, given his foreign upbringing and foreign/lefty background. Anyone know how to check this? The Selective Service website required birthdate and social security number.

DEADLINE to Register is March 24th in Pennsylvania BY JULIE BENAMATI The Tribune-Democrat As Monday’s deadline fast approaches to sign up to vote in Pennsylvania’s presidential primary, elections offices in Cambria and Somerset counties report a significant increase in Democratic registrations. Political party leaders say the contest between Democratic hopefuls Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton is bringing new voters to the polls – and causing some to change party affiliation altogether. Cambria County’s election office has seen 955 new voter registrations since October, and 377 voters have changed parties in the past four weeks – about 90 percent of...

Maybe it’s a vast right-wing conspiracy, or maybe people really want a choice. Either way, it’s making work for the Lackawanna County Voter Registration Office. In the three weeks since it became clear Pennsylvanians would have a meaningful role in selecting the Democratic presidential nominee, 832 county voters — Republicans, independents or third-party members — have switched their registration to the Democratic Party. The number who have gone the other way, from Democrat, independent or third party to the Republican camp, is just 27. That’s a ratio of more than 30 to 1 in favor of the Democrats. “There’s obviously...

The Minnesota Gun Registration Bill - HF3324 (house authors Paymar; Murphy, E.; Mullery; Erhardt; Johnson; Peterson, N.; Walker; Slocum) and SF2989 (Senate authors Prettner Solon; Anderson; Dibble) is just their latest effort to infringe upon your rights in St. Paul. Go to https://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us/bin/bldbill.php?bill=H3324.0.html&session=ls85 to read the entire ugly bill. This is a classic example how to treat lawful citizens as criminals (or make lawful citizens into criminals), while totally giving the criminals a free pass. Although it begins with registration of lawful transfers of handguns and assault rifles, this is a bill to enact what will become a Minnesota gun...

The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) has its roots in a coalition of welfare rights organizations which, since 1970, has fought for “social and economic justice” – in this, the land of social and economic freedom. The coalition experienced serious internal stresses when it was joined by organizations such as the Vietnam Veterans Organizing Committee (VVOC) and the Unemployed Workers Organizing Committee (UWOC), presumably a group that would punish the rest of us by...what?...refusing to accept their unemployment checks? ACORN claims to represent more than 350,000 member families and 850 neighborhood chapters in 100 cities across the...

A victory for disfranchised Mississippi voters--and they happen to be white. Last week a federal district judge found direct evidence that the political machine in Noxubee County, Miss., had discriminated against voters with the intent to infringe their rights and that "these abuses have been racially motivated."

For the fourth straight month, the number of people identifying themselves as Republicans has decreased. For the third straight month, the number of people identifying themselves as Democrats has also decreased (see history). A Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of 15,000 adults in May found that just 30.8% now say they’re Republicans. That’s down slightly from last month and down more than six percentage points from the GOP peak of 37.3% during Election 2004. The number of Republicans has been falling fairly steadily since the middle of 2005. However, the survey also found that the number of people identifying themselves...

Voter purge to take place the day after Christmas More than 83,700 voters will be dropped off Louisiana's voter rolls next week, inactive voters whose addresses can't be confirmed and who haven't voted in at least two years, according to Secretary of State Jay Dardenne. Nearly 3 percent of Louisiana's 2.9 million registered voters will have their registrations canceled on Dec. 26, as required by state law, Dardenne said in a news release Wednesday. "The affected individuals have not voted in the past two years and have not responded to canvassing efforts or other attempts to confirm their registration address,"...

May 20, 2000 marks the 7th anniversary of President Clinton's signing the National Voter Registration Act, popularly known as Motor Voter. The right to vote means nothing if people are not registered. Motor Voter works by reducing necessary and burdensome bureaucratic obstacles to voter registration. The law requires states to provide uniform registration services through drivers' license agencies, through public assistance and disability agencies and through mail-in registration. In 1995, the first full year of implementation, more than 11 million citizens registered to vote or updated their voting addresses under the law. This figure represents the largest single increase...

MIAMI - A federal judge on Monday struck down a Florida law that imposes hefty fines on third parties that take too long to submit voter registration forms, saying it threatens free speech rights and unfairly exempts political parties. The law took effect Jan. 1 and has been blamed by critics for blocking voter registration drives because of huge financial risk. The law imposes a fine of $250 for each form submitted to election officials more than 10 days after it is collected from an individual. Penalties can reach $5,000 for each form that is collected but never submitted. "If...

Mandatory Premises ID registration and the USDA's proposed National Animal Identification System (NAIS) are dead in Vermont! See this article for more details: http://nonais.org/index.php/2006/08/18/vt-premises-id-killed/ In a nutshell, which is where these programs belongs, the Vermont Agency of Agriculture (AoA) has finally heard the enormous protest against the program and said they are letting the proposal for mandatory Premises ID expire and will not share information with the feds thus killing NAIS at the same time. "Secretary of Agriculture Steve Kerr told a crowd of nearly 100 at a Montpelier hearing Thursday that the agency would let its proposed rule that...

Mandatory Premises ID registration and the USDA's proposed National Animal Identification System (NAIS) are dead in Vermont! See this article for more details: http://nonais.org/index.php/2006/08/18/vt-premises-id-killed/ In a nutshell, which is where these programs belongs, the Vermont Agency of Agriculture (AoA) has finally heard the enormous protest against the program and said they are letting the proposal for mandatory Premises ID expire and will not share information with the feds thus killing NAIS at the same time. Secretary of Agriculture Steve Kerr told a crowd of nearly 100 at a Montpelier hearing Thursday that the agency would let its proposed rule that...

SPOTSYLVANIA, Va. (AP) -- Bonnie Winstead's poodle, Jackson, is off the grid: unlicensed and untagged. "It's my dog. It's my business," says Miss Winstead, who vaccinates her dog but objects to paying Spotsylvania County to license him.

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 28, 2006 – Soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines can now register for a shot at becoming the second Military Idol. 2005 Military Idol winner Sgt. William Glenn (center), an Alabama National Guardsman then stationed in Darmstadt, Germany, receives the winning check from Sgt. Maj. Willie Wilson of the Army Community and Family Support Center while emcee Leeann Tweeden and competitors watch. Photo by Kristy Davies   (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. The Army Morale, Welfare and Recreation program is based on the premises of Fox's "American Idol." Contestants - whether they're from an active, Guard...

Should the government introduce an amnesty for rifle and shotgun owners? Yes No

UPPER SOUTHAMPTON - Tom Burgess has been a registered Democrat in Upper Southampton for three decades. So he was more than a little surprised last week when he got a letter from the Southampton Republican Club encouraging him to switch parties before the May 16 primary. The letter was accompanied by a voter registration form with the Republican box already checked. “I was very insulted by the letter,” Burgess said. “Apparently, they don’t want any Democrats in the township.” Peter Rice, the Republican Club chairman whose name appears at the bottom of the letter, said it was sent out to...

Some of the biggest pro-illegal immigration rallies lately have featured a disturbing phenomenon: Democratic Party operatives conducting voter registration drives. After Sunday's massive illegal-immigration rally in Dallas, for instance, the Dallas Morning News headlined their coverage: "Activists sign up protesters to put them on road to polls." The paper quoted Lena Levario, a criminal defense lawyer who's running as a Democrat to be a judge: "I am so optimistic that I have 5,000 voter registration cards," she told the News. By the day's end, the paper said - Levario had yet to tally the new voters she'd harvested from the...

one of my friends just sent me this link to a proposed change to the Massachusetts carry laws. full text here

Can anyone explain the registration process? To be more specific, if I were to change my registration tomorrow, who would know and when would they know? The reason I ask is this...I'm not happy with the way our party is responding to us. Truthfully, I'm not happy with my President's actions, and in-actions, lately. I see many are not happy, as well. I know there is much that I do not know. I know that there is much more than what meets the eye, so to speak. There are those among us, smarter than I am-I'm sure, that say public...

If you haven't registered to vote in the Nov. 8 election, today is your last chance. If registering by mail, registration cards must be postmarked by today to be eligible to vote. To be on the safe side, visit your county's registrar's office in person. Registration cards can be picked up from city halls, post offices, libraries and county tax offices. The statewide ballot will include a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriages and eight other propositions. Dallas' issues to be voted on include the strong-mayor proposal and funding for a homeless center. For more information, contact your county's registration...

22 August 2005 By Hand and on the Web at http://www.w3.org/2005/08/22-w3c-prereg-standards-comments.html Office of the General Counsel U.S. Copyright Office James Madison Memorial Building, Room LM-401 101 Independence Avenue, SE., Washington, DC 20559-6000 In Re: 37 CFR Part 202 [Docket No. RM 2005-9] The United States Copyright Office has requested [1] comment on whether a requirement that certain online forms be submitted only through the use of a single vendor's World Wide Web browser, to the exclusion of any other hardware or software product or service designed to conform with Web standards. Such a policy, even if implemented for a short...

Iran's New President Glorifies Martyrdom The act of martyrdom is often celebrated by the Iranian theocracy. Most recently, Iranian President-Elect Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad, in his second TV appearance since his election victory, spoke July 25, 2005 on Iranian Channel 1 in praise of "the art of martyrdom." The day after Ahmadi-Nejad's TV appearance, the London Arabic-language daily Al-Sharq Al-Awsat published a report about his spiritual advisor, Ayatollah Mohammad Misbah Yazdi. The report advised Iranians on how to volunteer for the Iranian regime-sponsored volunteer martyrdom squad, and mentioned an Iranian women's volunteer group that is dedicated to carrying out martyrdom operations against...

Registration leads to confiscation. We all know that, and that is why GOA has vehemently opposed all attempts by government forces to compile or retain information pertaining to lawful firearms purchases. But the United States Senate does not appear to see it that way. People on Capitol Hill seem to think that any "edge" in the war on terror is worth trampling on the rights of law-abiding Americans, no matter what the Constitution (and current law) happens to say. At issue is a provision in the Patriot Act reauthorization bill (S. 1266) authored by Sen. Pat Roberts (R-KS). Now, GOA...

Ministry of Justice of Ukraine with the help of Chervonenko’s department (Ministry of Transport and Communications) decided to undertake the registration of web-sites. On May 29, the edict of Ministry of Transport and Communications "About the rules of the state registration of web-recourses" will have come into effect. Yesterday, the procedure of passing was stopped by the decree of minister of transport and communications, Chervonenko. The edict must regulate the usage of Ukrainian web portals. The edict will spread on resources of all kinds of property. Admittedly, there is no phrase in it about whether it will be obligatory procedure...

China in drive to register all Internet sites, portal says 50 minutes ago BEIJING (AFP) - Chinese-run websites have until the end of May to register their sites or face being shut down as part of a new government campaign to police the Internet, a leading portal announced. The registration drive is an effort by the Ministry of Information Industry to clamp down on fraud and other "unhealthy" activity on the Internet, the portal Sohu.com said. "If you have not registered by June, then your website could be ordered shut down," the portal quoted an official from the Beijing communications...

Sao Paulo, Brazil, May 22 (AP): Churches in Brazil joined the government's disarmament campaign on Saturday, hoping to call attention to an upcoming national referendum that could completely ban the commercial sale of firearms. Catholic, Orthodox, Presbyterian and Lutheran churches across Brazil opened their doors to allow people to voluntarily turn in their guns, the official Agencia Brasil news service reported. The churches will be taking the firearms until the end of the nationwide disarmament campaign on June 23. Hoping to curb violence, the government and several nonprofit organizations launched the disarmament campaign in July last year. In October, Brazilians...

Sophie Maxwell, member of San Francisco's Board of Supervisors, has decided to take on the Internet and free speech. Sophie announced yesterday that The Board of Supervisors will soon vote on a city ordinance, which she filed, that would require local bloggers to register with the City Ethics Commission and report all blog-related costs that exceed $1,000 in the aggregate.  Blogs that mention candidates for local office that receive more than 500 hits will be forced to pay a registration fee and will be subject to website traffic audits, according to Chad Jacobs, a San Francisco City Attorney.  However,...

ANNAPOLIS — House Majority Leader Kumar P. Barve rallied support yesterday for his bill to make Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. add his name to notices involving increases in state taxes or fees. "The Motor Vehicle Administration deceived the public by sending out thousands of notices implying that only the General Assembly was responsible for vehicle registration fee increases," said Mr. Barve, Montgomery Democrat. Mr. Barve drafted the bill after reading the notices that state: "The Maryland General Assembly has approved a fee increase for vehicle registration."

For Washington State Voters: There is an online Election Reform Petition that will be delivered to the Legislature and the Election Reform Task Force after sometime has been given to gather signatures. You may read and sign-off on the Petition at: http://www.petitiononline.com/wareform/petition.html You may post your comments about the Petition and Election Reform at: http://electionreforms.blogspot.com/ This proposals suggest are not intended to be a cure-all, however this will let the officials know that we are serious about meaningful election reform, that protects the integrity of our elections.

How does a registered forum member go about closing out/canceling their registration? Although I wasn't here much I am spending to much time online and I no longer wish to post anywhere on the net so I need to know how to do this?

After being elected twice as a Republican to the position of county attorney in Anderson County, Kan., Fred Campbell decided following the Nov. 2 elections to drop his Republican Party affiliation in favor of the Libertarian Party, saying the GOP has abandoned the idea of minimal government. Campbell was re-elected in November with no opposition. He has been a Republican for years, primarily because he's "always been in favor of less government rather than more," he said. "I've always thought that the Republican Party was the major party that went along with that philosophy," Campbell explained. "But in the last...

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MCRGO E'News and Announcements. MCRGONIGHTMARE IN WAYNE COUNTY Wayne County has instituted an appointment policy for fingerprinting for CPL licenses and renewals. We have been told by our members that they have to wait 4-6 weeks to get fingerprinted by the Sheriff. Then the Sheriff does not send in the fingerprints to the State Police promptly, rather he waits until the end of the month. This can add another four weeks onto the process. Once the fingerprints are returned from the State Police and FBI, the concealed weapon licensing board schedules a hearing which may be as far as...

BAGHDAD: Iraq began on Monday registering voters and potential candidates for elections planned for January despite the relentless violence sweeping the country."Today voter registration is starting all over the country," said Farid Ayar, the spokesman for Iraq's Independent Electoral Commission. "It is going well up until now."Some 550 registration centers throughout Iraq have been set up in the same location or near where Iraqis are accustomed to receiving their food rations - a leftover from the UN oil-for-food program when the country was under sanctions."We are not worried about security, everything is going very well," Ayar said, even as he...

I inputted the numbers into my spreadsheet. In a perfect replay of 2000, If Each county in Ohio voted according to the same percentages Republican and Democrat With the same turnout figures Bush gets 157,431 more votes Kerry gets 120,780 more votes than Kerry did.That makes for a 37,000 vote advantage which would increase Bush’s margin of 166,000 to over 200,000.source: http://www.sos.state.oh.us/sos/news/mediaguide.htm Keep in mind that I did not factor out the huge 163,000 Franklin increase which was due almost entirely to their not purging any inactive voters. Franklin was almost half/half so it did not matter that much in...

As if things weren't complicated enough, here comes the dirt. Registered voters who have been somehow unregistered. Democrats who suddenly find they've been re-registered as Republicans. A flier announcing that Election Day has been extended through Wednesday. Dirty tricks are a staple of campaigns, but election officials say this year's could achieve new highs in numbers and new lows in scope, especially in key battleground states such as Florida and Ohio, where special-interest groups have poured in to influence the neck-and-neck race between President Bush and Sen. John F. Kerry. "In my 16 years as an election administrator, I've never...

Here’s what it will take for either George W. Bush or John Kerry to win Ohio: 2,899,798 votes. That’s one more than half the record number expected to vote in Tuesday’s election. Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell projected last night that nearly 5.8 million Ohioans will go to the polls or vote absentee. If he’s right, the turnout would top the total from the 2000 presidential race by almost a million and would exceed by 750,000 the Ohio record, set in 1992 when independent H. Ross Perot joined Bill Clinton and George H.W. Bush on the presidential ballot. A...

Due to copyright restrictions, I cannot link directly to the source of this story that nationwide voter registration is up a "moderate" degree of about 3 percent nationwide since 2000. But you can find one story about it on the Liberal newspaper in Washington, DC in their daily tracking poll box which shows Bush in the lead again. The study was done by the Committee for the Study of the American Electorate headed by Curtis Gans (who is not a conservative). The study did find registrations up more in battleground states such as Florida. There are about 10 million more...

SACRAMENTO - One of the most closely contested presidential races in modern history fueled a record rise in voter registrations across California during the past two months, Secretary of State Kevin Shelley said Thursday as he announced that 16.5 million residents are registered for Tuesday's election. Shelley predicted at least 12 million of them will vote, an estimated turnout of 73 percent. The secretary of state reported that nearly 1 million Californians signed up to vote during September and October, driving registrations 1.5 million higher than the March 2 primary that helped nominate President Bush and Democratic Sen. John Kerry...

Local voter registration increases Kevin Olmstead Sun-Gazette Staff Voter registration drives held throughout the summer and autumn by the two major political parties appear to have worked in Lycoming County, according to county figures. “We’ve had 6,036 new registrations since Jan. 1,” said Sandy Adams, county voter services director. There are 69,399 people eligible to vote in Tuesday’s general election, Adams said. There were 63,657 voters registered for the 2000 election, according to the state Bureau of Commissions, Elections and Legislation. The gap between the number of Republicans and Democrats in the county widened by more than 1,000 voters over...

Net 2004 2000 2000 COUNTY DEM  REP  OTHER PARTIES ALL PARTIES DEM REP OTHER PARTIES PARTIES DEM  REP  OTHER PARTIES ALL PARTIES Turnout Dem Production Rep Production ADAMS 2,165 5,341 2,049 9,555 18,090 32,115 7,773 57,978 15,925 26,774 5,724 48,423 69% 73% 78% ALLEGHENY -16,035 -2,455 9,687 -8,803 552,525 258,336 95,230 906,091 568,560 260,791 85,543 914,894 64% 58% 90% ARMSTRONG -164 1,791 529 2,156 20,436 20,718 4,077 45,231 20,600 18,927 3,548 43,075 64% 54% 82% BEAVER 349 4,051 1,378 5,778 73,394 37,502 11,397 122,293 73,045 33,451 10,019 116,515 63% 53% 97% BEDFORD 545 2,444 500 3,489 11,045 19,399 2,445...