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Editorial: Fix the shameful practice of making it hard to vote

Source: St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Nov 10 2012, 6:51am CST

One of the great blessings of Tuesday’s election is that, as close as it was, it didn’t come down to Florida again. A polarized nation would have been paralyzed, too. America is even more divided than it was in 2000, when Florida — after five weeks ...

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Supreme Court says Arizona citizenship proof law illegal

Source: WVEC.com | Jun 20 2013, 6:01am CDT

WASHINGTON (AP) -- States can't demand proof of citizenship from people registering to vote in federal elections unless they get federal or court approval to do so, the Supreme Court ruled Monday in a decision complicating efforts in Arizona and ...

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Obama approval drops in Florida

Source: Business Journal of Jacksonville | Jun 20 2013, 5:40am CDT

President Barack Obama’s approval rating in Florida has dropped below 50 percent. Little more than seven months after winning Florida on his way to re-election, President Barack Obama’s approval rating in the state has ...

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Source: The Oakland Press | Jun 20 2013, 3:45am CDT

Will Thursday, June 13, 2013, be marked by history as a turning point, when Republicans in the state Legislature finally broke free from the ideological chains of the tea party and extremist right-wing groups? The 76-31 House vote in favor of Medicaid e ...

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EDITORIAL: The Supreme Court and the right to vote

Source: Daily Freeman | Jun 20 2013, 2:06am CDT

A much-watched case on voting rights was decided this week by the U.S. Supreme Court and, as often happens, both sides are declaring victory. In Arizona v. Inter Tribal Council of Arizona, Inc., the court ruled, 7-2, against a state requirement ...

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Herald News: House Republicans should focus on immigration, jobs

Source: NorthJersey.com | Jun 20 2013, 1:09am CDT

HOUSE REPUBLICANS this week pushed through a measure that would limit abortions to the first 20 weeks after conception. While the action, which was largely along party lines, has political ramifications, it was pu ...

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Source: NorthJersey.com | Jun 20 2013, 1:09am CDT

but missed the point I couldn’t help but notice the irony of the two editorials. One applauds the U.S. Supreme Court decision striking down Arizona’s voter requirement to provide proof of citizenship when registering ...

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Source: Creators Syndicate | Jun 19 2013, 11:11pm CDT

We imagine Jesus Gonzalez was pleased with Monday's U.S. Supreme Court ruling declaring that Arizona was wrong to prevent him from registering to vote on the day he became a U.S. citizen. In a 7-2 decision, the high court held that a 2004 Arizona law re ...

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Boehner torn between conservative issues and those with broad appeal

Source: Los Angeles Times | Jun 19 2013, 8:45pm CDT

On Tuesday, it was abortion, as Republicans passed one of the most stringent restrictions in a decade. In recent weeks, GOP-run committees held numerous hearings to investigate the Internal Revenue Service ...

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Noncitizen Voting Makes Sense. Why Don’t Liberals Agree?

Source: Bloomberg.com | Jun 19 2013, 5:54pm CDT

A Supreme Court ruling this week confirmed federal supremacy over U.S. voter-registration procedures, yet it didn’t challenge the power of states to set the basic qualifications for being able to vote. Justice Anto ...

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Voter ID 'conspiracies' are just urban legends

Source: The Morning Call | Jun 19 2013, 5:16pm CDT

I made an offhand reference the other day to voter ID's solving a nonexistent problem. This set off a reader who responded with a letter. She expressed her disagreement by referring me to an article she had ...

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