In a press release Project Vote announced the release of a new report, “Representational Bias in the 2006 Electorate”. The report finds a continuing problem with the U.S. electorate: those who are registered and vote are not representative of the overall U.S. population eligible to vote. The proportion of the U.S. population that registers to vote and that does vote is highly skewed towards Whites, the educated and the wealthy. Furthermore, young eligible Americans, particularly young minority males, and those who have recently moved, are disproportionately represented among those who do not participate in the U.S. electorate.

 

“This review of the survey data strongly points to the need for civic organizations and government officials (at all levels of government) to continue to expand access to voter registration,” says Hess. “For their part, governments should view bias in the electorate as a call to embrace voter registration as an affirmative responsibility through better implementation of laws relating to the registration of young, low-income and minority voters.”

 

NAtional: Media Release - Fewer Than Half of Eligible Minority and Low-Income Americans Voted in 2006, New Project Vote Report Shows

http://projectvote.org/newsroom/project-vote-news/project-vote-news.html?tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=1246&tx_ttnews%5BbackPid%5D=180&cHash=edc2bc5ba3

 

NAtional: Lynn Landes on "VoteRescue Radio - Where Citizens Count, One Vote at a Time"

http://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_vickie_k_071011_lynn_landes_on__22vote.htm

 

NAtional: Conyers Has More Questions For DOJ's Tanner

http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/004452.php

 

NAtional: Conyers Issues Statement on News Reports Questioning DoJ's 2004 Presidential Election 'Investigation' in Ohio

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=5159

 

NAtional: Hackers could skew US elections

http://technology.newscientist.com/article/dn12754-hackers-could-skew-us-elections.html

 

NAtional: DoJ's John 'Minorities Die First' Tanner to Testify to House Judiciary Sub-Committee, as Washington Post Picks up BRAD BLOG Story on His Recent Controversial Comments

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=5158

 

NAtional: Failing the Grade: Young People Face Strong Barriers at the Polls

http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_project__071012_failing_the_grade_3a_y.htm

 

AL: Birmingham - Cooper cites U.S. voting law

Letter will urge election officials to count provisional ballots

http://www.al.com/news/birminghamnews/index.ssf?/base/news/1192177530181150.xml&coll=2

 

CA: Secretary of State’s Office to Hold Public Hearing to Determine Whether Vendor Sold Unauthorized Voting Machines to California Counties

http://www.sos.ca.gov/executive/press_releases/2007/101107_advisory.pdf

 

CA: E-Vote: Vendor May Have Sold Unauthorized Voting Machines to California Counties

http://www.govtech.com/gt/articles/155466

 

CA: Governor turns down right-to-vote bills

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/10/10/state/n171533D63.DTL&tsp=1

 

CA: Solano County - Solano to learn status of 160 voting machines

http://www.thereporter.com/news/ci_7158323

 

IA: Des Moines - City's Primary Cost Prompts Questions

http://www.kcci.com/news/14315648/detail.html

 

IN: Marion Co. voting machines tested and ready

http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071012/LOCAL/71012023

 

IN: Marion County - Indy Voting Machines Pass Early Election Test

http://www.theindychannel.com/news/14329318/detail.html

 

LA: Voters swarming to cast early ballots

Officials impressed by the turnout

http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/frontpage/index.ssf?/base/news-9/1192172045268980.xml&coll=1

 

NY: Nassau County – Opinion - A Total Waste of Money

http://www.antonnews.com/roslynnews/2007/10/12/opinion/

 

OH: Bush's Legacy on Voting Rights: A Story from Ohio

http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/004438.php

 

PA: Northampton Co. to use lever voting machines in Nov. 6 election

http://www.pennlive.com/newsflash/pa/index.ssf?/base/news-55/1192219887151610.xml&storylist=penn

 

WA: Clark County - Visionary Voting Method

http://www.columbian.com/news/localNews/2007/10/10122007_Visionary-Voting-Method.cfm

 

Switzerland: Quantum cryptography to secure ballots in Swiss election

Advanced form of cryptography uses photons to exchange encryption keys

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/101007-quantum-cryptography-secure-ballots.html

 

Switzerland: Swiss Votes to Use 'Unbreakable' Code

http://apnews.myway.com//article/20071011/D8S780P01.html

 

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