Voting Behavior
In addition to sociologists, scholars from many different fields, including history, political science, psychology, and geography, have studied elections and voting behavior. In curren...
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Selected editorial excerpts from the U.S. press:
THE UNKEPT PROMISE ON VOTING (The New York Times, New York)
Congress has done a terrible job of regulating electronic
voting: It allowed ...
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Gov. Charlie Crist said Thursday he wants to spend $32 million to get rid of touch-screen voting technology adopted after the 2000 presidential election, and proposed a system that would create a p...
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Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton says the federal government needs to do more to prepare for disasters and favors the creation of a national insurance backup fund.Clinton sa...
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Phnom Penh (dpa) - A Cambodian aid worker at the centre of
embezzlement allegations regarding actress Angelina Jolie's charity
work in the country said Thursday he was sadde...
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A Pentagon audit of a $5.2 billion fund used to train and equip Iraqi security forces found U.S. commanders used sloppy accounting and could not always show that equipment, services and constructio...
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Lee Drew had a chat with some cousins the other day.He was sitting in his home office in Orem, Utah. Four of the cousins were in England. One was in Australia, another in South Africa. A few more j...
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Today is Thursday, Feb. 1, the 32nd day of 2007. There are 333 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Feb. 1, 2003, the space shuttle Columbia broke up during re-entry, killing all s...
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The Rev. Al Sharpton said he wants a DNA test to determine whether he is related to former segregationist Sen. Strom Thurmond through his great-grandfather, a slave owned by an ancestor of the late...
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A mother and daughter separated decades ago during El Salvador's brutal civil war have become among the first to find each other _ and the answers they longed for _ thanks to a DNA database.Angela ...
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The Pentagon is reviewing a 2003 contract that went to a World Bank employee and companion to Paul Wolfowitz, then the No. 2 official at the Defense Department.Spokesman Bryan Whitman said Wednesda...
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