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Articles
Articles and commentary about the amendment:
Letters to
Editor: CVD's Andrew Kirshenbaum and Rob Richie have published
several letters making the case for the right to vote
amendment
Press
Release by CVD regarding President Bush's
comments on his willingness to consider a right to vote amendment "America: In Search Of Electoral Standards",
by Steven Hill and Rob Richie, posted on TomPaine.com,
December 21, 2004 "Ohio: A Crime Against Democracy",
by Stuart Comstock-Gay, posted on TomPaine.com, on December
21, 2004
���The
Election Ran Smoothly, Didn't It?��� by Jesse L.
Jackson, Jr. on TomPaine.com on December 13, 2004 "Guarantee
the Right to Vote", by John Nichols in The
Nation, December 8, 2004 "Tuesday���s
to Be Most Closely Watched Election in Memory"
by Brendan Coyne in the New Standard, November 1, 2004 "Disenfranchised
Citizens" by the Boston Globe Editorial staff in
The Boston Globe, October 4, 2004 "After
the Election: Taking
the next steps toward Democracy U.S.A."
by Stephen Hill in Metro Active, October 27,
2004 "Kerry
Needs A Civil Rights Agenda," by Reverend Jesse Jackson in
the Chicago Sun Times, March 23, 2004 "Suffrage Suffers in the Land of
Rights" by Jamin Raskin in the Los Angeles Times March
15, 2004 "A
Missing Foundation for Democracy: Let's Turn the Mythical
Right to Vote into Reality", by Jeff Milchen on
the reclaimdemocracy website September, 2001 "For a Voting
Rights Amendment" by Jesse Jackson Jr. in The Nation
on November 19, 2001 "A
Missing Foundation for Democracy: The Right to Vote"
by Jeff Milchen on the reclaimdemocracy website, September,
2001 ���A
Right to Vote,���
article
by Jamin B. Raskin in the American Prospect, August 27,
2001 Articles
and commentary about problems with our electoral process:
Making
Votes Count, a series in the New York Times that
articulates the problems that damage our electoral system Electionline
Today, a daily compilation of articles from papers around
the nation discussing voting issues "America
Observed -Why
foreign election observers would rate the United States near
the bottom", By Robert Pastor, in the American
Prospect, January 4, 2004
"Several
Factors Contributed to 'Lost' Voters in Ohio", by
Michael Powell and Peter Slevin in the Washington Post,
December 15, 2004
"Puerto
Rico High Court to Decide Election
", by
The Associated Press in the New York Times, December 15, 2004
"County
Chair Finds That Own Ballot Was Rejected Washington
Hand Recount Continues" Seattle, Washington
December 13, 2004
"OSCE
report on U.S. 2004 election" a compilation of
findings by the Organization for Security and Co-Operation in
Europe Election Observation Mission on November 11, 2004
"Fixing
elections: Now,
more urgent than ever"
in the Sacramento Bee on November 6, 2004
"Suburbs
were busiest, even with more machines" By Geoff
Dutton in "The Columbus Dispatch" on November 5,
2004
"Florida
Will Reject Incomplete Voter Forms" by Catherine
Wilson from the Associated Press, October 27, 2004
"Students
Decry Registration Problems" By Jonathan Finer in
the Washington Post, October 26, 2004
"Voting
problems a serious concern", by Toby Eckert in
the Copley News Service, October 23, 2004
"A
Clean Count?" By Weston Kosova in Newsweek,
October 18, 2004
"Voting
Rights Machinery Doubted: GAO
Says Justice Unprepared for a Flood of Complaints"
by
Jo Becker in the Washington Post, October 15, 2004
"Pushing to
Be Counted in Fla.: Groups Say That Blacks May Not Be Heard at Polls" by
Jo Becker in the Washington Post, Oct 13, 2004
"Minorities struggle to
break free of felon voting bans Political Prisoners" by Chisun Lee
in the Village Voice, Oct. 12, 2004
"Vote drive targets troops overseas - U.S.
tries to make it easier for GIs" by Colin McMahon and Andrew Zajac
in the Chicago Tribune, October 11, 2004
"November
Butterflies: As Election Nears, Counting the Vote Faces New
Pitfalls" by Jackie Calmes, in The
Wall Street Journal, on October 5, 2004
"Bush
V. Gore, Round 2", by Jeffrey Rosen, in the
New Republic, October 4, 2004
"Thousands
of Fla. Voters May Be Refused" By Brendan
Farrington in the Atlantic Journal, on October 1, 2004
"Sacrifice
and Sabotage" by Bob Herbert, in the New
York Times, October 1, 2004
"Something
rotten in the state of Florida"
by Andrew Gumbel the Independent News September 29,
2004
"Hurdles
Still Remain For Voters Overseas", by Michael
Moss in the New York Times, September 29, 2004
"Barriers
to Student Voting", a New York Times Editorial,
September 28, 2004 (For more information on
problems student voters face)
"Still
Seeking a Fair Florida Vote" by former
president Jimmy Carter, in the Washington Post, on September
27, 2004
"Pentagon
Restricts Overseas Access to Voter Registration", by
John Leicester, in USA Today, September 21, 2004
"N.O.
voting machine delays face La. inquiry" by Martha
Carr in the Times Picayune, on September 20, 2004 "Absentee
Votes Worry Officials as Nov. 2 Nears" by Michael
Moss in the New York Times, on September 13, 2004
"Problems
Abound in Election System"by Jo Becker and Dan
Keating in the Washington Post, on September 5, 2004 "Vote
count at mercy of clandestine testing", by (AP),
on Monday August 23, 2004 "Perspective:
Felons have problems in getting right to vote restored"
by John Nolan in The State, on August 20,
2004 "Suppress
the Vote," op-ed by Bob Herbert in the New
York Times, August 16, 2004 "Provisional
Ballots Raise New Questions" by Erica Werner in
the Slate August 10, 2004
"Foreign Observers to Audit
Election", by Joseph Curl in the Washington Times,
August 7, 2004
"Chiefly a Cool
Reception" by Martin C. Evans in Newsday on
August 7, 2004
"A
Rule to Avert Balloting Woes Adds to Them" by Ford
Fessenden in the New York Times, August 6, 2004
"Go
to Jail, Get to Vote - in Maine or Vermont."
by Vanessa Gezari in the St. Petersburg Times, August 6, 2004
"Does
every vote count?" by William Jackson, in
Government Computer News on July 29, 2004
"Florida's
ex-convicts seek right to vote" by Dahleen Glanton,
in the Chicago Tribune, July 20, 2004
"Usurping
the Voters" by Peter M. Shane in the Washington
Post, July 19, 2004. "ACLU:
Voter ID signs can mislead" by Marcus Franklin in the
Tampa Bay Times, July 19, 2004 "Florida
Faces Vote Chaos in 2004, Commission hears" by Alan
Elsner of Reuters, July, 15, 2004 "Few
real changes seen in election system overhaul" by
Deborah Barfield Berry in Newsday, July 15, 2004 "Officials
Say Election Questions Under Control" by Ted Byrd in
The Tampa Tribune
"Florida
List for Purge of Voters Proves Flawed" by Ford
Fessenden, in the New York Times, July 10, 2004
"South
Carolina county illustrates voting difficulties" by
Thomas Hargrove, in Scripps Howard News Service, June 21, 2004 "Quarter of voters will use
unreliable machines", by Thomas Hargrove in the Scripps Daily
News Service, June 21, 2004 "1
million black votes didn't count in the 2000 presidential
election", by Greg Palast in the San Francisco
Chronicle, June 20, 2004 "Does Your Vote
Matter?" by Richard S. Dunham, Lee Walczak, Paula
Dwyer and Mike McNamee in BusinessWeek, June 16, 2004
"Delay, Purge Hit Voter Rolls",
by William March, in the Tampa Bay Tribune, June 7,
2004
"In
Chicago, Non-Citizens Vote, Too" by
Robert Klein Engler in American Daily, May 8, 2004
"Mock the Vote: College
students are discouraged from voting by local election
board", by Damian Cave in the Rolling Stone
Magazine, May, 5, 2004
"Florida to Purge Felons From
Voter Lists", by Associated Press, May 5, 2004
"Many Counties Have Highly
Inaccurate Voter Lists", by Thomas Hargrove in the
Scripps Howard News Service, May 4, 2004
"Discarded
paper ballot draws ire of voter" by Pete Pichaske in the Howard
County Times, April 22, 2004
"Push For Voting Changes May Not
Cure All Ills," by Elizabeth Weinstein in the
"Wall Street Journal" April 22, 2004
"No Vote, No Power" by
Ludovic Blain, in AlterNet, April 16, 2004
"Panel Says Voting
system same as in 2000", article by Emily Fredrix
from Associated Press, Friday April 9, 2004
"Vote-Counting
Problems Widespread, Not Confined To Florida,"
article by Thomas Hargrove in the Scripps Howard News Service,
April 14, 2004 ���The
Last Disenfranchised Class,��� article by Rebecca Perl in
the Nation, Nov. 24, 2003
���Endangered
Suffrage,���
commentary by David Broder in the Washington
Post, Sept. 17, 2003
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