March 24th 2005
Ensuring Voting Rights
In These Times

Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. outlines the rationale behind the need to amend the Constitution and add a right to vote. He also calls on all Americans to support reauthorization of the Voting Rights Act.

March 22nd 2005
Bill Would Improve Voting Standards
Minnesota Daily

Minnesota Senate Elections Committee passes amendment to make it easier for college students to register to vote.

March 18th 2005
Two-Thirds of Provisional ballots Counted, But Wide Variations Between States
The Californian: North County Times

Wide variations exist regarding how provisional ballots are counted. Voters in one region of the country are more likely to have their votes counted than those in other regions.

March 14th 2005
How to Have Clean and Complete Voter Rolls
Knight Ridder Tribune

FairVote's Rob Richie and New America Foundation Fellow Steven Hill argue that millions of eligible voters are not registered - the U.S. government should work towards clean and complete voter rolls by actively registering all U.S. citizens.

March 9th 2005
Securing the Right to Vote as a Citizenship Right
commondreams.org

FairVote board member, Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., argues that the electoral problems voters faced in 2004 were the result of a 'state's rights' voting system. To fix our voting process, he advocates we add a right to vote amendment to the U.S. Constitut

March 9th 2005
Securing Everyone's Right to Vote
San Francisco Bay View

March 1st 2005
We must defend voting rights in America, not just Iraq
Chicago Sun-Times

Reverend Jesse Jackson calls for passage of the right to vote amendment to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the march across the Emund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama

February 27th 2005
The Vote You Cast May Not Get Tallied
San Francisco Gate

CalTech/MIT study shows that even after the passage of the Help America Vote Act votes are still lost or incorrectly counted.

February 2nd 2005
�gra Fianna F�il call for automatic voter registration
orga.ie

Youth wing of Fianna Fail, Ireland's ruling party, calls on the Government to automatically register to vote all youth turning 18

January 21st 2005
Questions Surround Bush�s Election � Again
AsianWeek

Nash describes the electoral problems we continue to face suggesting we need a right to vote to improve the quality of our democracy

January 4th 2005
America Observed
The American Prospect

December 22nd 2004
Calls for electoral standards mount
The Augusta Chronicle

An overview of several reforms to modernize and democratize our elections.

December 21st 2004
America
TomPaine.com

Lots of ink and pixels have been spilled about the need for electoral reforms in this country. Both to standardize how we conduct elections and more importantly to restore voter confidence in the system. Yet argue election experts Richie and Hill so

December 21st 2004
Ohio
www.tompaine.com

The Bush electors in Ohio have cast their votes, even though the bitterly contested ballots that allegedly gave them standing as electors have not been recounted. When asked, the mainstream media will admit that there were rampant problems with this

December 15th 2004
Puerto Rico High Court to Decide Election
New York Times

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