Democrats.org has a post called "CDF Katrina Project Needs Books" that's worth checking out...
The Children's Defense Fund (CDF) Freedom Schools Katrina Project partners with community based organizations, service agencies and universities in the Cleveland, Columbia and Jackson, MS areas to provide after-school programming each day public schools are in session for children in families affected by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
...then in the course of dismissing this case the Court would be bound to conclude that the certification of the results after the swearing in of Bilbray was without force and effect, without jurisdiction, and in contravention of principles of federalism, as Defendants argue. That conclusion, however, requires either an absurdity, or the conclusion that our Congressional election was canceled by decision of the Speaker of the House, before all the votes were fully counted, and well before certification."
“Whether a person is on a bureaucratic statewide voter registration list has nothing to do with whether they’re eligible to register to vote in California,” continued Bowen. “The State Constitution and state law ensure that everyone who is a U.S. citizen, will be 18 years old by the next election, is a resident of California, and isn’t in prison, on parole for a felony conviction, or mentally incompetent has a right to register to vote in this state. The Secretary of State should be focused on upholding the constitutional right that every eligible California voter is entitled to instead of worrying about whether their registration application correctly matches up with their DMV record or their Social Security Administration record.”Read the whole Article Here from the Senate Democratic Cacus.
Nevada County supervisors will decide on Tuesday if they'll go along with County Clerk-Recorder Kathleen Smith's recommendation for a controversial voting system to be used in the November General Election. Smith will ask for the board's approval to spend $250,000 for a one-time deal with Texas-based Diebold Election Systems, Inc.I'm hope we're still using the ink-a-vote system here in Burbank in November.
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Until now, Nevada County voters have marked their ballots with a pencil and optical scanners tallied the results. HAVA mandates the use of a statewide voter registration database and the ability to use DRE (Direct Record Electronic) voting systems also known as touch-screens.
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Registrars are now caught between a rock and a hard place. Federal grant money needs to be spent before this election is over, but if the systems reveal themselves to be faulty, not only would they be a colossal waste of money, the very integrity of the November election could be called into question.
SB 1760, introduced by Senator Debra Bowen, was passed by the California legislature on August 10 to "prohibit the Secretary of State from approving any voting system, including a direct recording electronic voting system, unless the paper used for its voter verified paper audit trail is of sufficient quality that it maintains its integrity and readability throughout the required retention period."
LINCOLN, Neb. - The GOP lost its lock on the top state government offices this week when State Auditor Kate Witek jumped to the Democratic party just a few months after campaigning as Republican Tom Osborne's running mate in a failed gubernatorial bid.Via MyDD
"I got to the point where it seemed the Republican Party was only looking at controlling all the offices instead of looking at resolving all the problems challenging this state," Witek said in Friday's Lincoln Journal Star.
Over the past several months, a number of leading Republicans around the country have defected to the Democratic Party in their election bids. Their ranks include two former Republicans now running statewide bids in Kansas this fall, Johnson County District Attorney Paul Morrison who is challenging wingnut state Attorney General Phill Kline and former Kansas Republican Party Chairman Mark Parkinson who is running as Democratic Gov. Kathleen Sebelius' running mate.
Taking a look at the specifics of the ad buy, though, it becomes clear that the Republican action is almost wholly defensive and reactive. Whereas the Dems' ad buy targets 27 seats (and perhaps eventually more) while defending just five, the vast bulk of the GOP ad buy is dedicated to protecting vulnerable incumbents."
