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'Daily Voting News' for June 07-08, 2009

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by Ellen Theisen, Dave Klein and John Washburn

We still have Georgia on our mind. The U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear the NAACP lawsuit, filed in 2005, against Georgia's photo voter ID law (not to be confused with the recently passed Georgia law requiring proof of citizenship to register to vote, nor the Georgia database matching procedures recently struck down by the DoJ, nor the challenge currently before the Supreme Court to Section 5 of the National Voting Rights Act)....

  • CO: Practical solutions for Colorado elections LINK

  • DC: Voting Machine Company Agrees to Hand Over Source Code LINK

  • GA: Georgia Voter I.D LINK LINK LINK

  • GA: Voting law does not target minorities LINK

  • NJ: Election overshadows city issues LINK

  • OK: It ain't broke...so why turn elections into a $2 bill? LINK

  • TN: Civic Organizations Urge Lawmakers to Follow Through on Trustworthy Voting Systems LINK

  • TN: Paper Ballots Mean More Dollars in Your Pocket LINK

  • TX: Voting in South Texas, voting south of the tracks LINK

  • Brussels: Security and risk you should care about LINK
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