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The Truth about "Voter Fraud"
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January 1, 2012
From 2002 to 2007, when the Bush administration ordered its U.S. attorney generals in every state to look for and prosecute cases of voter fraud, only 120 people had been charged nationwide, with just 86 convictions, out of the 300 million votes cast.
The Attack on Voting Rights
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January 1, 2012
Many state legislatures have been working overtime to pass laws to restrict the rights of more than 5 million Americans ? mostly students, people of color, lower income citizens, people with disabilities and senior citizens ? to vote in the 2012 elections.
How Redistricting Can Block the Democratic Process
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January 1, 2012
Every 10 years, following the U.S. Census, congressional and state legislative districts are redrawn in every state.
Workers' Rights Under Attack in the States
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January 1, 2012
CWA members in Ohio, New Jersey, Wisconsin, New Mexico and other states are seeing a concentrated attack on the rights of working people to have a voice on the job and in the political process.
U.S. Elections Up For Sale
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January 1, 2012
In its January 2010 Citizens United decision, the U.S. Supreme Court turned election and political spending upside down. With the Court?s determination that ?corporations are people too,? with free speech rights and other individual liberties, it eliminated the campaign spending restrictions that were put in place more than a century ago to stop corporations and other groups from exerting undue influence and spending millions of dollars and more in the electoral process.