'Daily Voting News' for June 13, 2009
Ellen Theisen, Dave Klein, and John Washburn
The Iranian Presidential election outcome and aftermath, of course, dominate the news today. We did the best we could to sort through the billions of articles and some that were informative and varied. But if you want more, they’re easy to find.
National: Justices May Strike Down Part Of Voting Rights Act
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=105325937
National: Preparing for the Worst on the Voting Rights Act
http://legaltimes.typepad.com/blt/2009/06/preparing-for-the-worst-on-the-voting-rights-act.html
National: Politics and Media Frenzy Feed Voter ID Battles; Efforts to Make Voting More Accessible Go Under Radar
http://openleft.com/diary/13733/politics-and-media-frenzy-feed-voter-id-battles-efforts-to-make-voting-more-accessible-go-under-ra
DC: Registration And Voting On Same Day Sought in DC
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/12/AR2009061203834.html
MN: Well Then Who's Problem Is It?
http://looktruenorth.com/component/content/article/104-Secretary%20of%20State/8538-well-then-whos-problem-is-it.html
OH: Shadows On High: Petition Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them
http://www.progressohio.org/page/community/post/brianrothenberg/CqX9
IL: Illinois Undervote Law
http://blog.champaigncountyclerk.com/2009/06/12/illinois-undervote-law/
TX: Dwayne Bohac’s Man on the Inside
http://www.lonestarproject.net/Permalink/2009-06-12.html
Iran: Reverberations as Door Slams on Hopes of Change
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/14/world/middleeast/14memo.html?hp
Iran: Mousavi sees election hopes dashed
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2009/06/2009613121740611636.html
Iran: Landslide or Fraud? The Debate Online Over Iran's Election Results
http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/13/landslide-or-fraud-the-debate-online-over-irans-election-results/
Iran: ThreatsWatch.Org: Commentary: Iranian Election: Clockwork Orange
http://themunz.blogspot.com/2009/06/threatswatchorg-commentary-iranian.html
Iran: Maryam Rajavi: 85 percent of Iranians boycott religious dictatorship's election
http://ncr-iran.org/content/view/6485/1/
Iran: Iranians can't believe it
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jun/13/iran-middleeast1
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Ellen Theisen (ellen@votersunite.org), Director and Managing Editor
Dave Klein (Klein.David@VotersUnite.org), Editor
John Washburn (Washburn.John@VotersUnite.org), Editor
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