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In Massachusetts, local funding group Access Strategies Fund and other local foundations have come together to create the Massachusetts Census Equity Fund launched to provide up to $400,000 to Massachusetts nonprofits for work on the 2010 Census. They will be granting funds to area nonprofits...
Photo and story--Boston Globe --It’s one of the stranger rituals of Boston politics: For each Election Day, a pristine ballot box is cleaned, filled with fresh ink, and force-fed at least 50 test ballots before being lugged to a seaside precinct where nobody will vote.It’s the lonely mac...
One Mississippi. 48 states don't allow those sentenced in prison to vote, yet they include them in the election districts where the prison happens to be located. How convenient...
The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund has launched its Twenty10 Project initiative to promote Census participation within the Asian American community...
Why do we continue to allow legislators to redraw their own districts? That is the question a recent editorial in the New York Times asks...
The DC Council has unanimously passed an election reform bill that includes Same Day Registration and asks the District to look at implementing a system of universal voter registration.See this statement from Miles Rapoport, President of Demos.
(Image source- 2010 Census website)Here's two little-known anecdotes of times that people have tried- and failed- to access confidential Census data.1953— During the Truman administration, the White House had to undergo renovation. ...
The Asian Pacific American Legal Center (APALC) has released “Getting Out the Asian American Vote: Achieving Double Digit Increases in Turnout During the 2006 and 2008 Elections,” based on work APALC conducted in 2006 and 2008 to mobilize Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) voters in Los...
2 ballot initiatives to restrict spending to a percent of current years spending and budget went down in yesterday's elections, in Maine in Colorado.Iris Lav, Senior Advisor, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, said in a statement today:"By rejecting TABOR, officially Question 4 in Maine and...
How in danger of being missed in the decennial census are people in your community ?Michigan's 2010 Census Planning Website makes it easy to find out, allowing you to search for your addresses' census tract and its "Hard-to-Count" score designation.The tool also brings up your area's census form...
(Photo- Iowa Independent)In March of 2008, an Iowa state court ruled that providing non-English voter registration forms to voters was a violation of a state law which required English to be the "official language" of the state.The IA Secretary of State's office removed all non-English registration...
Image sourceNew Jersey Press Association- If New Jersey's schoolchildren could vote in the General Election next Tuesday, they would choose incumbent Gov. Jon S...
Cool free online redistricting tool launched by the company Avencia in preparation for the 2010 Census!By entering your address, you'll render a street-level map of your congressional district, state senate district, state representative district and local district, along with the corresponding...
With 2009 elections approaching, the 2010 Census on the horizon, and America's midterm elections only a year away, now is the time to take a few minutes to understand what it means to redraw our district lines. Here are a few useful and fun learning tools...
Cool initiative for those of us trying to make polling place information easily available to our constituents online -The Voting Information Project has developed an open data format with which state election divisions can publish their voting information...
