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Kicked to the curb

Check out the footage of Glenn Greenwald and Jane Hamsher attempting to talk to attendees of a swanky AT&T sponsored party last night.

AT&T's name is littered across both the DNC and RNC party lists as a host of lavish receptions as well as a major donor to both conventions' Host Committees.  AT&T has a lot at stake in Congress in 2009.  Smells wrong.

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Tags: convention, money in politics, media reform, telecom, denver (all tags)

Denver Votes for Election Reform

In the aftermath of the disastrous November 2006 Denver election, Denver residents voted in a special election on Tuesday (January 30, 2007) to replace the existing Denver Elections Committee with an elected clerk and recorder.  The decades-old Denver Elections Committee consists of a three-member committee, with two elected members and a clerk-reporter who is appointed by the mayor.  This three-person panel will be replaced by an elected clerk and recorder, who will be chosen via mail-in balloting in the May 2007 city election.  

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Tags: Denver, Elections, Colorado, In the States (all tags)

Denver beset with voting problems

Denver has been beset with extremely long lines at the vast majority of the "Vote Centers" throughout the city.  Wait times have been up to an hour and a half long and voters have been seen leaving many of the polling locations without voting.  

Common Cause is a leading partner in FairVote Colorado.  I am the Executive Director of Colorado Common Cause, and together with attorneys for FairVote and other parties, am on my way to the Denver district court right now to file for an injunction to extend the voting hours in Denver.  The polls are scheduled to close at 7pm, and we will be asking for the hours to be extended to at least 8pm and hopefully later to ensure that everyone who has attempted to vote today is able to.

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Tags: Colorado, Denver, In the States, voting, elections (all tags)


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