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- Source: denverpost.com
Colorado Joins Push to Clean Up Voter Rolls
Colorado will join seven other states in a new initiative aimed at identifying voters who move across state lines—an effort Secretary of State Scott Gessler said will help clean up voter rolls and could lead to the largest voter-registration drive in state history.
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Report Slams U.S. Voter Registration Errors; Oregon Seeks to Improve by Sharing Data with Other States
Oregon will start sharing voter registration information with seven other states as part of an effort to improve a voter data system around the country that is riddled with errors, officials announced Monday.
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- Source: npr.org
Study: 1.8 Million Dead People Still Registered to Vote
Democrats and Republicans don't agree on much. But they do agree that voter registration lists across the country are a mess.
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- Source: washingtonpost.com
Pew Study Finds 1 in 8 US Voter Registrations Contain Significant Errors
Some 24 million voter registrations in the United States contain significant errors, including about 1.8 million dead people still on the rolls and many more approved to vote in multiple states, according to a report released Tuesday.
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- Source: usatoday.com
Pew Study: 1 in 8 Voter Records Flawed
More than 24 million voter-registration records in the United States—about one in eight—are inaccurate, out-of-date or duplicates. Nearly 2.8 million people are registered in two or more states, and perhaps 1.8 million registered voters are dead.
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Prison Population Sees 1st Drop In Almost 40 Years
The number of Americans living under the correctional system fell to 1.6 million in 2010, according to recent government data. Host Michel Martin discusses the decline and efforts to reform the system with former U.S. Attorney General Richard Thornburgh and Adam Gelb, director of the Public Safety Performance Project for the Pew Center on the States.
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- Source: The Boston Globe
Fees for Closing Accounts Draw Attention
Many banks across the country, including several in Massachusetts, are charging customers if they close a checking or savings account within several months of opening it. more
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- Source: Huffington Post
Overdraft Settlements Cost Banks A Small Fraction Of What's Netted In Fees
When compared with the billions of dollars big banks have rung up in overdraft fees over the last decade, recent settlements with customers over unfair overdraft charges have amounted to little more than a slap on the wrist. No different is JPMorgan Chase's tentative agreement, first reported Monday, to settle for $110 million a consumer case charging that it routinely reordered checking account transactions. more
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- Source: governing.com
The Cost-Benefit Imperative
While the states' revenues are beginning to recover, almost all of them expect to have less to spend in 2012 than they had in 2008, before the Great Recession began exacting its toll. Cost/benefit analysis can play a key role in helping government leaders make better decisions on allocating limited tax dollars.
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- Source: Boston.com
Mitt Romney's a Self-Made Man?
MY MOTHER grew up on the black side of segregated Mississippi in a family of teachers, preachers, and sharecroppers. She won money to go to college from an oratorical prize. My father - the son of an Italian immigrant - spent his childhood in a small town in Pennsylvania. He saw himself as middle class because he had two pairs of pants. (Poor people only had one.)Like millions of Americans, they climbed the socioeconomic ladder painstakingly, through scholarships and federal loans and research grants. They became university professors. Yet I have never heard either of them ever claim to be “self-made.’’
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