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Former San Francisco supervisor pleads guilty in attempted shakedown of business owners
Associated Press WriterSAN FRANCISCO (AP) _ A former San Francisco supervisor pleaded guilty to three felony charges Friday and admitted to trying to shake down city business owners with planning permit problems. Ed Jew resigned from the Board of Supervisors in January after a...Tags: Federal Bureau of Investigation, Trials, Prisons
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Roadside bomb kills Shiite politician
BAGHDAD A roadside bomb killed a prominent member of Muqtada al-Sadr's political movement yesterday, raising fears of new internal Shiite bloodshed ahead of regional elections expected in January. The victim's allies blamed U.S. and Iraqi forces for the...Tags: Religious Conflicts, Guerrilla Activity, Armed Conflicts, Civil Unrest, Bombings
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Police kill 2 in Kashmir clashes as Muslim protesters rally against Indian leader's visit
SRINAGAR, India (AP) _ Police shot and killed two people and at least four protesters were wounded, as thousands of Muslims took to the streets of Indian Kashmir on Friday to protest the visit of India's prime minister, police and hospital officials said....Tags: Manmohan Singh, Government, Demonstration, Hospitals and Clinics
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Law enforcement officials in southwest Ohio seek same-day voting records
Associated Press WriterCOLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) _ Law enforcement officials in a southwest Ohio county populated with Democrat-leaning college students are seeking information on hundreds of people who registered to vote and cast ballots during the state's weeklong same-day voting...Tags: Law Enforcement, Personal Data Collection, John McCain, Election Day, Local Elections
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States purging voters illegally: report
The Swampby Frank James A few weeks ago, a lot of journalists got e-mails from people outraged by what they said were illegal efforts by election officials in certain jurisdictions to strike voters from voter rolls. They wanted journalists to investigate.......Tags: Election Day, Social Security, Government, Employees, Wages and Pensions
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Conn. looking into voter cards submitted by ACORN
The State Elections Enforcement Commission is looking into a complaint alleging that a community advocacy group submitted fraudulent voter registration cards in Bridgeport. Joseph Borges, Bridgeport's Republican registrar of voters, filed the complaint....Tags: Election Day, National Government, Stamford, Government, Sharon
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Avoid voting fiasco
This past Sunday, between football games, I decided to open my absentee ballot for the coming election and fill it out because I knew whom I would vote for. To my surprise, I was confronted with a two-page document with many elections, six judges to...Tags: Voting, Referenda
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The NYC billionaires: Was a Lauder deal even legal?
Spin CycleThe Neighborhood Retail Alliance has been posting some hard-hitting comments on the effort to keep Mayor Bloomberg from having to obey the term-limit law and to stick to his word, repeated over and over year after year, that he would......Tags: Co-op City, New York Times, Parliament
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McLean County clerk misses election deadline
State election officials say they'll send a reminder to the McLean County clerk after her office missed a deadline to publicize information about next month's election. State law requires the clerk to publish the election's time, date and location in...Tags: Local Elections
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Surge in voter registrations excites Florida Democrats
Tallahassee BureauAmid an intense presidential campaign, Florida Democrats Tuesday touted voter registration figures showing "another huge surge" in party ranks that gives Barack Obama an edge in a tossup swing state. With the registration period ending Monday,...Tags: John McCain, National Government, Local Elections, Robert Wexler, Government
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We think: Voter registration is way up, but a new law could cause problems
Thanks to all those hanging chads, Florida's notorious elections past guarantees the state will again attract intense scrutiny in the race for president. So does its status as the largest battleground state. The race appears neck and neck. Moreover,...Tags: Personal Data Collection, Orange County (Florida), Local Elections, Seminole County, Interstate 4
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Va. officials register new voters by the thousands
The numbers in the corners of the Express Mail envelopes told the tale: $16.50, $14.65, $12.60--the price some Virginians would pay to make sure their voter registration forms made it in before Monday's deadline to register to vote in the November...Tags: John McCain, Barack Obama, Colleges and Universities
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