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Despite Gerrymandering Efforts, IL-8 Surprisingly Competitive in 2014
As the Republican Party seeks to retain control of the U.S. House of Representatives in 2014, an Illinois district that favors Democrats could eventually become more competitive.Illinois' 8th Congress ...
21 Apr, 2014
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The Biggest Geopolitical Ramifications of India's Elections
The world’s largest democracy has recently begun its 5-week election cycle. The sheer length and size of India's elections are astounding: six weeks and nine stages encompass an estimated 815 million ...
16 Apr, 2014
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The Jumbo Jet of Damocles
A famous ancient Greek legend holds that Dionysius II, the tyrant of the Sicilian Greek city of Syracuse (at a time when Sicily was ruled by Greeks and Carthaginians, and a time when the word “tyrant” ...
18 Mar, 2014
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Muslim is the New 'American Indian' in 21st Century America
As we learn through the study of history, important issues are never stagnant, but ever-changing based on many catalysts of the day. Today, the perspective Americans have of the Middle East, the cultu ...
07 Mar, 2014
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Opinion: Party Primaries Result in Taxation without Representation
I am the Central Florida spokesperson for Florida Independent Voting (fivorg.com). I have been elected to public office as a partisan candidate (state legislature) and also as a nonpartisan candidate ...
06 Mar, 2014
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Election Commission vs. Public Schools: Balancing Public Safety and Voter Accessibility
With the November general election a few months away and several primary and special elections ahead, the Presidential Commission on Election Administration released a report in January outlining seve ...
19 Feb, 2014
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A More Inclusive Presidential Primary Would Motivate Voters to Participate
It seems that in every cycle there is debate about which states should hold the first presidential primary elections. Some state always seems to try to jump ahead of Iowa and New Hampshire. Since 1972 ...
13 Feb, 2014
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Hard Evidence Supports the Need for Voter ID Laws
As long as I count the votes, what are you going to do about it? - William M. “Boss” Tweed, c. 1871History shows that for as long as the right to vote has existed, that right has been threatened ...
16 Jan, 2014
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What Are the Different Types of Primary Elections?
Primaries first began in the early twentieth century as a response to increasingly strong party control over elections. At the time, voters wanted a larger say in who would be chosen as their candidat ...
16 Jan, 2014
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Bitcoin Investigated around The World for Potential Criminal Activity
Can digital currency bring forth a new age in economics? Are the nations of the world ready or willing to surrender control of the monetary system or tolerate an unregulated digital economy? Bitcoin, ...
13 Jan, 2014
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