Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org

In a press release Project Vote announced the release of a new report, “Representational Bias in the 2006 Electorate.” The report finds a continuing problem with the U.S. electorate: those who are registered and vote are not representative of the overall U.S. population eligible to vote. The proportion of the U.S. population that registers to vote and that does vote is highly skewed towards whites, the educated and the wealthy. Furthermore, young eligible Americans, particularly young minority males, and those who have recently moved, are disproportionately represented among those who do not participate in the U.S. electorate.

“This review of the survey data strongly points to the need for civic organizations and government officials (at all levels of government) to continue to expand access to voter registration,” says Hess. “For their part, governments should view bias in the electorate as a call to embrace voter registration as an affirmative responsibility through better implementation of laws relating to the registration of young, low-income and minority voters.” ...

• NAtional: Media Release - Fewer Than Half of Eligible Minority and Low-Income Americans Voted in 2006, New Project Vote Report Shows
  http://projectvote.org/n...80&cHash=edc2bc5ba3
• NAtional: Lynn Landes on "VoteRescue Radio - Where Citizens Count, One Vote at a Time"
  http://www.opednews.com/...nn_landes_on__22vote.htm
• NAtional: Conyers Has More Questions For DOJ's Tanner
  http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/004452.php
• NAtional: Conyers Issues Statement on News Reports Questioning DoJ's 2004 Presidential Election 'Investigation' in Ohio
  https://bradblog.com/?p=5159
• NAtional: Hackers could skew US elections
  http://technology.newsci...d-skew-us-elections.html
• NAtional: DoJ's John 'Minorities Die First' Tanner to Testify to House Judiciary Sub-Committee, as Washington Post Picks up BRAD BLOG Story on His Recent Controversial Comments
  https://bradblog.com/?p=5158
• NAtional: Failing the Grade: Young People Face Strong Barriers at the Polls
  http://www.opednews.com/...iling_the_grade_3a_y.htm
• AL: Birmingham - Cooper cites U.S. voting law
  Letter will urge election officials to count provisional ballots
  http://www.al.com/news/b...30181150.xml&coll=2
• CA: Secretary of State’s Office to Hold Public Hearing to Determine Whether Vendor Sold Unauthorized Voting Machines to California Counties
  http://www.sos.ca.gov/ex...2007/101107_advisory.pdf
• CA: E-Vote: Vendor May Have Sold Unauthorized Voting Machines to California Counties
  http://www.govtech.com/gt/articles/155466
• CA: Governor turns down right-to-vote bills
  http://www.sfgate.com/cg...171533D63.DTL&tsp=1
• CA: Solano County - Solano to learn status of 160 voting machines
  http://www.thereporter.com/news/ci_7158323
• IA: Des Moines - City's Primary Cost Prompts Questions
  http://www.kcci.com/news/14315648/detail.html
• IN: Marion Co. voting machines tested and ready
  http://www.indystar.com/.../20071012/LOCAL/71012023
• IN: Marion County - Indy Voting Machines Pass Early Election Test
  http://www.theindychanne...ews/14329318/detail.html
• LA: Voters swarming to cast early ballots
  Officials impressed by the turnout
  http://www.nola.com/news...45268980.xml&coll=1
• NY: Nassau County – Opinion - A Total Waste of Money
  http://www.antonnews.com...news/2007/10/12/opinion/
• OH: Bush's Legacy on Voting Rights: A Story from Ohio
  http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/004438.php
• PA: Northampton Co. to use lever voting machines in Nov. 6 election
  http://www.pennlive.com/....xml&storylist=penn
• WA: Clark County - Visionary Voting Method
  http://www.columbian.com...ionary-Voting-Method.cfm
• Switzerland: Quantum cryptography to secure ballots in Swiss election
  Advanced form of cryptography uses photons to exchange encryption keys
  http://www.networkworld....aphy-secure-ballots.html
• Switzerland: Swiss Votes to Use 'Unbreakable' Code
  http://apnews.myway.com/.../20071011/D8S780P01.html

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