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Isaac nears New Orleans, floods rural La. levee - SFGate - 0 views

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hurricane Republican Republican party

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  • Kay Bradley on 29 Aug 12
     
    article about the slower storm compared to Katrina
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"One Drop of Blood", by Lawrence Wright - 1 views

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race US History racism civil rights

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  • Kay Bradley on 22 Nov 11
     
    Definitions of race in US History; race categories on the US census
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Compulsory Voting | Voter Turnout | International IDEA - 0 views

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voter turnout international

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  • Kay Bradley on 07 Nov 11
     
    How do other countries enact mandatory voting laws?
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Population Control, Marauder Style - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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population marauders death rate war casualties

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  • Kay Bradley on 06 Nov 11
     
    Compare death rates from Mideast slave trade, Famines in British India, World Wars I and II, Genghis Khan, Mao Zedong. . . at the bottom of the graphic there's a table translating figures into % of world population at the time they occurred. Astounding!
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Telling Americans to Vote, or Else - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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voter turnout elections nytimes

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  • Thirty-one countries have some form of mandatory voting
  • Australia adopted mandatory voting in 1924, backed by small fines (roughly the size of traffic tickets) for nonvoting, rising with repeated acts of nonparticipation.
  • The results were remarkable. In the 1925 election, the first held under the new law, turnout soared to 91 percent. In recent elections, it has hovered around 95 percent. The law also changed civic norms. Australians are more likely than before to see voting as an obligation. The negative side effects many feared did not materialize. For example, the percentage of ballots intentionally spoiled or completed randomly as acts of resistance remained on the order of 2 to 3 percent.
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  • three reasons in favor of mandatory votin
  • A democracy can’t be strong if its citizenship is weak. And right now American citizenship is attenuated — strong on rights, weak on responsibilities
  • The second argument for mandatory voting is democratic
  • if some regularly vote while others don’t, officials are likely to give greater weight to participants
  • This might not matter much if nonparticipants were evenly distributed through the population. But political scientists have long known that they aren’t. People with lower levels of income and education are less likely to vote, as are young adults and recent first-generation immigrants
  • Changes in our political system have magnified these disparities.
  • Kay Bradley on 06 Nov 11
     
    Mandatory voting proposal. Compares to Australia, which has had mandatory voting since 1924.
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