Daily Archives: May 10, 2004

Nader fails, Nader sues

Ralph Nader has filed suit after failing to collect enough signatures to secure a spot on the Texas ballot in November. Nader filed a federal lawsuit in Austin challenging Texas ballot access rules as the deadline passed for him to … Continue reading Continue reading

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VotersUnite

Got an email today about a new site called VotersUnite!, which calls itself a “non-partisan national grassroots network for fair and accurate elections”. They’ve got a lot of info about Direct Recording Electronic voting machines, the Help America Vote Act, … Continue reading Continue reading

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Texas Veterans for Kerry

YDB brings us the news that former Sen. Max Cleland will be in San Antonio on Wednesday to announce the formation of Texas Veterans for Kerry. Speaking in support of fellow veteran John Kerry will be Max Cleland, a former … Continue reading Continue reading

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Beating the house

The History Channel has run and will run again a documentary called Breaking Vegas, based on a book called Bringing Down the House about a group of MIT students who learned card-counting techniques and won a ton of money at … Continue reading Continue reading

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Deadline day for Nader

Today is the deadline for getting on the Presidential ballot in Texas, and it’s not clear if Ralph Nader will have enough petition signatures to make it. Monday is the deadline for Nader to submit to the Texas secretary of … Continue reading Continue reading

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Your periodical Congressional watch post

Just a few campaign-related stories from recent days: Via BOR comes this Roll Call article in which the NRCC expresses some fear about Rep. Pete Sessions’ chances against Martin Frost. Tom DeLay and the National Republican Congressional Committee yesterday acknowledged … Continue reading Continue reading

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Postmortem on attack mailers

Remember those anonymous attack mailers from late in the 2003 municipal elections, the ones from a group calling itself “Citizens for a Better America” (not this group, mind you)? I wrote about their sleazy mailers, in which those who funded … Continue reading Continue reading

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