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...previous election cycles. In Ohio counties with major universities, the number of new registrants has either doubled, or almost doubled. In Iowa, the Des Moines Register reports that 81,000 new voters have registered since the beginning of the year, many through the New Voters Project (NVP), a non-partisan group aiming to boost youth turnout. The efforts of NVP extend beyond just Iowa; in Wisconsin the group has registered 124,000 18 to 25 year olds. Even in Florida, where the difficulties of new registration have been the subject of intense inquiry, evidence suggests there has been a significant...
...their fair share of unadulterated and unflinching mockery, the one figure that is curiously and notably absent is the man himself: George W. Bush. At first glance, one might say that the South Park boys decided to leave Dubya out of this in order to make their work as non-partisan as possible and separate it from what is rapidly becoming a faceless mass of Bush-bashing films. Although this may indeed be the case, the simple fact is that you don’t need an overt representation of Bush in this movie; Team America—with their...
...according to Stone, the idea driving the movie was always to remain as non-partisan as possible...
...expect control of presidential debates to be wrested from the parties any time soon. But we whole heartedly endorse groups such as Citizens’ Debate Commission and Open Debate, which are trying to put a truly independent and non-partisan body back in charge—to make presidential debates less like extended political advertisements and more like Lincoln-Douglass. For the sake of meaningful democracy, we hope they succeed in removing the CPD as sponsor of the presidential debates...
...human error from this process, but America must do better than allowing a million votes to be lost. When Just Democracy volunteers fan out on November 2nd, they will be working with election officials to preserve the integrity of the voting process. Just Democracy volunteers will operate under a non-partisan banner because Americans of all political stripes must support the premise that an eligible voter acting within the law has the right to cast a ballot. And finally Just Democracy volunteers will be demonstrating that this generation cares about protecting the rights for which previous generations of Americans have...