Do you know a nonprofit that wants to help get out the vote in 2012 in Massachusetts through grassroots voter engagement? If so, MassVOTE's Civic Engagement Initiative Fund may be able to help with a small grant. Grants are available for nonpartisan voter registration,...
Bay State Banner Community Voices: Money in politics is a civil rights issue Cheryl Clyburn Crawford and Avi Green It was not too long ago that in many states individuals had to pay to vote. As recently as the 1950s, if you could not pay a poll tax — an actual tax...
In order to increase voter participation in the 2012 elections, MassVOTE is offering mini-grants to organizations working to carry out non-partisan civic engagement work. MassVOTE is making available several grants between $500 and $2,500. Mini-grant projects should combine...
The Boston Globe Editorial February 18, 2012 EVEN AS legislators in many states promote ID laws as the solution to an imaginary epidemic of voting fraud, the real deficiencies in America’s voter-registration processes go unaddressed. A new report by the Pew Center...
Concord Rep. Cory Atkins calls overturning Citizens United the year’s ‘most important issue’ By Kyle Cheney Thursday, February 9, 2012 A House lawmaker girding for a constitutional amendment to restrict corporate spending on elections -- a move recently endorsed by...
BOSTON, Mass. (WWLP) - Lawmakers are gathering support for a state resolution to overturn a 2010 U.S. Supreme Court decision, Citizens United vs. the FEC, which gives corporations the power to spend unlimited money on campaign elections. Rep: Corporations buying government:...
‘We the People’ can overturn Citizens United The Boston Globe EDITORIAL by JIM MCGOVERN AND JEFF CLEMENTS January 21, 2012 THE FIRST three words of the preamble of our Constitution are “We the People.’’ Two years ago today the US Supreme Court in...
It's time for the Massachusetts legislature to send a message to Congress. Citizens United cannot stand. Free Speech is for people, not for corporations. Pass S772 a state resolution calling for a US constitutional amendment to restore the First Amendment and fair elections...
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Push on for same-day voter registration By Krista Kano, Daily News correspondent GateHouse News Service Posted Nov 03, 2011 @ 06:52 PM A local legislator is working with other lawmakers and good government groups to have Massachusetts join eight other states in allowing...
