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As balloting nears, officials confused about who can vote
States have barred 5.3 million Americans from voting because they have criminal records, but many of them have been wrongfully disenfranchised by county election officials who are confused or ill-informed about varying state laws on felons' voting rights, two civil-rights groups reported Wednesday. | 10/01/08 17:51:00 By - Greg Gordon
Prosecutor to probe role of politics in attorney firings
Attorney General Michael Mukasey agreed Monday to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate whether former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and other officials involved in the firings of nine U.S. attorneys broke the law. | 09/29/08 18:54:00 By - Marisa Taylor and Greg Gordon
Election officials telling college students they can't vote
Colorado Democrats accused a Republican county clerk Wednesday of falsely informing Colorado College that students from outside the state could not register to vote if their parents claimed them as a dependent on their tax returns. It's the latest of several instances in which local election officials, including some in Virginia and South Carolina, have discouraged college students from voting in a year in which legions of students have thrown their energy behind Obama. | 09/24/08 15:35:00 By - Greg Gordon
Rep. Conyers demands answers in Justice's oil decision
The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee Tuesday demanded that the attorney general provide an "immediate explanation" for a Justice Department decision that could have cost taxpayers up to $40 million in royalties from a major oil company. | 09/23/08 10:00:30 By - Marisa Taylor and Greg Gordon
Obama campaign sues Michigan GOP over alleged voter scheme
Barack Obama's presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee filed a lawsuit Tuesday accusing Michigan Republicans of a scheme to use mortgage foreclosure lists to challenge the voting eligibility of lower-income people. Democratic lawyers acknowledged the suit was based solely on unconfirmed news and Internet reports. | 09/16/08 20:03:00 By - Greg Gordon
U.S. inaction on oil royalties suit could have cost millions
The U.S. attorney in Colorado said senior Justice Department officials in Washington blocked him from supporting a whistleblower's suit against Kerr-McGee last year, jeopardizing the government's prospects for recovering as much as $40 million in alleged royalties underpayments. Alberto Gonzales was attorney general at the time. | 09/12/08 19:44:00 By - Greg Gordon and Marisa Taylor
Oil companies gave sex, drinks, gifts to federal overseers
Interior Department officials, while handling billions of dollars in oil and gas royalty payments, engaged in illegal sex with industry employees and accepted meals, drinks, ski junkets and golf outings from major oil companies, internal investigators reported Wednesday. | 09/10/08 19:06:00 By - Greg Gordon
Warning on voting machines reveals oversight failure
Texas-based Premier Elections Solutions last week alerted at least 1,750 states and counties across the country that its machines could drop ballot totals for entire precincts unless special precautions are taken. The warning is stirring new concerns that the voluntary testing system that has governed voting machines for years has failed to detect an array of flaws. | 08/24/08 17:37:00 By - Greg Gordon
When it comes to trust-busting, McCain's no Roosevelt
John McCain often says he idolizes President Teddy Roosevelt, but his opposition to regulating the local telephone industry suggests that he may not share the former president's passion for busting huge corporate trusts. | 08/20/08 16:54:00 By - Greg Gordon
Did Washington waste millions on faulty voting machines?
WASHINGTON — Hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding that have gone to upgrade the nation's voting machines since 2003 were used to purchase touch-screen systems that many states are now scrapping because of concerns about their security and reliability. | 08/15/08 20:02:00 By - Greg Gordon
Watchdog seeks federal investigation of McCain donations
Campaign Money Watch urged Attorney General Michael Mukasey to probe the activities of Florida defense contractor Harry Sargeant III, who is credited with raising more than $500,000 for the campaign. It also questioned $57,000 in donations from an office manager for the oil giant, the Hess Corp., and her husband, a railroad foreman. | 08/11/08 18:07:00 By - Greg Gordon
Top McCain adviser lobbied for nation of Georgia
John McCain's top foreign policy adviser, Randall Scheunemann, lobbied for the nation of Georgia for four years, including for about a year after he joined the Republican senator's presidential campaign staff in early 2007. | 08/08/08 19:28:00 By - Greg Gordon
Three key questions still unanswered in anthrax case
While the FBI says it's certain Bruce Ivins is the person who setn anthrax spores through the mail to news media and government officials, there are still key questions that are unanswered. One of the most disturbing is, if Ivins was the mentally troubled person the FBI portrays, how did he remain in his sensitive government position, with access to dangerous bio materials, for so long? | 08/07/08 21:02:00 By - Greg Gordon
After suicide, prosecutors reveal circumstantial anthrax case
A top Justice Department official said Wednesday that investigators are confident that government scientist Bruce Ivins, who behaved erratically and was treated for mental illness before committing suicide last week, "was the only person involved" in the 2001 anthrax letter attacks that killed five people and terrorized the nation. | 08/06/08 20:32:00 By - Marisa Taylor and Greg Gordon
Did New York couple give $61,600 to McCain, GOP?
Alice Rocchio is an office manager at the New York headquarters of the Hess Corp.. Her husband, Pasquale, is an Amtrak foreman. Yet they gave $61,600 to John McCain's presidential campaign and the Republican National Committee, most of it within days of McCain's decision to endorse offshore oil drilling. | 08/05/08 19:53:00 By - Greg Gordon
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