Why the Arkansas primary challenge was worth it
by Paul Rogat Loeb
It was a tough loss, 10,000 votes. Bill Halter might have even upset Blanche Lincoln in the primary run-off had his stronghold of Garland County not dropped the number of polling places from 42 to 2, or had a few thousand more of us called to get Halter voters to the polls. But despite an unnamed Obama administration official attacking attempts to defeat Lincoln by telling Politico's Ben Smith "Organized labor just flushed $10 million of their members' money down the toilet on a pointless exercise," I believe the groups who tried to unseat her made the right choice.
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Franklin County Primary
by Pete Johnson
I was unaware that SOS did not require the precincts to have paper ballots on hand for the primary. I do not disagree with that decision, as it seems to me that it would be a pretty high cost for just a few people like me who dont trust the machines and wish to vote on paper.
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U.S. has agreed to store enough nuclear reactor waste to fill two Yucca Mountains
by Ailis Aaron Wolf, IEER
WASHINGTON, D.C. Between the output of existing commercial nuclear reactors and 21 proposed nuclear reactors covered by agreements quietly signed by the outgoing Bush Administration with more than a dozen electric utilities, the United States already has agreed to store enough spent (used) reactor fuel to fill the equivalent of not one, but two, Yucca Mountain high-level radioactive waste repositories, according to documents acquired under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). Given that the U.S. is back to square one for the first repository, U.S. taxpayers would be on the hook for potentially tens of billions of dollars in penalties that would have to be paid to utilities if the 21 proposed reactor projects proceed.
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Recent Election Issues Articles

Why the Arkansas primary challenge was worth it
  June 11, 2010
  Paul Rogat Loeb

Franklin County Primary
  May 4, 2010
  Pete Johnson

U.S. has agreed to store enough nuclear reactor waste to fill two Yucca Mountains
  March 25, 2010
  Ailis Aaron Wolf, IEER

Will Diebold steal Ted Kennedy's seat – and the Senate?
  January 18, 2010
  Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman