NC: Inactive Tarheel voters pose risk as election nears

By   /  October 26, 2012  /  2012 General Election, Accountability, Featured, Fraud, Issues, News, North Carolina, Open Records, Politics & Elections, State Government, Voter Fraud, Voter Registration  /  2 Comments

AS IF BY MAGIC: In some North Carolina counties, more than 100 percent of the voting-age population is registered to vote.

By Jared Sichel | Watchdog.Org
CHARLOTTE — With the upcoming presidential election promising to be a close one, thousands of extra votes in a swing state ain’t pocket change.
In North Carolina alone there are about 782,000 “inactive” voters, many of whom are either dead, living elsewhere, or otherwise unlikely to vote in November. In seven counties, [...]

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PA: Judges slam environmental agency for lawsuit against woman

By   /  August 3, 2012  /  Accountability, Environment, Environmental, Featured, Pennsylvania, Power Abuse, State Government  /  4 Comments

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By Jared Sichel | PA Independent
HARRISBURG — Eva Giordano just woke up from a four-year nightmare.
After a drawn-out legal battle in which the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, or DEP, sued the Huntingdon resident for environmental violations committed by her ex-husband, an administrative court last week ordered DEP to reimburse Giordano nearly $12,000 in legal [...]

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PA: Plaintiffs say state employees giving incorrect info on getting voter IDs

By   /  July 31, 2012  /  2012 General Election, Discrimination, Elections, Fraud, General Interest, Issues, Judiciary, News, Pennsylvania, Politics, Politics & Elections, State Elections, State Government, Voter Registration  /  No Comments

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By Jared Sichel | PA Independent
HARRISBURG — Opponents of Pennsylvania’s new voter ID law said state employees are not giving correct information to people seeking identification as part of the voter registration process.
This theme pervaded the plaintiffs’ testimonies about employees at the state Department of Transportation given during the fifth day of court hearings at [...]

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PA: Financials show liquor board not as profitable as state claims

By   /  July 30, 2012  /  Budget, Business, Capitalism, Featured, Finances, Free Market, News, Pennsylvania, State Budgets, State Government  /  No Comments

Pennsylvania’s state-owned liquor and wine monopoly may not be quite the cash cow everyone thinks it is.

By Jared Sichel | PA Independent
HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania’s politicians may be saddling the state-owned liquor monopoly with obligations that it can’t long fulfill.
As two separate GOP privatization plans — one in the House and one in the Senate — lay in wait, public documents make clear that the state has consistently overestimated how much the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board, or PLCB, [...]

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PA: Voter ID, natural gas industry take hits

By   /  July 27, 2012  /  2012 General Election, Economy, Elections, Energy, Environment, Environmental, Events, Federal Government, Immigration, Issues, Judicial Reform, News, Pennsylvania, Politics, Politics & Elections, State Government, transportation  /  No Comments

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By PA Independent Staff
HARRISBURG — The controversy over Pennsylvania’s voter photo ID law is entering a new stage as the November elections approach.
Hundreds of protesters, who gathered Tuesday on the steps of the Capitol, said the Republican-driven law is a ploy to disenfranchise groups that tend to vote Democrat.
The following day, the Commonwealth Court held [...]

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