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“This is a report by Election Data Services, Inc. of the Election Day Survey for November 2, 2004, administered by the United States Election Assistance Commission (EAC) as mandated by the 2002 Help America Vote Act of 2002. The Election Day Survey represents the largest and most comprehensive survey of voting and election administration practices …
Terrorist Watch List Screening: Efforts to Help Reduce Adverse Effects on the Public, Full text GAO-06-1031, and Highlights, September 29, 2006. “From December 2003 (when TSC began operations) to January 2006, agencies sent tens of thousands of names to TSC, and about half were misidentifications, according to TSC. While the total number of people misidentified …
Press release: “Chief Justice John Roberts praised in a recent speech “the importance and rarity of the judicial independence we have in our country,” and warned against continuing attacks against it. “The long history of attack on judicial independence confirms that neither side in the political debate has a monopoly on the tactic,” he said …
Department of Justice Fact Sheet: Structure of the National Security Division Prepared Remarks of Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales at the Swearing-In Ceremony for Kenneth Wainstein and the Launch of the Department of Justice National Security Division : “Establishment of the NSD was recommended by the WMD commission and made a reality by the USA …
Via Jack M. Balkin, the latest version of the Military Commission Bill, including all of the compromises agreed to by the Administration and Senators McCain, Graham, and Warner.” Compromise on terror suspects criticized as full of holes, by Richard Simon, Julian E. Barnes, Los Angeles Times Critics say torture deal opens door to abuse – …
Doublespeak and the War on Terrorism (September 2006), by Timothy Lynch: “The purpose of this paper is not to criticize any particular policy initiative. Reasonable people can honestly disagree about what needs to be done to combat the terrorists who are bent on killing Americans. However, a conscientious discussion of our policy options must begin …
Press release: “Economic freedom has a greater impact than foreign aid in helping people in poor nations escape poverty, according to the Economic Freedom of the World: 2006 Annual Report…Economic Freedom of the World measures the degree to which the policies and institutions of countries are supportive of economic freedom. The cornerstones of economic freedom …
September 13, 2006 By Mr. SPECTER, from the Committee on the Judiciary, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute, S. 2453: A bill to establish procedures for the review of electronic surveillance programs. By Mr. SPECTER, from the Committee on the Judiciary, without amendment: S. 2455. A bill to provide in statute for …
“Nine Legislative Efforts that Must Be Stopped in 2006 – As Congress mounts its final push before the midterm elections, a number of bills that threaten the bedrock of Internet privacy and civil liberties could either come up for votes or worm their way into larger legislative packages that end up being rushed into law. …
“The Election Results Archive (ERA) is a collection of electronic files containing data on election results from around the world. While the growth of democracy around the world has led to increased demand for information on electoral results, accurate election-related data are not easily or widely available. This online database provides researchers, policy-makers, scholars, and …
“The Cingranelli-Richards (CIRI) Human Rights Dataset contains standards-based quantitative information on government respect for 13 internationally recognized human rights for 195 countries, annually from 1981-2004. It is designed for use by scholars and students who seek to test theories about the causes and consequences of human rights violations, as well as policy makers and analysts …
“EFF’s FLAG Project aims to expose the government’s expanding use of new technologies that invade Americans’ privacy. Through Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, the project will help protect individual liberties and hold the government accountable.”
