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05.14.2008 1:57 pm

*Updated* More Photo ID anyone?

Today, This from AG candidate Margaret Donnelly:

 Voter ID legislation has been a “red herring” from its inception.  There has been no evidence in Missouri of voter impersonation fraud in the past 4 election cycles that requiring a photo ID…

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05.12.2008 12:51 am

Gephardt, Robin Carnahan make headlines on The Huffington Post

Sunday night’s version of The Huffington Post had a couple interesting Missouri connections:

A) Missouri Secretary of State Robin Carnahan writes a featured blog post about her objections to the proposed constitutional amendment mandating a government-issued photo ID. The New York Times…

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05.09.2008 12:54 pm

Raise your glass with Slay and Carnahan

Last night at the VIP dinner for the upcoming St. Louis Brewers Heritage Festival (the area’s granddaddy of beer festivals), both St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay and Missouri Secretary of State Robin Carnahan got heavy applause for being beer aficionados. Both reiterated their belief…

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05.08.2008 3:33 pm

More fuel on the photo ID fire

The Missouri House just passed a contentious resolution asking for a constitutional amendment to require an official photo ID to cast a ballot.

At virtually the same moment, opponents of the measure ramped up their protests at a news conference in…

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05.02.2008 4:47 pm

Split decision in court, but anti-stem group drops effort until 2010

Today, the Missouri Western District Court of Appeals issued its decision regarding the disputed ballot summary language that Secretary of State Robin Carnahan had issued for a proposed constitutional amendment aimed at barring some of the types of embryonic stem-cell research now allowed…

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04.28.2008 8:13 pm

Point/Counterpoint with Carnahan/Scott on Mo’s defunct photo ID law

Monday’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling in favor of Indiana’s mandate requiring voters to produce a government-issued photo ID produced a lot of reaction in Missouri.

Some of the best analysis of the impact in Missouri, from both sides, came from…

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04.10.2008 5:10 pm

Ballot proposal to change Mo courts OKed for signature-collection

Secretary of State Robin Carnahan just announced that her office has approved for circulation the ballot proposal to do away with Missouri’s current system for appointing judges in the urban areas and to the higher courts.

Advanced by “Better Courts…

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04.06.2008 2:19 am

Live from Jeff-Jack, it’s Saturday night

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Missouri Democrats held their annual Jefferson-Jackson Dinner on Saturday night, honoring a trio of party stalwarts and gearing up for the November election.

Receiving the “Legacy of Leadership” nod were three lions of Show-Me politics: Dick Gephardt, Jean Carnahan and Bill…

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03.13.2008 6:18 am

Bond talks city politics, voting dog on Capitol Hill

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Kit Bond testified at a Capitol Hill hearing on Wednesday about his favorite suffragist pooch — Ritzy Meckler, the Springer Spaniel who famously was registered to vote in St. Louis.

(Ritzy never cast a vote, and her identity was uncovered by city…

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02.04.2008 8:44 pm

Carnahan offers video guide to voting

Unsure about what to do when you go to the polls? (By the way, they’re open Tuesday from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m.)

Secretary of State Robin Carnahan wants to help. Her staff has created a “two minute video for first-time…

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