Article: VA'S CONTINUED REFUSAL TO ALLOW VOTER REGISTRATION DRIVES MAKES NO SENSE

Article: SENS. AKAKA, FEINSTEIN AND KERRY URGE VETERANS AFFAIRS SECRETARY TO END PROHIBITION ON VOTER REGISTRATION
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  July 10, 2008 ;     700+ words ......prohibition of voter registration at Department...conducting voter registration drives at...partisan voter registration activities...partisan voter registration activities...must support voter registration for veterans...Impeding voter ...

Article: SENS. AKAKA, FEINSTEIN, KERRY URGE VETERANS AFFAIRS SECRETARY TO END PROHIBITION ON VOTER REGISTRATION
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  July 10, 2008 ;     700+ words ......prohibition of voter registration at Department...conducting voter registration drives at...partisan voter registration activities...partisan voter registration activities...must support voter registration for veterans...Impeding voter ...

Article: SECRETARY OF STATE REED AGAIN URGES POLICY CHANGE ON VOTER REGISTRATION DRIVES IN VA FACILITIES
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  July 7, 2008 ;     372 words ......from assisting in voter registration drives and bars...from conducting voter registration drives. "The federal...patients in completing voter registration forms or ballots...directive that prohibits voter registration drives among veterans...violation of the federal ...

Article: State officials protest ban on voter registration at VA facilities?
New Haven Register;  July 1, 2008 ;     674 words ......decision in part on the Hatch Act, which bans federal...going on to suppress voter registration," Bysiewicz, pointing...rective's reference to the Hatch Act should only apply...all its hospitals, voter registration agencies under the...

Article: SECRETARY OF STATE REED ASKS FOR REVIEW OF BAN ON VOTER REGISTRATION EFFORTS IN VA HOSPITALS
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  July 3, 2008 ;     439 words ......not violate the Hatch Act," Reed said. "There...agencies conducting voter registration in a neutral way...was banning any voter registration efforts in its...mail-in or online voter registration prior to the August...

Article: SCOPE OF HATCH ACT:JAMES BYRNE
Congressional Testimony;  October 18, 2007 ;     700+ words ......appear before this subcommittee to discuss the Hatch Act. It is also an honor to appear beside Chairman...Galindo- Marrone, who has been the Chief of OSC`s Hatch Act Unit since 2000. The Hatch Act restricts the political activity of employees...

Article: Hatch Act Elicits Yawns
The Washington Post;  June 27, 1990 ;     462 words ......the bill that would have relaxed the Hatch Act, which limits the political activities...enough votes to change the 51-year-old Hatch Act. 41 employees would probably yawn. They...say they couldn't care less about the Hatch Act. Those numbers come from a survey sent...

Article: SENS. FEINSTEIN, KERRY EXPRESS CONCERNS ABOUT APPARENT REVERSAL IN VA POLICY IN PROVIDING ACCESS TO VOTER REGISTRATION FOR VETERANS
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  May 8, 2008 ;     700+ words ......definition of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993. The Act requires states to offer voter registration opportunities at all offices...for services including voter registration. However, a federal appeals...court recently ruled that voter registration groups do ...

Article: SENS. KERRY, FEINSTEIN DEMAND ANSWERS ABOUT VIRGINIA REVERSAL ON VOTER REGISTRATION ACCESS FOR VETERANS
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  May 8, 2008 ;     700+ words ......definition of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993. The Act requires states to offer voter registration opportunities at all offices...for services including voter registration. However, a federal appeals...court recently ruled that voter registration groups do ...

Article: Remember to Keep Clear of the Hatch Act
The Washington Post;  May 9, 2004 ;     679 words ......might spend a few minutes reviewing the Hatch Act now. That sounds like silly advice. The...federal employee who doesn't know that the Hatch Act restricts the employee's political activities...Special Counsel announced a settlement in a Hatch Act case involving a federal executive ...

Article: The Hatch Act: `A Tangled Jungle'
The Washington Post;  September 16, 1988 ;     653 words ......Kilpatrick is wrong is his estimation of the Hatch Act and its impact on federal employees' political activity {op-ed, Sept. 13}. The Hatch Act is broken and in urgent need of repair...now exist that did not in 1939 when the Hatch Act was passed. For example, federal workers...

Article: Bill easing Hatch Act is vetoed
Chicago Sun-Times;  June 16, 1990 ;     338 words ......federal workers bill would amend the Hatch Act, the law that bars government employees...activity beyond voting. Changing the Hatch Act has been a popular cause among many of...federal workers have long argued that the Hatch Act is unfair because it bars federal workers...

Article: DEL. NORTON CITES SELECTIVE PROSECUTION, HOME RULE VIOLATIONS IN FILING BILL TO REMOVE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA FROM FEDERAL HATCH ACT
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  March 19, 2007 ;     700+ words ......as local violations under the federal Hatch Act. D.C. is the only local jurisdiction...if it were a federal agency under the Hatch Act, a pre-Home Rule holdover that was not...for example, OPM has brought federal Hatch Act violations against ANC commissioners...

Article: Hatch Act: Political Accommodation;Parties Unsure What to Expect From an Easing of Restrictions
The Washington Post;  May 12, 1990 ;     686 words ...The Hatch Act as now written is so complicated and...branded for violating the spirit of the Hatch Act," said Harris N. Miller, chairman of the Fairfax County Democratic Committee. The Hatch Act revision bill that passed the Senate...