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Commentary on politics, history, culture, and literature by two Dartmouth graduates and their buddies
WHO WE ARE Chien Wen Kung graduated from Dartmouth College in 2004 and majored in History and English. He is currently a civil servant in Singapore. Someday, he hopes to pursue a PhD in History. John Stevenson graduated from Dartmouth College in 2005 with a BA in Government and War and Peace Studies. He is currently a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of Chicago. He hopes to pursue a career in teaching and research. Kwame A. Holmes did not graduate from Dartmouth. However, after graduating from Florida A+M University in 2003, he began a doctorate in history at the University of Illinois--Urbana Champaign. Having moved to Chicago to write a dissertation on Black-Gay-Urban life in Washington D.C., he attached himself to the leg of John Stevenson and is thrilled to sporadically blog on the Dartmouth Observer. Feel free to email him comments, criticisms, spelling/grammar suggestions. BLOGS/WEBSITES WE READ The American Scene Arts & Letters Daily Agenda Gap Stephen Bainbridge Jack Balkin Becker and Posner Belgravia Dispatch Black Prof The Corner Demosthenes Daniel Drezner Five Rupees Free Dartmouth Galley Slaves Instapundit Mickey Kaus The Little Green Blog Left2Right Joe Malchow Josh Marshall OxBlog Bradford Plumer Political Theory Daily Info Andrew Samwick Right Reason Andrew Seal Andrew Sullivan Supreme Court Blog Tapped Tech Central Station UChicago Law Faculty Blog Volokh Conspiracy Washington Monthly Winds of Change Matthew Yglesias ARCHIVES BOOKS WE'RE READING CW's Books John's Books STUFF Site Feed    |
Wednesday, September 04, 2002
Coming to you on The Observer, via the ABC News Political Unit, courtesy of The Manchester Union Leader You all should read The Note, a posting of ABC News's Political Unit. Pretty fair and usually informative. That said, I picked this up from The Note today; it was printed in The Manchester Union Leader: STATE REPUBLICAN PARTY chairman John Dowd has asked the Attorney General’s Office to investigate voter registration practices at Dartmouth College. Dowd sent the office copies of two flyers yesterday that urge students to register to vote in the state so they can weigh in on the U.S. Senate contest. One flyer states, “Register now in NH no matter what state you are from and even if you are off in the fall.” It does not mention the name of any candidate, Republican or Democrat, in the race. A second mentions Gov. Jeanne Shaheen by name. Dowd termed the flyer “a blatant appeal to commit voter registration fraud . . . I ask you to investigate this apparent criminal conduct and the extent to which it has corrupted the elective process.” Colin Van Ostern, campaign spokesman for Shaheen’s Senate race, said the campaign had nothing to do with the flyers. “It’s not ours. I assume it was a Dartmouth student because it has a Dartmouth College e-mail contact on there,” he said. State law allows college students register as voters if they decide to claim their campus town as their home. But they can lose some scholarships and other financial aid from their home states if they register to vote here. |