BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Blacks made up nearly two-thirds of the Democrats removed from Louisiana’s voter rolls because they hadn’t voted in at least two years. State election officials tell The Advocate it’s a result of Hurricane Katrina’s displacement of people from heavily Democratic and Black New Orleans. After the hurricane in 2005, the […]
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More than 2,000 Dead of Cholera in Haiti
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haitian officials say more than 2,000 people have died of cholera since late October. According to the official count, more than 91,700 people have been sickened by the disease. Cholera had never been seen before in Haiti before the outbreak began along the rural Artibonite River. Due to dire sanitation and […]
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Polish Parliament gets its 1st African Lawmaker
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s parliament is getting its first ever African lawmaker, a teacher and Christian pastor from Nigeria who has lived in Poland for 17 years and proven himself a popular local leader. John Abraham Godson is a councilman in the central city of Lodz. The 40-year-old will fill a seat in the […]
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D.C. Not Ready for Internet Voting
WASHINGTON (AP) — A University of Michigan professor who hacked a prototype D.C. elections voting website with his students and had it play the school’s fight says that it will be decades, if ever, before voting can be done safely over the Internet. Computer science professor Alex Halderman spoke last Friday at a meeting to […]