Elections & Public Integrity
“Ballot Secrecy is Incompatible with Secure Mail-in Balloting”
With mail-in voting, you can have secret ballots or you can have secure ballots, but you cannot have both.
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Regulation
Proposal to shift the landscape for labor unions
Bill McMorris reports for the Washington Free Beacon on a bill that would mean major changes for labor unions across the country. Republicans are pushing for legislation that could fundamentally…
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Tennessee senator responds to high-profile union loss
U.S. Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., shares with Wall Street Journal readers his analysis of the United Auto Workers’ latest loss in a vote at a Chattanooga Volkswagen plant. Picture an…
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They Can Dish out Rules . . .
There are so many laws, the mayor and town council of Forest Hills can’t keep track of them. In violation of general statutes, they voted by secret ballot to appoint…
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HS & JM (cont’d) . . . 13
Shuler says Miller is using a script somebody fed him. He’s never been in a debate where somebody reads off notes. Miller says he is reading the notes he read…
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A soldiers’ union?
Watch this video in which 47 Hollywood lefties bash corporations and push for the repeal of a secret ballot in union votes. Especially note the comment at :31. Are they…
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The State of the Union isn’t strong
I got a fair amount of hate mail from a recent column I wrote about efforts to replace secret-ballot union elections with a ?card check? system that looks like it…
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Warm and Fuzzy Unions
Always makes you feel warm and fuzzy when you hear unions and the NAACP use phrases like “fair and uncoerced”. From the N&O’s story about Smithfield Foods: In another push…
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John Edwards teams with vote-fraud enthusiasts
ACORN, Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, is in the business of vote fraud to accomplish liberal goals. They’ve been involved in massive voter fraud incidents in at least…
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AFL-CIO thanks NC’s Democratic congressmen
The Web site of the AFL-CIO thanks the six North Carolina Democrats who co-sponsored the co-called Employee Free Choice Act of 2007. The act, which would require workers to fill…
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President would veto “card check”
That’s the good news in this article by Peter Suderman on NRO. “Card check” is the darling of Big Labor, which is crying out to its favorite politicians to do…
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Big Labor’s top legislative priority
What they want is a law requiring employers to recognize unions just on the basis of signed cards, rather than a secret-ballot election, as explained in this American Spectator article.…