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Latinos and the Republican Party: How the GOP can succeed in winning Latinos

Tuesday, April 30th, 2013

By Aaron Borders

I want to start this article with this thought in mind. Republicans don’t need to change their platform to bring in Latinos to the GOP, they need to get their message to the Latino people. I base that comment on my MANY conversations with Hispanic and Latino Arizonans. It seems that when I approach a Hispanic or Latino Voter I ask them what they think about the Republican Party. I usually get one of these two answers or both. “Republicans are racist and they hate Latinos”...

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Two Mississippi Counties Sued Over Voter Rolls – 124% & 105% Voter Registration

Tuesday, April 30th, 2013

WASHINGTON D.C.  – On behalf of the American Civil Rights Union, three former U.S. Justice Department attorneys filed lawsuits in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi seeking an injunction to compel election officials in Jefferson Davis County and Walthall County to clean up their voter rolls.

Like hundreds around the nation, these two counties have more active registered voters than there are voting age-eligible residents, according to data from the U.S. Censu...

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