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For One Special Voter, Two Special Days
nytimes.com - 1/9/2009
For One Special Voter, Two Special Days
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Ann Nixon Cooper, the woman whom President-elect Barack Obama lauded in his election-night victory speech, turns 107 on Friday. >
newshounds.us - 1/12/2009
Ann Coulter Faces New Voter Fraud Allegations
— newshounds.us — Ann Coulter was cleared in a 2006 voter fraud investigation in Florida after an FBI agent/friend "intruded,"... but new questions have arisen about her previous voting record in Connecticut. The New York Daily News reports that Coulter voted there via ... (more) Ann Coulter Faces New Voter Fraud Allegations

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The Caucus — ... has sought to keep his inauguration free of special interests. A spokeswoman for the inauguration, Linda Douglass, said the Obama organization has taken unprecedented measures to ensure transparency and limit influence, banning direct corporate donations, limiting bundled totals to $300,000 and making donors’ names public. “We have the broadest restrictions on fund raising that have been applied to any inaugural in history,” she said. And The Times’s Katharine Q. Seelye writes that Ann Nixon Cooper, the 106-year-old woman whom Mr. Obama referred to in ...

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