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Some States Make Voting More Difficult
NEW YORK — Some states have enacted laws that make it harder to vote instead of correcting ballot problems that have plagued various parts of the country since the 2000 election, according to a study released yesterday. Describing their findings as “troubling,” voting reform advocates sampled 10 states with past election difficulties. Especially worrisome, the report said, were laws passed by a handful of states, including Arizona and Georgia, that require a government-issued photo identification card and proof of citizenship before being allowed to vote. Though both state laws were later blocked by judges, “the damage has already been done,” confusing would-be voters and severely hampering voter registration drives, Tova Wang of The Century Foundation think tank said. The foundation conducted the survey with Common Cause and the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights.
— Associated Press
Officials Probe Origin Of Mummy That Woman Tried To Sell on eBay
PORT HURON, Mich. — Officials are trying to track down the origins of a mummified human skeleton that a Michigan woman tried to sell on eBay. The St. Clair County medical examiner’s office confiscated the mummified remains Tuesday from the home of Lynn Sterling. Sterling, 45, told police she got the remains from a friend who works in demolition and said he found them in a Detroit school he helped tear down nearly 30 years ago, police said. She said she had contacted an attorney before posting the remains for sale. “It’s an anatomical, medical-use skeleton,” Sterling told the Times Herald of Port Huron.
— Associated Press
President Ford Is Back In the Hospital for Tests
RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. — Gerald Ford, the nation’s oldest living former president, was in a hospital yesterday and undergoing medical tests, his office said. Ford, 93, was doing well at Eisenhower Medical Center, spokeswoman Penny Circle said in a statement. She did not disclose the nature of the tests. The former president has been hospitalized repeatedly this year. He underwent heart procedures in August at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., then returned to his home in Rancho Mirage. He received an implantable cardiac pacemaker to regulate his heartbeat and underwent angioplasty, with stents in two of his coronary arteries to increase blood flow.
— Associated Press
