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Make Voting Easier. Weekend Elections Would Be a Start

By Norman Ornstein
Roll Call Contributing Writer
Nov. 9, 2005, Midnight

We don’t have the numbers yet, but most likely the elections Tuesday drew an average level of turnout for off-off-year contests — which means less than one-third of voters participating.

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May 23, 2012

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta testify at a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing Wednesday.

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