A bill should be introduced to make national voting day a national holiday thereby creating a situation where more people would have the chance to vote without their work being an obstacle. A greater turn out in voters would be more representative of what the people want. There is nothing as important in a democracy as the right to vote.

Greater Cleveland United Way contributed $25,000 to the Cleveland School Levy. United Way purposely failed to reveal that several of their Board of Directors is on the Board of the Cleveland Levy. They have a private interest. This is a direct conflict of interest. United Way is a nonprofit organization - “public benefit” corporations; the purpose of its existence is to benefit the public as opposed to the private interests of board members, directors, and staff or even of individual clients.

Would like fact checking to take place at president and vice presidential debates.

The claim Al Qaeda gave up Osama bin Laden to help President Obama get re-elected is false and Rush Limbaugh needs to apologize.

a petition to take the social security out of the general fund and into a seperate dept with its own budget. call the social security exactly what it is. an old age pension

This petition is in reference to safety concerns at Magruder Park in Hyattsville, MD, a park where my two children often play.

We, the citizens of NJ must set an example for our fellow Americans....Urge our Politicians to stand up in favor of Back Up Paper trails in our voting machines. Machines have been known to "break-down" but a paper trail does not! Who will stand with me and demand paper trails?

The Supreme Court's "Citizens United" decision has created a "buy the election" situation across the country. We need to reverse this decision by legislation in Connecticut.

Shame on the General Assembly and the courts for agreeing to the blatantly biased redistricting of Missouri. Jackson county has had a teardrop shape carved out of it to go into the rural 6th district, meanwhile the rest of Jackson county is in the 5th district with Ray, Lafayette and Saline counties. Urban and rural populations with dissimilar interests. Over in St. Louis, the districts with 2 incumbent Democrats were merged into one, so that will make for one less Democrat in Congress. Clearly the plan in redistricting was not to serve Missourians, but to decrease the number of Democrats who can win their district and serve in the US Congress. This should never have been approved. It is clearly politically motivated and politically drawn to serve one party. It's too late for the 2012 election, but not too late to say "Shame on the Missouri General Assembly."

The State of Kentucky needs to either stop using electronic voting machines or immediately adapt them to a process that generates a paper record of each vote when the vote is cast. There may not be a problem with the machines at this time, but if a problem does occur, there needs to be a more accountable method for verifying which ballots were cast. By not having a paper record of votes cast, in a case of recount or trouble with the machines, the vote may become subject to question.

My 22 y/o brother, Louis Jarrod Edwards, was killed by a drunk driver on Wednesday, November 17, 2010. Our family has paid $300.00 to have a sign erected in his memory and we would like to have the sign remain permanently, not the 2 year limit that is currently in place!

The NJ Religious Exemption to Vaccination is in danger. Currently, parents can opt their children out of vaccines due to religion without being forced to reveal private information such as their religious affiliation. A new bill S1759, sponsored by Senators Loretta Weinberg and Joseph Vitale, is highly intrusive, expensive, and appears unconstitutional. If S1759 is signed into law, it will require parents seeking a religious exemption to: * specify their exact religious tenets in notarized, signed, and sworn format * include an explanation of the nature of the religious tenet or practice that is implicated by the "vaccination" * explain how administration of "the vaccine" would violate, contradict, or otherwise be inconsistent with that tenet or practice * affirm that the religious tenet is consistently held * obtain a signed statement from a physician or advanced practice nurse licensed in New Jersey proving that parents received vaccine counseling, thus requiring medical advice for a decision that should be made on religious grounds. This bill is redundant and wasteful. Doctors are already required to discuss the risks and benefits of vaccination with parents. The religious exemption to mandatory vaccination is a cherished religious and parental right. Please oppose S1759 by signing this petition.