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Who Can Vote? Comprehensive Database of U.S. Voter Fraud Uncovers No Evidence That Photo ID Is Needed
“Who Can Vote?” is the 2012 project of News21, a multimedia investigative reporting initiative funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and headquartered at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University. Twenty-four students from 11 universities across the country worked on the project under the direction of journalism professionals. The project, launched just before the 2012 political conventions, consists of more than 20 in-depth reports and rich multimedia content that includes interactive databases and data visualizations, video profiles and photo galleries. Student reporters conducted an exhaustive public records search and built a comprehensive data base of voter fraud cases that revealed: • Since 2000, while fraud has occurred, the number of cases is infinitesimal. • In-person voter impersonation on Election Day, which prompted 37 state legislatures to enact or consider tough voter ID laws, is virtually non-existent. Only 10 such cases over more than a decade were reported. • There is more fraud in absentee ballots and voter registration than any other category. The analysis shows 329 cases of absentee ballot fraud and 364 cases of registration fraud. A required photo ID at the polls would not have prevented these cases. • Voters make a lot of mistakes, from people accidentally voting twice to voting in the wrong precinct. However, few cases reveal a coordinated effort to change election results. • Election officials make a lot of mistakes, giving voters ballots when they’ve already voted, for instance. Election workers are often confused about voters’ eligibility requirements.
Tags: elections; fraud; public records; voters; ballot
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Debt and Debtor
"Debt and Debtor" examines New York University as a prolific generator of student debt. In fact, NYU create more student debt than any other not-for-profit school in the country- some students end up paying hundreds of thousands of dollars paying back and servicing the debt for their undergradaute NYU educations.
Tags: Debt; Debtor; New York University; NYU; education; undergraduate
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New York University Election Scandal
When a student president candidate promised to make the budget of New York University's College of Arts and Science transparent, the council president removed her from the ballot. This series investigates the current president and why she tried so hard to keep the budget a secret.
Tags: budget transparency; student council; higher education; elections; New York University; Meredith Dolgin; Jenny Shen; corruption
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Scandal At UMDNJ
"A series of investigative and enterprise stories into how the University of Medicine and Dentistry of new Jersey violated the public's trust- which uncovered widespread fraud and abuse at the nation's largest public health sciences university, ranging from the payment of illegal kickbacks to cardiologists for patient referrals, to inside deals that threatened a bio-research lab deemed crucial to the security of the New York metropolitan area. The stories led to federal and state investigations, dozens of resignations, likely indictments, and a governor's task force now seeking to restructure the university."
Tags: university; dentistry; health science; New York; bio-research; slush fund; money;
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The Secret History of the Credit Card
Frontline/New York Times Television looks into how the credit card industry manages to increase their profits while average Americans increase their debts. The investigation reveals "tricks of the trade" which increase profits and hit consumers with late fees and penalties. The biggest "trick" of them all is universal default where, after monitoring the customer's financial activity, the companies raise that person's interest rate, based on whether or not they think the customer has become risky.
Tags: credit card industry; universal default; MBNA; OCC; interest rates
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NYU's Tax Deal Costs City $8M
According to a New York Newsday investigation, "New York has lost about $8 million in tax revenues because of special exemptions granted to buildings leased by New York University and owned by Happ Land Social Club landlord Alex DiLorenzo." A state law allows New York University to maintain tax exemptions on fifteen properties in Greenwich Village along Washington Squre North. The investigation raises the question of whether or not the wealthy, nonprofit New York University should have lucrative tax exemptions while the city has to make up for the money lost.
Tags: New York University; Alex DiLorenzo; Happy Land Social Club; Washington Square Mews; net lease; New York Real Estate Board
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Sex, drugs and study abroad: Overseas sites den of booze, debauchery
The Washington Square News, the student paper of New York University, finds that students studying abroad are more likely to use alcohol and drugs while studying in other countries than they are while on campus at home. The paper conducted a survey of NYU students who studied abroad, and found that students were twice as likely to drink or do drugs abroad, and three times more likely to observe others doing the same. However, students did report engaging in less sexual activity abroad than at home.
Tags: drink; drugs; drinking; alcohol; sex; sexual; study abroad; europe; college; student; university
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Campus Land Deals
Newsday investigates how a group of political insiders planned to carve up land at the State University of New York at Old Westbury for their own benefit, while providing little for the school or its students. Almost one third of campus land was slated to be broken off for development. Money generated was supposed to go to help the college, one of the neediest in the state university system and the state campus with the highest minority enrollment. The series uncovers that this was not the case. As a result of the series, the official spearheading the development resigned, the SUNY chancellor earmarked $25 million for the school, changes oversight of college councils to prevent abuses, and the state inspector general and comptroller launched their own investigations.
Tags: land; real estate; Governor George Pataki; SUNY
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The College Connection
Education Week reports on how minority students have taken advantage of their high-schools' partnerships with colleges. A two-story package reveals that the ties between colleges and K-12 schools bring positive influence in the lives of students most of whom are at the same time facing family and economic problems. Most students in these high-schools aspire to get college education, after they graduate. The report features two specific examples of such successful partnerships - between Frederick Douglass Academy in Harlem and Ithaca College in upstate New York, and between Syracuse University and High School for Leadership and Public Service in the so-called Spanish Harlem in Manhattan.
Tags: secondary; postsecondary institutions; universities; college-application process; academy; inner-city students; poverty; minorities; low income; teaching; learning
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The Genetic Surprise
Should people with genetic predisposition for certain diseases be charged more for health insurance? In 20 states, laws are on the books to preserve the privacy of genetic testing, but potential employers can still ask for a genetic profile. Is it really fair? Forced anti-discriminatory insurance rates, such as those that are in place in New York, force insurance companies to raise rates to cover costs of the outliers. It also prices many -- mostly younger people -- out of insurance. Is it "genetic discrimination" or "just another form of predictive information, like sex, age, weight, and past medical history?"
Tags: Genetic testing; insurance; Stanford Program in Genomics; Ethics; and Society; Risk Management and Insurance Program at U.T. -Austin; Denter for Biomedical Ethics at teh University of Pennsylvania; privacy