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• Mo. officials suspect fake voter registration
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Officials in Missouri, a hard-fought jewel in the presidential race, are sifting through possibly hundreds of questionable or duplicate voter-registration forms submitted by an advocacy group that has been accused of election fraud ...
• Fraud plagues prepaid calling card market
The Hispanic Institute, a nonprofit advocacy group, estimates that the average calling card delivers only 60 percent of the minutes promised — cheating consumers out of $1 million a day. Government officials are starting to force card providers to ...
• Abortion ultrasound requirement challenged
OKLAHOMA CITY - An advocacy group is suing over an Oklahoma law that prohibits a woman from getting an abortion unless she first has an ultrasound and the doctor describes to her what the fetus looks like. In the lawsuit filed Thursday in Oklahoma ...
• Pfizer continues realigning with 3 new units
Meanwhile, the specialty care unit will market drugs such as Pfizer's HIV medicine Selzentry and will seek feedback from doctors, patients, advocacy groups and others concerned about particular diseases where better treatments are needed. The new ...
• Election officials deny illegally purging voters
North Carolina elections watchdog Bob Hall, who heads the advocacy group Democracy North Carolina, defended the state's elections board. Hall said he has found that many registration forms are incomplete or partly illegible and that many prospective ...