Author: William O. Jenkins, Jr.
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Keywords: ensuring, registration, eligible, citizens, vote, voter, managing, selected, views, local, election, officials, elections
Number of Pages: 124
Published: 2006-03-01
ISBN-10: 1422304469
ISBN-13: 9781422304464

Processing voter registration applications & maintaining voter registration lists can result in individuals arriving at polls on Election Day to find they were not listed as registered. Local election officials in 14 jurisdictions in 7 states (AZ, CA, MI, NY, TX, VA, & WI) were surveyed to obtain their views on managing voter registration for the 2004 election. This report discusses election officials' characterization of: challenges receiving voter registration appl's., including checking them for completeness; (2) removing voters' names from voter registration lists & ensuring that names wer

Author: Elisse B. Walter
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Keywords: investment, advisers, broker, dealers, information, registration, recommendations, improved, investor, access, study
Number of Pages: 46
Published: 2011-04-01
ISBN-10: 143798102X
ISBN-13: 9781437981025

The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act required this study of ways to improve the access of investors to registration information about registered and previously registered investment advisers, associated persons of investment advisers, brokers and dealers and their associated persons, and to identify additional information that should be made publicly available. The Act specifies that the study include an analysis of the advantages and disadvantages of further centralizing access to registration information, and identify data pertinent to investors and the method and fo

Author: Jacob R. Straus
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Keywords: leadership, open, government, honest, enactment, registration, disclosure, lobbying
Number of Pages: 20
Published: 2011-08
ISBN-10: 1437985912
ISBN-13: 9781437985917

On September 14, 2007, President George W. Bush signed S. 1, the Honest Leadership and Open Government Act of 2007 (HLOGA), into law. This Act (HLOGA) amended the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 to provide, among other changes to federal law and House and Senate rules, additional and more frequent disclosure of lobbying contacts and activities. This report focuses on changes made to lobbying registration, termination, and disclosure requirements and provides analysis of the volume of registration, termination, and disclosure reports filed with the Clerk of the House of Rep. and the Secretary o

Author: General Accounting Office Washington Dc National S
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Keywords: foreign, representing, interests, government, officials, federal, agent, registration, former
Number of Pages: 46
Published: 1993-07-01
ISBN-10: 1568065507
ISBN-13: 9781568065502

Identifies high-level federal officials who, after leaving government service between fiscal years 1986 & 1991, registered as foreign agents & represented foreign interests before the U.S. government. Also examines Department of Justice actions to correct problems previously reported concerning the administration of foreign agent registration. Drawings.

Author: Susan A. Fleming
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Keywords: operating, carriers, effectiveness, difficult, measure, unsafe, program, safety, carrier, commercial, vehicle, registration, motor
Number of Pages: 42
Published: 2010-03
ISBN-10: 1437917801
ISBN-13: 9781437917802

To reduce the number of crashes involving commercial motor carriers, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Admin. (FMCSA) orders unsafe carriers out of service. To help keep these carriers off the road, FMCSA's voluntary Performance and Registration Info. Systems Management (PRISM) grant program helps states establish info. systems connections between state vehicle registration and FMCSA's safety databases. These connections provide states with up-to-date info. on carriers' safety status when carriers try to register or renew registrations with the state. This report examined: (1) PRISM's effective

Author: Giuseppe Barberis
Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
Keywords: legislation, registration, pesticide
Number of Pages: 88
Published: 1995
ISBN-10: 9251031371
ISBN-13: 9789251031377

Author: Jess T. Ford
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Keywords: needed, action, enhance, implementation, requirements, additional, registration, employment, government, restrictions, foreign, agent, post
Number of Pages: 37
Published: 2009-02-01
ISBN-10: 1437908713
ISBN-13: 9781437908718

Congress has enacted post-gov¿t. employment restrictions and foreign agent registration requirements with the objectives of protecting the U.S. gov¿t. against the improper use of gov¿t. information by former federal employees and ensuring that the Amer. people know the identity of persons trying to influence U.S. gov¿t. policy in the U.S. on behalf of foreign entities. This report discusses: (1) the extent to which selected agencies have information on the post-gov¿t. employment activities of former senior federal employees who represent foreign principals; and (2) the challenges the agen