The Democratic National Committee’s decision to recommend scrapping phone-in virtual caucuses in Iowa and Nevada is pitting security hawks, who say those systems are ripe for hacking, against Democratic activists who want to increase voter participation.Source: The Cybersecurity 202...
John Morgan, a political rainmaker, on Wednesday threatened to sue Andrew Gillum, if the Florida Democratic gubernatorial candidate runs for office again.Source: John Morgan warns former gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum not to run for political office again...
Uber and Lyft proposed a deal Thursday that would give their drivers better wages and bargaining rights, and the companies are prepared to pour millions of dollars into launching the tech industry's first ballot battle in California in order to get their way.Source: Uber, Lyft pitch landmark California worker proposal — and tech industry's first ballot threat...
(Reuters) - The Americans for Prosperity Foundation, a libertarian nonprofit founded by Charles and David Koch, filed a petition this week at the U.S. Supreme Court, asking the justices to review a 2018 ruling by the 9th U.S.Source: Koch-founded charity asks for Supreme Court help to keep donor list secret...
Joseph Hero filed to run for a local office in Lake County, Indiana, earlier this year. He is a Republican and the office is partisan, so he filed in the Republican primary.Source: Republican Candidate for Local Office, Banned from Running in the Republican Primary, Sues Election Board...
Forty-seven years ago, California’s voters opened the state’s presidential primaries to all nationally recognized candidates.Source: How California’s voters may have saved Trump from releasing his taxes...
Facebook said Wednesday that it was strengthening how it verified which groups and people place political advertising on its site, as the social network braces for the 2020 presidential election in the United States and works to reduce the spread of online disinformation.Source: Facebook Tightens Rules on Verifying Political Advertisers...
A group of Alaska voters are asking the Supreme Court to invalidate the state limits on political contributions. By far the largest state in the country in size, Alaska imposes the lowest limit on donations to statewide candidates.Source: Supreme Court needs to defend the First Amendment for Alaskan voters...
Let us now praise an insufficiently famous man, Nevada’s Democratic Gov. Steve Sisolak, who in May gave his party’s presidential aspirants a much-needed example of prudence.Source: The electoral college is here to stay...
By Staff Writer Aug. 28, 2019 2:55 PM New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand dropped out of the 2020 race for president on Wednesday after failing to qualify for the next Democratic debate.“I know this isn’t the result that we wanted,” Gillibrand said in a video she posted on Twitter.Source: Now there are 20: Kirsten Gillibrand drops out of the Democratic...
