Clinton says voter suppression contributed to her defeat. Maybe, but Voting Rights Act might not have saved her In a recent speech, Hillary Clinton identified voter suppression tactics as a major cause of her defeat in the 2016 presidential election.Source: Hillary Clinton blames her defeat on the downfall of the Voting Rights Act: But is she right?...
A computer program might have avoided the entire 2018 recount fiasco and saved South Florida election officials days of embarrassment last year, if not their jobs. Had the law allowed it, exhausted election workers in Broward and Palm Beach counties could have conducted recounts in races for the U.Source: How much should Florida trust technology in conducting elections?...
Order here in case challenging the state’s candidate-selection process. Prior coverage here and here.Source: Cert. Denied in Utah Republican Party v. Cox...
Some stories practically write themselves, the details simple and clear. This investigation, spurred by a reader’s tip, was no such story.Source: Hiding in Plain Sight: PAC-Connected Activists Set Up ‘Local News’ Outlets...
Michele Myers did a double take. Pen down, having finished marking her nine-page ballot, she skimmed the printed list of candidates she planned to vote for. All had been checked off — except for the U.S. House and Senate.Source: Bad ballot design changed Florida’s 2018 election. Why does this keep happening?...
Voting is not mandatory in the United States, as it is in Australia. But does that mean that American citizens who have the right to vote in elections also have the right not to vote?Source: After Years of New Voting Restrictions, Momentum Swings the Other Way...
Two political action committees founded by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s top aide funneled over $1 million in political donations into two of his own private companies, according to a complaint filed with the Federal Election Committee on Monday.Source: AOC’s chief of staff ran $1M slush fund by diverting campaign cash to his own companies...
Three years ago, former California governor Jerry Brown, a Democrat, signed a bill allowing anyone to pick up a voter’s absentee mail ballot. Neal Kelley, who's with Orange County’s registrar of voters, said the law dramatically changed the November 2018 election.Source: Mitch McConnell On NC Ballot Harvesting: Why Is It Legal In California?...
In a time of deafening media noise, momentous revelations slip through unnoticed, none more explosive than a recent report under the venerable Atlantic Council's auspices. The subject concerns foreign dark money insidiously influencing our elections. And it's a rock-hard stick of dynamite.Source: The Latest Bombshell: How Dark Money From Hostile States Has Entered Our Elections...
My fellow Democratic politicians like to campaign on overturning the U.S. Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision, which allowed corporations to spend unlimited sums advocating for candidates.Source: Opinion: Time for Democrats to abandon myth about Citizens United...
