This year, as Americans select the next president, the entire U.S. House of Representatives and a third of the Senate, as well as an array of state and local officials, many voters will cast ballots on a generation of electronic voting machines that is nearing extinction.Source: Aging Voting Machines Cost Local, State Governments...
The sophisticated take on Mitt Romney’s remarkable broadside against Donald Trump’s policy positions, business acumen and personal morals this morning is that it was an unforced blunder that probably only helps Trump.Source: Romney Versus Trump...
The opponents of voter ID are eerily silent after record-setting turnouts occurred yesterday in states with voter ID laws. It’s now exceptionally clear that the alleged claims of mass voter disenfranchisement are overstated fiction.Source: Voter ID on Super Tuesday - Record Turnouts Despite Voter ID Laws...
Last fall, before Donald Trump exploded into a political phenomenon, before Hillary Clinton realized she had serious competition from Bernie Sanders, election officials in Texas asked individual counties to estimate how many voters might go to the polls on Super Tuesday.Source: Unexpected Super Tuesday turnout causes long lines for voters...
MIAMI — Bruised by a string of Super Tuesday losses, Marco Rubio is desperately fighting to win the Florida Republican primary in two weeks to save both his presidential campaign and his political future.Source: Can Marco Rubio save his campaign, and his career, in Florida?...
PALM BEACH, Fla.—The ballroom at Mar-a-Lago is white and gold—it is called, in fact, the White and Gold Ballroom. Gilded columns topped with gilded arches line the sides of the room; the ceiling is embossed with a gilded pattern of seashells and vines.Source: The Trump Tipping Point...
Spurred by Donald J. Trump’s mounting victories, a small but influential — and growing — group of conservative leaders are calling for a third-party option to spare voters a wrenching general election choice between a Republican they consider completely unacceptable and Hillary Clinton.Source: Anti-Trump Republicans Call for a Third-Party Option...
Campaign-finance reform advocates hold out zero hope that the current Congress will overhaul the rules, but they have nevertheless unveiled a plan that sketches out their ideal vision for tightening up federal election law enforcement.Source: Reform Advocates’ Elusive Goal: Fix the FEC...
The Green Papers: What's NewThe Green Papers is an excellent resource for detailed delegate analysis. When I was doing delegate counting for the Romney campaign, their counts were almost always identical to ours. The Democratic Convention has total of 4,763 delegates votes with 2,382 needed to nominate.--Soft delegate count changed from Clinton 962, Sanders 378, O'Malley 1 to Clinton 1,062...
Matthew Petersen might have made the best financial decision of his life when he was fifteen. For $1, he bought the Star ’85 Chicago Bulls basketball card team set—a bundle that included a Michael Jordan rookie card. In 2016, that piece of cardboard is selling on eBay for more than $4,000.Source: New FEC Chair Aims for Efficiency Not Upheaval...
