A recent federal court decision in New Hampshire struck down that state’s ban on taking selfies in a voting booth, see stories in the Washington Post and this editorial in the LA Times.Source: “Ballot selfies”...
The secret ballot has never prevented citizens from telling their friends how they voted and urging them to do the same.Source: Do 'ballot selfies' threaten the secret ballot?...
Source: Donald Trump Is Frugal With His Cash in Republican Presidential Race...
New Hampshire’s law banning voters from posting pictures of completed ballots online squelches free speech and isn’t needed to prevent election fraud, a federal judge ruled Tuesday. In his ruling, U.S.Source: “Federal judge in New Hampshire: Ballot ‘selfies’ are free speech, don’t encourage voter fraud”...
[Commentary] Donald Trump has a better shot at winning the Republican nomination for president than almost anybody will allow right now. Yes, he's on the same trajectory as a lot of fly-by-night candidates from the 2012 cycle, and it's easy to imagine he'll collapse sooner rather than later.Source: Donald Trump’s secret political weapon is his mastery of reality TV...
Donald Trump’s controversial comments about Fox News’s Megyn Kelly have been criticized by his Republican opponents. But there’s another, more basic threat to the sustainability of his campaign: the quality of his campaign organization and its consultants.Source: Trump wants to run his campaign outside the GOP establishment. Here’s why that hurts him....
At the height of the scandal over the IRS’ handling of political nonprofits, Lois Lerner privately let loose at her Republican tormentors, saying she invoked the Fifth Amendment because they had been “evil and dishonest” and accusing them of “hate mongering.Source: Lerner slammed ‘evil and dishonest’ GOP inquisitors...
Presidential candidates usually don't run on promises to vacate the White House once they get in office, but that's what Lawrence Lessig said he might do as he begins exploring a protest bid for the 2016 Democratic nomination.Source: Lawrence Lessig wants to run for president -- in a most unconventional way...
The same number of people that would constitute the guest list at a small wedding gave about 30 percent of the money being spent to determine the next leader of the free world. And about half of the money raised so far has come from slightly more than 100 families.Source: The campaign money mess...
In the waning days of the 2014 midterm elections, as the political sands shifted decidedly away from many Democratic candidates, The New York Times published a roundup of the party’s decisions to abandon races once considered competitive to shore up vulnerable incumbents.Source: Why political journalists shouldn’t report on internal polling...
