Doug Chapin’s most recent post on his Election Academy blog tells the tale of the late delivery of 1,270 mail ballots in a recent election in Orem, Utah.Source: Mail Ballot Drop-Off Patterns...
All-mail-in voting has arrived in the red-rock bluffs and canyons of San Juan County, Utah, which overlaps the Navajo Nation’s reservation.Source: Going Postal: How All-Mail Voting Thwarts Navajo Voters...
Florence Sebern, a Republican Party activist in Colorado, has this article in The Colorado Statesman, arguing that presidential caucuses are superior to presidential primaries.Source: Colorado Statesman Carries Article Arguing that Presidential Caucuses are Better than Primaries...
As presidential candidates begin to genuflect before the people of Iowa and New Hampshire, once again beginning an anachronistic quadrennial ritual, someone has to say it: This must end.Source: Why Nevada Should Be the New Iowa...
Six in 10 Republican insiders in the early states say Donald Trump can’t win Iowa or New Hampshire. That’s the assessment of this week’s POLITICO Caucus, our weekly bipartisan survey of the top operatives, strategists and activists in Iowa and New Hampshire.Source: Insiders: Trump can’t win early states...
Mail call was a little more eventful than usual in Orem, UT last Wednesday, when the city received a huge batch of vote-by-mail ballots – for the election the day before. The Daily Herald has more: For several hundred primary election ballots in Orem, that was not the case.Source: Please, Mr. Postman: Orem, UT Gets 1,270 Mail Ballots Delivered Late...
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”...
