The state Senate has adopted a proposal that would make it a felony to collect and drop off someone else’s ballot in most cases. The measure’s outcome could impact the state’s general and primary elections if the bill is enacted before elections take place.Source: Senate passes bill outlawing early ballot collection...
HARRISBURG — Carmon Elliott is not a lawyer. But he got to play one Thursday in state court when he tried to convince a judge that Republican U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz is really a Canadian who has no constitutional right to be a candidate for U.S. president.Source: Pa judge hears Ted Cruz 'birther' challenge...
Public cynicism about money in politics has become so reflexive and deeply ingrained that the stock refrain from voters, candidates, political experts, election lawyers, and even many reform advocates is “Nothing will ever change.” Public financing? It will never happen.Source: The Campaign-Finance Reform Wish List...
DENVER — Donald J. Trump’s harsh campaign language against Mexican immigrants has helped him win a substantial delegate lead in the Republican primaries, but it is also mobilizing a different set of likely voters — six in the family of Hortensia Villegas alone.Source: More Latinos Seek Citizenship to Vote Against Trump...
Campaign finance is arguably the breakout issue of this election year. Democratic presidential candidates Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton both rail constantly against Citizens United, the Supreme Court decision that opened up election spending to corporations and super PACs.Source: Citizens United is only 15% of the political cash problem...
WASHINGTON — Senator Mitch McConnell has long antagonized Democrats with his tactics. Now he just has them perplexed, wondering why he would unilaterally block a Supreme Court nominee and potentially put vulnerable Republicans at risk with control of the Senate at stake in November. Mr.Source: Mitch McConnell Bets That Impasse on Court Now Helps G.O.P. Later...
PARK CITY, Utah — The presentation is an 11th-hour rebuttal to the fatalism permeating the Republican establishment: Slide by slide, state by state, it calculates how Donald Trump could be denied the presidential nomination. Marco Rubio wins Florida. John Kasich wins Ohio.Source: Seeing Trump as vulnerable, GOP elites now eye a contested convention...
The Internet Discussion We're Not Having Our media are letting us down. From their mostly vapid coverage of the 2016 Presidential campaign on television to the paucity of new information on the Internet’s major “news” sites, the communications ecosystem is failing our democracy.Source: The Internet Discussion We're Not Having...
The nation will have to wait for a court’s consideration of whether or not U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz is a “natural born” citizen, and thus eligible to serve as president.Source: Challenge to Cruz’s ‘natural born’ status dismissed due to blown deadlines...
