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...
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...
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...
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...
COMMISSION MEETINGS AND HEARINGS On August 11, the Commission held an open meeting and an executive session. On August 13, the Commission held an executive session.Source: Weekly Digests...
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?...
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”...
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...
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...
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...
