South Carolina may be the putative heart of the Tea Party [see below] but it has a stand-up crowd, too. On the annual celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr, crowds … [Keep reading >>]
“One of the most promising recent trends in expanding political participation has been allowing people to vote in the weeks before Election Day, either in person or by … [Keep reading >>]
” The CIA, which has been monitoring foreign countries’ use of electronic voting systems, has reported apparent vote-rigging schemes in Venezuela, Macedonia and Ukraine and a raft of concerns about … [Keep reading >>]
In the work up to the elections last year, in large part because of the ripped and shredded and chaded elections of 2000 and 2004, there were millions of dollars … [Keep reading >>]
California’s Fair Political Practices Commission (FPPC) confirmed Monday that it will investigate allegations that the LDS Church failed to report nonmonetary contributions to the Yes on Proposition 8 campaign.
Salt Lake … [Keep reading >>]
If you’ve never had the privilege of being in on a re-count, take a look at these challenged ballots in Minnesota. How well do your decisions match up against … [Keep reading >>]
In the on-going saga of Alaska’s “missing” votes — fewer Alaskans seem to have voted on Tuesday last, than voted 4 years ago, a situation that seems unexplainable to almost … [Keep reading >>]
Nate Silver at fivethirtyeight.com is on to this, and Rachel Maddow had him on tonight to say so.
Something very very odd happened in the Alaska election. Silver … [Keep reading >>]
Something is not right in Placer County.
“There may be 10,000 to 12,000 absentee ballots that were turned into the polls, and 3,000 or 4,000 provincial ballots,” said Placer County Clerk … [Keep reading >>]
“The Republican IT guru, recently described as a “high tech Forrest Gump” for his proclivity to be “at the scene” of so many troubling elections since 2000, and even at … [Keep reading >>]
Video the Vote 2008
Video the Vote is a national initiative to protect voting rights by monitoring the electoral process. We organize citizen journalists—ordinary folks like you and me—to document election … [Keep reading >>]
The St. Petersburg Times’ Thomas Tobin looks at another potential Florida voting disaster caused by record turnout, suspect preparation, and yet another set of voting machines for voters to master: … [Keep reading >>]
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