“Los Angeles Updates Voting Procedures To Help Curb Declining Turnout”
NPR reports.
Disclosure: I now serve on the LA County VSAP.
Category Archives: voting
Let’s Hope Glenn Reynolds is Using the Literary Device of Hyperbole
….to call for raising the voting age to 25.
But it sure does echo the conservative view to make voting harder, not easier, to weed out “undesirable” voters.
“Veterans Day, Still No Right to Vote”
Neal Weare:
Veterans Day is a painful reminder of inequality for veterans in America’s territories who are disenfranchised because of where they live.
In 2013, Luis Segovia was deployed to Afghanistan, a world away from his family in Guam.… Continue reading
“How the Timing of Elections Shapes Turnout, Election Outcomes, and Public Policy”
Sarah Anzia for SSN:
Media coverage of elections focuses on candidate personalities, horserace polling, campaign ads and soundbites, and even, at times, the issues – but almost never considers the timing of elections. Most people probably have not given any… Continue reading
“2016’s ‘Missing Voters’ Can Be Found with Automatic Voter Registration”
Liz Kennedy blogs at Demos.
This time next year, the election of 2016 will be over and America will have chosen its next president.
But how many Americans will have actually participated in making this decision?
In the 2012 presidential… Continue reading
“How Democrats Suppress The Vote: Off-year elections have much lower turnout, and Democrats prefer it that way”
Eitan Hersh pens a provocative piece at 538:
In the ongoing fight between Democrats and Republicans over election procedures like voter ID and early voting, the Democrats are supposedly thechampions of higher turnout and reducing barriers to participation. But… Continue reading
“What We Know and What We Need to Know: Voter Registration and Turnout in the U.S.”
This looks like a great event at American University on Nov. 16.
“A Feasible Roadmap to Compulsory Voting”
Nick Stephanopoulos in the Atlantic:
Compulsory voting, then, is not as far-fetched an idea as it might seem. For it to take root in America, all that’s necessary is for a single city (in the right state) to take the… Continue reading
“Can cheap drinks get young adults to vote? One group thinks it’s worth a shot.”
Quote of the Day: “Do We Want These Slow Learners Voting?”
“So it takes an entire semester to learn how to register to vote. Really?…..Do we want these slow learners voting? Or is this a stealth course paid for by taxpayers to train left-wing ‘community organizers’ like the League of Women… Continue reading
“Philadelphia Residents Could Win $10,000 for Voting”
“Federal court hearing focuses on Native Hawaiian election”
AP:
A federal court hearing is set over a lawsuit by people who want to put a stop to an election process that’s under way for Native Hawaiians
The lawsuit, filed in August, says it’s unconstitutional for the state to… Continue reading