Allison Hayward has posted this interesting list of grant recipients (and the amounts of the grants) from Carnegie related to “strengthening U.S. democracy.”

This partisan bickering is even more reason to move to nonpartisan election administration.

Verified Voting has issued this press release and summary.

See this testimony from the U.S. Election Assistance Commission before the House Administration Committee. The GAO has also released this 500+ page report, “The Nation’s Evolving Election System as Reflected in the November 2004 General Election.” Thanks to Bobbie… Continue reading

Laughlin McDonald has written this column for Findlaw, responding to my column on the same subject last week. Laughlin’s arguments are based on a reading of the facts and the law that I find hard to believe the current Supreme… Continue reading

See this news from Texas.

The Los Angeles Times offers Judge’s Loss Stuns Experts; Election system and the jurist’s Latvian name are cited; Winner is a lawyer and shopkeeper, which begins: “”The rare defeat of a highly regarded sitting judge ousted from the bench… Continue reading

The Washington Post offers this report.

Roll Call offers this report (paid subscription required), which begins “With action on the Voting Rights Act reauthorization at a standstill in the House as GOP leaders seek to quell intraparty tensions, a handful of lawmakers are now urging the… Continue reading

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Marcia Mercer has this column in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.

Michael C.D. MacDonald has this piece in the NY Observer.