Monthly Archives: November 2012
“Republicans ‘Test’ For Voting Fraud, Wind Up In Custody”
TPM: “Two Republicans in separate states were taken into police custody during the past week for allegedly attempting to test how easy it would be to commit voter fraud. In Nevada, 56-year-old Roxanne Rubin, a Republican, was arrested on… Continue reading
“Karl Rove: Obama ‘succeeded by suppressing the vote’”
WaPo reports.
Tom Edsall, hardly a Rove ally, made a similar point back in July.
It is worth pointing out, though (as Dan Eggen did in a tweet yesterday), that Rove’s groups ran more negative ads than the Obama… Continue reading
“Just How Bad Was Citizens United For Business?”
“We Need to Fix That”
A HuffPost Live conversation hosted by Jacob Soboroff with Barbara Arnwine, Dan Froomkin, Edward Foley, and representatives from Brennan Center and Project Vote.
“2012 Election Turnout Dips Below 2008 and 2004 Levels: Number Of Eligible Voters Increases By Eight Million, Five Million Fewer Votes Cast”
See this release from the Bipartisan Policy Center.
“Federal Judge on Ohio’s Ballot Order: ‘Democracy Dies in the Dark'”
If you read one election law-related piece today, read this from Andrew Cohen.
PPIC Assesses California Election Reforms in Light of Tuesday’s Results
No One in Romney Camp Saw Loss Coming
See here.
It does give me pause about their risk assessment abilities. Each side had to see that a loss was a real possibility, especially given the post-Sandy polling.
“A Better Way to Vote”
New NYT “Room for Debate:
A Better Way to Vote
Is our voting system fine as it is, or are there ways to make it more reliable and inclusive? Read More »
Debaters
Nationalize Oversight and Control
Richard L. Hasen,… Continue reading
“Alaska Native Voters Defend the Constitutionality of the Voting Rights Act”
See this press release.
“Obama Said ‘Fix That,’ But Will He?”
“Election system needs an overhaul, but it’s not that easy”
First Time Voter in Miami, Last in Line, Votes After Midnight
Story here.
So who says the election went pretty smoothly? This is true in only parts of the country, and not the parts that would matter if we had a very close election going into overtime.