“Miami-Dade to resume in-person absentee voting after temporarily shutting it down”
Florida reverting to its normal position as election laughingstock.
Monthly Archives: November 2012
“New Dispute over Ohio’s Provisional Voting Procedures”
Ned Foley [corrected link]: “For all three of these reasons, it seems problematic for the federal court to grant the relief the plaintiffs now request, even if it were appropriate for the court to reach the merits of plaintiffs’ new… Continue reading
Thought for Today
What if Sandy hit Florida or Ohio, and it was up to election officials there to decide what do to about voters who cannot reach their polling places? What if a Democrat election official allowed voting by email for displaced… Continue reading
“N.J., N.Y. make more voting changes due to Sandy”
Legal Quirk in NJ E-Voting for Sandy Victims
Andrew Appel explains. Sounds like officials are working on it.
“Eleventh-Hour GOP Voter Suppression Could Swing Ohio”
Ari Berman writes for The Nation.
“Recount Roulette”
Barbara Simons and Mark Halverson blog.
Face the Nation Flashback: Bush v. Gore
Enough to turn your stomach if you are old enough to remember 2000.
“Behind the voting wars, a clash of philosophies”
I have written this cover piece for the Sacramento Bee’s Sunday Forum section. It begins:
On Tuesday, voters will go to the polls in what is expected to be a nail-bitingly close presidential election. Indeed, we may wake up Wednesday… Continue reading
“Democrats, Republicans lawyer-up for US election”
“Al Benn’s Alabama: One person, seven votes? Chilton County voting is different”
Cumulative voting in Alabama.
“Voting by Email in New Jersey”
Computer security analyst: “I hope all goes well.”
“Mail-in ballots: the hanging chads of 2012?”
Reuters reports. So processing mail-in ballots are trying to dethrone processing provisional ballots as the worse feature of the current election system?
“Ohio’s Provisional Ballot Order: The Biggest Legal Story of the Weekend”
Andrew Cohen writes at The Atlantic.