Monthly Archives: May 2015
Response from the GAB on Adequacy of Wisconsin Voter ID Funding
In response to an earlier post, WI GAB Has Only Tiny Budget to Get Out Word About New Voter ID Requirements, Reid Magney, public information officer for the GAB writes:
Your tweet about GAB generated a call from MSNBC.… Continue reading
Best Wishes to Joe Trotter…
who is leaving the Center for Competitive Politics after 4 1/2 years as media manager. Joe and I did not always agree on substance (ok, we almost never agreed), but I always found him to be courteous, helpful, and… Continue reading
“Kansas Legislation Moves Local Elections, Eliminates Presidential Primary – and Gives SoS Prosecutorial Powers”
“Goodman: FEC Backlog Mainly Includes Cases Against Republicans, Conservatives”
Bloomberg BNA:
Republican commissioners on the Federal Election Commission are reluctant to approve new procedures to speed up resolution of pending campaign finance enforcement matters because the backlog of pending complaints at the FEC involves many more Republicans and… Continue reading
“Department of Justice Proposes Legislation to Improve Access to Voting for American Indians and Alaska Natives”
Press release:
Today the Department of Justice proposed legislation that would require states or localities whose territory includes part or all of an Indian reservation, an Alaska Native village, or other tribal lands to locate at least one polling… Continue reading
“Rove’s Crossroads PAC Is No Longer G.O.P.’s ‘Big Dog’”
Goodbye Sitemeter
For a number of years, I have been using Sitemeter to keep track of visitors to the page. I now have Google Analytics too, but what was nice about Sitemeter is that I could see the domains (not the individual… Continue reading
“Win Lunch with Bush; Owe Uncle Sam; For political sweepstakes winners, there really is no such thing as a ‘free’ lunch.”
Shane Goldmacher for National Journal:
Marcus Owens, a lawyer with the IRS for 25 years and now an attorney at Loeb and Loeb in Washington D.C., said that those issued a 1099 form could be caught fairly easily by the… Continue reading
WI GAB Has Only Tiny Budget to Get Out Word About New Voter ID Requirements
Troubling report from the GAB, indicating a budget of only $34,000 to get out the word about mandatory voter id requirements:
The G.A.B. staff does not believe that voluntary efforts and free media will be adequate to the task of… Continue reading
“One county at a time, vote centers coming to Texas”
That’s the lead story in this week’s Electionline Weekly.
“How the Money Primary is Undermining Voting Rights”
Ari Berman cover story in the new issue of The Nation.