The Birmingham News of April 19 has this editorial, again urging the legislature to pass the ballot access reform bill, SB 15. The editorial focuses on the fact that recently the Republican Party state chair urged the legislature not to … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: April 2012
Arizona is one of a minority of states that has never had a state legislator who wasn’t a Republican or a Democrat during the last 100 years. But on April 2, Daniel Patterson, who had been elected as a Democrat … Continue reading
Professor Laurence J. Kotlikoff, an economist and a presidential candidate in the Americans Elect process, says here that Thomas Friedman ought to run for President. Friedman has been writing op-eds for the New York Times for some time, urging someone … Continue reading
A Republican candidate for State Senate in South Carolina expected to be the only Republican running for her particular seat. However, the party extended the deadline for candidates to file in her race, so then two more Republicans filed. The … Continue reading
In 1993, Congress passed the National Voter Registration Act, which the press nicknamed the “Motor Voter” Act. The law requires all states to make it easier for people to register to vote. It also said that state and local welfare … Continue reading