The Coalition for Free & Open Elections (COFOE) will hold its annual board meeting on July 14, Sunday, in New York, at 339 Lafayette Street, third floor, at 1 p.m. COFOE was formed in 1985 and is a loose coalition … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: May 2013
On May 7, proponents of an initiative in Long Beach, California, filed a federal lawsuit against a restrictive California election law concerning validity of signatures on petitions. Section 105 of the California election code says a signature on any type … Continue reading
On May 8, the North Carolina House Elections Committee passed HB 951. The bill eliminates the state income form check-off that asks voters if they would like to direct $3 to the poltical party of the taxpayer’s choice. Now the … Continue reading
Every presidential campaign, major and minor, that receives public funding from the Federal Election Commission must later undergo an audit by the FEC. Jill Stein’s campaign has this brief description of the process, which is underway now. FEC employees are … Continue reading
On April 30, the Oregon House Rules Committee introduced HB 3521, which would provide that any citizen for whom the state has data will automatically be registered. Persons put on the voting rolls would then be notified, giving the individual … Continue reading