The October 26 issue of Roll Call has an interesting story about bills pending in Congress to alter election law. The article does not discuss bills on Puerto Rico’s status, or gerrymandering, or public funding. Instead it talks about bills … Continue reading
Richard Winger
The California Board of Common Cause met on October 24 and mulled over whether to make an endorsement either for or against the “top-two” ballot measure that will be on the California ballot in June 2010. But the group decided … Continue reading
The Morristown, New Jersey Daily Record has this very long and complete story about the nine candidates for New Jersey Governor who have not been getting much publicity. The story, of course, features the Libertarian Party candidate and the Socialist … Continue reading
On October 21, the Open Source Digital Voting Foundation, a non-profit corporation, announced that it has completed work on freely available open source technology for vote-counting machines. “Open source” means that the software programs would be publicly available, so that … Continue reading
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is holding a partisan election for Mayor on November 3, 2009. The incumbent Mayor, Luke Ravenstahl, is the nominee of both the Democratic and Republican Parties (he is a Democrat, and he won the Republican nomination at the … Continue reading