On November 8, Ralph Nader asked a Superior Court in Washington, D.C., not to allow his bank account to be garnished by the Pennsylvania law firm that kept him off the Pennsylvania ballot in 2004. The case was filed in … Continue reading
Richard Winger
Pierce County, Washington (which contains Tacoma) rejected two anti-Instant-Runoff Voting measures on November 7, 2007. Voters had approved IRV in 2006. The County Council then put a measure on the 2007 ballot asking if the voters want to postpone IRV … Continue reading
On November 6, the voters of Aspen, Colorado, voted to use Instant-Runoff Voting for city elections. The vote was 608 “Yes” to only 186 “No”.
In 2002, Congress passed the Help America Vote Act, which outlawed old-fashioned lever mechanical voting machines. New York is the only state that still uses them. On November 6, attorneys for the U.S. government filed a motion in the pending … Continue reading
Longtime Prohibition Party activist and presidential candidate Earl F. Dodge died suddenly on November 7, 2007. He was age 74. He died without warning at the Denver Airport, about 8:30 a.m., just before he was about to board a flight. … Continue reading