On August 10, five television stations in Minnesota filed a lawsuit in state court, against Ramsey County election officials. Those officials refuse to let the TV stations examine last year’s general election absentee ballots. The TV stations want to analyze … Continue reading
Congressional Quarterly’s Politics blog has this analysis of the 2010 Rhode Island gubernatorial race. The piece concludes by saying that the outcome is best described just now as a “tossup” between independent candidate Lincoln Chafee and the eventual Democratic Party … Continue reading
In June 2010, California voters will be voting on a ballot measure, to switch California elections to the system used for the first time in Washington state in 2008. California newspapers have been referring to the idea as “the open … Continue reading
The New York Times print edition of August 8 has an editorial “To Reform Albany State Here”. See it here. The editorial asks for ballot access reform, campaign finance reform, and redistricting reform. The first point in the editorial, on … Continue reading
The case pending in U.S. District Court in Orange County, California, on the subject of President Obama’s qualifications, has changed its lead plaintiff. Formerly, the case was known as Alan Keyes v Barack Obama. Keyes is still a co-plaintiff, but … Continue reading
