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The Portland Press Herald (Maine) has this lengthy editorial, giving the newspaper’s views of how to improve Maine’s law on public funding of candidates for state office. Thanks to Joe Trotter for the link. … Continue reading
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Garrett Epps has this story, in The Atlantic, about the lawsuit filed recently by the state of Arizona to overturn Section Five of the national Voting Rights Act. Epps is critical of the state’s lawsuit, which is called State of … Continue reading
“The Empire”, politics blog of WNYC (the leading National Public Radio station in New York city) has this lengthy story about Jesus Gonzalez, the Working Families Party nominee in the September 13 special election, Assembly, 54th district. Gonzalez is one … Continue reading
On September 2, Assemblyman Paul Fong, chair of the California Assembly Elections Committee, amended one of his own bills to provide that write-in space should no longer be printed on general election ballots for Congress and partisan state office. The … Continue reading
Former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson is at 2% in a recent CNN poll, according to this story. He is not invited to the Republican presidential debate of September 7. However, two of the eight candidates who are invited are … Continue reading