The July 14 issue of Campaigns & Elections has this story about the Commisison on Presidential Debates, which includes some criticism of the Commission for being too opaque. The story is centered around the Barr campaign’s strategy for being included in the debates.

This article, published in Fox News in Georgia, features the account of an elderly couple who recently lost their government Photo-ID in a house fire, and therefore won’t be able to vote in the July 15 primary. The July 15 primary is Georgia’s first election in which the requirement that voters at the polls show government ID is in effect.

The Boston Globe of July 14 has this op-ed by Political Science Professor David Lewis Schaefer, of the College of the Holy Cross. The op-ed opposes the National Popular Vote Plan, which will probably receive a vote in the Massachusetts Senate in a few days (HB 678).

The op-ed says the plan “has the effect of denying smaller states the extra electoral weight that the current system provides them.” That sentence is not true. Each state would continue to have just as many electoral votes, under the plan, as it does today. The plan does not abolish the electoral college and does (and could not) alter the number of electoral votes each state would continue to possess. Furthermore, the states that have already passed the plan or would have passed the plan if the governor hadn’t vetoed it, are disproportionately small states. Of the seven states in which the plan has passed the legislature, three (Hawaii, Vermont and Rhode Island) have just 3 or 4 electoral votes.