Corzine has weeks to seal his legacy, and the Democratic legislature has to push through its most powerful members' agenda items as well, before it faces unknown terrain with Chris Christie.
For some perspective on the wisdom of the Democrats who are opposing health care reform, let's look at the elections last Tuesday.
At 7:30 on election morning, we walked to our local polling place in the elementary school, past the "Vote Aqui" signs, past the bake sale moms, the c...
In this age when we are looking to social entrepreneurs to improve the world let's celebrate the open source developers who are working to shine a light on how the country votes.
In 2008, about 11,000 eligible but unregistered DC residents did not participate in the historic 2008 election. Same Day Registration could have made a big difference for many of these citizens.
Who is advocating for the rights of all unmarried Americas -- single or coupled, gay or straight? The answer is Nicky Grist, Executive Director of the Alternatives to Marriage Project (AtMP).
For more than two decades, there has been one constant at the ballot box. Year in, year out, in liberal and conservative regions alike, clean water, c...
If you have an election where the winner gets four percent of the eligible electorate, is that a functioning democracy? I just lost such a runoff contest in New York City.
Outer borough whites, who were key to electing Ed Koch three times and Giuliani twice, were crucial to Bloomberg, too, even if this mayor has also attracted significant support from blacks and Latinos.
if I were running for governor of the largest state in the land, I would think twice before identifying Sonny Bono as my role model. That's what Republican former eBay CEO and Meg Whitman's campaign has done.
Voting should be seen as a privilege rather than as a consequence of where one is born. Voting should be a right earned rather than conferred by fate or the accident of citizenship.
Most people wouldn't imagine living in an area with no school, no hospital, no police, no road maintenance, or no trash collection. An animal shelter, too, is a community institution, and shouldn't be allowed to go under.
The United States' largest voting equipment vendor just bought the second-largest, Diebold. 120 million registered voters live in jurisdictions using one of these two companies' systems
Even in the West, few believe any longer in the rhetoric that foreign troops are in Afghanistan primarily to rescue Afghan women from their oppressive culture and their tribal menfolk.
We need a voting holiday to celebrate women getting the right to vote. Let's make the suffragists icons for peaceful non-violent social change.
Every two or three years, there has been a wave of protests like this in Iran. But this time I think there has been a fundamental change.
Ahmadinejad's response to the election protesters was, "It is not important who voted for whom. What we need is national greatness." An effective cost-saving measure might be to eliminate the voting as it appears to be irrelevant and misleading.
Four million Americans with past criminal convictions are out of prison and living in the community -- working, paying taxes and raising families. 35 states continue to disenfranchise people who are not in prison, often for decades and sometimes for life.
Voter registration is the gateway to voting. But our registration system relies on 19th century practices, and, leaves millions of eligible voters out of the political process.
On the eve of Iran's presidential election, the Islamic state shut off the text messaging services of all cell phones. Iran has a far way to go before becoming a true democracy.
We should focus on improving our elections using innovations that build upon mature and well-understood technologies.
