Mandatory Voting? Automatic Registration? How Un-American!
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.
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.
Rob Richie | Posted 10.16.2009 | Politics
With Schwarzenegger's signature, California becomes the eighth state to allow 16 or 17 year olds to pre-register, with registrations automatically becoming active when they reach voting age.
AP / Huffington Post | By JULIET WILLIAMS | Posted 11.26.2009 | Politics
INDIAN WELLS, Calif. -- Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman sought to redirect attention from her spotty voting record Saturday as she prom...
Robert Creamer | Posted 11.20.2009 | Politics
The Right wing has always hated ACORN. Partially that's because the organization has been so effective at allowing poor people to vote. The Right hates it when poor people vote.
The Columbian | Kathie Durbin | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics
Raymond and Louise Denny of La Center were surprised last week to receive a mailing from Michael Steele, chairman of the Republican National Committee...
Lee Stranahan | Posted 09.14.2009 | Politics
Peter M. Rouse, one of three men listed as 'Senior Advisor' to President Barack Obama apparently voted as absentee in Alaska as recently as the 2008 election in violation of Alaskan election laws
Wendy Weiser | Posted 08.10.2009 | Politics
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.
Fred Karger | Posted 07.18.2009 | Politics
All LGBT organizations need to make voter registration the number one activity between now and next October 18th.
Rob Richie | Posted 06.27.2009 | Home
The importance of encouraging youth participation in our democracy is difficult to overstate, and it is in our interest to avoid becoming apathetic about apathy.
HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 06.06.2009 | Politics
Local counties wasted millions of dollars in cumbersome, error-ridden voter registration processes in the 2008 election, a new study finds. A survey...
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.08.2009 | Politics
Federal law requires that public assistance agencies must make voter registration materials available to voters. But folks receiving that assistance h...
Stuart Comstock-Gay | Posted 12.05.2008 | Home
Again in 2008, despite the valiant efforts of election officials and voter rights organizations, legitimate voters are once again being thwarted at the polls. It's now painfully clear: We simply must get America's voter registration house in order.
Sarah van Gelder | Posted 12.04.2008 | Politics
Are you worried that we will wake up November 5th to find that, once again, election results in key races are in question? Here's what you can do.
Jamal Dajani | Posted 12.04.2008 | Politics
For those Muslims who still cling on the concept that they share the same social values with the Republicans and therefore ought to vote for John McCain, well they ought to get their heads examined.
Michael Carmichael | Posted 12.02.2008 | Politics
The only ray of hope that will overwhelm flagrant attempts to render democracy dead and inert forever, is for a pro-democratic revolution in a massive turnout of Americans demanding their right to vote.
Ashley Rindsberg | Posted 12.01.2008 | Politics
Shimon Peres once famously remarked that polls are like perfume: nice to smell but dangerous to swallow. It's not totally clear if the Obama campaign has been swilling political Eau de Toilette.
Judah Freed | Posted 12.01.2008 | Home
Republicans are seeking to suppress the voter turnout among youth, minorities and poor people. If Republicans can prevent enough Democrats from casting ballots, McCain could win the election.
Ryan Rivera | Posted 11.30.2008 | Home
The Colorado Secretary of State's office has settled a lawsuit brought by voters' rights groups and the SEIU over what they claimed were illegal purge...
The Real News | Posted 11.29.2008 | Politics
"We don't want a repeat of the abuse of the Justice Department for political purposes that we saw before," says Overton. This is a tactic that is all too common within the U.S. political arena.
M.S. Bellows, Jr. | Posted 03.18.2009 | Politics
Spokespeople for Nevada's top federal and state law enforcement authorities have staked out different positions when asked whether federal officials a...
Charles D. Ellison | Posted 11.28.2008 | Politics
Discourse on what's wrong with our voting system and how we fix it is as critical as the post-mortem horse race analysis we'll all pimp endlessly into 2009.
Ryan Rivera | Posted 11.27.2008 | Home
Sen. Barack Obama and 100,000 of his closest friends in Denver on Sunday (Reuters) Colorado "well over 100,000": record-breaking number of suppor...
LA Times | Charles Stewart III | Posted 11.27.2008 | Politics
Escalating rage over the role of ACORN in registering presumably Democratic voters threatens to undermine the political legitimacy of a Barack Obama v...
Heather Smith | Posted 11.26.2008 | Media
You may have seen the New York Times article yesterday accusing Rock the Vote of giving New Yorkers the wrong address to mail voter registration forms. Don't let this sloppy journalism scare you.
Kamala Lopez | Posted 11.24.2008 | Politics
A lot of people feel extremely frustrated about the rampant voter suppression going on as evidenced by the many comments on my last post.
Mark Green | Posted 10.19.2009 | New York