After the 2000 election of hanging chads and Bush v Gore and a totally non-precedential Presidential decision by the Supremes, I discovered that the Caltech/MIT Electronic Voting Project (https://www.vote.caltech.edu) met sometime at MIT in … [Read more...]
Brookings Institution on Coronavirus and Election 2020
I’ve been publishing a free weekly listing of Energy (and Other) Events around Cambridge, MA for more than a decade as a listserv and a webpage (http://hubevents.blogspot.com). It covers public events in the community and in the local … [Read more...]
Stopping Voter Suppression: The Press Gets It Right in Virginia
What is striking about how the process of disenfranchisement and voter suppression works is how much it relies upon the media to repeat and amplify the breathless and hyperbolic accusations of so-called voter fraud against voter … [Read more...]
Record Youth And Minority Turnout Threatened By Persistent Election Barriers
The dirty secret of elections in America is that getting on the rolls, casting a ballot, and having that ballot counted is a complicated system adjudicated and carried out by more than 3,000 counties and towns and regulated by a complex mix … [Read more...]
(MA-SoS) Freaky Friday: Trading Places with a Green
You may be interested in a post I wrote for Daily Kos when I discovered that Bill Galvin would be introducing Diebold machines into the state. (See darkhorse's post.) That decision turned my grudging vote for Galvin (I supported Bonifaz … [Read more...]