I believe that a cross-endorsement system in Massachusetts will increase participation among voters because they will be able to vote for a major party candidate on a separate issue-based partys ballot line, thereby sending the candidate a … [Read more...]
Should Voters Pick Candidates, or Candidates Pick Voters?
[...]Norton is divided up into three legislative districts. The largest is the 1st Bristol District, currently represented by outgoing Rep. Virginia Coppola. That district includes precincts 3,4 and 5 in Norton. Currently there are three … [Read more...]
BMG interviews John Bonifaz
Bob and I (Charley was unavailable) just spent over an hour in a very interesting and wide-ranging conversation with John Bonifaz. We talked about elections, both in general and specifically about the four pending Justice Department … [Read more...]
Election Day Registration – it’s not just for new voters
Sure, you can cast a provisional ballot, but will it be counted? What if you live in a different district? What if it's a special election? The district my friend moved into had a primary for state representative decided … [Read more...]
TV Watchers – Block the Vote Tonight on PBS
Under the guise of election reform and fraud prevention, state governments are passing laws that make it harder to cast a vote. Tonight the public TV program NOW is calling it Block the Vote. WGBH will air the program tonight at 8:00 pm. … [Read more...]
Money and Campaigns
Ideally, we'd like candidates to spend their time talking to voters, and measure their success by how many people they can attract, to vote for them and to volunteer for them. So the first problem is, contributions are a distorted … [Read more...]
Controversy over Election Reform Bill
My Post on Daily Kos and MyDD This is the full text of my post as it appears there. Some of the comments on the daily kos post are worth reading, and I also have a poll up there, so do visit the link, read the comments, and vote in the … [Read more...]
A Pattern of Voting Rights Violations in MA
On the elections division web site, you can download "the state representative districts set forth in the remedial plan approved on April 16, 2004, by the United States District Court in the case of Black Political Task Force, et al v. … [Read more...]