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20 Years (at least) Without Election Integrity

August 4, 2020 By gmoke

After the 2000 election of hanging chads and Bush v Gore and a totally non-precedential Presidential decision by the Supremes, I discovered that the Caltech/MIT Electronic Voting Project (https://www.vote.caltech.edu) met sometime at MIT in …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...]

Filed Under: Editor, User Tagged With: democracy, election-integrity, elections, electronic voting machines, voter protection, voting

Brookings Institution on Coronavirus and Election 2020

July 13, 2020 By gmoke

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...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: Brookings Institution, coronavirus, election-integrity, elections, voter protectrion, voting

Environmentalists Are Awful Voters

September 29, 2016 By gmoke

Nathaniel Stinnett launched the Environmental Voter Project (http://environmentalvoter.org) in 2015 with the mission of “identifying inactive environmentalists and then turning them into consistent activists and voters.” He spoke on … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: ecology, environment, polling, tufts, voting

Early voting in Mass? How about nationwide?

November 2, 2012 By tblade

When can we get early voting here in Massachusetts? How far away, realistically, is our state from adopting something so pragmatic and sensible? Also, do you think early voting will ever be available in every state? … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: early-voting, voting, voting-rights

Occupation: To Be or Not To Be…Coopted

October 16, 2011 By lynne

(This is a cross post of course from LiL, but I am hoping it has bigger appeal than just my little corner of electoral politics. This is a big movement, with so much potential, I felt compelled to express my concerns for it. Slight edits in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: amendment, democrats, economics, Electoral Politics, Occupy, Occupy Wall Street, OWS, voting

Should Voting Machines be Randomly Audited?

April 22, 2011 By Avi Green

In this age of high-tech elections, with strong passions on all sides, it's essential that you know that the optical scan voting machine that counts your ballot works right every time.  They have to be reprogrammed with a new memory … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: elections, integrity, security, voting

Election Commissioners work in the same Elections Department office at Boston City Hall.

April 15, 2011 By theszak

Election Commissioners work in the same Elections Department office at Boston City Hall. How is it that they can be on the Board and also work in the same department office? … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: boston, boston-city-hall, city-of-boston, election, elections, voting

Mass. should go Google, at least for locating voting locales

November 2, 2010 By cambridge_paul

Today I used the State Secretary's website. It's supposed to inform the good people of Massachusetts where to vote. The key phrase is "supposed to." Now, I know where to vote. I was using the website out of curiosity from a technical and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: election, voting, william-galvin

On Asking Experts, Part Two, Or, What’s An LBGT Voter To Do?

October 26, 2010 By fake-consultant

A monk asked Ma-tsu [Baso]: What is Buddha? Ma-tsu replied: "The mind is Buddha" A monk asked Ma-tsu: What is Buddha? Ma-tsu replied: "The mind is not Buddha" --From the book "Zen Flesh, Zen Bones: A Collection of Zen and Pre-Zen Writings", … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: bilerico, civil-rights, democrats, election-10, lbgt, national, pa-08, patrick-j-murphy, politics, us-elections, voting

On Why Voting Matters, Or, Could You Outrun The Toxic Red Flood?

October 6, 2010 By fake-consultant

"...Oui, ma foi, c'est un bougre déterminé..." --A sailor aboard the French ship Héros describing his Admiral, Pierre André de Suffren de Saint Tropez, 1783. Quoted from the book "Command at Sea", by Oliver Warner. So here's the long and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: alumina, aluminum, bauxite, congress, election-10, environment, hungary, mining, national, republicans, voting

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masspolicy MassPolicyReport @masspolicy ·
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Lawmakers self congratulate that what happened in Nashville likely wouldn't happen in Massachusetts due to 'red flag' laws, ignore all facts of this case. https://www.masspolicyreport.com/2023/03/31/lawmakers-self-congratulate-that-what-happened-in-nashville-likely-wouldnt-happen-in-massachusetts-due-to-red-flag-laws-ignore-all-facts-of-this-case/ #Massachusetts #MApoli #bospoli #MassPolicyReport

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Lawmakers self congratulate that what happened in Nashville likely wouldn’t happen in Massachusetts due to ‘red flag’ laws, ignore all facts of this case. https://www.masspolicyreport.com/2023/03/31/lawmakers-self-congratulate-that-what-happened-in-nashville-likely-wouldnt-happen-in-massachusetts-due-to-red-flag-laws-ignore-all-facts-of-this-case/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter @masspolicy #MApoli #Massachusetts

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“Overall, nearly 57,000 more people moved out of Massachusetts between July 2021 through July 2022, according to previously released census data, one of the highest rates of domestic migration in the nation.” #mapoli

https://www.eagletribune.com/news/boston/mass-losing-residents-to-other-states-census-data-shows/article_7597cc14-ce31-11ed-a24c-6b3bc379e98a.html #mapoli

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jonathancohn Jonathan 'Boo and Vote' Cohn @jonathancohn ·
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"Of those, 94% have no expiration dates, the panel noted in it's latest report. At least 80% of the tax expenditures were approved prior to the 1990s, they said." #mapoli https://www.eagletribune.com/news/few-state-tax-breaks-have-sunset-dates/article_fe344606-cf21-11ed-97a8-5f9daacb2b50.html

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Travel nurses fill a gap but also create problems - CommonWealth Magazine https://www.masspolicyreport.com/2023/03/31/travel-nurses-fill-a-gap-but-also-create-problems-commonwealth-magazine/ #Massachusetts #MApoli #bospoli #MassPolicyReport

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lisakashinsky Lisa Kashinsky @lisakashinsky ·
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Morning, Mass. ☀️ Trump’s indictment is uncharted territory. But it’s fueling familiar divides among Republicans here. Who's reacting/what they're saying. Plus:
— Mariano previews House tax-relief package
— SJC backs Boston on vax mandate #mapoli #bospoli https://politi.co/3ZuiJW3

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