Indications of Trouble in Ohio Voting?
Where I live in Franklin County, Ohio, lines were so long for the presidential election of 2004 that some people waited six hours in line to vote. Turnout in 2008 is expected to be even higher. How...
View ArticleState of Maine OKs Same-Sex Marriage: Catholic Church and Focus on the Family...
The wheels of representative democracy are turning in Maine. Last week, the Maine Senate passed LD 1020, a bill affirming the right of same-sex couples to get married in the state of Maine and...
View ArticleAmericans for Job Security Opposes Candidates Who Voted for Job Security
The first clue that the real purpose of “Americans for Job Security” may not match its name is its address: 107 South West Street PMB Alexandria, Virginia. Alexandria, just across the Potomac from...
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Americans Elect’s Top National Matches actually Aren’t its Top National...
While Americans Elect keeps telling people that it doesn’t favor any presidential candidates in its nominating process, it has: 1. Rated Buddy Roemer as its top “national match” based on a curiously...
View ArticleNew Americans Elect Rule: Delegates Won’t be able to Reverse the Exclusion of...
Americans Elect is the first-ever privatized online presidential nomination in American history, and Americans Elect has just released a new set of Convention Rules. You can read through a mirrored...
View ArticleThe General Election Pledge Americans Elect Hasn’t Made
It’s only 85 days until the first ballot of the Americans Elect presidential nomination, the first ever all-online presidential nomination in which a corporation will decide which candidates can run,...
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Patriot Journalist Network pushes Dozens of Members of Congress to Bomb Twitter
Self-described “Christian Technologist” Mark Prasek has a developed a new application for Twitter — a conservative “Patriot” robo-tweeting machine: "We have developed technology whereby our members...
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Did the “Single Issue” Mayday PAC fund Canvassers on ObamaCare, Gun Rights...
A tip of the hat this morning to Miscellany Blue and DocDawg for breaking the news over the past week that Lawrence Lessig’s Mayday PAC had funnelled $103,000 to Stark 360, a political action committee...
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Americans Elect’s Imaginary Friend Pops Up to Change the Rule
In a February post this year I noted that Americans Elect leadership had popped up yet again with a new name: “Level the Playing Field.” At least two mysteries surrounded the Americans Elect group,...
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