Thursday, February 7th, 2008 – 11:39:18 PM
At left is a sample ballot from Los Angeles County, California from Tuesday’s Democratic primary. It’s clearly a Democratic Primary ballot. It has Democratic Primary candidates on it. You see the first two boxes? If you are a registered independent (”Decline-To-State” in California terms), you have to bubble in the Democrat bubble, to indicate [...]
Saturday, December 15th, 2007 – 09:58:24 PM
Fusion voting was once common in America, a process that allows multiple political parties to nominate a single candidate. In a country which had no form of proportional representation, this was about as proportional as it got–you could vote for John Doe voting on the Democratic ticket, or send John Doe a message voting on [...]
Tuesday, November 28th, 2006 – 06:46:46 PM
The evidence is pretty damning that if FL-13 wasn’t simply stolen, Republican Vern Buchanan won an ill-gotten victory. To summarize, about 14,000 “undervotes” were recorded in Democratic Sarasota County, a rate six times higher than the surrounding counties. Various reports of voting machines crashing and other problems indicate that this suspiciously high number isn’t just [...]
Thursday, September 14th, 2006 – 10:11:00 PM
Dear Readers: Yes, this blog has produced practically nothing for two weeks in what amounts to an unnanounced hiatus. I blame the school, of course.
Hanlon’s Razor: Never attribute to malice what can be attributed to stupidity.
For all the technical glitches that plagued Maryland’s primary election on Tuesday, and the voting machines that make votes disappear [...]
Wednesday, May 10th, 2006 – 09:15:07 PM
Last Tuesday, local elections were held around the state. Althea P. Pittman attempted to vote in Accomac’s elections.
Trouble was, she was blind.
For the third election in a row, Pittman was failed by the newfangled touch-screen voting machines that were supposed to be programed for blind voters. The programming failed. Pittman lost her right [...]
Monday, January 30th, 2006 – 09:34:35 PM
It’s not just the legislation that makes this blogger’s head shake. Often it’s the way the votes fall. These bills are currently working their way up the floor of their respective houses:
First is Janet Howell’s SB 253 would require ministers, rabbis, and imams who suspect child abuse to report it. The vote split rather interestingly:
YEAS–Miller, [...]
Friday, May 20th, 2005 – 04:17:20 PM
Picture this.
You walk into a library and log onto a computer, hoping to look over your email or do research or bounce around the Information Superhighway. You see a link.
Do you decide to click on it? Who do you ask? Yourself?
Did anyone say, perchance,
Tuesday, May 10th, 2005 – 07:27:26 PM
The registration deadline for the June 14th primary is May 16, THIS MONDAY.
Are you registered to vote?
http://www.sbe.state.va.us/VotRegServ/reg2vote.htm
Check your registration status.
Monday, May 2nd, 2005 – 08:18:32 PM
Well, well, well, another Republican on the Whine Circuit. (see Jerry Kilgore whine about his whine.)
Some people just don’t know when to give up. The Republican Party of Washington filed a lawsuit in overwhelmingly Republican Chelan County to have the election thrown out over ballots in heavily Democratic King County.
There is a slight problem with [...]
Saturday, February 5th, 2005 – 12:14:13 PM
Tuesday is the final day for the House and Senate to consider their own bills, so expect a madcap rush to actually get something done.
With that in mind, let us consider the vital issues being put forth in the vaunted halls of our legislature:
There is a crisis in Virginia–people are wearing low-cut pants, and for [...]
