Tag: Voting

No One Hears Your Protest Vote

Filed in National by on October 31, 2016 9 Comments

Clay Shirky published an amazing Twitter rant a couple of weeks back, that I’ve been thinking about and talking about with a few others since then. Take a look and tell me what you think:

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New York Primary Results Post

Filed in National by on April 19, 2016 42 Comments
New York Primary Results Post

New York polls are closed and the results are coming in. Let’s talk about it!

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Cons Win When Dems Stay Home

Filed in National by on November 4, 2015 31 Comments
Cons Win When Dems Stay Home

In what should come as no surprise (again) to any fence sitting or left leaning person in the US, Conservatives won big (again) in off-year elections because of poor voter turnout (again) especially among Democrat supporters (again). It seems we’re too addicted to the sh!t show produced by the GOP and right wing extremists in this country to actually get up off our sofas and do something (again). This is not unlike our fascination with “Reality” TV. Except unlike “reality” TV, these election results will continue us on the path toward becoming the ultimate laughing stock in the civilized world.

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Comment Rescue: Jason330’s Step By Step Plan For Dems Not Voting

Filed in Delaware, National by on February 6, 2015 21 Comments
Comment Rescue: Jason330’s Step By Step Plan For Dems Not Voting

On the post “What does being a “Democrat” in 2015 actually mean anyway?” Jason330 lays out a plan. I started to respond in the comments, but realized I couldn’t possibly list all the ways 100% enacting the Republican agenda would take shape. So, I’m turning to our commenters for help creating the list.

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Senator Chris Coons Reintroduces the FAST Voting Act

Filed in Delaware, National by on January 25, 2013 4 Comments

Senator Coons and others filed this bill last November, after we saw one more US election marked with long lines to vote, registration questions and issues and other problems that got in the way of very many Americans to exercise their franchise. He has reintroduced this bill, with Senators Mark Warner (D-Va.), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) to help states to improve their election capabilities and make it easier for Americans to vote.

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QOTD — Early Voting for Delaware?

Filed in Delaware by on October 1, 2012 25 Comments

There’s two kinds of early voting — absentee ballots and the in-person voting (but with limited venues open). Delaware only lets you vote absentee — and even then you need to sign an affidavit with an “excuse” for not being available on Election Day. But if you are following the news, then you know that in-person early voting is starting to ramp up. Should Delaware change its rules for early voting?

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Get Out The Vote, Scientifically

Filed in National by on May 10, 2010 15 Comments

One of the biggest issues for a political campaign is how do you get your base out to vote. Two researchers took a look at this problem and looked at what effect phone calls had on getting citizens out to vote. The study targeted over 150,000 Pennsylvanian registered voters in 2008 who had only voted once […]

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Electronic Voter Fraud in Kentucky

Filed in National by on March 20, 2009 13 Comments

I just came across this story in my travels.  The story is about indictments in KY of election officials for changing electronic votes at the voting machine. Basically, the voters would cast their votes and press the “VOTE” button at the bottom of the ballot.  Then they would walk out.  The vote button actually was […]

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