You never know what an election is going to do.
With redistricting, “NC Republican legislators likely to get their Congressional wish”
By changing the district lines, the GOP was able to “redraw” the rules of the game, especially when combining voter registrationlink to an article on the effect of redistricting in North Carolina and how the current election may impact the current partisan make-up of the delegation.
Report from Thurmond Section 5 Trial
Looks like Thurmond will be on the ballot. If so, make that 2-0 for Chris Coates this month on Voting Rights Act litigation against Democrats.
Full story.
The judges were told that the ruling was the first time the high court had weighed in on a state election law on holding primaries when nominees are disqualified.
“This is a case of first impression,” not a change in existing election law, said Thurmond’s attorney H. Christopher Coates.
Thurmond attended the hearing but did not address the panel of judges, who also included U.S. District Judge Richard Gergel. Thurmond did not speak to reporters leaving the hearing.
“High court to decide on voter proof of citizenship”
“High court to decide on voter proof of citizenship”
Florida AFL-CIO Union to members: “Vote Early, Vote Often”
Apparently, the Union at the link describes the phrase “Vote Early, Vote Often” as the mantra the union likes to live by.
More coverage at the Weekly Standard.
Florida AFL-CIO Union to members: “Vote Early, Vote Often”
Apparently, the Union at the link describes the phrase “Vote Early, Vote Often” as the mantra the union likes to live by.
More coverage at the Weekly Standard.
Florida judicial selection system “crying out to be reformed”
“The barn door is open,” Allison DeFoor, former vice-chairman of the Republican Party, said in an interview after speaking at the Federalist Society panel
discussion on the state’s system of merit appointment and retention of
appeals court jurists. “You have a system now where everybody seems to
be unhappy with it, which tells me it’s probably crying out for being
reformed.”
…”You can’t trivialize the facet that people understand that they’ve got
the vote here,” said DeFoor, a Wakulla state committeeman who was the
GOP nominee for lieutenant governor in 1990. “You can’t trivialize that
judicial activism is something that the court itself has been accused of
by dissenting justices. This is not made-up stuff.”
Link to the story in Florida Current. It appears the Florida voter may decide to self-reform the court before the elites have the opportunity to fix a broken politicized system.
The case for voter ID in Minnesota: “Easy to vote, hard to cheat”
The voter ID amendment accomplishes four things: It requires voters to
show government-issued photo ID to vote; requires the state to provide
ID at no charge; requires all voters to be treated equally, and allows
unprepared voters a second chance to vote with a provisional ballot.
Link to Star Tribune.