New Orleans It’s a small sample, but the Virginia bellwether and the deeply blue state New Jersey went hard Republican and in Jersey tossed a Democratic governor looking for a second shot. Across the river, New York City voters surprised the chattering political classes by almost moving Mayor Bloomberg to his next career as [...]
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Takoma Park I have long advocated an automatic registration system as a step forward in democracy in America. A couple of days ago there may have been some movement in this direction from a new bipartisan effort called the Committee to Modernize Voter Registration. According to a squib I saw on this new formation, the [...] Baltimore There was a good news article in the Times indicating that the African-American vote almost caught up and in some categories exceeded other groups in voting participation in the 2008 election for President. For all of the brickbats being thrown at the great efforts to register and turnout new voters there’s really only one [...] Ocean Springs A neighborhood commission saved $100,000 by allowing for encrypted voting for a neighborhood board election in Honolulu. The voting was from homes and offices. All reports indicated smooth sailing. Laws there forbid anything less than eyeball to eyeball identification in city and state elections. Change is coming though despite the high walls of [...] Stephanie Strom New Orleans Clark Hoyt, the Public Editor of the august New York Times weighed in on the conservative blogosphere obsession with ACORN in Sunday’s paper after what he called several weeks of investigation. He was trying to figure out whether or not the editors of the Times killed a Stephanie Strom [...] New Orleans Recently in Delhi all of us as organizers of ACORN India greeted the news that the Delhi Municipal Corporation (DMC) was allowing the urban poor without home addresses to register for voting cards with great excitement. Dharmendra Kumar, Hina Sheikh, and Prachee Sinha all attended a meeting while I was in India [...] |
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