We have gotten used to voter suppression tactics being used by Republican campaigns to discourage election turnout, especially among minority and first time voters. In fact, the US Supreme Court recently gave it’s approval to the modern version of the poll tax, mandatory voter IDs. The biggest weapon that those who wish to stifle turnout [...]
Many times, legislation addresses a symptom of a problem and neglects the crux of the issue. This, I think, is the problem with the Supreme Court’s ruling in Crawford v. Marion County Election Board. At issue is the legality of an Indiana law required the presentation of a government-issued ID in order to vote. While [...]
In the digital age, there are new dangers that confront the political process. The hacking of Obama’s campaign website today represents but one of those dangers. Though there can be major damage done by tampering with campaign websites, there is potential for much more nefarious activities.
Obama’s site, which was hacked to change post links to [...]
It comes as no surprise that 61 percent of legal-age respondents in a survey said they’d be to voting by text message. It’s less of a surprise that 80 percent of teens said that if they could vote, they’d prefer to do so by text message. The question I wanted to see asked: Would you [...]