Think Progress: REPORT: From Poll Taxes To Voter ID Laws: A Short History of Conservative Voter Suppression
March 27, 2011- Thursday, ThinkProgress reported that the Ohio House had approved the most restrictive voter id law in the nation — a bill that would exclude 890,000 Ohioans from…
Mother Jones: Money Talks — And Talks, and Talks, and Talks….
March 28, 2011- Several years ago Arizona passed a clean elections law that provides state subsidies for candidates who follow certain rules. One provision of the law states that if…
CREW: All Eyes on the Supreme Court… Again.
March 28, 2011- Today, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a pair of cases that have campaign finance reformers on edge. McComish v. Bennett and Arizona Free Enterprise Club’s…
USA Today: Our view: Leave public financing in elections
March 29, 2011- Political corruption in Arizona in the 1990s was so bad that a sting operation swept up almost 10% of the Legislature in a scheme to open a…
Minnesota Daily: End invisible funding
Campaign finances should be more regularly reported. March 28, 2011- Gov. Mark Dayton pledged to release his campaign finance reports more frequently last week as part of his push toward…
Common Blog: High court weighs Arizona clean elections law.
March 28, 2011- The Supreme Court today heard its first arguments on campaign finance since last year’s Citizens United decision; the early returns were not encouraging for reform advocates. In…
The Washington Current: Boxer: Rove Groups Pledge $120 Million Against Democrats In 2012 Election
March 28, 2011- Organizations associated with prominent Republican strategist Karl Rove plan to spend $120 million to defeat Democrats in the 2012 elections, according to Sen. Barbara Boxer. A former…
Broward-Palm Beach New Times: Civil Rights Group Says Rick Scott Violated The Voting Rights Act With New Restrictions On Felons
March 28, 2011- A few weeks ago, Rick Scott reintroduced Florida to Jim Crow-style voting laws, which essentially disenfranchise a large percentage of African Americans and just so happen to…
The Brad Blog: Diebold Touch-Screen E-Voting Machines for Sale on Ebay!
Because practice makes perfect... March 28, 2011- With 2012 just around the corner and these babies still in use at polling places all over the country, why not get one…
Think Progress: Justice-For-Sale Lobbyists Raising “Unlimited and Undisclosed” Donations To Buy Supreme Court Seat
March 25, 2011- Last year, Wisconsin Supreme Court justice and Gov. Scott Walker ally David Prosser cast the key vote in favor of a “justice-for-sale” ethics rule written by two…
Think Progress: REPORT: From Poll Taxes To Voter ID Laws: A Short History of Conservative Voter Suppression
March 27, 2011- Thursday, ThinkProgress reported that the Ohio House had approved the most restrictive voter id law in the nation — a bill that would exclude 890,000 Ohioans from…
Washington Post: FEC still hasn’t issued new campaign spending rules
March 25, 2011- A year after the Supreme Court’s landmark decision easing campaign spending restrictions for corporations and interest groups, the Federal Election Commission has yet to issue regulations spelling…
CREW: FEC Fails Again
-Originally posted on CREW: March 24, 2011- If anyone needs more confirmation of the Federal Election Commission’s (FEC) current role as a tool for the party establishments, we have a…
The Free Press: Ohio Republicans pass new Jim Crow law disenfranchising 900,000 voters
March 23, 2011- While Ohio public employees' rights to bargain collectively are under siege, the Ohio Republican Party executed a perfect sleight of hand by disenfranchising nearly 900,000 Ohio voters.…
New Observer: Photo ID’s downsides for voting
March 12, 2011- Requiring voters to present a photo ID at the polls sounds like a good idea - but it is everything we hate about government: a complex and…
Daily Tar Heel: Voter ID bill could disenfranchise students
Would require photo ID at the polls March 16, 2011- Some college students’ right to vote might be threatened if a new piece of legislation is passed. A bill requiring…