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When a Civil Rights Division employee is accused of being”pro-black,” the problem is not harassment.
Archive for the ‘Vote Casting and Counting’ Category
November 9th, 2012
No, not really. But sort of. Ian Millhiser explains that Democratic House candidates actually got more votes nationwide than Republicans, by around 500,000. So how could the Republicans maintain their majority? Simple. It was gerrymandering. Nick Baumann at Mother Jones has the goods (h/t Dayen): North Carolina, which Obama lost by around 2 percentage points: 9-4 GOP Florida, [...]
November 6th, 2012
Category: Political Science, Vote Casting and Counting
Speculations on who answers “none of your beeswax” when asked “how are you voting?”—and why.
November 6th, 2012
November 6th, 2012
Virginia has a nonpartisan election board. The rest of us ought to (though we need a backer for the cause).
November 4th, 2012
GOP hoping that voter suppression will help them. It won’t be enough. And it has tarnished the Republican brand for years to come.
November 4th, 2012
Category: Vote Casting and Counting
Republicans keep trying to cheat people out of their votes. Some Democrats are fighting back.
November 3rd, 2012
Category: Vote Casting and Counting, Vote fraud
Republicans try to steal another election.
November 3rd, 2012
Category: Vote Casting and Counting
If this election were decided according to the national popular vote – otherwise a good idea – the storm might well have swung it to Romney.