I am listening to my old friend and colleague, Charles Franklin of the University of Wisconsin and pollster.com, on an NPR story right now about a voter registration lawsuit brought by the attorney general of Wisconsin. The program is Day to Day.
A tag line announced that my dear friend Tova Wang, Vice President for Research [...]
The Boston Globe is reporting this morning that the Mass House did not take up the EDR bill that the Mass Senate had passed:
Major items that lawmakers neglected to take up included whether to allow residents to register to vote on election days, whether the state should ban trans fat oils in restaurants, and [...]
This story in Politico just came across the wire, courtesy of Project Vote.
In brief, a law passed in 2005 meant to manage third party voter registration efforts is being challenged as overly restrictive and unconstitutional.
I am not sure about the constitutional arguments, but the defenders of the law are having a hard time defending some [...]
In addition to the reports of fraud that I wrote about in the past few days, there are two additional ones that I ran across this morning.
The first comes from New York, from a report in the Daily News:
An aide to former Queens Assemblyman Jimmy Meng was charged yesterday with rigging voter addresses during a [...]
This has circulated the past few days, here’s an AP report on the allegations:
She worked in August and September as a voter registration recruiter for the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, known as ACORN. She is accused of using another woman’s Social Security number to get hired by ACORN and Project Vote.
Davis also [...]