Monthly Archive for Election Reform
Election Reform Stories Posted in November 2007
Electoral change is hope for GOP
Category: Election Reform · State: California · Source: The Modesto Bee
There used to be a phrase to describe a certain breed of California voter: Reagan Democrats. Those were the moderate-to-conservative members of the Democratic Party who supported President Reagan and the first President Bush in the elections of 1980, 1984 and 1988.
Opinion: Real reform: States could agree to pick president by popular vote
Category: Election Reform · State: California · Source: The Reporter
It's ba-aaaaack! Like the hockey-masked assailant in the "Friday the 13th" movies that refuses to die, the GOP ballot measure designed to ensure that their presidential candidate wins nearly half of California's electoral votes has been revived. And it's got Democratic leaders nervous.
Opinion: The people didn't really speak, given the low turnout
Category: Initiative and Referendum · State: Washington · Source: Crosscut
Here's a bracing corrective from reader Patrick Higgins, arguing that "the people" didn't really speak, as we pundits like to say, since the large majority of voters stayed silent. Mr. Higgins, you have the microphone:
Energy firm to pay $15,000 fine for elections violation
Category: Election Reform · State: California · Source: Los Angeles Times
An energy company has agreed to pay a $15,000 fine to a state ethics watchdog agency for failing to properly disclose spending $5 million to defeat a ballot measure last year that would have taxed crude-oil production in California, officials said Friday.
GOP congressman says he will fund struggling electoral vote plan
Category: Election Reform · State: California · Source: The Associated Press
Rep. Darrell Issa, the wealthy congressman who helped bankroll the 2003 campaign to recall California's Democratic governor, is stepping in to revive an effort that could deliver more than a third of the state's electoral votes to the Republican presidential candidate in 2008.
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