Negative Space: elections
- The All-New (Improved) ElectedNet!
- I’ve just updated ElectedNet, and while it loses one feature—email addresses—it gains a few others, including next election date.
- Article I
- Article One of the U.S. Constitution sets up the Congress, how to elect them, and the duties of the Senate and House of Representatives.
- Article II
- Article Two of the U.S. Constitution sets up the office of the executive, the electoral college, and the powers of the President.
- Bean counting and ballot counting
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We treat money far more seriously than we treat the future of our country.
- California Proposition 14: the one-party act
- Proposition 14 appears to answer the question beltway politicians have been asking for months: how to stop future Scott Browns and Doug Hoffmans.
- Career politicians game the system in NY 23
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Take a look at those claw marks torn out of New York’s 23rd congressional district!
- The coming crisis
- We know it. We just don’t know what it is yet.
- A coup d’etat in a pitiful third world country
- We stopped flying to Palm Beach. The pilot kept crashing. He couldn’t figure out which button to press to land the plane, so he’d just hit all of them.
- DC Votes: Laundering votes and money
- As government programs grow, so does the number of government employees who will never support reform.
- Democrats endorse public school elections, teacher recalls?
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Should legislators and teachers be evaluated for job performance in the same way? A group called Winning Democrats suggests that public school teachers should be elected positions rather than tenured, and that teachers should be subject to recall by the communities they serve.
- ElectedNet!
- As of November 5, 2020, ElectedNet! is no more.
- Election 2024
- Positioning for election 2024 is already started; the campaign will heat up very quickly after November 2022.
- The endless campaign
- Should we have endless political campaigns? That’s the Barack Obama plan, but is it right for American politics?
- Follow the Other McCain for excitement in New York!
- The Other McCain is gonzoing forward in New York 23.
- Is religious faith a political sin?
- I’d be more afraid of someone who masturbates emotionlessly, than someone who follows Christianity’s teachings on adultery.
- My philosophy: stop, look, and listen
- When an election is close, just wait until the results are in. It’s not that hard.
- Nobody for President in 1996
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Your vote doesn’t count worth shit. Deal with it.
- Nobody’s Banners and Marks
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Show your support for “Nobody” for President.
- November 2021 Texas propositions
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There are several proposed amendments to the Texas constitution on the ballot November 2. Here are some quick summaries of what they mean.
- Shed a tear for Democracy
- Public Citizen is outraged that the Supreme Court sides with free speech. Their version of democracy, with a capital D, is government control over every aspect of a candidate’s campaign (government funding) and the candidate’s supporters (subjecting supporter advertisements to FEC whims).
- Stealing Elections: How Voter Fraud Threatens Our Democracy
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John Fund’s Stealing Elections is a concise, easy-to-read description of just how much of a disaster is looming toward us when vote fraud finally catches up to a major election—as may already have happened in places like Florida.
- Texas 2023 legislative priorities
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The Texas legislature is in session now for 2023; other than special sessions, it won’t meet again until 2025. Everyone has their priorities. Here are mine.
- Voting for a candidate supports that candidate’s positions
- Politics has meaning; your support of a candidate is support for that candidate’s policies. If you vote for candidates who move “your” party in a direction you don’t approve, no one knows that but you. Everyone else sees your vote as approval for moving the entire party in that direction.
- Why the New York Times can’t see 120 million homes
- Why it didn’t occur to the New York Time that the 120 million homes could easily out-donate the 158 top donors.
- Write your rep on ballot security and open elections
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Your state should be a model of secure, open, and self-auditing elections. Here’s a sample letter to your representatives.
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- Comfort and Safety
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“The problem is like disabling the fire alarm, it does nothing to prevent fires. In fact it makes it more likely that a fire will happen, because no one is taking the most elementary precautions.”
“…they’re honestly convinced if things are never mentioned they won’t exist.”
- Warning: Polls Are Not Campaigns
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“If all you’re doing is following the national polls—Obama’s numbers down, Republican numbers up — you are seriously underestimating the challenges facing the GOP in House races this fall… All of these Democratic incumbents are sitting on huge reserves of campaign cash, and I don’t know of a single district in the country where the Republican challenger has more money than the incumbent Democrat.”
- Going Rogue: An American Life• (hardcover)
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When I heard that Palin was writing a book, I hoped it would be at least as much about her experiences in the campaign as a general autobiography. Sounds like that’s true. I’m looking forward to the Amazon preview. (Sarah Palin)
- Project Vote Smart
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The place to go for voting records and what the candidates stand for. Also, you can find your state and federal representatives if you know your zip code.
