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Does New Voting Tech Help Or Hurt Turnout?

Does New Voting Tech Help Or Hurt Turnout?

Photo credit: Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk On the biggest day of the 2020 presidential season so far, Super Tuesday, America’s biggest new voting system—in Los Angeles County—widely frustrated voters and poll workers in its debut in a...

I Know Firsthand Why Unions Should Endorse Bernie

I Know Firsthand Why Unions Should Endorse Bernie

Photo credit: Max Goldberg / Wikimedia Commons / cc One late summer evening in 2000, my home phone rang in Moretown, Vermont. “Can you please hold for Congressman Sanders?” the voice on the line asked. At the time, I had been doing what union organizers do when...

Wisconsin's Voter Purge Is Coming To Your State

Wisconsin's Voter Purge Is Coming To Your State

Photo credit: AFGE / flickr / cc Wisconsin has become early 2020’s Exhibit A for political fights surrounding the updating of statewide voter lists, where escalating court battles over conflicting law, procedures and underlying data could lead to removing thousands of...

Why Bernie Sanders Is Winning

Why Bernie Sanders Is Winning

“I’m hearing my name mentioned a little bit tonight, I wonder why,” said Senator Bernie Sanders during the presidential candidates' debate in Charleston, South Carolina. “A lot of the issues we’ll be discussing tonight are issues that I raised four years ago.” ...

What Mike Bloomberg Will Never Understand

What Mike Bloomberg Will Never Understand

Photo credit: Gage Skidmore / flickr / cc As I watched the Democratic debate, like millions of other Americans, I noticed the smug look on Michael Bloomberg’s face when Sen. Elizabeth Warren and others challenged him about his treatment of women, stop-and-frisk and...

How Bernie Can Be A Hope And Change President

How Bernie Can Be A Hope And Change President

Photo credit: Gage Skidmore / flickr / cc Sen. Bernie Sanders’ electoral victories in the first three early voting states of Iowa, New Hampshire, and Nevada make it much more likely that the political revolution will win the Democratic nomination for president and...

Will Nevada Accurately Count Early Votes?

Will Nevada Accurately Count Early Votes?

As early voting began in Nevada’s 2020 Democratic presidential caucus, thousands of people had to wait for two hours or more before voting. The bottleneck was due to a shortage of pre-programmed iPads that the Nevada State Democratic Party gave volunteers to check in...

Can Nevada Avoid A Vote-Count Meltdown?

Can Nevada Avoid A Vote-Count Meltdown?

As Nevada prepares for 2020 Democratic Party presidential caucuses after four days of early voting, the big question is will there be breakdowns in the reporting and counting of votes that echo Iowa’s chaotic 2020 caucus earlier this month. That question is not...

You Are Free To Vote, Even Behind Bars

You Are Free To Vote, Even Behind Bars

I visited Birmingham County Jail this week to deliver a simple message: you are free to vote, even if you don’t know it. And now is the time for you to claim and exercise this right. I was joined by allies from the League of Women Voters, the NAACP, prominent...

NH Students Fight Voter Suppression With Turnout

NH Students Fight Voter Suppression With Turnout

In 2016, New Hampshire Gov. Maggie Hassan, a Democrat, was elected to the U.S. Senate by a 1,017-vote margin. Even though both parties spent millions on the campaign, the key to Hassan’s victory was thousands of college and university students who registered to vote...

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