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Category: Widgets: Voting

ballot design

Ballot design is important, especially now

May 25, 2020 Gloria Shur Bilchik 2020 Election, Voting News, Voting/Elections, Widgets: Voting Leave a comment

In the 2008 Minnesota election for US Senate, Al Franken beat Norm Coleman by less than three hundred votes. In that race, almost four

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Life after the Voting Rights Act

May 4, 2020 Gloria Shur Bilchik Civil Rights, Courts, Government, States, Voting/Elections, Widgets: Voting Leave a comment

The Supreme Court’s decision in Shelby County v. Holder—to overturn the “pre-clearance” requirement in Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act—continues to have major

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cofused

Confusing the vote: 2018 midterms edition

September 4, 2018 Gloria Shur Bilchik 2018 Election, Voting/Elections, Widgets: Voting One comment

With a few heartening exceptions, the trend in voting rights in America is toward suppression and trickery—with just 9 weeks to go before the

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voting rights

Voting rights 2018: One step forward, two steps back

August 20, 2018 Gloria Shur Bilchik 2018 Election, 2020 Election, Voting/Elections, Widgets: Voting One comment

Depending on what state you live in and who you are, your voting rights may be either expanding or contracting this year. At the

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Buyer’s remorse? Perhaps you should have voted for her

January 2, 2017 James Wilson 2016 Election, Hillary Clinton, Trump, Widgets: Voting 2 comments

Are you having post-election buyer’s remorse? There are many reasons people did not cast a ballot for Hillary Clinton. Some people, including myself, generally

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Hillary wins popular vote; Trump wins proportional electoral college — maybe

November 22, 2016 Arthur Lieber 2016 Election, Democracy, Politics, States, Widgets: Voting One comment

As both Democrats, some Republicans and backers of third-party candidates look for ways to tweak the Electoral College for a different outcome to the

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national popular vote

Let’s award electoral votes to the national popular vote winner

November 11, 2016 Gloria Shur Bilchik 2016 Election, Voting/Elections, Widgets: Voting One comment

What should be done about the Electoral College, now that, for the fifth time in US history, one candidate has won the popular vote,

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absentee

Absentee voting in Missouri: Legit, or “wink-wink, nudge-nudge?”

October 18, 2016 Gloria Shur Bilchik 2016 Election, Missouri region, Voting/Elections, Widgets: Voting Leave a comment

Missouri does not have early voting. You have to vote when everyone else does, between the hours of 6 am and 7 pm CST

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50 ways to cheat your voters

March 30, 2016 Gloria Shur Bilchik 2016 Election, Democracy, Politics, Voting/Elections, Widgets: Voting Leave a comment

If you want to prevent certain people from voting, you’ve got a lot of options. Some are legal; some are not. Most of us

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Midterms: Democratic Party didn’t give people a reason to vote

November 12, 2014 Madonna Gauding Campaigns, Democrats, Politics, Prison, Privatization, Republicans, Widgets: Voting Leave a comment

It’s absolutely true that Mitch McConnell and the Republicans obstructed every Democratic initiative. On the other hand, Democrats didn’t give people a reason to

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