It has been suggested that the recent report of the Commission on Federal Election Reform represented a compromise, or more precisely, a trade-off, between issues that meant most to the Republicans (voter ID) and those that meant most to the Democrats (VVPAT). The trade may never have been explicit,...
In 2004, New Mexico once again led the nation in Presidential undervote rate. Undervotes are ballots cast without a vote for President, and New Mexico had 21, 084 of them – 2.78% of the total ballots cast last November or one out of every 36 voters. New Mexico Secretary of State Rebecca Vigil-Giron ...
The city council of Arcata in Humboldt County, California recently passed a “Voter Confidence Resolution” as reported in an article that has been reprinted on many websites. The resolution, a year and a half in the making and promoted by Humboldt resident and Green Party Presidential candidate Da...
Carter-Baker, California, and the Integrity of American Elections
Most of the very correct objections to the Carter-Baker report appearing in the days since its release have focused on the deeply objectionable Voter ID recommendations. Less attention has been paid to the watershed significance o...