La Pietra Working with County Clerks to Prepare for Analysis of Voting Conditions

Gathering Information on Precincts, Polling Places, Voter Counts to Be Ready When Citizens Send in Survey Responses After Election Will Follow Up Early Next Week, Then Publicize Status of Counties’ Responses Next, Will Ask for Lists of Official Write-In Candidates, Post on Website After Oct. 22 Filing Deadline to Make Elections Fairer, Better for Them […]

Sec State cand La Pietra (G-MI) on Making Elections Fairer

Offers Ideas on Protecting Election Rights, Withdrawing Petition Signatures, and How to Make Elections Fairer and Better for Voters John Anthony La Pietra, nominated by the Green Party of Michigan (GPMI) as the party’s 2010 candidate for Secretary of State, has posted the first three “position discussion papers” on his campaign Website.  The home page […]

Update: Hillary Clinton and Roland Burris

Some stories that might be important to our readers (though, I bet you heard the news elsewhere.) Hillary Clinton has been confirmed as Secretary of State. (That means she is no longer a Senator for New York. And, New York has an open Senate seat which will be appointed by Governor Paterson.) Roland Burris has […]

Voting FAQ for Louisiana, 2nd District Congress/3rd District State Senate

Update: 12/7/08: Anh “Joseph” Cao (Republican) won. Malik Rahim  got at least 3%.  The update on Wilderside is: here. More info on voting at bottom and in article: here 2008 Early voting in Louisiana is over! (It was Tuesday, Nov. 18th to Tuesday, Nov. 25th) Greens around the country have been focused on ways to […]

Electoral Guerilla idea for long voting lines

KW: Want to clear up long voting lines at the polls and make Republican Commissioners of Elections/Secretaries of State add new voting machines and better service? Solution: Use the long voting lines, that extend passed the measured out “electioneering zone” in front polling places, to distribute literature for competing third party candidates.

A man with no shame: Florida Secretary of State

Video of Kurt Browning (Secretary for State of Florida, not the ice-skater) explaining why it is okay for people in Florida to wait 3 hours to vote, and no, he doesn’t plan on extending hours. Note that Kurt Browning was part of a Governor Jeb Bush task force on voting, and that Kurt Browning was […]