On the topic of his party's chances in next year's elections, Robert Menendez is a study in resolute optimism.
Not that he has much choice. Mr. Menendez, New Jersey's junior senator, chairs the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, which recruits and provides financial and political support for the party's U.S. [...]
New voting machines may finally actually be on their way to New York City. The State Board of Elections on Tuesday, December 15 certified two new optical scan machines to replace the state’s fleet of lever machines beginning in 2010. Now counties, including New York City, will have to [...]
New voting machines may finally actually be on their way to New York City. The State Board of Elections on Tuesday, December 15 certified two new optical scan machines to replace the state’s fleet of lever machines beginning in 2010. Now counties, including New York City, will have to [...]
An earlier post described the state Board of Elections and their decision to certify two electronic voting machines from ES&S and Dominion, for use in the state, pursuant to the 2002 Help America Vote Act. We mentioned that this process has been a long one and there’s been intense [...]
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The state Board of Elections just voted unanimously to certify modern voting machines that Congress back in 2002 mandated nationwide. They’ll eventually replace the lever-action machines pictured above.
The vote to accept the Dominion and ES&S brand machines comes on the day that the [...]
Last year, Queens resident Augusto Noguera was appointed to an administrative role in Paraguay's consulate in NY, apparently "as payback for supporting [its President Fernando] Lugo and other candidates in last year’s elections," according to the NY Times. Only, it turned out that Noguera [...]
President Obama's just-get-me-a-bill-dammit approach to health care reform is rooted in the calculation that a signing ceremony would be a major political winner for the White House in the 2010 elections.
In his latest "60 Minutes" sit-down on Sunday night, the president offered a preview of the triumphant spin [...]
To anyone closely watching the recent City Council elections, a small set of races took an interesting turn in the summer. The Independence Party of New York, typically something of a passive player in city politics, suddenly became actively involved in outer-borough contests, pushing hard for four or [...]
A analysis of Board of Elections data has determined that Charles Montgomery Burns, the nuclear power magnate immortalized in The Simpsons, would have won the recent NYC mayoral election, had it just been limited to write-in votes. A mysteriously-funded "grassroots" campaign to install Burns [...]
Aren’t these the people who want the state to refinance Tobacco Bonds?
Not quite sure what to make of this, but this comes from the July 15 Board of Elections filing for the NYS Democratic Senate Campaign Committee. It’s a $10,000 donation from JP Morgan [...]
One of the arguments in support of the creation of New York City Campaign Finance Law was that by providing funds to insurgent candidates and limiting the amounts that could be contributed, City elections would become more competitive.
With the huge number of incumbents getting re-elected since the law came into [...]
