At OpenCDA.com, Bill McCrory reports that losing challenger Jim Brannon has filed an amendment to his lawsuit challenging the 2009 Coeur d'Alene city elections, dropping Kootenai County, County Clerk Dan English, and ex-county election administrator Deedie Beard from the list of defendants. The amended suit also seeks an injunction preventing' [...]
Eleven months before crucial midterm elections, a national poll indicates that the public is divided over whether the country would be better off with Democrats or Republicans controlling Congress. According to a CNN/Opinion Research Corp. survey released Thursday, 40 percent of people questioned say the U.S. would be better off [...]
In a Dec. 3 comment below a post discussing Jim Brannon's court challenge of the Nov. 3 Coeur d'Alene municipal elections, "The Bashing Begins," Mary Souza encourages her troops to donate to the losing candidate: "Anyone can donate by going to jimbrannon.com, where they can use the donate button to send money through'" [...]
Lizard People: Is there a political way forward for the Alternative Right at all? I don't think so, but there are elections coming up, you know. Some people seem to think Ron Paul might run again in 2012. It's possible. We have other options, actually, and it is' [...]
According to our friends at OpenCDA.com and its "reliable source," Judge John Mitchell has disqualified himself from hearing the case involving challenger Jim Brannon's lawsuit to overturn the Coeur d'Alene municipal elections. I'll check that out in a bit. I'll post this Wild Card first, in case some of your' [...]
The matter has been lost in the local blogosphere. Until now. Before Christmas, Larry Spencer challenged the right of Army Sgt. Maj. Gregory A. Proft to vote in the local elections, based on residency. And Proft fired back in a Coeur d’Alene Press comment below a Spencer letter [...]
The Stranger requested a bunch of data from King County Elections in order to figure out what the heck happened in November, and while we're still playing around with what we received, our first cut at the data shows a jump in participation by younger voters in the 2009 mayor's [...]
Responding to a conspiracy theorist that compares Councilman Mike Kennedy to a Chicago machine politician (where do they find these guys?), Mary Souza of OpenCDA.com is seeking doughnations for Jim Brannon's court challenge to the Coeur d'Alene elections. Writes Mary: "Anyone can donate by going to jimbrannon.com, where they can'" [...]
The losing candidate in a Coeur d’Alene City Council race filed a lawsuit Monday challenging the outcome, naming all council members as defendants, along with the mayor, the city clerk, and Kootenai County’s clerk and elections manager/Alison Boggs, SR. More here. And: Copy of Brannon lawsuit here.
Monday's Poll: Only [...]Update: You can read a copy of Brannon's lawsuit here (sorry it's upside-down)
The losing candidate in a Coeur d’Alene City Council race on Monday filed a lawsuit challenging the race, naming all council members as defendants, along with the mayor, the city clerk, and Kootenai County’s clerk and elections manager. In the November [...]
At the Coeur d'Alene Press web site, Army Sgt. Major Gregory A. Proft responds from Iraq to Larry Spencer's challenge to his right to cast a ballot in the Coeur d'Alene City Council elections. (You can read the entire response, at 10:50 a.m., under a recent letter that [...]
At 9:00 a.m. tomorrow, the canvassing board for King County Elections will meet to certify the election. Just seven hours later, Dow Constantine will be sworn in as the next county executive. (Because he is replacing an interim executive, he doesn't wait until the new year like other recently elected' [...]
Vote-by-mail advocates have long argued that the system increases voter participation, particularly in traditionally low-turnout off-year elections, and this recent general election certainly doesn’t provide any evidence to the contrary. Indeed, when compared to other cities, Seattle’s off-year turnout is simply off the charts.
HA comment thread regular N in Seattle, [...]
It seems to me that in at least four “major” elections recently there have been some rather strange post-election goings on. OK, I know that it’s a lot more than just four– we can probably go back to the invention of the ballot to find accusations of voter fraud – [...]
Here’s another interesting list, this one that claims to be “The 25 Best Movie Performances of the Decade.” And of course there are many worthy selections on it. But as the comments show, there are many others that, for one reason or another, got left off. In fact, [...]
At only 42.96%, eight points below the statewide average, Pierce County had the lowest voter turnout in the state in the 2009 general election. Pierce is also the only county in the state without all mail-in elections.
Hmm.
[...]Another day ... more paranoia from the local conspiracy theorists re: the results of the Coeur d'Alene City Council elections (see: Spencer letter to Coeur d'Alene Press below). I've heard that Spencer and his shock troops are only one of several layers of Repubs, local and regional, who've bombarded county [...]
As of the close of business, Wednesday 11/4/2009, the day after the election, King County Elections had 572,611 total mail-in ballots on hand. As of the close of business yesterday, Tuesday 11/17/2009, two weeks after the election, KCE had counted 570,280 total mail-in ballots, with an estimated 1,400 [...]
Lately it seems many supposedly nonpartisan elections are becoming less and less so. The Idaho Republican Party in June called for the party to participate in nonpartisan local elections and to identify and support the election of Republican candidates to city councils, school boards and other local government posts. The [...]
But wait… I thought the King County Council was officially nonpartisan…?
When Constantine is sworn in next Tuesday, that will leave eight councilmembers to decide his replacement: four Democrats and four Republicans.
Five Democrats, including Constantine, voted for the selection process while all Republicans voted against it.
Voters last year made council elections [...]
Earwitnesses in the City Hall hallway on the day of the canvassing for the Coeur d'Alene city elections last Monday tell Huckleberries of an interesting comment made by Gary Ingram. Seems Ingram, who was with Jim Doty at the time, spotted Kennedy entering the hallway and said: "There's the most'" [...]
The cost of democracy in America is mind-boggling. As of Nov. 1, without even considering federal, state, and county elections, Seattle alone has campaigns that will spend over $5.3 million. Think about what that kind of money would do for some of our more egregious social, environmental, or infrastructure problems. [...]
Wow, now this has certainly raised the stakes in Northwest Congressional 
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