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Early voting reinstated in Ohio

October 5, 2012
The Washington Post

By Robert Barnes, Published: October 5

A federal appeals court on Friday sided with President Obama’s reelection campaign and said that if Ohio allows military voters to cast ballots in the three days leading to Election Day, it must extend the same opportunity to all voters.

A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit said the state had not shown why voting during the Saturday-Sunday-Monday period should be offered to only one group of voters.

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Reforms create competitive House races in Calif

September 26, 2012
The Huffington Post

GARANCE BURKE | September 26, 2012 02:39 AM EST |  

OAKLAND, Calif. — Democratic Rep. Pete Stark, the longest-serving member of California's largest-in-the-nation 

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Pennsylvania Supreme Court returns voter ID case to lower court

September 18, 2012
Reuters via the Tribune

September 18, 2012|Barbara Goldberg | Reuters

 

(Reuters) - The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ordered a lower court on Tuesday to reconsider its decision upholding a new state voter ID law, saying it should be blocked if voters would be shut out this Election Day by hurdles to obtaining ID cards.

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Van Hollen calls donor disclosure ruling 'blow against transparency'

September 18, 2012
the Baltimore Sun

September 18, 2012|Matthew Hay Brown
WASHINGTON — Rep. Chris Van Hollen called a federal court ruling allowing tax-exempt groups to conceal the identies of their donors “a blow against transparency in the funding of political campaigns.”

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia on Tuesday reversed a lower court ruling that directed such groups, which are spending millions of dollars on campaign advertising this election season, to name their donors.

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Voters Annoyed by Hard-to-Read Ballots

September 17, 2012
The New York Times

By MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM

Published: September 17, 2012

Some states want their voters to take ID cards to the polls.

In New York City, you may want to bring a magnifying glass.

Voters who trekked to the polls for Thursday’s primary races were handed ballots with candidates’ names printed in an eye-straining 7-point type, akin to the ingredient list on the side of a cereal box.

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Further Review for Secret Donations

August 1, 2012
New York Times

The ploy of disguising secretly financed political machines as tax-exempt “social welfare” organizations has become one of the alarming trademarks of modern, big-money politics. Under cover of the tax code, the identities of donors are kept secret while they pay for attack ads against candidates, all the while claiming their main purpose is civic and nonpartisan.

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Will Ohio count your vote? Enquirer in-depth: Voters' and poll workers'missteps trash thousands of ballots

July 28, 2012
Cincinnati Enquirer

Part one of two

Each election year, Ohio residents cast thousands of ballots that are not counted.

Despite efforts to simplify the state’s voting to avoid widespread discarding of ballots, it could happen again in November’s presidential race.

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Behind Big Political Gifts, a Mysterious Donor

July 27, 2012
New York Times

By RAYMOND HERNANDEZ, ALISON LEIGH COWAN and JO CRAVEN McGINTY


It is a small apartment in a scrubby section of Jamaica, Queens, where the average household income is $33,800 and many residents receive government assistance.

But from this unlikely a

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