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"Bubble Trouble on the Ballot: A complicated system and confusing ballot may have spoiled the vote for many independents."
The LA Times has posted this oped of mine. It begins: Election administrators have a tough job. They need to pull off a massive voting and vote-counting effort in a short time frame with a limited budget and a slew...

A parental notification ballot measure was certified last week for the California state ballot in November.
The proposed measure would amend the California constitution to require parental notification and a 48-hour waiting period before allowing a minor to obtain an abortion...

'Til Ballot Initiative Do Us Part: Marriage Equality, Religion and Civil Rights - What Happened on November 4th? The Confluence of Race, Religion, Sexual Orientation and Politics at the Ballot Box
Prof. Helen Alvaré, George Mason University School of Law Prof. Mary Frances Berry (invited), Segal Professor of American Social Thought and Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania; Former Chair, U...

Ballot Duplication, Here We Come
So in addition to all of the other problems in California with paper ballots, it sounds like, in several places including Riverside, if you cast a paper ballot and marked too dark, YOUR ballot won't get counted but the ballot that is being cast for you by the duplicating board will...

Secret Ballot
Chief Justice Roberts and his wife, Jane, are two of just 33 people in their county's half a million voters to use a little-known “confidential voter” exception to Maryland's public records law, which allows them to avoid having to list their address, birth date, party affiliation and history of electoral participation.

Dog Racing Ban Can Appear on Ballot
Yesterday, in Carney v. Attorney General, the Supreme Judicial Court upheld Attorney General Martha Coakley's decision to certify a ballot question on dog tracks in Massachusetts...