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The nonpartisan, nonprofit Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) today announced the formats for the three Presidential and one Vice-Presidential General election debates it will sponsor… Read More

Federal Election Observers can only be sent to Five States in this year’s U.S. Presidential election, among the smallest deployments since the Voting Rights Act was passed in 1965 to e… Read More

This year’s election in the US is unlike any that we have ever seen. There has been a populist movement that has nominated Donald Trump for the republicans. Despite what you might thin… Read More

Texas Senator Ted Cruz fails to endorse Donald Trump as Republican nominee, drawing angry boos during his speech at the party convention in Cleveland. Donald Trump. Picture by nymag.comSourc… Read More

The LA-based artist Plastic Jesus has surrounded Donald Trump’s star on Hollywood Boulevard with a 15cm-high wall Source: US election: Artist builds wall around Trump’s Hollywood… Read More

I scanned the RealClear's Election 2016 Presidential Polls site to see what the states would look like if the polls where between Trump (R), Clinton (D), Johnson (LIB) and Stein (Green). Th… Read More

It’s been nearly three years since the U.S. Supreme Court stuck its gavel in where it didn’t belong and gutted a key part of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Predictably, states wi… Read More

Nevada uses an Electronic system to record votes, and the integrity of the system suffers problems with accuracy, accountability, and security. With the November 2016 election looming, there… Read More

I scanned the RealClear's Election 2016 Presidential Polls site to see what the states would look like if the polls where between Trump (R), Clinton (D), Johnson (LIB) and Stein (Green). Th… Read More

Thanks to Richard Winger of Ballot Access news for this post. California has been using a Top-Two Primary Election system, except Presidential, since 2011. But this November's General Elec… Read More

In the Kansas Primary Election yesterday, Gov. Brownback supporting Conservatives found themselves going down in flames, with incumbents being thrown out of office in races from Johnson Coun… Read More

New York Federal Candidates for 2016 General Election Democratic President/Vice-President - Hillary Clinton/Tim Kaine Senate - Charles E. Schumer Congress 1st District - Anna E. Throne-H… Read More

I scanned the RealClear's Election 2016 Presidential Polls site to see what the states would look like if the polls where between Trump (R), Clinton (D), Johnson (LIB) and Stein (Green). Th… Read More

For many Americans, the same relatable story seems to play out every Election Day: It’s the end of a long workday, and you’re too busy picking up the kids, running errands, or tr… Read More

Primary Election voters have all the fun. And a lot of the power. Those who wait and only mark their ballots for the General Election, rather than participate in the Primary, see only the n… Read More

I scanned the RealClear's Election 2016 Presidential Polls site to see what the election would look like if the polls where between Clinton (D),Trump (R), Johnson (LIB) and Stein (Green). T… Read More

So I’ve been working on my post about the Democratic National Convention (which I’m finding very difficult to write, for a number of reasons) and I’m hoping to get it onlin… Read More

Thanks to Richard Winger of Ballot Access News for this post. California Election code section 13105(c) says, “If for a general election any candidate for President or Vice President… Read More

Eight indigenous candidates are running for Congress, up from two in 2014. Over 90 are running for State Legislatures, again exceeding previous years. Clinton ran Campaign ads in Navajo and… Read More

I scanned the RealClear's Election 2016 Presidential Polls site to see what the election would look like if the polls where between Clinton (D),Trump (R), Johnson (LIB) and Stein (Green). T… Read More

Legislative Updates California: Legislation that would move California to all vote-by-mail and Election Day Vote centers was approved by the General Assembly this week, on a party line vote… Read More

Donald Trump was not expected to win Minnesota, but he very nearly didn't even have the chance to try. And the reason is a perfect reminder of all the things that can go wrong when a candida… Read More

A divided Illinois Supreme Court narrowly ruled Thursday that a Voter referendum seeking to change how Illinois draws political boundaries is unconstitutional, making it ineligible to appear… Read More

Over the years, Trump Campaign Manager Steve Bannon's alt-right advocacy site, Breitbart.com, has carried on a very energetic attack on vote fraud. So it is more than a little ironic to find… Read More

Earlier this month, North Carolina asked the Justices to halt a Lower-Court ruling that blocked the implementation of its controversial 2013 Election law, including provisions requiring vote… Read More

A Federal Appeals Court on Friday seemed to reach a limited compromise in the controversy over Wisconsin’s Voter Identification law, which has been in the crosshairs of multiple lawsui… Read More

The Vote Yes on V campaign is a diverse group of leaders: Democrats, Republicans, and independents, responding to the National anger over an election system rigged against the voters. Nearly… Read More

When I heard that Ann Coulter, in a throwback to the 2012 election cycle (albeit a bit earlier in this time) had used the word “retard” again, I wasn’t going to write about… Read More

The writing is on the wall. The Zombies/Aliens/Foreigners are coming. Your survival gear, soldier, has to be in top notch shape, otherwise you might be in for an rough time. Spending a day r… Read More

A highway sign marking Hurricane Evacuation Route Because of the US election, I’ve been watching a lot of CNN these days. Last week I saw part of a press conference given by the govern… Read More

In a world where women continue to be demeaned by men in the public eye who feel that it is OK for the brotherhood to belittle and disrespect women; palming it off as locker room s… Read More

A Facebook friend, a mother with an autistic child, called attention on her profile last night to an “Autism Mom” hoodie that she’d seen advertised: It’s hard to rea… Read More

In these unstable times, our shrinking and volatile world needs us all to pull together and unite more than ever before. I hardly had time to mourn the implications of Brexit, when I be… Read More

So, Donald Trump and Election Night 2016. It’s taken me a couple of days to figure out what I want and need to write about Election Night 2016 and Donald Trump’s win. I was on th… Read More

With the election of Donald Trump many of the standard political categories and definitions no longer apply. Is Trump a conservative, a populist, a neo-con, a moderate, a nationalist? How do… Read More

The Free Black space response to TaNehisi Coates' "The Case for Reparations" published a little over two years ago in The Atlantic discussed African American activist writing as a form of i… Read More

Michelle Obama, Green Party Candidate for President(a speculative never-gonna-happen in 3 thoughts)Is this a long shot? Certainly. There are myriad reasons why Michelle Obama will never run… Read More

My son hits me up to tell me about a black smog in China. He don't really text me like that these days. His dad is another country not working for the U.S. Government or the military at th… Read More

Hillary Clinton Won the Popular Vote: So Why is Trump the Next President?At this point, everyone knows Hillary Clinton won the popular vote by approximately 2.5 million votes. She received… Read More

Popular Vote Issues Surrounding The Recent Presidential Election  November. 8, 2016 marked yet another historic day in the United States… Read More

A couple of years ago, millions of people around the globe witnessed the death rock ‘n’ roll. Not the metaphorical death knell or last gasp that Lester Gropes would suggest. Rock… Read More

How technology helped Trump win the elections After the election night, a lot of people in the USA accused Exit Poll technologies and social s… Read More

There’s so much to say about Donald Trump right now. But there’s also some things I want to say about his ten-year-old son, Barron Trump, that I think we need to remember as we g… Read More

The poet Robert Burns once said, “There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.” That sentiment rings true for small businesses throughout the U.S. as the dust of the 2016 presid… Read More

As we get further and further into this new digital world, we see digital technology and robotics growing at a rapid pace. It seems to be grow… Read More

Only Days In Office and Trump DESTROYS Years Of Bad Policy -Nate PilateI paced back and forth in my backyard sipping my 5th cup of coffee smoking a cigarette on the first sunny day in San Fr… Read More

This is an open letter to Donald Trump Dear Donald Trump, You are my hero, you got onto that stage that one night and I heard you say that you love the poorly educated. When I heard you say… Read More

FHA loans drop .25% to help the stimulate mortgages after the rate increase.U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro said on Monday the Federal Housing Administratio… Read More

Trump and Duterte, I am a filipino American and this is how I feel.Donald Trump, Duterte, my presidents as a Filipino-born American citizen and how I feel about it.Download my new game on th… Read More

refinance your home, but here are 3 things you need to know before you refinance your home.A Refinance may lower your monthly mortgage payment but it doesn't mean it's the best move, here ar… Read More

Download my new game on the Google Play Store "Flappy Arpeezy."Okay so first in foremost I am going to go into details and just snitch on every man out there. Here are the deep dark sec… Read More

Is anyone really normal? normal, what does that even mean? We're all a bit crazy in more ways than one. Where do we draw the line on that?Picture in your mind the male/female relationships… Read More

The FBI investigation into the Trump campaign’s contacts with the Kremlin.President Donald Trump’s administration this week faced potentially explosive investigations into its co… Read More

“After three months wandering in a postelection wilderness,” said Doyle McManus in the Los Angeles Times, the Democratic Party seems finally to have settled on a strategy for sur… Read More

The “reign of King Trump” has begun, said Robert Reich on Salon.com and journalists had better watch out. America’s new president made no secret of his contempt for the &ld… Read More

The “reign of King Trump” has begun, said Robert Reich in Salon.com, and if there’s anything tyrants hate, it’s “the free press.” Throughout his campaign… Read More

With the French presidential elections so close (the first round begins April 23rd), politics has taken over the water-cooler talk in our Paris offices.  This inevitably got me thinking… Read More

What could be more enjoyable than a seemingly dedicated grandfather figure looking over his wide-eyed and equally loving grandchildren? This appears to be the narrative of most so-called Ber… Read More

Content Note: Sexism, Crude commentsImage Description: Roadway stop sign *** I asked you all not to make me do this again — to make me write something where it comes across… Read More

Content Note: Ableism, Healthcare, Politics, Trump, Mental Health Image Description: Senator Susan Collins, a white woman with short red hair wearing a dark blazer, white blouse, and pearls… Read More