NY Times: Hatch Weighs In on Tax Status of ‘Super PACs’
-By Jonathan Weisman March 9, 2012- Senator Orrin Hatch, Republican of Utah, joined the fight over the tax status of “Super PACS” on Friday, accusing Senate Democrats of a “politically…
Huffington Post: Ken Griffin, Billionaire Romney Backer, Says Super Rich Have ‘An Insufficient Influence’ On Politics
-By Alana Horowitz March 11, 2012- A billionaire backer of Mitt Romney said that the wealthy have "an insufficient influence" on politics and policy. In an interview with the Chicago…
Huffington Post: IRS May Make Political Groups Pay Dearly for Keeping Donors Secret — And Out Them
-By Dan Froomkin March 8, 2012- WASHINGTON -- For years, the IRS has done little or nothing to check the rise of overtly political groups that claim a special tax-exempt…
Wisconsin State Journal: Judge grants temporary injunction barring enforcement of voter ID law in April election
-By Ed Treleven and Mary Spicuzza March 6, 2012- A Dane County judge on Tuesday barred the enforcement of the state photo ID law at polling places during the general…
Huffington Post: Super PAC Backlash: Washington Post/ABC News Poll Says 69% Of Voters Want Groups Outlawed
-By Benjamin Hart March 13, 2012- A new Washington Post/ABC News poll found that super PACs, the political organizations that allow donors to contribute unlimited amounts of money in support…
Huffington Post: Secret Campaign Spending Under Attack By Reform Groups
-By Dan Froomkin March 12, 2012- WASHINGTON -- CEOs may think twice before making what they intend to be secret campaign donations from their corporate treasuries, now that a progressive…
The Brad Blog: Kaptur Defeats Kucinich 94% to 4% on 100% Unverifiable E-Vote Systems in Toledo, OH?
Is that even plausible?... -By Brad Friedman March 9, 2012- Earlier today, we highlighted Rachel Maddow's latest report on the "GOP War on Voting" which, among many other important things,…
Think Progress: Scalia Rewrites History, Claims 5-4 Bush v. Gore Decision ‘Wasn’t Even Close’
-By Ian Millhiser March 9, 2012- During a speech at Wesleyan University last night, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia offered a strange revision of the time he joined with four…
NPR: The Fight Over Voter ID Laws Goes To The United Nations
-by Corey Dade March 9, 2012- The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People announced it will appear before the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva next week…
NY Times: Scrutiny of Political Nonprofits Sets Off Claim of Harassment
-By Jonathan Weisman March 6, 2012- WASHINGTON — The Internal Revenue Service is caught in an election-year struggle between Democratic lawmakers pressing for a crackdown on nonprofit political groups and…
The Register: Election hacked, drunken robot elected to school board
Experts warn e-voting systems decades away from security -By Iain Thomson March 1, 2012- Security experts have warned that electronic voting systems are decades away from being secure, and to…
PC World: Hackers Elect Futurama’s Bender to the Washington DC School Board
-By Kevin Lee March 2, 2012- Electronic voting has earned a pretty bad reputation for being insecure and completely unreliable. Well, get ready to add another entry to e-voting's list…