Move To Amend: Madison and Dane County WI Voters Support Constitutional Amendment
April 6, 2011- Last night voters in Madison, WI and Dane County, WI voted on two seperate resolutions to support a United States Constitutional Amendment that would declare that only…
Buzzflash: Is the Shadowy World of ALEC and the Koch Brothers Leading the GOP’s Charge to Suppress the Youth Vote?
April 4, 2011- BuzzFlash at Truthout suggests you read the well-received first column on ALEC, "Smart ALEC: Dragging the Secretive Conservative Organization Out of the Shadows." Nearly forty years after…
Milwaukee Labor Press: Imagine what 7,500 surprise votes should tell us
April 8, 2011- On Thursday, April 7, in the required statewide canvas of election results, the Milwaukee County election clerk reported 7,500 more votes discovered in West Allis for JoAnne…
Biz Times Daily: State Government Accountability Board to inspect Waukesha votes
April 8, 2011- Kevin Kennedy, director and general counsel of the Wisconsin Government Accountability Board (GAB), announced today he is dispatching staff to inspect and review the election night procedures…
ProtectOurElections.org Calls for DoJ Investigation into Vote Count Irregularities in Waukesha County, WI
For Immediate Release: ProtectOurElections.org Calls for Department of Justice Investigation into Vote Count Irregularities in Waukesha County, Wisconsin WASHINGTON, April 8, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In a stunning development Thursday, 14,315…
NYT: Op-Ed: Bring Donors Out of the Shadows
April 3, 2011- The billionaire industrialist brothers Charles and David Koch have drawn sharp criticism for their extensive giving to libertarian causes. Though some of their organizational ties are public,…
Talking Points Memo: As Voter ID Laws Spread Across Statehouses, House GOP Telegraphs Anti-Voter Fraud Bill
April 1, 2011- With voter ID laws popping up in Republican-controlled statehouses across the country, could a federal bill be far off? According to data from the Democratic Legislative Campaign…
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Federal judge dismisses free speech challenges to campaign funding
Groups argued against provision that gives candidates extra money if outside spending reaches threshold March 31, 2011- A federal judge in Madison on Thursday dismissed two challenges to Wisconsin's law…
Slate: Rich Candidate Expected To Win Again
Does the Supreme Court care more about free speech for the wealthy than about political corruption? March 25, 2011- Imagine you want to run for office, say for a seat…
Think Progress: REPORT: From Poll Taxes To Voter ID Laws: A Short History of Conservative Voter Suppression
March 27, 2011- Thursday, ThinkProgress reported that the Ohio House had approved the most restrictive voter id law in the nation — a bill that would exclude 890,000 Ohioans from…
Mother Jones: Money Talks — And Talks, and Talks, and Talks….
March 28, 2011- Several years ago Arizona passed a clean elections law that provides state subsidies for candidates who follow certain rules. One provision of the law states that if…
CREW: All Eyes on the Supreme Court… Again.
March 28, 2011- Today, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a pair of cases that have campaign finance reformers on edge. McComish v. Bennett and Arizona Free Enterprise Club’s…
USA Today: Our view: Leave public financing in elections
March 29, 2011- Political corruption in Arizona in the 1990s was so bad that a sting operation swept up almost 10% of the Legislature in a scheme to open a…
Minnesota Daily: End invisible funding
Campaign finances should be more regularly reported. March 28, 2011- Gov. Mark Dayton pledged to release his campaign finance reports more frequently last week as part of his push toward…
Common Blog: High court weighs Arizona clean elections law.
March 28, 2011- The Supreme Court today heard its first arguments on campaign finance since last year’s Citizens United decision; the early returns were not encouraging for reform advocates. In…