SchwartzReport: America’s Electoral Nightmare — Global Laughingstock for Lack of Integrity

If we cannot tell ourselves the truth, corrective choices are not possible. Here is the truth about the integrity of America’s electoral process. We come in 26th in the world, one step above Mexico. Nothing to be proud of. America’s election nightmare: How voter ID, gerrymandering & fundraising made us a laughingstock Here’s what happens …

SchwartzReport: Congressman Confesses 9 Crimes — #ElectoralReform

The Congress has become so fundamentally degraded we are beginning to see whistleblowers telling us the suppressed truth. This is the state of American democracy, and it is not a happy story. Not particularly his first point, that Congresspersons are not out of touch with the people that elect them. Ultimately in a democracy people …

Richard Winger: US Electoral Reform Update

To help future “other” presidential candidates, we need a change in the rules for the Commission on Presidential Debates; we need to eliminate the electoral college; we need ballot access reform in many states; we need to advance ranked-choice voting.  There are areas of activism proceeding right now in all those areas:

Jean Lievens: Physical space and ‘Occupy’ tactics: a new trend in civil resistance?

Physical space and ‘Occupy’ tactics: a new trend in civil resistance? Given the importance of broad, diverse, and sustained participation, it remains to be seen whether movements have been doing themselves a favor or a disservice by allowing themselves to be defined by the site of occupation or by the tactic itself, and not by …

Greg Palast: GOP Disenfranchising 3.5 Million Voters — Obama Doing the “Al Gore” (Rolling Over and Playing Dead for Money) — Electoral Reform, Anyone?

GOP-led Purge Threat to 3.5 Million Voters Election officials in 27 states, most of them Republicans, have launched a program that threatens a massive purge of voter rolls, especially targeting minority voters. Al Jazeera America has obtained 2.1 million names from the target lists,  kept confidential until now.  Experts reviewing the lists conclude it is …