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- 2020 Election information and endorsements
- Big data
- Democratic Party
- Electoral
- Money in politics
- Political campaigning, including financing
- Republican Party
- The 2016 Election
- Vote counting irregularities
Electronic voting machines, supplied primarily by one or two companies with ties to the Republican Party, have been suspected of being vulnerable to vote-flipping
- Voter fraud
- Voting districts
- Voting rights and access
- *Obama Reckons with a Trump Presidency
David Remnick, The New Yorker, Nov 28, 2016 Inside a stunned White House, the President considers his legacy and America’s future.
- *PBS Frontline - Climate of Doubt
Related Film: Climate of Doubt FRONTLINE explores the massive shift in public opinion on climate change.
- BBC Newshour Extra - Power to the People?
Listen in pop-out player British politics is in turmoil following the EU referendum result, and the American political establishment has been turned upside down by the rise of populist candidates. Is this a sign that democratic institutions are being successfully wrested from the grip of established elites, or that democracy itself is in crisis? Join Owen Bennett Jones and his panel of experts as they discuss whether there's a better way of doing democracy - and whether we should still be promoting it worldwide as the best form of government. Contributors Dr Roslyn Fuller - author of Beast and Gods: How Democracy Changed Its Meaning and Lost Its Purpose John Githongo - anti-corruption campaigner, founder-Executive Director of Transparency International, Kenya. William Galston - senior fellow in governance studies at the Brookings Institution, Washington. Former White House policy advisor to President Bill Clinton. Baroness Helena Kennedy QC - a Labour member of Britain's House of Lords. Principal of Mansfield College, Oxford University Broadcasts
- Ellie Kinnaird: Voting law changes hurt democracy
Ellie Kinnaird: Voting law changes hurt democracy
April 22, 2014, Chapel Hill News [no longer available?]
- Fresh Air - Deconstructing Gov. Chris Christie's 'Bridge To Redemption'
Deconstructing Gov. Chris Christie's 'Bridge To Redemption' NPR Fresh Air, January 25, 2016 "Journalist Matt Katz discusses Christie's rise to power in New Jersey, the "Bridgegate" scandal and his performance in the '16 Republican presidential primary. Katz is the author of American Governor."
- Fresh Air - Rigging An Election? It's Not So Easy, Voting Law Expert Says
Fresh Air, with Terry Gross, Oct. 25, 2016 Rick Hasen, founder of the Election Law Blog, discusses Donald Trump's claims of potential voter fraud.
- Fresh Air - The Mind-Boggling Story Of Our Arcane And Convoluted 'Primary Politics' (37 min)
NPR Fresh Air, with Terry Gross, 3/23/2016 Author Elaine Kamarck (Primary Politics) explains superdelegates, the difference between caucuses and primaries, what happens in a brokered convention and how the rules of primaries can sometimes change.
- In New Political Warfare, 'Armies Of Video Trackers' Swarm Candidates (37 min)
Heard on Fresh Air, May 26, 2016, Transcript available. New Yorker writer Jane Mayer discusses conservative activist James O'Keefe's latest botched sting operation, and the new kind of political opposition research O'Keefe pioneered.
- Joe Nocera - Are our courts for sale?
Are Our Courts for Sale?
Joe Nocera
NY Times, The Opinion Pages | Op-Ed Columnist
Oct. 27, 2014
- Mary Lou Bruner 2016 candidate for Texas Board of Education
- Michelle Goldberg - How David Brock Built an Empire to Put Hillary in the White House
This article appeared in the December 15-22, 2014 edition of The Nation, with the title "David Brock's Long Strange Trip"
- New Jim Martin Biography Explores His Contributions To NC GOP
New Jim Martin Biography Explores His Contributions To NC GOP Anita Rao & Frank Stasio, NPR The State of Things, 10/6/2015 Host Frank Stasio talks with former Governor Jim Martin and John Hood, conservative writer and commentator who authored the biography.
- NPR - When Drawing Districts, Should States Count Each Person Or Each Voter?
When Drawing Districts, Should States Count Each Person Or Each Voter? Nina Totenberg, NPR Morning Edition, December 8, 2015 "Until 1964, state legislative districts often varied wildly in population. In Alabama, for instance, the population variances between two state Senate districts was 41-1. In a landmark 1964 decision, the Supreme Court struck down the Alabama redistricting and ruled by an 8-1 vote that the 14th Amendment's guarantee of equal protection mandates the principle of "one person, one vote. "But what does that mean?"
- Pippa Norris - Why Elections Fail
Why Elections Fail, by Pippa Norris, Cambridge University Press, July 2015 Unfortunately too often elections around the globe are deeply flawed or even fail. What triggers these problems? In this second volume of her trilogy on electoral integrity, Pippa Norris compares structural, international, and institutional accounts as alternative perspectives to explain why elections fail to meet international standards. The book argues that rules preventing political actors from manipulating electoral governance are needed to secure integrity, although at the same time officials also need sufficient resources and capacities to manage elections effectively. Drawing on new evidence, the study determines the most effective types of strategies for strengthening the quality of electoral governance around the world. With a global perspective, this book provides fresh insights into these major issues at the heart of the study of elections and voting behavior, comparative politics, democracy and democratization, political culture, democratic governance, public policymaking, development, international relations and conflict studies, and processes of regime change.
- The Presidential Commission on Election Administration
- Timothy Egan - The Dumbed Down Democracy
Timothy Egan, August 26, 2016, NY Times, The Opinion Pages | Contributing Op-Ed Writer
- Tova Andrea Wang - A Rigged Report on U.S. Voting?
A Rigged Report on U.S. Voting? by Tova Andrea Wang, Washington Post, August 30, 2007
- Virginia Republican David Yancey Wins Tie-Breaking Drawing
Sarah McCammon, NPR, January 4, 2018 Virginia Republican David Yancey is the winner of a tie-breaking drawing for a House of Delegates seat, a result that appears to allow Republicans to barely hang on to control of the chamber. Each candidate's name was placed in a film canister; those were then placed into a bowl and one name was drawn.