Elections
We hear a lot, righteously, about Republicans who would not vote to certify an election that didn’t turn out their way. I am not suggesting an equivalency between Donald J. Trump’s unsubstantiated claims of a “stolen election” (plus the GOP’s effort to install false electors) with anything
Elections
There seems to be a hole, plus unanswered questions, in Gov. Josh Shapiro’s much ballyhooed Automatic Voter Registration (AVR) policy, an updated version of what’s been called motor voter. City Commissioner Lisa Deeley couldn’t come to the phone The policy states that any eligible person obtaining a
Politics
Democrats hired a network executive to produce its January 6 hearings as, well, entertainment. In entertainment, you want to lead with sensation, to create buzz. If possible, you want to save the best for last because the last thing is what the audience best remembers. Last week’s hearing did
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I’ve got a gift for timing. On the very day I posted a column supporting mail-in ballots, a story broke about a South Philly Democratic committeeman and judge of elections who had ballot-stuffed in three recent elections, which I will talk about later. It was like Fate giving my
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I am doing something many Trumpsters think is dangerous — I am voting by mail. In fact, I already have. I have mailed in my primary ballot. I have made a voting statement, not a political statement. President Donald J. Trump has said voting by mail was “corrupt” in an April