The DNC ruled that because Florida and Michigan held their primaries earlier than party rules allow, Florida and Michigan delegates will not be allowed to vote at the convention. Apparently the party feels that the voters of those states should be disenfranchised because their representatives broke party rules. Now there’s a big controversy [...]

Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. explains that Ron Paul Has Already Won.
Ron Paul is the only “mainstream” candidate I would prefer over Barack Obama, but it seems unlikely that he’ll be able to win the Republican nomination.

Larry’s blog entry links to both a video and a transcript.

On the De Anza College campus yesterday, I happened onto a pile of leftover Easy Voter Guides.  While in general I think it was a well-prepared and useful guide, I did find one suggestion in it rather funny.  Under “How to Decide Which Way to Vote on a Proposition”, one method they suggest is “Find [...]

H.R. 811, the Voter Confidence and Increased Accessibility Act of 2007,  would require all voting systems to have a voter-verified paper trail, which would allow us to trust touchscreen voting machines.  This would ensure that recounts are possible.  Current machines from Diebold and some other vendors have no paper trail, and recounts are not possible.  [...]