The County Election, 1852. George Caleb Bingham. Saint Louis Art Museum
Missouri Secretary of State Robin Carnahan published a detailed report last week saying that Missouri voters generally fared well at the polls last November.
That was no accident. Despite huge turnouts, troubles were…
Hans von Spakovsky, the controversial former Federal elections commissioner, was in town over the summer at the invitation of the St. Louis chapter of the Federalist Society.
He participated in a panel discussion about anticipated problems with the upcoming national elections.
Here’s hoping you sail through the line at your polling place. But, just in case, here’s some advice that can help prevent problems on Election Day:
• Sample ballots. Get one before you go to the polls. Chances are you will make wiser…
In 36 days, millions of Americans will head for schools, churches, civic centers, libraries and fire houses in their communities to cast ballots in one of the most important elections in recent memory. What they find waiting for them when…
Election day is Nov. 4, which seems like a long way off. But election officials must scramble if they hope to stage an election that is fair and efficient and that can accommodate what may turn out to be a…
July 9 is your last day to register if you want to vote in Missouri’s August primary.
You have until Oct. 8 to register for the Nov. 4. general election.
Here are details for St. Louis City, St. Louis County, Jefferson County (very weak Web…
A group of Indiana nuns were turned away from a South Bend polling place last week because they lacked photo IDs, which are required to vote in that state. Now, their colleagues in St. Louis are urging Missouri lawmakers not to…
It’s nice to get some recognition, you know? You toil in obscurity, year after year, passing one rotten, lousy, no-good, special-interest bill after another. And all you hear about how bad the Texas Legislature is, or the Florida one or…
Eight days remain in the current session of the Missouri Legislature, and a sense of desperation seems to have taken hold among the Legislature’s Republican leaders. This could be the final gasp of the Republican revolution.
Should Democratic Attorney General Jay Nixon…
The Associated Press reports:
About 12 Indiana nuns were turned away Tuesday from a polling place by a fellow sister because they didn’t have state or federal identification bearing a photograph.
Sister Julie McGuire said she was forced to turn away…
OK you poor, you elderly and you handicapped: If you don’t drive and don’t have a birth certificate or the money to obtain one and want to vote in Indiana this fall, you better grab your walkers or your wheelchairs…
