"The commission's decision basically takes the hazards we've seen with electronic voting and puts them on steroids," said John Bonifaz, legal director of Voter Action, a nonprofit voting rights group that sent a letter last month to the Election Assistance Commission, the agency that released the proposed guidelines.
It's a new off-shoot of HeadCount, the New York City-based non-profit organization dedicated to voter action through music.
In 2015, the minimum wage in 23 US states and Washington, DC is set to rise to varying degrees, as a result of voter action in the 2014 midterm elections.
"Twenty-three states have legalized medical marijuana, most were the result of voter action.
Mainers voted for the Medicaid expansion last year, making it the first state to enact the policy through direct voter action.
Maine became the first state to adopt Medicaid expansion via direct voter action last November, although Gov. Paul LePage (R) thus far has refused to implement it.
For today's primary, in the absence of meaningful state or federal prevention of voting foul-ups, voters experiencing problems in Indiana and North Carolina are urged to call either Election Protection's hotline, 1-866-Our-Vote or the hotline of the Watch-My-Vote Coalition, which includes Voter Action and the NAACP-National Voter Fund (NVF), 1-866-My-Vote-1.
Tomorrow, it could be any other issue under the sun, and there's just no reason to poke a hole in the voting rights of Arizonans or to create a patchwork of special interest issues that are shielded from voter action by such subterfuge.
This explanation suggests a remedy, a way to align voters' actions with their intentions.
Voters' actions will vary, some thinking Corbyn had it coming, others that Cameron is a cad.
