Post-Election Payback: Reporters’ Workshop 4/26 and 4/27 - OpenSecrets Blog
http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2013/04/post-election-payback-reporter-trai.html
political payback to generous campaign donors is often subtle: Where should reporters start looking?
Arizona’s Barrier to the Right to Vote - NYTimes.com
Arizona’s Proposition 200, passed in 2004, prohibits local officials from registering any would-be voter who does not provide “satisfactory evidence of United States citizenship.” That requirement conflicts with the National Voter Registration Act of 1993, also known as the Motor Voter Act, which set up a national registration system for federal elections.
Overcoming Islamophobia in US elections
http://www.commongroundnews.org/article.php?id=30942&lan=en&sp=0
Newark, Delaware - Islam has become an important part of American discourse leading up to the 2012 federal elections and candidates everywhere appear eager to take a position on Islam for political gain. Across the country, rising Islamophobia has made it difficult for some Muslims to build mosques and practice their faith, although their right to do so is enshrined in the First Amendment of the US Constitution.
In the current race for the presidential nomination, some presidential candidates are invoking Islam and Muslims in a negative fashion in an attempt to bolster their popularity with populations they perceive to be suspicious of Muslims or Islam. For example, if elected, former presidential candidate Herman Cain promised not to appoint Muslims to his cabinet.
Les musulmans sont les juifs d’aujourd’hui. Le succès de Marine Le Pen aujourd’hui repose sur la certitude de son islamophobie. Elle sera au premier tour de l’élection, j’en suis certain. De la même manière que la montée d’Adolf Hitler n’a pas été contrecarrée parce que le monde entier de l’époque était antisémite, l’islamophobie actuelle est aussi mondiale et un argument pour toute élection.
Belgium, from Model to Case Study for Conflict Resolution
Une analyse bien décalée, hors-sol et à côté de la plaque.
“One way forward is the creation of a nation-wide electoral district for federal elections in which every Belgian, regardless of residence, can vote for Flemish and Walloon candidates.”