Month: September 2014

September 9, 2014

The last primaries of 2014 are being held Tuesday–and independent voters could decide some major contests in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island. Independent or unaffiliated voters are the largest group in New England: In Massachusetts, 53% of voters are registered independents; in Rhode Island, 51% are; and in New Hampshire 43% of voters are independents–about the national average. In Rhode Island, almost 60% of the voters enrolling this year chose not to register with a party, the Providence Journal reported. Those figures should alarm Republicans and Democrats.
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September 5, 2014

There have been several dramatic reversals in the Kansas Senate race this week affecting Democrats’ hopes for defeating Republican incumbent Sen. Pat Roberts. Democratic candidate Chad Taylor announced Wednesday he was withdrawing from the race without giving any reason. But Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, a Republican, determined Thursday that Mr. Taylor’s name would remain on the November ballot as the Democratic candidate.
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September 4, 2014

In a victory for voting rights, a federal judge in Ohio overturned Republican plans to cut back on the state’s early, evening and weekend voting and eliminate same-day registration and voting. The Ohio League of Women Voters, the state NAACP and the American Civil Liberties Union filed the legal challenge to the cutbacks adopted by the state’s Republican-controlled legislature. The U.S. Justice Department also intervened in the case, arguing that reducing early voting disproportionately affects African Americans, who use early voting more than white voters.
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