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Absentee Voting
Introduction Despite the ballot security concerns it raises, absentee-by-mail voting is an integral part of North Carolina’s election system. Voting absentee is a three-step process. First, voters must request an…
James Baker
American lawyer and statesman (born 1930)
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Lamenting the ‘Censored Generation’
Thomas Buckley writes for Issues and Insights about the implications of the “Twitter Files” and related Big Tech scandals. Incredulity. Astonishment. Disgust. Anger. It is these feelings – amongst others – that…
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Big Tech, Intelligence Agencies Have Disturbing Links
Mark Hemingway of the Federalist highlights a strong link between Big Tech companies and the federal government’s intelligence apparatus. According to the latest drop of “Twitter Files” from Michael Shellenberger,…
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Troy highlights a former force in American politics
Tevi Troy reviews for the Wall Street Journal a new biography of a major 20th-century American political figure. A first-term White House chief of staff faces three great tasks: avoid…
Elections & Public Integrity
Trump, the ‘Swamp,’ and enforcement of the Hatch Act
Dan McLaughlin of National Review Online considers a new Trump-related controversy in context. The Trump campaign is under fire in some quarters for violating the Hatch Act during the Republican…
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Bipartisan Recommendation Gets in the Way of the Left’s Voter I.D. Rhetoric
Carolina Journal’s Karen McMahan reports here on the 2005, 21-member bipartisan Commission on Federal Election Reform, which advocated for voter I.D. The commission was co-chaired by former President Jimmy Carter…
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Civility about photo IDs for voters? If only
Richard Ford at the Durham Republican Party web site has some wise words about the effort to put some ballot security in the voter-registration and voting system. He points out…
Elections & Public Integrity
Another rabid right-winger who supports voter ID: Jimmy Carter
John Gizzi of Human Events documents the 39th president’s support for a photo identification requirement for voters: In an op-ed feature in the the New York Times (Feb. 3, 2008),…
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Photo ID Requirements for Voting
Should North Carolina pass a law requiring voters to show photo IDs at the polls? I wrote about this issue in the latest Rights and Regulation newsletter. Sign up today…
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Echoes of history
Given recent news, I had to chuckle when I read the following passage from The Crusader (Regan, 2006), Grove City College poli. sci. professor Paul Kengor’s account of Ronald Reagan’s…
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Rich People Don’t Deserve to be Paid for Their Work?
That’s the implication in a Washington Post story by Dana Milbank about a leaked list of salaries earned by high-level White House employees. The paragraph in question reads as follows:…