Tag: voting
Supreme Court holds back critical step against gerrymandering
Judge James A. Wynn Jr. of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit struck down North Carolina’s congressional districting map, claiming...
Highlander Diaries: Elections
Elections have come and gone and we must say “au revoir” to the tediously covered and highly controversial campaign that comprised of the first...
Funny or Die’s Jokes for Votes uses comedy to make young...
Jokes for Votes has become the first-ever comedy-laced voter registration tour in the world, being put on by Funny or Die, a comedy TV...
Prison voting: Who will bail us out of this decision?
On September 28, California Governor Jerry Brown signed off on a bill that will enable felons to vote in elections while still in county...
Elections controversies flare up in ASUCR
Tensions have spiked in ASUCR after two senate meetings, during which the removal of a laptopping bylaw and an attempt to overturn an executive...
ASUCR overturns executive order to reinstate justices; to vote on censure
In an early morning senate meeting, eight ASUCR senators, enough to supply a quorum, gathered to unanimously overturn an executive order by ASUCR President...
Why voters can hope for improvement in how they vote
California officials are considering making a transition to elections conducted exclusively by mail. In recent years, more than half the ballots cast in California’s...
United Community of Riverside: First Amendment Remedies
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of...
Proposition 47 and the reduction of prison populations
Californian midterm elections are almost here, and when heading to the booth on Nov. 4, a ballot to keep in mind is Proposition 47....
One Prop, Two Prop, Three Prop, Our Prop
California’s ballot propositions are a trademark of this state’s aggressively forward-thinking attitude and the most recognizable of the 22 states that allow both initiatives...