Election Reform
The video obtained by the Projo of Erasmo Ramirez offering to sell mail-in ballots filled out for Anthony Gemma may not be direct evidence of voter fraud, given what voter fraud is commonly understood to mean. Consider the following: On the surveillance video, Robert Cappuccilli (the potential vote buyer) reads names and addresses off of…
The straight-ticket, straight-party or master lever (just a line in Rhode Island) is an anachronism from long ago and its time has more than come to be eliminated. Each year, a bill is submitted to the Assembly to eliminate it, but you can probably guess what happens to the bill. Yep, held for further study.…
Hm. I’m not sure what I think about this idea of a an instant runoff election, yet. In an instant-runoff election voters will rank candidates by preference. If in the election no candidate wins a majority the last place candidate is eliminated and the second choice pick of voters who selected that candidate counts. The…
Supporters of the “National Popular Vote” interstate compact for Presidential elections frequently explain that one of their goals is to have to have Presidential candidates pay attention to more than just a handful of “swing states” during their general election campaigns. But Rhode Island has the ability to increase its share of Presidential campaign attention…
We’ve finally gotten there, it’s time to fully eliminate political parties in RI. I’ve long advocated for this as the whole party system is extremely antiquated anyway. The only real purpose they served was in a time when it was very hard to disseminate information to everyone, where farmers could be miles separated from their…
Simon Van Zuylen-Wood–Brown grad and writer for the liberal New Republic–has written a piece trying to explain how “blue” Rhode Island has joined “red” states in passing a Voter ID law. His first instinct is that it’s about race. The perpetrators are all Hispanic and the accusers are mostly not. This underlines what is most…
When Rhode Island passed voter-ID into law this past summer, the RI Chapter of the ACLU responded by saying it had been passed “in order to address a non-existent problem of in-person voter fraud”. State Representative Charlene Lima, who has introduced a bill in this legislative session to repeal voter ID, told WPRO radio (630AM)…
As Patrick points out, while, apparently, voter fraud happens in Florida, it can’t happen here….right? Breitbart has more: A local Florida station invented an unprecedented way to check for voter fraud: jury excusal forms. NBC2 compiled a list of jury excusals based on not being a citizen of the United States and compared it to…
We’ve heard State Rep Charlene Lima liken Rhode Island’s new voter ID law to “Jim Crow”. We’ve heard from people like Dr. Pablo Rodriguez that it is “a solution to a problem that doesn’t exist.” And Providence immigration lawyer, Roberto Gonzalez said in reference to the law “They based their support on some perceived fraud…
Rep Charlene Lima (D-Cranston) has put in a bill to repeal Rhode Island’s new voter id law. What’s interesting is that, in her arguments, Rep Lima is attempting to shift the metric by which the need for voter i.d. is measured. Until now, opponents of voter i.d. have argued against its implementation by attempting to…
