A blog by Nicholas Solter about politics and everything else
Posted in Barack Obama, Choice, Election 2008, John McCain, Politics on Oct 7th, 2008
Since my last post about Joining the Obama Campaign I’ve gone into the local Obama campaign office about once a week to volunteer. Although I tried at first to convince the volunteer coordinators that I should do data entry, they’ve mostly had me making phone calls. The way it works is that I get a […]
Posted in Voting on Sep 29th, 2008
I wrote last week about problems with Diebold’s electronic voting machines, and about the shenanigans of El Paso County Clerk and Recorder Bob Balink. These seemingly unrelated stories came together for me last weekend when I read about John Gardner in the Colorado Springs Independent. Evidently Gardner, who is in charge of our electronic voting […]
Posted in Civil Rights, Election 2008, Politics on Sep 25th, 2008
My local El Paso County Clerk and Recorder, Bob Balink, evidently told Colorado College in March that students could not register to vote in Colorado if their parents claimed them as dependents in another state. The Clerk and Recorder’s office has admitted now that the information was wrong. Anyone who’s lived in Colorado for 30 […]