The Voting News Weekly: The Voting News Weekly January 14-20 2013
Election experts discussed how poor ballot design could have created another election meltdown in 2012. Republicans consider election law changes that could tilt the 2016 election and a Salon article opined that winner-take-all single member districts contribute to gridlock and lack of representation in Congress. President Obama plans to equip his Inauguration Day limos with license plates reading “Taxation Without Representation,” a reference to the District of Columbia’s lack of a proxy in the House of Representatives and the Senate. Florida Governor Rick Scott now wants to change the election laws he championed in 2011. South Carolina spent over $3.5 million challenging the Department of Justice over the State’s controversial voter ID law. The Virginia legislature blocked efforts to expand absentee and early voting and the battle over same day registration continued in Wisconsin.