The Voting News Daily: NIST: Internet voting not yet feasible, Americans Elect Shows Voters May Be Ready For A Third Party Candidate, But Not A Third Party

National: NIST: Internet voting not yet feasible | FierceGovernmentIT Internet voting is not yet feasible, researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology have concluded. “Malware on voters’ personal computers poses a serious threat that could compromise the secrecy or integrity of voters’ ballots,” said Belinda Collins, senior advisor for voting standards within NIST’s information…

The Voting News Daily: Congressional Democrats Push Voter Empowerment Act, Americans Elect Ends Online Primary After No Candidates Qualify To Run

National: Congressional Democrats Push Voter Empowerment Act | Roll Call House Democrats on Thursday unveiled new voting rights legislation designed to modernize voter registration while cracking down on practices that could discourage certain populations from voting. The Voter Empowerment Act appears to be a direct counter to a growing movement within the GOP at the state…

The Voting News Daily: The FEC: A Toothless Watchdog for a $6 Billion Election, Election Regulations and Voter Disengagement

National: The FEC: A Toothless Watchdog for a $6 Billion Election | Businessweek Worried about election fraud in 2012? Consider this: The Federal Election Commission has six members, and five of them are serving on borrowed time. Cynthia Bauerly’s and Matthew Petersen’s terms expired in 2011, Steven Walther’s and Donald McGahn’s in 2009. Then there’s…

The Voting News Daily: Conservative group seeks FEC approval to keep donors secret, Caucus System Cracks Revealed During 2012 GOP Primary Season

National: Conservative group seeks FEC approval to keep donors secret | chicagotribune.com A conservative group that plans to run a barrage of television ads attacking President Obama has asked the Federal Election Commission if it can avoid disclosing its donors by not naming him explicitly in its commercials. American Future Fund, a tax-exempt free-market advocacy group…

The Voting News Daily: Citizens Dis-United: Justices May Take Another Look at Campaign Finance Case, Felon Voting Rights Fight – The Forgotten Front In The War On Voting

National: Citizens Dis-United: Justices May Take Another Look at Campaign Finance Case | ABA Journal After Newt Gingrich became the victim of attack ads paid for by Mitt Romney’s $30 million “super PAC,” Gingrich struck back with his own. His Winning Our Future political action committee hauled in at least $10 million from a loyal…

The Voting News Daily: FEC Disclosure Loophole Closes On Secret Donors As Court Won’t Stay Ruling, Ninth Circuit Rejects Effort to Apply HAVA to Local Recount

National: FEC Disclosure Loophole Closes On Secret Donors As Court Won’t Stay Ruling | Huffington Post A court rulingrequiring non-disclosing political groups — including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Koch brothers’ Americans for Prosperity — to disclose their donors is one step closer to going into effect after a district court refused to stay its…

The Voting News Daily: States Shouldn’t Tamper with Voting Rights Act, Romney super PAC’s $400K gift among mysterious donations this election cycle

Editorials: States Shouldn’t Tamper with Voting Rights Act | New America Media Since the beginning of 2011, states across the country have passed new laws restricting the right to vote. From voter ID to curbs on early voting and registration drives, these controversial measures could make it harder for millions of Americans to vote this year, including…

The Voting News Daily: Reports show hard-to-track donors dominate outside giving, New curbs on voter registration could hurt Obama

National: Reports show hard-to-track donors dominate outside giving | USAToday.com Millions of dollars flowing to independent political groups dominating this year’s presidential and congressional contests have come from mystery and hard-to-find donors, newly filed campaign reports show. More than $8 out of every $10 collected during the first three months of this year by two conservative…

The Voting News Daily: R.N.C. Rejects Changes to Nominating Contests for 2016, Conservative Group Picks Up Voter ID Issue Where ALEC Left Off

National: R.N.C. Rejects Changes to Nominating Contests for 2016 | NYTimes.com Members of the Republican National Committee considered — and rejected — changes to their presidential nominating process for 2016 after a contest this year that some members say was too long and drawn out. At a meeting here of the R.N.C.’s rules committee, members debated…

The Voting News Daily: Corporations Donate to Groups on Both Sides of Voter-ID Debate, Money Rules in Washington Politics

National: Corporations Donate to Groups on Both Sides of Voter-ID Debate | Businessweek Companies giving at least $2 million to the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation — nearly half of its reported 2010 donations — also backed an organization championing voter identification laws that caucus members say “suppress” minorities’ right to vote. The group, the American Legislative…

The Voting News Daily: Voter ID Laws Take Center Stage at House Judiciary Hearing, ALEC Disbands Task Force Responsible for Voter ID

National: Voter ID Laws Take Center Stage at House Judiciary Hearing | Main Justice The controversial video showing a man almost fraudulently accepting a ballot as Attorney General Eric Holder got more airtime Wednesday at a House Judiciary subcommittee hearing on the Justice Department’s voting rights enforcement track record. The video, made by conservative activist James O’Keefe, prompted some committee members to question the…

The Voting News Daily: “Corporate Personhood” Is Not the Problem, Billionaires fall in line behind Romney

Editorials: “Corporate Personhood” Is Not the Problem | Garret Epps/American Prospect American politics is in trouble. A tsunami of unaccountable, untraceable political money is overwhelming the Republican race for the presidential nomination and threatens to do the same to the fall election. For many people, especially progressives, the culprit is easy to name: the Supreme…

The Voting News Daily: The People vs. the “Corporate People”, DISCLOSE Act Will Make Mandatory Disclosure Mandatory

Editorials: The People vs. the “Corporate People” | The Motley Fool The Supreme Court’s Citizens United case, which helped further open the floodgates for corporate political spending in America, is about an ongoing and extremely contentious issue. Even before the ruling, there was plenty of reason to believe the deep-pocketed “corporate people” had far more…

The Voting News Daily: Voting News Daily 4/16: Public Access to Election Databases, Scytl vote count controversy

Blogs: Outside Looking In? Public Access to Election Databases | Election Academy The Indianapolis Star recently ran an editorial calling on the Marion County Election Board to give access to five “unslated” (i.e., non party endorsed) candidates running in the Hoosier State’s May 8 primary. Here’s the crux of the issue, from the editorial: The unslated candidates…