New Mexico’s election was dirty for reasons that had nothing to do with voting machines. Three ballot boxes had unsupervised sleepovers with polling place managers on election night. Since the New Mexico race boils down to just a couple of hundred votes out of many thousands of votes cast, the results will be suspicious no [...]
Fifteen of the states to hold elections on Super Tuesday used electronic voting machines. New York, New Jersey, Georgia, Delaware, and Arkansas used machines that do not leave any kind of paper trail. How do we know these elections were honest? We have to take their word for it. It’s impossible to do a recount. [...]
Today we examine the recent California Supreme Court case of Ross v. RagingWire Telecommunications. The issue is medical marijuana and employment discrimination. California has enacted a medical marijuana law that decriminalizes the possession and use of the drug with a doctor’s prescription. It is called the Compassionate Use Act. California also has an anti-discrimination law, [...]
The US Supreme Court is set to consider a case, Giles v. California that deals with a criminal defendant’s right to confront a witness killed by that same defendant. The defendant admitted killing the victim, but claimed he fired in self defense. The trial judge admitted into evidence statements the victim had made to police [...]
