by Thomas Mills | Jun 7, 2021 | Editor's Blog |
Here’s my unpopular opinion for the week: Democrats should concede on voter ID and work to make them as accessible as possible and to make exceptions for those who have extreme difficulty getting them. Republicans are using voter ID as a screen and it’s working....
by Thomas Mills | Jan 8, 2020 | Editor's Blog |
A number of progressives are complaining about Attorney General Josh Stein defending the voter ID law in court. They should get over it. He’s just doing the job he was elected to do. No attorney general agrees with every law he or she has to defend, but the job...
by Thomas Mills | Dec 21, 2018 | Editor's Blog
Nobody was too surprised that the voter ID amendment passed in November. The argument for voter ID is easy. We need photo IDs to do a lot of things besides voting. We need them to get into bars. We need them to pick up prescriptions from pharmacies. To people who...
by Thomas Mills | Jun 15, 2018 | 2018 elections, Editor's Blog |
The NCGOP is rolling out a cynical plan to boost Republican turnout in November. They’re loading up the ballot with constitutional amendments intended to motivate their base. They’re mostly bad ideas designed to lock in conservative principles that will harm working...
by Thomas Mills | Jun 13, 2018 | 2018 elections, Editor's Blog |
The closer we get to November, the more it looks like the election will be a referendum on Donald Trump. Last night in Republican primaries, Trump-type candidates won. In Virginia, Cory Stewart, who lost a primary for governor last year after wrapping himself in the...
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