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...voting machines themselves reveals some interesting trends. The entire state of Massachusetts, where votes are recorded in large part by older optical scanning equipment, reported a total of 7 such incidents out of nearly 3 million ballots—one for every 500,000 or so votes cast. Palm Beach County had 27 machine related incidents out of their 550,000 votes—each voter there was roughly three times more likely to report trouble with their equipment than a voter was here...
Seventeen percent of the ballots cast in Tuesday’s election were by voters ages 18-29. Seventeen percent. This was not the expected banner year for youth voter turnout. Across the nation right now, politically active young people, whether Democrat or Republican, are mourning together our repeated failure to take up our demographic’s latent power. There are nearly 59 million United States citizens between the ages of 20 and 30, so why did only 35 percent of us exercise our constitutional rights on Tuesday...
According to the November 2 voter check-in records, 525 Harvard affiliates who registered in Massachusetts from a dorm or House address cast votes in Tuesday’s election. The same records indicate 363 active voters registered to Houses and dorms did not cast votes this election, though this includes some recent Harvard graduates...
...gave tax cuts to the rich while other hardworking people lost their jobs and healthcare. As a Christian myself, I find it disappointing that many Christians do not see that the basic principles that guide the Democratic Party are consistent with their faith and could improve their lives, yet cast their votes based on their opposition to abortion and gay marriage...
...Crain criticizes West’s writing style for what he sees as its “eccentricities of tone.” In particular, West is very ready to lavish praise on friends—he lauds the Wachowski brothers, who cast him as “Counselor West” in The Matrix sequels for their “deep democratic vision” and Tavis Smiley, on whose National Public Radio West is a habitual guest, as “the most influential democratic intellectual in mass media of the younger generation—and possibly...