Five Ways To Keep Your Vote From Being Wasted

Don’t Be Among Those Perfectly Intelligent People Who Make Surprising Technical Errors

Several years ago, the University of the Pacific, in Stockton, California assembled researchers from different departments to look into the business of voting in depth. After four years of work, we learned many things and published a lot of related work. But perhaps the most important thing we learned was simply this: voters must become much savvier about voting. If you plan to vote today or in the future (and I hope you do), then you must take care that you are not denied your ballot and voting rights by …

Wake Up, Election Reformers

Why California’s New Primary System Failed to Draw A Crowd

I like to vote late in the day at my local precinct in San Francisco’s Outer Sunset, a middle-class neighborhood. Those few moments before the polls close give me the …

La Presidenta, Possibly

Mexican Presidential Candidate Josefina Vázquez Mota Discusses Her Hopes For Her Nation

Mexican presidential candidate Josefina Vázquez Mota, nominee of the incumbent National Political Action Party (PAN), faced what journalist Sergio Muñoz Bata called “a mission almost impossible” as the country’s secretary …

Why Your Vote Doesn’t Count

Fixing California Won't Happen at the Polls

On Election Day, I intend to stand reluctantly with the majority of my fellow Californians – on the sidelines and as far as from the voting booth as possible.

All the …