Author: Eric Brown

KS: Shadowy Creatures of the Night

Marvin Kleeb is running against Pam Ippel to represent Kansas’s 48th House District.  It must be a hot election, because Overland Park police have caught a vandal on videotape defacing Marvin Kleeb’s yard signs.  The M.O. for the vandal appears to be creative use of a can of spray paint to darken the “K” and […]

VA: Extend the Night

 The Washington Times reports on an effort to make election night a little longer. The nation’s first elected black governor asked Virginia’s governor on Wednesday to keep Election Day polls open for three extra hours to accommodate an expected huge turnout.

CA: Scary Robocalls?

The Mercury News cites the “loophole” some in California are using to make political robocalls. Robocalls that come from out-of-state call centers aren’t subject to the rule. The vast majority of campaigns—if not all of them—use that tactic because the agency that oversees telephone communications, the California Public Utilities Commission, can regulate only calls initiated […]