The Detroit Free Press reports that Rep. John Conyers’ wife pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit bribery. Detroit City Council member Monica Conyers faces up to five years in prison. She has long been under suspicion in the Synagro Technologies bribery probe, not least because she had been a vocal opponent of the contract before […]
Category: Voting
Coddling the Panthers?
The Washington Times editorializes today about the Obama administration’s decision to drop the prosecution of the New Black Panther Party. Eric Eversole, a former litigation attorney with the Voting Section of the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department, told us: “It is truly unprecedented for the Voting Section to voluntarily dismiss a case of […]
Internet Voting, There’s an App for That
Campaigns & Elections reports on what they say is the nation’s first all-internet election.