Tagged: elections

How hard is it to vote in your state?

Cost of Voting Index shows which states make it easiest

  • October 13, 2020
DeKalb, Ill. — With the Nov. 3 presidential election just around the corner, a new analysis identifies U.S. states that make it easiest, and those that make it more challenging, to register…

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Presidential voting map

Speak Your Mind: Keeping Up with the Contenders

Who’s leading the current field of presidential candidates?

  • July 10, 2015
November 2016 is a long way away. You wouldn’t know it, though, by the number of eager White House hopefuls who are lining up for the 17-month slog to Election…

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Photo of a ballot box

Five years later: Citizens United v. FEC

  • January 21, 2015
On Jan. 21, 2010, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that political spending is a form of protected speech. Five years later, NIU political science professor Scot Schraufnagel examines the playing…

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