Amid budget battle, Georgia archives to stay open
Monday, October 22, 2012 - 04:36 Moses Robinson/Getty Images for NBCUniversal Georgia Governor Nathan Deal attends a panel discussion at Georgia Aquarium on May 7, 2012 in Atlanta, Georgia. In Washington, D.C., the tough budget decisions are pretty much on hold until after the election. Though, some state governments can't afford to wait. In Georgia, that's led to a fight over whether to keep the state's archives open. Earlier this year, Georgia Governor Nathan Deal had instructed every state office to trim its budget which left Secretary of State Secretary of State Brian Kemp without a lot of good options: The Secretary of State could cut elections, but the federal government would frown on that because of Georgia's past sins at the voting booth; he could slash the office that handles professional licenses, but staffers already struggle to keep up with demand; or close the archives. So, close the archives it was. That decision unleashed the wrath of hundreds of librarians, historians and ...
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Twitter blocks its first account and hospitals get more malware
Friday, October 19, 2012 - 04:33 NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/Getty Images Twitter flipped a switch this week and bam: Users in Germany could no longer see the tweets of a banned neo-Nazi group. Twitter flipped a switch this week and bam: users in Germany could no longer see the tweets of a banned neo-Nazi group. German cops wrote Twitter trying to get the account shut off completely ; Instead the company confined the blackout to Germany. How did they do that? The microblogging social network had already engineered its own system to block content country by country. Emma Llanso at the Center for Democracy and Technology sees Twitter's response as limited and appropriate. "If Twitter or other companies start responding to less formal requests from governments that doesn't go through a full court or administrative process," says Llanso, "and is just the government saying 'we don't really like this, can you make sure this is inaccessible in our country,' that would raise a concern." The head of the ...
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Secret campaign donations -- so what?
Thursday, October 18, 2012 - 10:48 Joe Raedle/Getty Images Nonprofit social welfare organizations may become more potent political donors than super PACs. And they don't have to disclose who gave money. Campaign finance regulation is an endless game of Whac-A-Mole. There’s always something popping up to respond to new rules , from soft money to 527 groups to super PACs. This year, the scrutinized group pouring tens of millions into races is the 501(c)(4). That clunky IRS alphanumeric refers to nonprofit social welfare organizations. Because of a loophole, they can also finance political activity. Their donors can give as much as they want, with no public disclosure. Our reporting on campaign finance with PBS's Frontline got us thinking about a provocative question about anonymous donations. What’s the big problem with them, anyway? Tackling the question is tricky because it’s so rarely asked. There are fierce arguments about campaign finance, of course, but they’re largely about ...
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How Citizens United has transformed campaigns: An introduction to Big Sky, Big Money
Wednesday, October 10, 2012 - 15:09 Frontline About six months ago, we started a new project, a special collaboration with Frontline on PBS, to break through the noise around one key issue: super PACs. The issue is the fallout from the Supreme Court's decision two years ago in a case called Citizens United. The justices ruled that the government's not allowed to limit political spending by corporations and unions. Which mean this election cycle is being is fueled by more money than ever. Like, in the billions of dollars. Part of the noise -- part of the reason it matters -- is the disagreement over how much all that money matters. How it affects the way you and I vote. Whether money corrupts the entire political process in this country. For one side of that disagreement, a lawyer named James Bopp. "It doesn't corrupt the process," said Bopp. "It's necessary for the process. To communicate, you have to spend money, so you have to have money to communicate. See, and that's called speech." ...
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Canada: Empty Voting: A Challenge To Shareholder Democracy. TELUS Corporation v. CDS Clearing And Depository Services Inc. - Norton Rose Canada LLP
In its recent groundbreaking decision, the BC Supreme Court criticized empty voting and noted that courts have the power to curtail the practice.
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