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CONGRESSIONAL DEMOCRATS TRY TO VASTLY TOUGHEN RULES FOR PRIMARY SEASON MATCHING FUNDS
Starting in 1984, minor party presidential candidates have used primary season matching funds to help pay for petitioners to get on the ballot. Now, Democrats in Congress propose to make eligibility for primary season matching funds five times more difficult. H.R. 1 and S.1 make many election law changes. Among the changes are increasing the difficulty of receiving primary season matching funds. Current law requires small donations totalling at least $5,000 from each of twenty states. The bills raise that to $25,000 from each of twenty states.
Minor party presidential candidates who have received primary season matching funds, and the amounts, are as follows:
. Alicia Yin Cheng. Princeton Architectural Press. 2020.
The printed ballot is one of the most fundamental yet overlooked aspects of democracies throughout the world. Over the course of their lives, the average voter will probably spend just a matter of minutes in the presence of their ballots and perhaps even less time thinking about their finer details. Yet the things we take as given today – the layout, design, wording and even the act of putting an ‘X’ next to one’s preferred candidate – are all relatively new aspects of the ballot and are the result of many years of development and dispute.
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Alicia Yin Cheng, a founding partner, and a graphic designer at the MGMT design studio in Brooklyn, N,Y., and the author of the book, “This is What Democracy Looked Like: A Visual History of the Printed Ballot,” is the speaker for the fourth session of a four-part series being presented by the New Canaan Library, and the New Canaan Museum and Historical Society titled: “Presidential Trappings,” on Tuesday, Jan. 26, at 7 p.m. via the Zoom application.New Canaan Library / Contributed photoShow MoreShow Less
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Alicia Yin Cheng, a founding partner, and a graphic designer at the MGMT design studio in Brooklyn, N,Y., and the author of the book, “This is What Democracy Looked Like: A Visual History of the Printed Ballot,” is the speaker for the fourth session of a four-part series being presented by the New Canaan Library, and the New Canaan Museum and Historical Society titled:
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In a cavalcade of anger and fear
There will be feasting and dancing In Jerusalem next year
I am going to make it through this year
If it kills me
- “This Year” by The Mountain Goats
My friend dropped off a box of homemade cookies a little before Christmas. While there were plenty of traditional cookies and pastries and what have you, the large gingerbread cookie on the top of the pile was a dumpster with “2020” on the front.
Oh, and the dumpster was on fire.
There’s really not a lot of benefit in reflecting on the bad of the year. After all, a worldwide pandemic puts a lot of things in perspective. But, while many of us rarely left the house and didn’t engage in the same experiences as normal, I still had some favorites from the year.