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Steven Rosenfeld has been a political reporter since the 1980s. He worked for Vermont newspapers for a half-dozen years before he took a break and was press secretary on the 1990 US House campaign that first elected Bernie Sanders to Congress. He returned to journalism after moving out West and covered money and politics for Monitor Radio and National Public Radio. He worked as a senior editor at TomPaine.com, an executive producer of the Laura Flanders Show/Radio Nation on Air America Radio, and as a political reporter for AlterNet.org. He is the author or co-author of four book on U.S. elections, including a catalogue of GOP voter suppression in Ohio's 2004 presidential election.
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Monday, April 5, 2021How Far Will Democrats Go for Democracy Reform? Today's moral case for voting rights echoes the early 1960s. But this century's vote suppressors are technocrats, not mob-leading sheriffs.
Saturday, November 14, 2020Georgia Voters and the Democrats' Political Strategy While many pundits have placed Florida in the red state column, there were some highlights suggesting, as was the case in Texas (where Biden was briefly leading on election night), that Florida's Democrats are not permanently exiled.
Friday, August 23, 2019Is a Widely Adopted New Voting System Ready for 2020? A new precinct-based voting system being widely acquired by states and counties before 2020 that relies on printed bar codes to record votes, not handmade ink marks, may pose problems for independent efforts seeking to double-check election results.
Sunday, April 7, 2019Why Many 2020 Swing States Will Produce Recount Headaches Should presidential recounts occur, it appears that history will not repeat what happened in 2016 -- when courts shut down two of the three recounts filed by the Green Party: in Michigan and Pennsylvania but not Wisconsin. But the chances of voters seeing a convincing process may prove as frustrating as 2016.
