Steven Rosenfeld
Steven Rosenfeld is a senior writing fellow and the editor and chief correspondent of Voting Booth, a project of the Independent Media Institute. He is a national political reporter focusing on democracy issues. He has reported for nationwide public radio networks, websites, and newspapers and produced talk radio and music podcasts. He has written five books, including profiles of campaigns, voter suppression, voting rights guides, and a WWII survival story currently being made into a film. His latest book is Democracy Betrayed: How Superdelegates, Redistricting, Party Insiders, and the Electoral College Rigged the 2016 Election (Hot Books, March 2018).
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Views Wednesday, January 16, 2019 DNC Rules Chair: How the 2020 Caucuses Could Change James Roosevelt III has been the co-chair of the DNC Rules and Bylaws Committee since 1995. In late December, the DNC issued its 2020 Delegate Selection Rules , which require states holding presidential caucuses, like Iowa and Nevada, to offer same-day registration and a way to participate without... Read more |
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Views Monday, January 14, 2019 Big Changes Are Coming to Iowa's 2020 Caucuses The Iowa Democratic Party is preparing to implement the most sweeping and radical changes to its first-in-the-nation caucuses in 50 years, including potentially adopting online elements that could increase participation by upward of 100,000 voters, according to party leaders. “We have spent many,... Read more |
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Views Friday, January 04, 2019 Democrats in Congress Unveil Ambitious Plan to Fix Our Election System On the second day of the 116th Congress, the new House Democratic majority will introduce H.R. 1, the most comprehensive democracy reform legislation seen this century. It addresses voting rights and electoral procedures, campaign finance rules and loopholes, and seeks to institute higher ethical... Read more |
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Views Friday, December 07, 2018 Sanders and DNC Level Playing Field for 2020 Presidential Debates The Democratic Party’s best-known outsider, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, appears to be on the verge of notching yet another inside-track score that doubtless will come in handy when he runs for president in 2020. One of the biggest complaints by Sanders’ 2016 presidential campaign was the way that... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, December 05, 2018 The GOP’s Power Grabs Are a Measure of Political Despair Produced by the 2018 Election Clobbering As the dust refuses to settle from the 2018 midterms, there are stubborn reminders that there really are two Americas when it comes to voting and elections. This week, Republican-majority legislatures in Michigan and Wisconsin —both created by GOP-led extreme gerrymanders in 2011—are trying to rush... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, November 28, 2018 Stacey Abrams Files Federal Lawsuit Detailing Georgia’s Extensive Voter Suppression in 2018 The federal lawsuit filed by thwarted Georgia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams and a coalition of mostly female domestic workers on Tuesday portrays Georgia’s 2018 election as a veritable horror show of intentionally anti-democratic and often racist voter suppression tactics—... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, November 14, 2018 The Florida Election Recount Is About to Get Very Confusing Florida’s statewide recounts first faced technical obstacles surrounding the sorting and scanning of millions of ballots. Now political and legal obstacles are poised to add another layer of complexity over determining who is the next governor, senator and agriculture commissioner. The first of... Read more |
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Views Monday, November 12, 2018 Here’s Why the Georgia Governor’s Race Is Far From Over Georgia Democrat Stacey Abrams’ gubernatorial campaign Sunday filed a federal lawsuit to extend counting ballots by a day—to Wednesday—and to reexamine thousands of ballots that have been rejected for arcane technicalities. “Our legal strategy is simple—count every vote,” said Lauren Groh-Wargo,... Read more |
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Views Friday, November 09, 2018 For Georgia and Florida, Midterm Election Counts Continue Unresolved races for governor and U.S. Senate in Florida and Georgia were heading into uncharted territory Friday, as ballot submission deadlines, candidate lawsuits and preparations for recounts—or runoffs—all converged. By the close of business on Friday, all 2018 midterm ballots to be counted,... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, November 07, 2018 It Was a Blue Wave Election—And the Republicans Are Feeling the Fallout The 2018 midterms were a blue wave—despite what Fox News hosts blared on Wednesday morning, mimicking the line White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders offered late on election day. But that wave doesn’t mean the anti-democratic features of America’s electoral process didn’t kick in, to... Read more |