The Wall St. Journal has a web site called Opinion Journal’s Political Diary. It’s a pretty interesting combination of opinions & political rundowns, with the Journal’s political biases.
The site is not usually free but they are offering a free two-week trial.
But sometimes you get what you pay for.
From the June 21st Political Diary –
Marylanders opposed to the state’s new Early Voting law reached a milestone this week with enough petition signatures to bring a November referendum into the realm of possibility. Not a happy omen for the state’s heavily Democratic legislature and its most blatant effort yet to club Republican Governor Robert Ehrlich.
Gov. Ehrlich has been rallying Marylanders to oppose the early-voting scheme. In a mailing last week headlined "Prevent VOTER FRAUD," he spelled out the problem: "Maryland’s Liberals are trying to stack the deck in their quest to regain the Governor’s office and insulate their position of power in the State Legislature. They recently passed a law, over my veto, setting up early voting centers primarily in partisan strongholds with virtually no safeguards to effectively track who votes, and how many times they vote, until after the votes are officially recorded. And then it will be too late!".
From the June 22nd Baltimore Sun –
A Republican-led petition drive to thwart Maryland’s early-voting provisions hit a major snag yesterday when the state Board of Elections said the effort fell 138 signatures short of moving forward.