A local CBS affiliate in San Francisco reported Tuesday that a seemingly abandoned bag of two dozen voter registration forms was found near the Pleasant Hill BART station. The forms were filled out and contained sensitive information about local voters who were trying to register to vote.

CBS San Francisco reports:

With the increased likelihood that no Republican candidate will arrive in Cleveland with the 1,237 delegates necessary to secure the nomination outright, the GOP may be forced to turn to crowdsourcing to elect its next standard-bearer.

The campaign of independent candidate Bill Fraser, running in Illinois' 8th Congressional District, announced Wednesday that he has started his petition period to appear on the general election ballot on November 8. If he succeeds in his efforts, Fraser will face Democrat Raja Krishnamoorthi and Republican DuPage County Commissioner Paul DiCianni in an open seat contest.

Ever since the Chicago Daily Tribune's iconic blunder of projecting Thomas Dewey as the victor in the 1948 election, polling has evolved into a more precise science, one so accurate that scoffers and critics began to argue that the media was swaying public opinion through polls.

Exit polling has always been crucial, especially during the days of newspapers with deadlines to meet, for the media to be able to project winners in a timely manner.

It’s hard to square the apparent two obvious inconsistencies between the open opposition to Trump from Republican Party operatives, and the Donald’s ability to bring a new enthusiasm to the Republican Party not seen since Ronald Reagan.

That is until we consider the reality that the Republican Party is, in fact, a private and publicly traded corporation. And the only difference between the Republican Party and McDonald’s – in terms of its corporate governance – is that its members are not stockholders, but any voter who chooses to join the party.

For baby boomers, The Rolling Stones and Rolling Stone magazine were big deals. While The Rolling Stones prepared to play their free concert in Cuba, Jann S. Wenner, longtime editor and publisher of Rolling Stone endorsed Hillary Clinton. After having endorsed Barack Obama in March 2008, his endorsement of Hillary Clinton appears out of character.

A bipartisan team of proponents has banded together in the State of Colorado to put an end to gerrymandered congressional and legislative districts. Although we currently rely on a re-apportionment commission to do the job every ten years, what happens without fail is that the commission can’t agree on a map and the matter lands in the lap of the Colorado Supreme Court.

South Dakotans for Nonpartisan Elections announced this week that it is launching a statewide campaign to educate voters about nonpartisan primaries in the hopes that Amendment V, an initiative to implement nonpartisan open primary elections, will pass in November 2016.

Amendment V, if passed, would implement nonpartisan primary elections for state races, similar to the nonpartisan primary systems in California, Nebraska, and Washington state.

Fact is, Bernie Sanders has a lot more in common with Gary Johnson than any of the likely nominees from the Republican or Democratic parties.

(Sacramento, CA) -­ The petition signatures of more than 15,000 voters have been delivered to California Secretary of State Alex Padilla in support of resolution ACR 145, asking his office to provide an additional, nonpartisan “public ballot” so that all voters -- regardless of their political affiliation or non­-affiliation­ -- can cast a vote for the candidate of their choice in the June presidential primary election.