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Ralph Lopez majored in Economics and Political Science at Yale University. He writes for Truth Out, Alternet, Consortium News, Op-Ed News, and other Internet media. He reported from Afghanistan in 2009 and produced a short documentary film on the situation. He has also been published in the Boston Globe and the Baltimore Sun.
SHARE Saturday, June 30, 2018 Stunning Progressive Upsets in Three States with Ballot Image Verification
After a year of election transparency activists suing election authorities in numerous states, and demanding to see the automatically stored digital images of ballots generated by many vote scanning machines, progressive Democrats have won stunning upsets in primaries this week in states with this capacity
(3 comments) SHARE Sunday, December 10, 2017 Voters in Roy Moore - Doug Jones Race Sue to Prevent Election Officials from Destroying Evidence of Hacking
An Alabama Republican, a Democrat, an Independent, and a minister have filed a lawsuit asking a Montgomery circuit court to order Alabama election officials to not destroy an audit trail generated by most Alabama vote-counting machines in next week's contest between Judge Roy Moore and attorney Doug Jones.
(2 comments) SHARE Sunday, March 27, 2016 Comeback Kid Bernie Blows Out Coastopolis - Why He Can Win
Energized and motivated Sanders workers have every reason to double down. As the Internet, if not the major media, wakes Democratic voters up the fact that Sanders beats Trump soundly in nearly every poll, while Trump is closing in on Hillary, the curtain which portrays Hillary as the presumptive nominee might be finally yanked aside.
(1 comments) SHARE Saturday, March 26, 2016 Bernie Sanders: "I Am That Candidate" Who Can Beat Trump
"If Democrats want to defeat a Republican candidate, Trump or anybody else, I think the evidence is overwhelming: I am that candidate." - Bernie Sanders
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, February 26, 2016 Bernie Sanders Says He Would Take Aim at "Citizens United" as President
Sanders distances himself from the ideological socialism of his youth, saying: "The next time you hear me attacked as a socialist -- like tomorrow -- remember this: I don't believe government should take over the grocery store down the street, or own the means of production,"
(7 comments) SHARE Sunday, February 21, 2016 Bernie Sanders Rocks Latino Vote in Nevada
Bernie Sanders' gains among Latino voters is a nationwide trend, NBC reports, as he closes a gap which until recently was greater than ten points.