TweetLogin Page Content The Scottish parliament is now studying the detail of the Scottish government’s proposals for staging and running the referendum, which include, as expected, extending the vote to 16 and 17 year olds for the first time in a major poll in the UK. (The Scottish government has previously allowed 16 and 17 year olds to vote in some health board elections and crofting commission elections). Salmond’s government has published two bills, on the franchise and on the running of the referendum. After initialling resisting any involvement from UK bodies in the referendum, his government has also agreed it will be overseen by the UK Electoral Commission. The…
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BelAhdan with Professor David Schultz, American Politics in the age of Ignorance
Tweet David Schultz is professor in the School of Business at Hamline University and at the University of Minnesota Law School where he is a Senior Fellow at the Institute on Law and Politics. Professor Schultz is the author/editor of 25 books and more than 80 articles on topics including election law, American politics, eminent domain, constitutional law, public policy, legal and political theory, and the media and politics. David is a former host of “Minnesota Matters,” on Air America Minnesota Radio, and he is a nationally-recognized expert on political ethics, money and politics, political participation, and land use law. He has been a frequent commentator on television, radio, and…