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Rhode Island election rules crush the competition. Here’s what can be done about it.

  • Matt Ulricksen

This is the year of uncontested elections in Rhode Island. The dearth of contested General Assembly seats is well documented. The dearth of contested town and city council seats is less so.  Republicans fielded no candidates in the at-large races for the South Kingstown and North Kingstown town councils, while Democrats sat out the at-large […]

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Amore says no signs noncitizens were registered to vote in Rhode Island

  • Christopher Shea

The same French multinational biometrics technology company behind the motor voter system in New Jersey where a software glitch mistakenly registered 6,600 noncitizens to vote — of whom a few hundred did so — also provides software and equipment for the state of Rhode Island. But Rhode Island Secretary of State Gregg Amore said Wednesday […]