Moderated By Todd McDermott / WPBF-TV West Palm Beach – Former Rep. David Jolly and former Rep. Patrick Murphy are touring the country for important discussions on Washington’s gridlock. Both say it is in need of repair and reform. The political conversation took place on Nov. 14 during the Palm Beach North Chamber of Commerce […]

By Amy Gardner / Washington Post – All of it has created an uproar among voting-rights advocates, who say that untrained election workers are tossing eligible ballots, often with no chance for the voter to object or fix the ballot. “I had zero recourse here,” said Patrick Murphy, a former Democratic congressman from Palm Beach […]

By By Glenn Thrush, Audra D. S. Burch and Frances Robles / New York Times – Many Democrats argue that imposing new standards for evaluating signatures could discourage some voters, especially foreign-born citizens, from even trying to cast ballots. Still, Patrick Murphy, a former Democratic congressman from South Florida, said it was time that the […]

By Patrick Murphy – After it became clear that several races were too close to call on Tuesday, I decided to check my absentee ballot status on the Palm Beach County elections website – only to find that my ballot had been rejected because of an “invalid signature” mismatch. I’ve been a registered voter for […]