Susan Paykin

It’s January of an election year, and that means our country should be knee-deep in the debates, town halls, and meet-and-greets that comprise the presidential primary election season.

Last Thursday, Stephen Colbert shook up the 2012 Presidential primary season by announcing that he was forming an exploratory committee to consider entering the Republican race for “President of the United States of South Carolina.” But there was one hitch:

In the last year, new restrictive election laws have been considered by more than 34 state legislatures across America. Particularly alarming are voter ID laws that have been passed in more than a dozen states, restricting voter access and eligibility for

Yesterday’s Iowa caucuses marked the start of the 2012 primaries and showed that the campaign finance waters are muddy in this election season – and are expected to only grow murkier in the coming months as campaigns fan out across the country.