A shakeup in New York City’s Board of Elections after NYC’s recent elections were married by a series of mistakes. The embattled city Board of Elections bounced its powerful No. 2 official amid a pledge for reform after a series… Continue reading

The Michigan redistricting commission hasn’t made public certain documents it used pertaining to Voting Rights Act compliance. If the documents show that the commission relied on a quantitative analysis of racial polarization in voting, their release could actually be helpful… Continue reading

This new volume, edited by Robert Brischetto and J. Richard Avena, is of particular interest given the DOJ’s new Section 2 suit against Texas alleging racial vote dilution. Jose Roberto Juarez, Jr.’s contribution, “Mexican American Voting Rights in Texas,”… Continue reading

This is a guest post by James Syme, a Fellow at the Pardee RAND Graduate School, and Daniel Wein, a cofounder of the Center for New Data, about an exciting new method for identifying communities of interest, with extensive… Continue reading

The Ash Center at the Harvard Kennedy School is organizing this event. Mitchell Brown, Cathy Duvall, Colleen Mathis, and Ben Schneer will be presenting, and I’ll be moderating the discussion. Register here.

Ciara Torres-Spelliscy writes about the year’s campaign finance developments. Here’s #1: 1. Corporate donors keep giving despite the January 6 insurrection. The attack in the Capitol was bad enough that some corporations said they would suspend their donations to the… Continue reading

Another sordid story of money pouring in to spread lies about the 2020 election. In the months after President Donald Trump lost the November election, lawyer Sidney Powell raised large sums from donors inspired by her fight to reverse the… Continue reading

John Carey, Gretchen Helmke, Brendan Nyhan, Mitchell Sanders, Susan Stokes, and Shun Yamaya published this article about the legitimacy effects of wrong-winner outcomes. The partisan dichotomy by which Democratic respondents care more about wrong-winner outcomes is interesting. When a party… Continue reading

A Section 2 lawsuit was filed today over Ohio’s congressional and state legislative maps. The suit alleges the same “race-blind” approach that Republicans have taken in states like North Carolina and Texas — a strategy that can easily result in… Continue reading

Steven Sholk has updated this article, which has also been published by Practising Law Institute as part of its 2021 Course Handbook for the seminar, Tax Strategies for Corporate Acquisitions, Dispositions, Spin-Offs, Joint Ventures, Financings, Reorganizations & Restructurings.

UPDATE: And now the full North Carolina Court of Appeals has vacated the panel’s stay, meaning that candidate filing is back on (for now). The state supreme court may ultimately have the last word on this. An intermediate appellate court… Continue reading

Behind the scenes, could there be progress on the FTVA and the JLVRAA? With respect to redistricting, note that it’s immaterial that some states have already enacted district plans. Under its near-plenary authority over congressional elections, Congress is free to… Continue reading

Sam Levine on the ticking clock for Congress to pass election reform legislation. There was already simmering frustration from voting advocateswho believe Biden has not taken strong action, especially as several states enacted sweeping new voting restrictions.That frustration is… Continue reading

Efforts being made to circumvent Wisconsin’s governor in order to make voting more difficult, especially in the state’s urban areas. A group formed to support former President Donald Trump’s agenda is working with Wisconsin Republicans on a ballot measure that… Continue reading