“Federal Election Agency, Hungry for Funds, Now Pays for Officials to Get to Office”
ProPublica on some apparent extended commutes to the EAC.
All posts by Justin Levitt
Ninth Circuit upholds California’s 1% signature requirement for independent candidates
The decision is here.
(h/t, as in everything ballot access, to Richard Winger.)
Ballot initiative skullduggery?
The plot thicks. Maybe.
Earlier this week, I’d mentioned a movement to amend state constitutions to prohibit voting by noncitizens in state elections, even though every state currently prohibits voting by noncitizens in state elections.
Now a report featuring speculation… Continue reading
And now House Oversight wants to know how OLC’s stance on indicting the President factored in to the NY campaign finance case
Following on this story, the letter is here.
Director of National Intelligence Creates “Election Threats Executive”
Shelby Pierson gets the nod for a new federal position to serve as the intelligence community’s principal advisor on election security.
This
bio fits the very general description in the DNI’s press
statement, but I’ll confess I’m not sure… Continue reading
“Trump’s Supreme Court Challenge Has a Historical Precedent”
Pacific Standard notes yet
another connection to Andrew Jackson, in the overtime chaos of the Census case.
“How Trump could lose by 5 million votes and still win in 2020”
David Wasserman does some Electoral
College math.
“After Publishing Strong Evidence of Trump’s Campaign Finance Crimes, DOJ Closes Case Without Explanation”
Paul Ryan in
Just Security on the announced end of the Stormy Daniels campaign finance case.
“Prosecutors weighed DOJ policy blocking indictment of a sitting president in closing Trump hush-money probe”
And maybe there’s an
explanation after all.
“John Paul Stevens Was Right: Citizens United Opened the Door to Foreign Money in U.S. Elections”
The Intercept traces
funding from foreign nationals through American corporations to super PACs.
The latest Citizens United constitutional amendment proposal
Relatedly, the latest proposed amendment to overturn Citizens United was filed yesterday. It would ban private funding of support for or opposition to candidates if the funding isn’t a donation to a candidate’s campaign. I’m not a fan.
“GAO again warns of risks in 2020 census”
Specifically,
“untested innovations,” IT implementation, and cybersecurity. The report is here.
“Census citizenship question is dropped, but challenges linger”
Science magazine digs in on the likelihood
that non-response follow up, administrative records, and (legally permissible) imputation
will be able to compensate for a large-scale chilled response.
And local
outreach efforts by Census officials continue to try to narrow that… Continue reading
“The Way the Census Counts Prison Populations Seriously Distorts Redistricting”
Mekela Panditharatne talks prison
gerrymandering in Slate.