“Attorney charged in voting machine tampering case announces run for Michigan Supreme Court”
Welp.
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“Harlan Crow Provided Clarence Thomas at Least 3 Previously Undisclosed Private Jet Trips, Senate Probe Finds”
These flights were revealed by the Senate Judiciary Committee based on disclosure by Crow, not Justice Thomas.
Justice Thomas has maintained (including in response to the latest) that he was told that these flights fall under an exception in… Continue reading
“Top Wisconsin lawmaker has new plan to find non-citizens on voter rolls”
Sigh. The new plan is an old plan: compare DMV information to the rolls, but without any apparent plan to ensure the rigor of the matching protocol or to assess whether people who were noncitizens when they got their… Continue reading
“Participation in Las Vegas city elections has nearly doubled since 2019 change”
Moving municipal elections to even-numbered years matters.
“Texas election laws allow certain ballots to be traced back to voters, official says”
CBS report noting what purport to be decoded ballots of some prominent Texas officials, though I’m not sure whether the culprit is Texas “election laws” or the outer limits of the scope of public records responses. The controversy seems to… Continue reading
“[NH] House Kills Citizenship Documentation Requirement for Voting”
An update from the NH Center for Public Interest Journalism on one element of the package of bills Rick noted a few days ago, even as a similar bill waits for the Governor.
Ranked-choice roundup
David Daley on ranked-choice voting and the spoiler effect.
Pluribus News looks at the states looking toward ranked-choice and the states turning away – and the municipalities using ranked-choice that may be raising the prominence of both conversations. (UPDATE: Fox… Continue reading
“Michigan judge strikes down Benson voter signature match guidance — again”
That’s the headline from Bridge Michigan, though the subhead is quick to note that the “judge upheld separate rules that give clerks broad discretion to consider why a voter signature might not match the version on file,” and everyone… Continue reading
House Judiciary on Manhattan DA and Trump prosecution
The House Judiciary committee held a hearing this morning on the NY case against Donald Trump, with a witness list including FEC Commissioner Trey Trainor, as well as Missouri AG Andrew Bailey, Ambassador Norm Eisen, and Elizabeth Price Foley. Testimony … Continue reading
“House committee subpoenas 15 Biden Cabinet secretaries to hand over documents on voter mobilization ‘scheme'”
That’s the Fox headline for the continuing swirl of nonsense around Executive Order 14019 – but as I’ve mentioned before, the reality of the alleged “scheme” is an instruction to federal agencies to help facilitate customer service in a… Continue reading
“U.S. spy agencies are ready to warn voters about foreign election interference — if it’s severe enough”
An excerpt from the NBC report:
U.S. intelligence agencies are closely tracking attempts by foreign adversaries to influence the 2024 election through “deepfakes” or other false information and are ready to alert the public if necessary, officials said Wednesday.… Continue reading
California tussles over pockets of election administration
This Politico piece describes a fight that’s probably as much about statewide uniformity v. local control as it is about voter ID and securing data.
“States were incredibly successful at reallocating incarcerated people to their home addresses in 2020”
The Prison Gerrymandering Project crunches the numbers, and finds that even with the delayed census data this cycle, most of the states that sought to count incarcerated individuals at their home address rather than the prison address managed to… Continue reading
“Alabama GOP chair used homemade ID to vote. AG doesn’t seem to care.”
A very weird story about the chair of the Alabama Republican party using a very weird homemade photo ID to vote, in a way that sure seems like it doesn’t meet Ala. Code 17-9-30. (And allowing a one-person exception… Continue reading