A new FPPC report on California’s gubernatorial primary spending, highlighting some of the more extensively self-financed candidates of the last thirty years.

Today, unlawful coordination allegations in Vermont and Delaware.

So says this article. If that means more people to spend election day volunteering as pollworkers, I’m all for it.

(h/t Peter Wagner). There’s more to the story than the lede, but it is an intriguing hook: “Though she represented her Dallas district in the Texas House for more than a decade, former state Rep. Terri Hodge could have… Continue reading

Around the “Tea Party” ballot petitions in Michigan. Another intriguing bit: it’s a one-person grand jury.

Intriguing.

Says this article, based on a Brandweek report.

Here.

It’s Politico‘s turn to give an update on independent spending.

In New York, one of the very few states left with effective cross-endorsement (aka “fusion”).

Making Delaware the sixth state (plus DC) to allow pre-registration of 16-year-olds.

USA Today also discusses corporate campaign spending, here.

Particularly not discourse about judicial elections, notes USA Today. And more from Justice O’Connor, on Iowa’s system.

A release and filing protesting the DOJ’s decision to drop its section 5 objection and preclear Georgia’s voter verification system. The procedural posture is perhaps as intriguing as the underlying preclearance — now that the policy has been precleared, the… Continue reading