“Ranked Choice, Fair Choice: Recapping the RCVictories of the Last Decade”
And Maura Reilly has a ranked-choice decade recap on the locations Massachusetts may be joining.
All posts by Justin Levitt
“Decade in review: Citizens United and campaign spending”
SCOTUSblog has a running decade-in-review series, and Citizens United occupies 14% of the space so far.
Partisan gerrymandering and the 2010s
And for David Daley, one of the biggest stories of the decade-in-review is partisan gerrymandering.
I’m shocked – shocked – to find that gambling is going on in here.
A few stories about incumbent government officials weighing the merits of redistricting reform, finding reason to put up the strongest resistance coincidentally right when they unilaterally control the partisan levers of power. In Virginia, it’s Democrats; in Idaho,… Continue reading
“Gerrymandering is alive and well. The coming battle will be bigger than ever.”
And Jane Timm at NBC News previews the 2020 redistricting cycle these partisan fights are about.
“Inside the Biggest 2020 Advertising War Against Trump”
The NYT reviews Bloomberg’s ad blitz:
The effort, which is targeting seven battleground states where polls show Mr. Trump is likely to be competitive in November, is just one piece of an advertising campaign that is unrivaled in scope… Continue reading
“By the Numbers: A 2019 Money-in-Politics Index”
The Center for Public Integrity with year-end facts and figures.
“2020 Democrats are naming their fund-raising ‘bundlers’ amid a fight over big money in politics”
The Philadelphia Inquirer digs into presidential primary bundler disclosure.
“The Supreme Court Is Killing Contribution Limits Softly; A Few Years from Now They Likely Will Be Dead.”
Ciara Torres-Spelliscy offers a cheery take on the Thompson v. Hebdon contribution limits case out of Alaska, in the Harvard Law Review blog.
Racial disparities in waits at the polls
Kareem
Haggag and Devin Pope, following up on their study using smartphone data, offer
some suggestions in the WaPo for reducing wait times at the polls.
I offered my own suggestions a few years
ago.
9 Iowans suspected of voting twice in 2018
The cases have been referred for further investigation. The initial flag apparently comes from ERIC (the Electronic Registration Information Center), which is more careful than other systems at screening for false positives.
“Dixville Notch, N.H., may have to give up tradition of midnight voting”
One piece of sad news for presidential primary human-interest stories: Dixville Notch, NH, allows voting at the stroke of midnight, and had the first voters in the country’s first primary for years. But they’re essentially out of people – if… Continue reading
10 and 2 on the wheel
Hi. Justin here. As Rick mentioned, I’ll be at the helm of the Election Law Blog from now through January 7, then turning things over to Dan Tokaji for the next stretch. Please send the tips to me and… Continue reading
And because Rick’s back on the blog tomorrow…
Here’s a farewell gift.
https://twitter.com/DoggoDating/status/1152463536712552451?s=20