Thanks to Doug Chapin for calling attention to this Concord Monitor piece on the nuts-and-bolts of getting polling sites ready for an election. The URL for the piece offers a nice insight not in the piece itself: “If you build… Continue reading
Calling Michael McDonald: looks like another redistricting precinct error, but this time it may force a new vote. (The article discusses a bunch of issues beyond the precinct error, few of which seem related to the race in question.)
The State Board’s unanimous decision pertains to the subject of an ongoing lawsuit as well. Independent of the merits, it’s awfully close to the election to be making a statewide change of this magnitude.
Late last week, the FEC unanimously (!) approved an advisory opinion allowing Microsoft to “offer a package of enhanced online account security services at no additional charge on a nonpartisan basis to its election-sensitive customers, including federal candidates and national… Continue reading
Guy-Uriel Charles and Luis Fuentes-Rohwer have a new piece forthcoming in the Harvard Law Review, on partisan gerrymandering and justiciability:
This paper examines the Court’s decision in Gil v. Whitford. It advances two claims. First, it provides a comprehensive account… Continue reading
The water cooler conversation around the DC Circuit these days must be fascinating.
The Democratic Coalition says it's filing an ethics complaint against #SCOTUS nominee Brett Kavanaugh re: his answers about whether he received stolen docs: https://t.co/wLKZvu5vc5 These are typically… Continue reading