This Politico story raises the question of whether WI is shifting left, with the post-Dobbs abortion issue playing a major role: “We got our butts kicked,” Rohn Bishop, Bachleitner’s predecessor as chair of the Fond du Lac County GOP and,… Continue reading

From WRAL News: The 2024 elections in North Carolina could be conducted under far stricter rules under a proposal being crafted behind closed doors by Republican lawmakers — with input from a lawyer best known for assisting in efforts… Continue reading

This relates to the effort of some election officials to require a hand count of the 2022 ballots in Cochise County, AZ, despite the legal conclusions of the relevant county election lawyers that such a hand count would be illegal… Continue reading

Ciara Torres-Spelliscy with her views on this in the LA Times: The Supreme Court recently reversed the conviction of a onetime aide and campaign manager for disgraced former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo. The decision may have surprised those… Continue reading

From Newsweek: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, a Republican, said former President Donald Trump would have lost in Texas in the 2020 election if his office had not successfully blocked counties from mailing out applications for mail-in ballots to… Continue reading

Here: “In a hypothetical 2024 U.S. Senate matchup in West Virginia, the latest ECU Poll shows Governor Jim Justice with a significant 22-point lead over incumbent Senator Joe Manchin, 54% to 32%, among registered voters in the state (with 13%… Continue reading

New academic article in the Election Law Journal. From the abstract: False information about the legitimacy of recent American elections has prompted a barrage of harsh rhetoric against the officials who administer them. This spike in negativity, largely occurring through… Continue reading

Washington Post: Those who harass, intimidate or use force on election workers performing their duties in Nevada could soon face up to four years in prison under a new law signed by the Western swing state’s Republican governor on Tuesday.… Continue reading

From David Wasserman at Cook (paywalled): There’s already buzz that Albany Democrats, if given the chance, could opt for a “safer play” than the map they pursued in 2022, targeting five or six GOP incumbents who are already at varying… Continue reading

Politico: When an image showing what looked to be a bombing at the Pentagon started to spread online last week, the stock market dipped momentarily. Kayla Tausche, who covers the White House for CNBC, quickly started fact checking. Popping into… Continue reading

An op-ed from David Lublin, Glen Wright, and Benjamin Reilly in the Anchorage Daily News: They did it. Alaska’s budget, which passed the Legislature last week, was a classic political compromise, with a smaller divided check than many would have… Continue reading

In case you wondered whether he was running. From NYT.

From a new study by Jacob Brown in PSRM: Voting in 2008 caused a greater increase in the likelihood of voting in 2010 for Blacks than for other new voters, but there is no evidence of a sustained mobilizing advantage… Continue reading

Results still appear to be coming in, but this is the consistent reporting on the outcome. Danielle Smith, the leader of the conservatives, has strongly associated herself with Ron DeSantis. The New Democratic Party appears to have won a majority… Continue reading