From the Desert News: Ranked choice voting made its debut across 21 Utah municipalities Tuesday. And while the results are still preliminary, we’re starting to gauge how Utah clerks, voters and candidates feel about the system that’s been touted as… Continue reading

This story out of Mass. highlights the problems that can arise when legislators split election precincts to pursue their own ends in redistricting. From MassLive: New political boundaries for the Massachusetts House and Senate became official Thursday as Gov.… Continue reading

Terrific WP piece by Ray LaRaja and Alexander Theodoridis  on how the VA GOP found its way to a more electable nominee for governor through the use of ranked-choice voting. The story does not highlight this additional fact: party leaders… Continue reading

Texas attracted national attention for a variety of changes it made to its voting policies. The new state law banned two practices that Houston had used for the first time during the pandemic election: 24 hour voting and drive-thru voting.… Continue reading

Any guesses as to what election board this refers to?? It’s the NYC Election Board, as lovingly described by the New York Times. Here’s more of the Times disemboweling of the Board: If you built a laboratory solely to… Continue reading

As the subtitle says, this Washington Post three-part immersive series examines Jan. 6 and its fallout through audio, video, photography and revelatory new reporting. The Washington Post today released a three-part investigation into the forces that led to the… Continue reading

VA made a change in its election-administration policies after the 2020 election that I and many others had been advocating. In 2020, state law barred officials from starting to process must absentee ballots before polls had closed. This year, election… Continue reading

This is the opening of a Politico deep dive into the riveting Democratic Party primary for a Senate seat in NC: By the time Jeff Jackson got here, he already had been to 95 of the 100 counties in the… Continue reading

From the Washington Post: As Vice President Mike Pence hid from a marauding mob during the Jan. 6 invasion of the Capitol, an attorney for President Donald Trump emailed a top Pence aide to say that Pence had caused… Continue reading

Washington Post: Tucker Carlson, the most popular voice in conservative media, drew condemnation Thursday for the trailer of a new series he plans to debut next week promising to “tell the true story” of the Jan. 6 insurrection, in which… Continue reading

From a 538 interview, with GD = Galen Drake from 538: GD: I know that you supported overall the election changes in Georgia this year. But those laws included making you no longer chair of the state election board, which… Continue reading

Washington Post: Virginia Attorney General Mark R. Herring’s office Thursday pressed a surrogate of Republican gubernatorial nominee Glenn Youngkin to share evidence supporting her claims that Democrats are trying to “steal” Tuesday’s election — allegations Herring (D), who… Continue reading

Also Politico: Illinois’ state legislature passed a new congressional map early Friday morning that likely secures Democrats’ control of 14 of the state’s 17 congressional districts — but it also condemned liberalfreshman Rep. Marie Newman to an uncertain fate at… Continue reading

From Ally Mutnick at Politico: Iowa legislators approved a new congressional map Thursday that largely maintains the status quo and gives Republicans a solid chance at winning all four of the state’s congressional districts next year.The proposal, crafted… Continue reading