From The City: Campaign committees for Rep. Adriano Espaillat (D-Manhattan/The Bronx) have paid nearly $15,000 to bloggers for posting hundreds of flattering articles dating to his first run for Congress in 2016, Federal Election Commission filings show. The bloggers’… Continue reading

A propos of the post a couple of posts down from this one, the Senate Rules and Administration Committee held hearings yesterday on this subject. The witness list, with links to their written testimony, is here: The Honorable Katie Hobbs… Continue reading

From Barry Burden and Trey Grayson: Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, State Rep. Janel Brandtjen and former Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman, all Republicans, have created an embarrassing, chaotic mess as they subject the state to a dangerous disinformation… Continue reading

This is not unexpected. Time to re-up my academic article with Michael Parsons on why RCV does not violate certain state constitutional provisions under which it has been challenged. From the Anchorage Daily News: Opponents of Alaska’s new ranked-choice… Continue reading

This is an extensive CNN story, a must read: “I am a hunter — and I think you should be hunted,” a woman can be heard saying in a voicemail left for Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs in… Continue reading

From Politico: Congressional investigators are preparing to seek testimony from John Eastman, the attorney who crafted a legal strategy to help Donald Trump try to overturn the 2020 election results on Jan. 6, a House aide confirmed on Tuesday… Continue reading

From OpenSecrets: New details of how a top fundraiser for former President Donald Trump’s campaign “parked” funds with groups that helped organize the Jan. 6 rally before the Capitol attack shine light on the coordination between seemingly independent… Continue reading

From the Editorial Board of the Washington Post: In the Virginia gubernatorial race, Glenn Youngkin, the Republican nominee, has indulged Mr. Trump’s falsehoods while seeking not to embrace them so wholeheartedly as to alienate suburban voters who don’t buy… Continue reading

From Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Republicans in the state Senate announced Monday they were launching a review of a recently completed audit of the 2020 election, just days after one of their members said the review had shown voting had been… Continue reading

Congratulations to Mryna Perez: The U.S. Senate on Monday voted to confirm Myrna Perez to serve on the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, clearing the way for the voting rights expert to join the New York-based appellate court… Continue reading

Large spending for open seat on PA’s Supreme Court fueled on one side by school-choice advocate and the other by labor unions and trial lawyers. From the AP: Spending in the race for an open seat on Pennsylvania’s state… Continue reading

From the Tennessean: Tennessee Sen. Brian Kelsey has been indicted in a campaign finance conspiracy alongside a Nashville social club owner, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Nashville announced Monday. A federal grand jury returned a five-count indictment charging Kelsey, 43,… Continue reading

From the AP, via CNN initially: A Republican secretary of state who challenged former President Donald Trump’s false claims of election fraud in 2020 is the front-runner for a job heading the Biden administration’s effort to protect future elections, according… Continue reading

From the Washington Post: President Donald Trump and those around him threw a multitude of voter-fraud conspiracy theories at the wall after the 2020 election. And few were as pervasive as the idea that people rose from the dead… Continue reading