NYT: Facebook announced on Friday that it would allow political campaigns and candidates to pay creators for sponsored content on Instagram and Facebook, so long as the posts follow the company’s disclosure guidelines.Each piece of sponsored political content must use … Continue reading
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Frank Wilkinson for Bloomberg View: While candidates jostle for advantage in the Democratic presidential primary, and the news media play the odds, President Donald Trump already knows the identity of his opponent. Indeed, his campaign, with the full support of … Continue reading
Jamelle Bouie column for the NYT. … Continue reading
WSJ reports. … Continue reading
Morning Consult: After issues with a vote tabulation mobile app delayed the results of the Iowa caucuses, voters are more likely to trust in analog voting methods than ballot systems that rely heavily on technology, according to a new Morning … Continue reading
Salon: In other words, as party-run contests in Iowa continue and are poised to take the stage in Nevada, the riskiest, most controversial and possibly least assuring aspects of these 2020 elections are coming from decisions made by state party … Continue reading
Listen to the latest from Franita Tolson and Ned Foley. … Continue reading
Steven Rosenfeld for Salon. … Continue reading
Gowri Ramachandran and Susannah Goodman at Just Security. … Continue reading
CNN: With the Nevada Democratic caucuses only a week away, both caucus workers and presidential campaigns are worried about the lack of detail the state party is providing about how the results reporting process will work.The worries come after the state party stopped … Continue reading
Yahoo News reports. … Continue reading
NPR reports. … Continue reading
NYT: For more than a decade, it has been an elusive dream for election officials: a smartphone app that would let swaths of voters cast their ballots from their living rooms. It has also been a nightmare for cyberexperts, who … Continue reading
NYT reports. … Continue reading
WaPo reports. … Continue reading
Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel: Wisconsin election officials abruptly canceled plans to send tens of thousands of voters two absentee ballots for the presidential primary, saying their new approach may violate state law but will avoid mass confusion. The Wisconsin Elections Commission this month … Continue reading
Capitol Media Services reports. I had expected the Supreme Court to do the same thing the 9th Circuit has now done to itself. … Continue reading
Jesse Wegman NYT oped: But for all the good it did, the 15th Amendment had a central flaw: Its words were cast in the negative. It told the states what they could not do — “shall not be denied or abridged.” It did … Continue reading
See here. … Continue reading
Jeffrey Smith and John Bellinger WaPo oped. … Continue reading
My article with Chris Warshaw on how partisan gerrymandering impedes numerous party functions — candidate recruitment, fundraising, appealing to voters, and so on — is now up on the Legislative Studies Quarterly website. The abstract is below: The relationship between … Continue reading
New York reports. … Continue reading
New report from the SPLC. … Continue reading
Really smart column from Greg Sargent. … Continue reading
Stateline reports. … Continue reading
Gabrielle Gurley for TAP. … Continue reading
Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel: Many of the 232,000 Wisconsinites at the heart of a lawsuit over who should be on the state’s voting rolls are reliable voters, with nearly three-quarters of them casting ballots in the 2016 presidential election. The frequency with … Continue reading
WaPo: An election app in use by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s political party potentially exposed sensitive personal information for the country’s entire national voting registration of about 6.5 million citizens, according to Israeli media reports.The cellphone-based program, identified as … Continue reading
Despicable. … Continue reading
Haberman tweet: Not in our story, but the president and his aides are looking to either win back or * neutralize * voters who turned out in 2018. Depressed turnout was a factor in 2016. If they can’t make Trump … Continue reading
WaPo: The update from the state party reflected its review of 55 precincts, making up about 3 percent of the total 1,765. But the review involved only rectifying discrepancies between numbers reported on math worksheets completed by caucus leaders and … Continue reading
In the next few days, the Democratic Party in Nevada and nationally faces an urgent and difficult choice. In an admirable desire to expand access to the caucuses, four days of early voting for the NV caucuses are scheduled … Continue reading
Bloomberg Law: Conservative groups pressed the IRS to move ahead with its proposal to drop a requirement that certain tax-exempt nonprofits disclose identities of their significant donors.The groups dominated a list of 16 witnesses set to testify at an agency … Continue reading
NYT with big news: Attorney General William P. Barr issued new restrictions on Wednesday over the opening of politically sensitive investigations, an effort meant to avoid upending the presidential election as the F.B.I. inadvertently did in 2016 when its campaign … Continue reading
Read this NYT column from Nate Cohn and then this tweet: I suspect I can say this without crossing the line into opinion: this is the worst conceived and executed electoral contest I have ever seen— Nate Cohn (@Nate_Cohn) February … Continue reading
See here. … Continue reading
It’s like the Bad News Bears. … Continue reading
Wow, it’s this bad: “The Associated Press calls a race when there is a clear indication of a winner. Because of a tight margin between former Mayor Pete Buttigieg and Sen. Bernie Sanders and the irregularities in this year’s caucus … Continue reading
Very useful and to be updated quarterly. … Continue reading
Me on Twitter, responding to Tom Perez: 1. Don't let political parties run caucuses anymore.2. If an entity running an election makes a mistake, own up to it, be transparent3. Don't release final results until you are absolutely sure they're … Continue reading
By my calculation, based on the latest FEC filings, the Democratic presidential candidates have raised already nearly $250 million from small donors in this election cycle. Small donors, defined as those giving less than $200, are listed as “unitemized contributors” … Continue reading
NYT’s The Upshot. … Continue reading
Just Security. … Continue reading
Governing reports. … Continue reading
WaPo reports. … Continue reading
NBC News reports. … Continue reading
11Alive—you can watch people voting on the new BMDs in Georgia. … Continue reading
Ned Foley for Politico. … Continue reading
NYT tick tock. But soon the party phone lines were completely jammed. Operators were overwhelmed. Only a quarter of nearly 1,700 precinct chairs even successfully downloaded the app, according to a Democrat familiar with the matter.“I couldn’t get it to … Continue reading
WaPo reports. … Continue reading