NYT: Thousands of union workers at a multibillion-dollar petrochemical plant being built outside Pittsburgh were given the choice of attending a speech by President Trump on Tuesday or staying away — and losing some of their pay for the… Continue reading

Roll Call: State officials from Louisiana and Connecticut on Thursday asked for more money and clear standards from the federal government to help secure voting systems before the 2020 elections.But the officials, Louisiana Secretary of State Kyle Ardoin and Connecticut… Continue reading

NPR: Recent statements by Census Bureau and Justice Department officials have raised the question of whether the Trump administration plans to diverge from more than two centuries of precedent in how the country’s congressional seats and Electoral College votes… Continue reading

TPM: The Census Bureau says it can obtain the data President Trump will need to facilitate a game-changing, GOP-boosting redistricting overhaul. The outside experts who work with redistricting data aren’t so sure.Having failed in his attempt to add a… Continue reading

Jamelle Bouie for the NYT Magazine, part of their 1619 Project (“The 1619 Project is a major initiative from The New York Times observing the 400th anniversary of the beginning of American slavery. It aims to reframe the country’s history,… Continue reading

Here’s the tweet: No debate on Election Security should go forward without first agreeing that Voter ID (Identification) must play a very strong part in any final agreement. Without Voter ID, it is all so meaningless!— Donald J. Trump… Continue reading

Mother Jones: On October 20, 2018, just 16 days before that year’s midterm elections, Jim Allen, the spokesperson for the Chicago Board of Elections Commissioners, tried to boost a Facebook post on the board’s page announcing the opening of early-voting… Continue reading

Bloomberg: A federal judge in Los Angeles rejected the city’s request to throw out a National Rifle Association lawsuit challenging a new law that requires contractors to disclose all business ties to the organization.The NRA says the law violates… Continue reading

See the thread from Tierney Sneed beginning here: NEW via Rep. Pressley's office: Census Bureau, in written response confirms, that it will be producing block level data on citizenship voting age population pic.twitter.com/hICWp8j4hW— Tierney Sneed (@Tierney_Megan) August 13, … Continue reading

AP: Florida’s Republican governor on Friday asked the state’s high court to rule on whether convicted felons must pay all fines and fees before getting their voting rights restored in a move that competes with ongoing litigation in federal… Continue reading

Sac Bee: Six California residents who were erroneously added onto the voter rolls voted in last year’s midterms, the Secretary of State’s Office confirmed Friday afternoon following a months-long investigation.According to Secretary of State Alex Padilla’s office, all six individuals… Continue reading

TPM reports.

Thread starts here: I'm no fan of Mitch McConnell @senatemajldr (and he's condemned my writings about campaign finance on the Senate floor).But it seems wrong and odd that @Twitter put a lock on his campaign's @Team_Mitch account for RTing… Continue reading

Doug Chapin: A regular theme of this blog is that “there is no small stuff in elections” – and the latest example comes from Mississippi’s Gulf Coast, where a missing thumb drive has turned a close state Senate race… Continue reading