Useful story on Arizona
From the Washington Post, with details over allegations relating to the counting of ballots especially in Maricopa County.
Category Archives: Uncategorized
“Arizona Election Officials Call on G.O.P. Candidates to Tone Down the Rhetoric”
NYT:
Election officials in Arizona’s most populous and politically important county announced Thursday that they would not complete counting ballots until early next week, adding to tensions in a state at the center of the false narrative that the 2020… Continue reading
“LA County drops charges against election software executive, citing ‘potential bias”
NPR:
In an abrupt reversal, Los Angeles County has dismissed charges against the chief executive of an election software company, marking the end of a case that prominent election deniers cited as evidence of foul play in American elections.Eugene Yu,… Continue reading
OSCE Releases Preliminary Assessment of U.S. Midterm Elections
You can find the document here.
“Concessions are making a modest but notable comeback in 2022; Two years after former President Donald J. Trump rejected the results of the election, many of his supporters embraced the rituals of losing amicably.”
“Candidates and political action committees spent nearly $17 billion on midterms”
“Total Vote Runoff” & Baldwin’s method
Since publication of the Washington Post column describing the “Total Vote Runoff” variation on Ranked Choice Voting, questions have arisen about the relationship of this procedure to what is known in the electoral systems literature as Baldwin’s method. The two… Continue reading
“Trump called a protest. No one showed. Why GOP efforts to cry foul fizzled this time.”
WaPo:
As voters cast ballots largely without incident on Tuesday afternoon, former president Donald Trump took to social media to declare that a minor, already rectified problem with absentee balloting in Detroit was “REALLY BAD.”“Protest, protest, protest,” he wrotejust before… Continue reading
Pennsylvania: “Republican National Committee to challenge provisional ballots”
Philly Inquirer:
The national Republican Party is planning to challenge provisional ballots cast by Pennsylvania voters, a lawyer wrote in a letter to county elections officials Wednesday.The Republican National Committee “intends to challenge the provisional ballots cast by voters… Continue reading
“Key election deniers concede defeat after disputing Trump’s 2020 loss”
WaPo:
Voters in several battleground states have rebuked state-levelcandidates who echoed former president Donald Trump’s false claim that the 2020 presidential race was rigged, keeping election deniers from positions with power over the certification of future presidential election results.But dozens… Continue reading
Election Deniers Didn’t Win Big, but Continue to Threaten Multiracial Democracy
While election denialism was a winning strategy in many Republican primaries, it was a mixed bag last night in many contests for key state-level offices that play some role in overseeing elections. Key projected winners included Florida Governor Ron DeSantis… Continue reading
Could the Flipping of the North Carolina Supreme Court to Republican Control Moot the Moore v. Harper Case about the Independent State Legislature Doctrine?
With news that the North Carolina Supreme Court has flipped to Republican control, there is a good chance that the this court’s holding that partisan gerrymandering violates the state constitution will be overturned. That ruling will allow Republicans to draw… Continue reading
Even with Oz-Fetterman PA Senate Race Decided with Oz Concession, Litigation Over Undated but Timely PA Mail in Ballots Could Affect U.S. House and Other Races
ELB readers may remember that John Fetterman intervened in some litigation in federal court over whether the state may reject mailed in ballots that arrived on time but had no date or the wrong date. The state Supreme Court split… Continue reading
“It all turns on Maricopa County: Takeaways from a day of glitches, conspiracies and a lawsuit”
Arizona Republic:
Republicans on Tuesday sought an emergency court order to prevent polls from closing.Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake and U.S. Senate candidate Blake Masters joined the RNC as plaintiffs in the lawsuit against Maricopa County. They asked a judge… Continue reading