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
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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
Excited about this: Two perspectives; one objective: free and fair elections. What Franita Tolson and Ned Foley hope for this podcast is to have a series of thoughtful conversations about the basic values of America’s democracy and how they are … Continue reading
Ned Foley for Politico magazine. … Continue reading
Josh Douglas for NYDN. … Continue reading
NYT: A night that was supposed to bring clarity to the Democratic presidential contest turned into a long ordeal of confusion and delays on Monday, as the Iowa Democratic Party failed to report results from more than a handful of … Continue reading
WaPo: The claims of electoral fraud were false, proved untrue by public data and the state’s top election official.That didn’t stop them from going viral, as right-wing activists took to Twitter over the weekend to spread specious allegations of malfeasance … Continue reading
Politifact reports. … Continue reading
Just in time for the start of caucus/primary season, Ray La Raja and Jonathan Rauch have this substantial essay out from Brookings. Here is the summary and table of contents for the piece: Summary Presidential-nominating contests in both major political … Continue reading
Kevin Johnson: Our historical cousins in the United Kingdom vote much like we do — in single-member districts, under simple plurality rules — so their elections are worth paying attention to. This is particularly true now that “the duopoly,” the … Continue reading
Frank Scaturro WSJ oped. … Continue reading
As if the Iowa caucuses were not confusing enough, the Democratic Party will report out three different measures of the result. But on top of that, the campaigns have an incentive to try to manipulate the perceptions of “the” result, … Continue reading
Trib Live: The heat is on — and it’s getting hotter for election officials across Pennsylvania as the April 28 presidential primary approaches.A new state election law that allows, among other things, no-excuse mail-in balloting 50 days before an election, coupled with … Continue reading
Frank Wilkinson for Bloomberg View. … Continue reading
NYT reports. … Continue reading
This change is almost certainly in response to the fact that Michael Bloomberg now appears to be fourth in the national polls, even though he is not soliciting contributions from anyone. As the DNC has recognized, keeping a candidate with … Continue reading
Steven Rosenfeld reports. … Continue reading
Washington Post: Election officials are striking a confident tone about digital security at their final summit before caucus and primary season begins. But they’re also planning for the worst, war-gaming how to handle any major hacks from Russia or other … Continue reading