Category Archives: election administration
“New Twitter rules expose election offices to spoof accounts”
The AP posts a dispatch from the Blue Check Battles.
Deeeeeeeep dive into Pinal County 2022 election counting
The final tally in the 2022 Arizona Attorney General’s race showed a margin of 280 votes out of more than 2.5 million cast — and any race that close is going to get an awful lot of scrutiny. That’s a… Continue reading
Minnesota Governor signs “Democracy for the People” law
The bill, signed Friday morning, includes (among other provisions) opt-out voter registration, pre-registration for 16- and 17-year olds, expanded language access, protections against interfering with the election process, and prohibitions against spending in state races by corporations in which… Continue reading
“Bipartisan election bills address worker safety, poll closures, campaign finance and more”
One of the pieces of the “and more” finding some initial bipartisan support in Wisconsin: Kenosha News notes a welcome provision to let the state pick up the tab for special elections for state offices. Local elections departments need all… Continue reading
“A GOP claim that Michigan purposely tried to encourage voter fraud doesn’t fit with facts”
News from the States:
Republicans at a recent congressional hearing accused Michigan’s chief election official of deliberately leaving tens of thousands of dead voters on the rolls in order to encourage illegal voting.
Even at a time of intense… Continue reading
“The Impact of COVID-19, Election Policies, and Partisanship on Voter Participation in the 2020 U.S. Election”
New from Paul Herrnson and Charles Stewart:
The COVID-19 pandemic had the potential to wreak havoc on elections. Democracies initiated varied policies to minimize health risks to voters and election workers. This study assesses the impact of voting policies,… Continue reading
Two important discussions on Wednesday next week
On May 10, Minnesota’s Humphrey School of Public Affairs is hosting The Profession of Democracy: Election Administration and State Associations.
Elections administrators, the people who referee our democracy, are literally and figuratively under threat. Long hours, harassment, malicious open… Continue reading
“The Election Deniers’ Playbook for 2024”
The Brennan Center summarizes 14 tactics facilitating election subversion, and the ways that they’ve manifested in 2022 and 2023.
The other other Dominion case
The AP reminds us that this case about a touchscreen ballot-marking system, first filed August 8, 2017 (challenging what were then paperless DREs), went to a summary judgment hearing on Tuesday.
“Beer can launched to remind people of huge change in election voting rules”
Leave aside the controversy over the underlying rules for a moment: this is a marketing innovation I’d love to import from across the pond.
“The Impermissibility of Sex as a Voter Qualification”
Looks like a fascinating paper posted on SSRN today by UVa 3L Holl Chaisson:
Election officials across the country are turning away voters when they perceive a mismatch between the sex listed on the voter’s identification and the voter’s gender… Continue reading
“Election-denying clerk ousted in recall: ‘Make Adams Township Boring Again’”
Bridge Michigan has the unofficial results on yesterday’s recall election of a Michigan town clerk:
Voters in deeply conservative Adams Township on Tuesday night rejected elections clerk Stephanie Scott, ousting the Republican official who questioned the accuracy of her own… Continue reading
“Voter Registration in 2022 Highest in 20 Years for Congressional Elections”
The Census Bureau released voting and registration toplines from the Current Population Survey today.
[Serious data nerd voice] I’ll confess to a longstanding pet peeve with the way that these results are inevitably reported, including by the Bureau itself in… Continue reading