New Report from the Center for Civic Design: “Poll Workers: The Face of Elections”
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Category Archives: election administration
“Lamont forces legislators to keep elections watchdog independent”
Connecticut Mirror:
Facing a potential veto from Gov. Ned Lamont, the General Assembly agreed Wednesday to delete a portion of a bipartisan bill that would have ended a half century of independence by Connecticut’s elections watchdog.
Lamont objected to… Continue reading
“Bipartisan deals on voting and election changes are rare. It just happened in one swing state”
Associated Press:
Facing a legislature dominated by Democrats, Republican Gov. Joe Lombardo stood before Nevada lawmakers earlier this year with a message that some did not expect to go far: “Set aside partisan politics.”
It was a plea that… Continue reading
“Justice Department Announces Action Against Wisconsin Elections Commission for Lacking Complaint Procedure Required by Federal Law”
DOJ press release:
Today, the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division sent a letter to the Wisconsin Elections Commission regarding its failure to provide a complaint process or hearing for Wisconsin voters, in violation of the Help America Vote… Continue reading
“Texas to expand voting on weekends for next presidential election”
Houston Chronicle:
Texas will no longer have a three-day gap between the end of early voting and Election Day under a bill passed by the Texas Legislature that is heading to Gov. Greg Abbott.
Currently, Texas ends in-person early… Continue reading
“Mississippi Secretary of State’s Office responds to social media post claiming county residents can vote in Municipal Election”
Not great:
After a social media post circulated on election day claiming county residents can vote in Municipal Elections, the Mississippi Secretary of State’s Office made a Facebook post reminding voters this isn’t true.
Allegedly, the initial social media… Continue reading
“Ohio election security: LaRose issues 6th statewide directive for 2025”
Cleveland.com:
Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose issued his sixth statewide election security directive Monday, providing new cybersecurity protocols for all 88 county boards of elections.
This latest directive builds upon prior security enhancements that have positioned LaRose as… Continue reading
New Iowa law allows poll workers to challenge voters on the basis of citizenship, bans ranked choice voting, and changes major party status rules
Tom Barton for the Cedar Rapids Gazette:
House File 954 addresses elections laws regarding voter registration, citizenship and major party status. It also bans ranked choice voting in Iowa.
It adds citizenship status to age and residency under which… Continue reading
Supreme Court grants certiorari in Bost v. Illinois State Board of Elections on standing to challenge rules relating to the time receiving absentee ballots
From SCOTUSblog and the question presented:
Federal law sets the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November as the federal Election Day. 2 U.S.C. §§ 1 and 7; and 3 U.S.C. § 1. Several states, including Illinois, have enacted… Continue reading
A few more pieces on today’s judicial elections in Mexico
The NYT has one all about ballot design.
And another replaying some debates about electing judges that will be very familiar to domestic versions of the same question.
And still another reviewing the political dynamics of the elections right… Continue reading
“North Carolina elections take a risky turn”
Steve Ford discusses the NC legislature’s partisan transfer of the power to select the State Board of Elections from the governor to the state auditor.
“Why stricter voting laws no longer help Republicans”
The Economist, making my point from yesterday.
“Why On-And-Off Voters Who Backed Trump May Be GOP’s Midterm Silver Bullet”
The Daily Caller calls out low-propensity Republican voters.
Given that restrictions on access to the ballot generally hit low-propensity voters harder, I’ve been wondering for a while whether the political incentives on election administration issues might be changing. (And that’s… Continue reading
“What the REAL ID delay tells us about implementing proof-of-citizenship laws”
That’s the subject line of this week’s Votebeat newsletter, covering a bunch of reporting from a bunch of states that it’s been less straightforward for people to get the right kind of ID than it might at first seem.