Richard Winger offers this very interesting post (though the data is somewhat outdated by now). Of course, third party candidates affected the Senate races in Georgia and Minnesota too.

I just received a press release via email, which begins: The American Civil Liberties Union, Lambda Legal and the National Center for Lesbian Rights filed a writ petition before the California Supreme Court today urging the court to invalidate Proposition… Continue reading

Fred Woocher, one of the smartest election lawyers I know and an expert on counting and recounting in California, sent the following to the election law listserv (reposted with permission) regarding whether outstanding mail-in and provisional ballots could affect… Continue reading

See here. An election administration thought: now that the Obama campaign has turned traditionally red states into battleground states (think North Carolina, Indiana and Montana in 2012), it multiplies the places where there could be an election meltdown in… Continue reading

You can again download More Supply, More Demand: The Changing Nature of Campaign Financing for Presidential Primary Candidates. I had taken the paper down for a bit as I fixed a few errors regarding the small donor data.

This is a handy snapshot of where we are right now with close federal races. On the California front, Prop. 11 is leading, but with an unknown (and likely large) number of mail-in ballots and provisional ballots to consider, the… Continue reading

McClatchy offers this report.

Here: “Although polls going into the final weeks of October showed Sen. Obama in the lead, it remained unclear whether the failing economy, dilapidated housing market, crumbling national infrastructure, health care crisis, energy crisis, and five-year-long disastrous war in… Continue reading

Ciara Torres-Spelliscy has written this post on the Brennan Center blog.

Could be. I kind of hope so, given that the presidency is at stake. Maybe it will convince Congress that HAVA needs fixing.

Readers of this blog have heard me go on ad nauseum about changes that need to be made to our system of election administration; my most recent pieces are this Findlaw piece and this Slate column. It strikes me… Continue reading

The phenomenal success of left-leaning blogs, including TPM, Daily Kos, and the Huffington Post, is no doubt attributable in large part to the dissatisfaction and passion felt by Democrats surrounding the Bush presidency. The challenge for these sites is going… Continue reading

Back on August 12, I sent a two-letter text to the Obama campaign. The text to 62262 said “VP,” and I signed up to be “one of the first” to get the word as to who President-elect Obama would be… Continue reading