A nonprofit called Long Distance Voter (LDV) has written this open letter to the RNC, complaining about an RNC mailer that included an LDV registration form. The forms are public and available for anyone to distribute. So what’s the problem?… Continue reading

Paul Stenbjorn, Director Information Services for the D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics, has written this response to the hacking of its digital vote by mail test.

Not to be missed: Michael McDonald has released his estimates of the Voting-Age and Voting Eligible Population for 2010. See this post on Huffpost/Pollster, as well as this page on the US Elections Project website with a state-by-state VAP and… Continue reading

In Politico’s Arena, Rick Hasen weighs in on Senator Feingold’s statement that he doesn’t want help from the DSCC.

The Center for Competitive Politics has issued this memo, responding to the Campaign Legal Center and Democracy 21’s complaint against Crossroad GPS and Think Progress’ allegation of foreign funding for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s political activities, both noted… Continue reading

The National Institute of Standards and Technology has two job postings, here and here, for computer security experts to work on HAVA voting systems issues, including the development of security standards.

Tax Prof Blog has this post (with links) on the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration’s announcement of an investigation into “whether Obama Administration officials illegally accessed and disclosed confidential taxpayer information involving Koch Industries, a prominent critic of the… Continue reading

The NYT has this report, discussing a few of the 155 measures on the ballots of 36 states.

Politico reports here.

The Ninth Circuit has issued this order in Family PAC v. McKenna, granting the state’s request to stay a district court order declaring unconstitutional a Washington law limiting ballot measure committees to $5000 contributions in the 21 days before the… Continue reading

According to this report, she’s accused of using the identity of her sister, who died in 1963, to vote twice in the 2008 election. She was caught when a routine scan of driver’s license photos revealed that she had… Continue reading

The Witchita Eagle reports here. After this year’s election, there’s a good chance that Kansas will join Indiana and Georgia in requiring voters to have photo ID. It will probably have a Republican governor and legislature. In addition, the… Continue reading

The LA Times reports here on how the increase in early and absentee voting is affecting campaign strategy.

This below-the-fold story from yesterday’s Columbus Dispatch caught my eye, because it raises a problem familiar to local election officials: not having enough money to run elections. In this case, the board of elections in Morgan County, a small county… Continue reading