See this press release, which begins: “A team of researchers from George Mason University, the Brookings Institution, and Harvard University, in collaboration with Azavea, a Philadelphia-based software design company, is announcing the release of District Builder, a free, open-source… Continue reading

Earlier today the Alaska Division of Elections announced rules for segregating and counting write-in votes that may be credited for Murkowski. Soon thereafter, Joe Miller filed suit in federal court. The suit claims that the rules violate the U.S. Constitution’s… Continue reading

Still keeping an eye on this one, but if the numbers in the article are accurate, I expect Mr. Wiggins will stay comfortably out of the automatic recount provision.

AP offers this report about this 10th Circuit opinion holding that a group advocating positions on ballot measures but spending very little and receiving few contributions was constitutionally exempt from certain campaign finance disclosure requirements. See also this blog post… Continue reading

The Senator Kirk push begins (as I advocated).

See here.

Howard rounds them up.

A timely question.

See here.

BNA offers this report. At issue is whether the challengers get a three-judge court. My earlier coverage is here.

That’s the first time I know of that a judicial candidate’s campaign (though perhaps not the Justice himself) has used such inflammatory language in a close judicial election.

A very useful primer.

The Las Vegas Review Journal offers this report.

Rules of the Game: “Democrats and their allies face a tricky problem in the wake of a midterm defined by big money: Should they keep bashing interest group cash, or fight fire with fire?”