Joshua Spivak has written this oped for the Miami Herald. It begins: “Facing a well funded recall campaign, Mayor Carlos Alvarez has good reason to worry. In addition to the fact that he could be forced to face the voters… Continue reading

AP offers this report (with AP’s apparent apologies to BTO).

The WSJ Washington Wire reports. That makes my idea for Sen. Kirk to lead the fight for campaign finance disclosure in the lame duck even harder.

Following on my post here, more on the redistricting consequences of Tuesday’s election at Political Wire, Hotline on Call, and Politico. At Politico, Ben Smith also has links to two monstrous RNC spreadsheets showing partisan control… Continue reading

That’s a lucky break for Connecticut election administrators, who will now face much less intense scrutiny about the problems in the state’s last election.

Following up on this post, see here (via TPM).

Bruce Cain has written this lead essay for a Cato Unbound series on Following the Money: The Law and Ethics of Campaign Finance Disclosure. Over the next week, there will be responses by John Samples, Nikki Willoughby, and me.… Continue reading

Politico offers this report. See also this CBS Evening News report. My earlier coverage of one of the key legal questions—misspellings of Sen. Murkowski’s name on write-in ballots–is here.

See GOP Tweaks Ritchie Over Tweets. For what it’s worth, I completely agree that such retweeting is inappropriate by a state chief elections official, especially when it is in the midst of an ongoing election dispute about which this… Continue reading

The newspaper offers Foley Plans Statement On Whether He’ll Challenge Election Results and State GOP Will Ask For Gubernatorial Election Investigation By U.S. Attorney, New Secretary Of The State.

The Buffalo News offers this report.

AP offers this report.

Dave Weigel blogs about the results from the Missouri 3rd congressional district.

So writes Howard Bashman in his “Legal Intelligencer” column.… Continue reading