The Charlotte Observer offers this report, which begins: “Ralph Gingles is a judge in Gaston County. Ruth Shaw lives in a retirement home in upstate New York. Dwight Strickland runs a country store near Wilmington. The three have little… Continue reading

AP offers this report.

Tara Malloy has written this oped for the National Law Journal, with the subhead: “It used to be uncontroversial to suggest that privately financed elections might undercut the democratic ideal of one person/one vote by favoring the wealthy. But now… Continue reading

The Indianapolis Star reports.

See here. More from Matthew Franck.

The NY Times offers this report.

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David Pozen has posted this draft on SSRN (forthcoming, Columbia Law Review Sidebar). Here is the abstract: November 2, 2010 is the latest milestone in the evolution of state judicial elections from sleepy, sterile affairs into meaningful political contests. Following… Continue reading

The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel offers State elections officials dispatched to examine Waukesha County count. AP reports that Ms. Kloppenburg is raising recall funds. Jay Weiner compares Wisconsin and Minnesota recount procedures. And Sandy Levinson blogs on judicial elections generally, including… Continue reading

You decide. (Here’s my original post).

See here.

With news reports indicating that human error was responsible for a failure to include 7,582 votes in favor of Justice Prosser in the vote totals, I breathe a sigh of relief from the point of view of election administration. Though… Continue reading

Media Matters for America has put up this post, which further validates my prediction.

Pam Adams has written this column.