ABC7:
A week after a huge glitch during the California Primary, Los Angeles County moved to modernize its voting system. It comes with a big price tag and a lot of questions.
The mystery of the 118,000 missing names on … Continue reading
Last night I flagged the revision/amendment issue as a major obstacle to 3-Californias going forward, but Bob Wolfe sees a more fundamental problem:
At first glance, I thought the initiative is unconstitutional because it “contemplates such a far-reaching change in… Continue reading
This is a really interesting state lawsuit. To simplify a bit: Missouri had a voter id law, which the state supreme court struck down as unconstitutional under the state constitution. So Missouri legislators put a voter id requirement into the… Continue reading
Mike Alvarez, Thad Hall, and Ines Levin have posted this draft on SSRN (forthcoming, American Politics Research). Here is the abstract:
How do voters make decisions in low-information contests? Although some research has looked at low-information voter decision-making, scant research… Continue reading
Portland Press-Herald:Mainers supported ranked-choice voting for the second time in two years with the passage of a people’s veto on Tuesday, making the state the first in modern times to overhaul its system for choosing candidates.
Supporters of Question… Continue reading
LAT:
California’s 168-year run as a single entity, hugging the continent’s edge for hundreds of miles and sprawling east across mountains and desert, could come to an end next year — as a controversial plan to split the Golden State… Continue reading
AP:
In an era when hacking has raised concerns about the security of America’s elections and President Donald Trump raises concerns about voter fraud, North Dakota stands out as the only state that doesn’t require voter registration.
Residents and most… Continue reading
Dale Ho NYT oped:
States should also be encouraged to adopt Election Day registration programs allowing eligible voters — including those who have been knocked off the rolls — to register at the polls. Fifteen states and the District of… Continue reading
This opinion (by Obama appointee Raymond Moore) is perhaps the worst-written and reasoned election law opinion I’ve read from a federal court.
I’m not saying the result is necessarily wrong (though my early thoughts are that it is). But much… Continue reading
Dan Smith and Michael Herron NYDN oped:
More fundamentally, do we have a right not to vote?
Should infrequent voters be removed from the rolls merely for not exercising their franchise? Is the right to vote only protected when… Continue reading
Surprised to learn that? I know I was. I discovered that from Justin Levitt’s blog post, here, which says:
This is not a new piece of voter suppression devised by current elections officials: Ohio put the process in place… Continue reading