“New York Election Reform Needs Improvement”
The latest from Goldfeder and Perez.
Monthly Archives: February 2019
“Stacey Abrams: ‘Incompetence’ led to voting rights suppression effort”
#NC09 Pic of the Day: Dowless Allegedly Gave Stepdaughter Script on How to Plead the 5th
This paper is what Dowless gave them and told them to say, Britt says. pic.twitter.com/dJ9kBHolq2— Ely Portillo (@ESPortillo) February 18, 2019
“Operative at center of NC election fraud hearing won’t testify”
News & Observer:
The stepdaughter of a Bladen County political operative detailed how she said his ballot harvesting operation worked on the first day of a hearing Monday into voting irregularities in the unresolved 2018 election in North Carolina’s 9th… Continue reading
Evidence of Major Illegal Activity Connected to #NC09 Election in Bladen County Coming Out at North Carolina Hearing: I Expect Board to Order New Election
Follow Joe Bruno at the hearing.
I’ll be very surprised if the board does not vote for a new election given what we are seeing so far.
Center for Public Integrity Does Deep Dive into Donald Trump’s Campaign Fundraising Machine
Donald Trump created a permanent presidential campaign. Here’s how. – Center for Public Integrity
Sidebar: https://publicintegrity.org/federal-politics/donald-trump-army-super-pacs-maga-nonprofits/
Inside Donald Trump’s army of super PACs and MAGA nonprofits – Center for Public Integrity
Poll: https://publicintegrity.org/federal-politics/elections/center-for-public-i
Center for Public Integrity/Ipsos poll: How should … Continue reading
“N.C. election officials will consider fate of congressional seat at Monday hearing”
Why is Georgia about to buy ANOTHER set of problematic voting machines?
https://twitter.com/MarilynRMarks1/status/1097046640312094720
California State Court Holds City of Santa Monica Election System Violates California Voting Rights Act and CA Constitution; Orders District Elections on July 2 2019
You can find the 71-page statement of decision at this link.
Given the findings of both CVRA liability as well as intentional racial discrimination in using an at-large voting system in violation of the California Constitution, a path forward… Continue reading
North Carolina: “This session might be the best chance in the next decade to end gerrymandering”
Will Doran:
Now might be the best chance to end gerrymandering in North Carolina, at least for another decade, a bipartisan group of legislators said Wednesday when they introduced a bill to do just that.Their proposal would end North Carolina’s… Continue reading
North Carolina: “Republicans won’t appeal ruling striking down 4 districts”
WRAL:
A key North Carolina GOP lawmaker says Republicans won’t appeal a ruling by state judges that the General Assembly violated a constitutional prohibition against mid-decade redistricting because it unnecessarily changed four House districts in 2017.
“Plenty of NC politicos hired McCrae Dowless; they just don’t want to talk about it”
“Laboratories of Democracy Reform: State Constitutions and Partisan Gerrymandering”
Sam Wang, Richard Ober, & Ben Williams have posted this draft on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
Despite multiple opportunities to address the issue, the Supreme Court has declined to take action on partisan gerrymandering. Here we argue that the… Continue reading
“Potential privacy lapse found in Americans’ 2010 census data”
AP:
An internal team at the Census Bureau found that basic personal information collected from more than 100 million Americans during the 2010 head count could be reconstructed from obscured data, but with lots of mistakes, a top agency official… Continue reading