The House Oversight Committee asked
Georgia Governor Brian Kemp today for a set of documents related to voters’
difficulties in Georgia in 2018. So far,
it’s just a request. And Kemp appears
unimpressed.
WaPo’s
FactChecker reviews some of Hillary Clinton’s claims about the 2016
election at the Selma Bloody Sunday commemorative service for this past weekend.
A new FEC complaint alleges that several PACs directed by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and/or her chief of staff reported large lump-sum expenditures to a set of campaign vendor LLCs, apparently complaining that the specific expenditures should have been reported individually. … Continue reading
Steven Rosenfeld sees
parallels between a 2017 Alberta provincial leadership campaign and the NC09
scandal, with lessons for 2020 primaries considering means to further participation
online or by phone.
Nevada Senate Maj. Leader Kelvin Atkinson resigned yesterday, “announcing he would be pleading guilty to federal charges of misappropriation of campaign funds for personal use and taking ‘full responsibility’ for his actions.” The resignation letter is here. There… Continue reading
On February 22, Rick noted that a North Carolina state
trial court had voided a constitutional amendment pertaining to voter ID,
because the amendment had been put on the ballot by a legislature elected
pursuant to an unconstitutionalgerrymander. … Continue reading
There’s been ongoinglitigation
over the legality of Wisconsin’s voter ID rule (and other changes to Wisconsin election
law). And by “ongoing,” I mean largely “in
stasis”: opinions from the trial court were issued in July 2016 (and partially
stayed… Continue reading
The reporting
continues with respect to employees in the Kentucky Secretary of State’s
office, looking up names in the voter registration rolls, potentially to assess
political affiliation. The SOS’s office
claims that “all searches were performed at the request of… Continue reading
Three new white papers on California’s top-two primary out of the USC Schwarzenegger Institute, by Charles Munger, Jr., a financial and political backer of the top-two system.
As Dan mentioned, I’ll be the one drinking from the fire hose through the 9th (with, as always, renewed appreciation for how Rick manages to do this every single day).
Please send tidbits (and complaints) to me.