More on citizenship and redistricting
TPM dives in on the citizenship-data Paperwork Reduction Act filing spotted over the weekend.
And Reuters
reviews the legal battles that might result.
Monthly Archives: July 2019
“Presidential popular vote compact would lead to chaos”
Sean Parnell, over at The Hill, notes some concerns about the National Popular Vote compact.
Some of these concerns have to do with the fact that different states have different rules for administering elections. I’ve got mixed emotions about… Continue reading
“A question to repeal national popular vote compact in Colorado is poised for 2020 ballot”
Advocates say
they’ve got the signatures.
An extra note of significance:
If certified for the ballot, it would be the first time since The Great Depression that Colorado voters would decide whether to repeal or reaffirm a law approved… Continue reading
New volume of the Harvard Law & Policy Review is out
Chock
full of election-law goodies. Among
other pieces:
Elizabeth Warren, Foreword (on corruption and faith in government)Jeffrey Clements, “But It Will Happen”: A Constitutional Amendment to Secure Political Equality in Election Spending and RepresentationViki Harrison,… Continue reading
Last week at the FEC
Here’s last week’s roundup of the latest at the FEC.
Includes, among other things, an advisory opinion allowing a vendor to offer cybersecurity services to campaigns at low- to no-cost, and an advisory opinion allowing a congressional campaign to distribute… Continue reading
Zombie campaigns
A nice
summary here of some of the various reasons why campaign accounts may stay
open long after the campaigners are out of office.
“Thinking small: Why Bernie Sanders and other 2020 candidates seek low-dollar campaign contributions”
And a nice
summary here of some of the various reasons for seeking grassroots
contributions.
Protecting the 2020 Election from Manipulation by the President
Protect Democracy has a new white
paper with suggestions for what to do when the call is coming from inside
the house.
“Most Americans say no statehood for the District of Columbia, poll shows”
The
latest polling numbers in the fight for representation for DC residents. That’s consistent with past polls … which
have also showed a majority favoring full voting rights for DC.
“With straight-ticket voting gone, Texas House down-ballot races hang in the balance”
Commentary on the impact of the demise
of straight-ticket voting options in Texas.
Interesting suit against AZ initiative signature law
Arizona law invalidates any signatures collected for a citizens’ initiative, referedum, or recall by a particular circulator, if the circulator is paid or from out of state, and if that circulator is subpoenaed in a challenge and can’t appear in… Continue reading
“What the French Revolution teaches us about the dangers of gerrymandering”
Rebecca
Spang with a Bastille Day connection to unabashed partisan redistricting.
“How white supremacy shaped the original census — centuries before the citizenship debate”
The WaPo sees
a through-line in debates about race and the census. Janai Nelson has a deeper look in the Columbia Law
Review.
Citizenship data and the redistricting fight
The
Nation picks up the redistricting thread.