California Democratic Party settles lawsuits alleging harassment and discrimination by former leader
The LA Times has the latest on the continuing fallout from the scandal involving the former chair.
Monthly Archives: January 2020
The partisan campaign finance horse race
The WaPo summarizes
the reported candidate and party committee hauls for 2019 ($463 million for
Trump and the RNC, for example).
It seems fair to compare RNC solo fundraising to DNC solo fundraising,
and Trump’s re-elect to Obama’s 2012 re-elect. … Continue reading
“Top DFLers, state party defend law that permits Trump-only GOP primary ballots”
The real story isn’t that state party officials are defending state party associational rights under the First Amendmetn (even if they also benefit opposing parties). The real story is the practical recognition that litigation now begins to creep up on… Continue reading
“Chief Justice Roberts warns we’re taking “democracy for granted.” His rulings haven’t helped.”
Ian Millhiser critiques what he sees as a disconnect between the Chief’s year-end report on the judiciary and our democracy, and the Chief’s actions on the judiciary and our democracy.
“Leaked Trump Camp Tape Reignites Concerns Over GOP ‘Ballot Security’ Plans”
Tierney Sneed at TPM highlights the audio Rick blogged before the holidays, about the lapse of the consent decree between the DNC and RNC governing “ballot security” efforts.
“Man, 81, Pleads Guilty To Voting in N.H. and Mass.”
If this is the proof of the busloads of voters, those are very, very small buses.
New York made a few election law changes in 2019
Greenberg Traurig, in The National Law Review, have you covered on some of the basics.
Primary voting begins today …
… in the Oscars race.
It’s an alternative
voting system for nominations (and in a few categories, for the final
result):
In the nominations voting, the
marking and tabulation of all ballots shall be according to the preferential,
weighted average,… Continue reading
“Voting Rights Restoration Backlog Leaves Iowans with Felony Convictions Waiting”
Iowa Public Radio previews an issue with increased urgency given the February 3 primaries.
Unaffiliated voters and the California primaries
Jessica
Levinson forecasts coming confusion in California, a heavily
absentee-voting state where voters have now been trained on a “top two” state primary
(in which voters can vote on all candidates, no matter their party registration). But
the top… Continue reading
“Conservatives seek immediate purge of voters in Wisconsin”
The latest on this saga is a motion seeking to hold the members of the Wisconsin Elections Commission in contempt for failing to remove 200,000 voter registrations pending an appeal of a state trial court’s order. More here.
“‘Alabama Counts’: How one Republican state bucks national trends and boosts Census awareness”
Alabama is right on the brink of losing a congressional seat – under most projections, it’s the state that would get the 436th seat if that were a thing. (And that’s if the Census count is actually accurate.)
And… Continue reading
“Census 2020 Tests Social-Media Giants’ Ability to Combat Disinformation”
The Wall St. Journal highlights the social media fight against disinformation ahead of the 2020 census.
“Americans wary of 2020 census; more than $1 trillion hangs in balance”
The Washington Times on census response.