From a press release via Issue One: New polling released today shows strong bipartisan support for updating the Electoral Count Act (ECA), an outdated 19th century law that has provided the framework governing the casting and counting of electoral votes… Continue reading

The Washington Post: Loudoun County General Registrar Judy Brown doesn’t recall seeing many poll watchers during early voting last year — they usually turn up only on Election Day, primarily during presidential elections.Butthat’s changed.“This year,” she said, “we have… Continue reading

From The City: Campaign committees for Rep. Adriano Espaillat (D-Manhattan/The Bronx) have paid nearly $15,000 to bloggers for posting hundreds of flattering articles dating to his first run for Congress in 2016, Federal Election Commission filings show. The bloggers’… Continue reading

A propos of the post a couple of posts down from this one, the Senate Rules and Administration Committee held hearings yesterday on this subject. The witness list, with links to their written testimony, is here: The Honorable Katie Hobbs… Continue reading

From Barry Burden and Trey Grayson: Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, State Rep. Janel Brandtjen and former Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman, all Republicans, have created an embarrassing, chaotic mess as they subject the state to a dangerous disinformation… Continue reading

This is not unexpected. Time to re-up my academic article with Michael Parsons on why RCV does not violate certain state constitutional provisions under which it has been challenged. From the Anchorage Daily News: Opponents of Alaska’s new ranked-choice… Continue reading

This is an extensive CNN story, a must read: “I am a hunter — and I think you should be hunted,” a woman can be heard saying in a voicemail left for Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs in… Continue reading

From Politico: Congressional investigators are preparing to seek testimony from John Eastman, the attorney who crafted a legal strategy to help Donald Trump try to overturn the 2020 election results on Jan. 6, a House aide confirmed on Tuesday… Continue reading

The following is a guest post from William P. Wood, former chief counsel to the California Secretary of State: Coming up to a tumultuous presidential election, with questions and concerns raised about the election process itself, it’s worthwhile to revisit… Continue reading

From OpenSecrets: New details of how a top fundraiser for former President Donald Trump’s campaign “parked” funds with groups that helped organize the Jan. 6 rally before the Capitol attack shine light on the coordination between seemingly independent… Continue reading

From the Editorial Board of the Washington Post: In the Virginia gubernatorial race, Glenn Youngkin, the Republican nominee, has indulged Mr. Trump’s falsehoods while seeking not to embrace them so wholeheartedly as to alienate suburban voters who don’t buy… Continue reading

Rob Yablon recently posted a terrific new article, Gerrylaundering, criticizing mapmakers who prioritize changing districts as little as possible when they redistrict. Gerrylaundering, Yablon points out, is especially pernicious when the prior plan was a gerrymander. In that case,… Continue reading