WaPo: The Federal Election Commission has affirmed in a not-yet-public decision that foreign nationals can finance efforts related to ballot initiatives, deciding that the federal ban on foreign money applies only to candidate elections.In a 4-2 vote in… Continue reading

USA Today reports.

Democrat and Chronicle: New York voters appeared to reject three ballot proposals that would have implemented reforms favored by elected Democrats, including same-day voter registration and a measure that would have allowed anyone to cast an absentee ballot.With 86%… Continue reading

NJ.com: The bitter race for New Jersey governor didn’t end on Election Day. In a shocker, the contest, once seen as a shoo-in for Gov. Phil Murphy, remained too close to call Wednesday. Results this morning show the Democratic… Continue reading

WaPo: It was a month after the 2020 presidential election, and Bernard Kerik was starting to panic. The former New York City police chief and his friend Rudolph W. Giuliani were shelling out thousands of dollars for hotel rooms… Continue reading

Release: U.S. Senators Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Joe Manchin (D-W.V.) Tuesday released a bipartisan compromise on the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act.  This proposal – which builds on the version introduced earlier in… Continue reading

The Missouri Independent reports.

Chicago Tribune oped.

Posted here: We, the undersigned, are an ideologically diverse group of university professors who have served as expert witnesses on election administration, voting rights, redistricting, campaign finance, and similar cases. Some of us have worked in support of plaintiffs… Continue reading

Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel: A Republican state elections commissioner says lawmakers calling for his resignation are looking for a scapegoat because Donald Trump lost Wisconsin. Dean Knudson made the comments Friday, a day after Racine County Sheriff Chris Schmaling accused him … Continue reading