Monthly Archives: November 2022
Proposed FEC Rulemaking on “Internet Communication Disclaimers and Definition of ‘Public Communication'”
This draft is on the agenda for Thursday’s FEC meeting.
Useful story on Arizona
From the Washington Post, with details over allegations relating to the counting of ballots especially in Maricopa County.
“Arizona Election Officials Call on G.O.P. Candidates to Tone Down the Rhetoric”
NYT:
Election officials in Arizona’s most populous and politically important county announced Thursday that they would not complete counting ballots until early next week, adding to tensions in a state at the center of the false narrative that the 2020… Continue reading
“LA County drops charges against election software executive, citing ‘potential bias”
NPR:
In an abrupt reversal, Los Angeles County has dismissed charges against the chief executive of an election software company, marking the end of a case that prominent election deniers cited as evidence of foul play in American elections.Eugene Yu,… Continue reading
OSCE Releases Preliminary Assessment of U.S. Midterm Elections
You can find the document here.
“Concessions are making a modest but notable comeback in 2022; Two years after former President Donald J. Trump rejected the results of the election, many of his supporters embraced the rituals of losing amicably.”
“Candidates and political action committees spent nearly $17 billion on midterms”
“I’m an election law expert who ran a polling station this election – here’s what I learned about the powerful role of local officials in applying the law fairly”
Over at The Conversation, I have this interview about my service as a poll worker. I chaired a precinct here in Iowa in the 2022 General Election (my second time chairing, and my third time working a polling place… Continue reading
“Total Vote Runoff” & Baldwin’s method
Since publication of the Washington Post column describing the “Total Vote Runoff” variation on Ranked Choice Voting, questions have arisen about the relationship of this procedure to what is known in the electoral systems literature as Baldwin’s method. The two… Continue reading
“Trump called a protest. No one showed. Why GOP efforts to cry foul fizzled this time.”
WaPo:
As voters cast ballots largely without incident on Tuesday afternoon, former president Donald Trump took to social media to declare that a minor, already rectified problem with absentee balloting in Detroit was “REALLY BAD.”“Protest, protest, protest,” he wrotejust before… Continue reading
Mike Pence Says Trump Told Him He Was Being “Too Honest” in Refusing to Subvert the 2020 Election to Give Trump a Victory over Biden
WSJ adaptation from Pence’s upcoming memoir:
Early on New Year’s Day, the phone rang. Texas Rep. Louie Gohmert and other Republicans had filed a lawsuit asking a federal judge to declare that I had “exclusive authority and sole discretion” to… Continue reading
“How News About Maricopa County’s Ballot-Counting Machines Went Viral”
NYT:
Technical glitches on Tuesday disrupted operations at about a quarter of the voting centers in Maricopa County, Ariz., the most populous county in a state with multiple competitive races.While the problems were later solved, it set off a firestorm… Continue reading
Pennsylvania: “Republican National Committee to challenge provisional ballots”
Philly Inquirer:
The national Republican Party is planning to challenge provisional ballots cast by Pennsylvania voters, a lawyer wrote in a letter to county elections officials Wednesday.The Republican National Committee “intends to challenge the provisional ballots cast by voters… Continue reading