“GOP gubernatorial candidate David Perdue calls for new election police unit in Georgia”
CNN reports.
“GOP considers more ruthless redistricting”
Politico:
Republicans have mostly played it safe in the states that have completed redistricting so far, locking in the status quo with durable maps that are more likely to withstand demographic changes and legal muster. But amid a growing… Continue reading
“Pro-Trump influencers flocked to alternative social networks. Their follower counts stalled soon after.”
WaPo:
Pro-Trump commentators’ hopes of developing major followings on right-leaning websites after they left Facebook and Twitter have run up against a harsh reality: Their audiences on those sites have stagnated.A Washington Post analysis of audience data for 47… Continue reading
“Achievable Federal Election Reform”
Release:
Today the Bipartisan Policy Center’s Elections Project released a collaborative report undertaken with American Enterprise Institute, Issue One, R Street, and Unite America: Prioritizing Achievable Federal Election Reform. This report’s proposals build on synergy… Continue reading
Alaska Supreme Court upholds electoral reform
This order, with an opinion to follow, makes clear that Alaska will be using its new electoral system (nonpartisan primary, with top four candidates on the general election ballot and the winner based on ranked-choice ballots using Instant Runoff… Continue reading
“Alaska Supreme Court Upholds Top-Four Initiative”
“Echo chambers, filter bubbles, and polarisation: a literature review”
New Reuters Institute report:
Terms like echo chambers, filter bubbles, and polarisation are widely used in public and political debate but not in ways that are always aligned with, or based on, scientific work. And even among academic researchers,… Continue reading
“The Pundits Are Wrong. Democrats Must Reform the Electoral Count Act and Pass Comprehensive Voting Rights Legislation.”
Charlotte Hill, Jake Grumbach, Hakeem Jefferson and Adam Bonica:
We understand the allure of focusing exclusively on election subversion. Unlike voter suppression and gerrymandering, subversion is a relative newcomer to the “rigging elections” playbook, and pundits like novelty.… Continue reading
“Senate Opens Voting Rights Debate, With Legislative Defeat Looming”
Carl Hulse for the NYT:
Democrats pushed forward on Tuesday with what appeared to be a futile bid to enact voting rights protections over Republican opposition, taking up legislation that they said was urgently needed to counter widespread balloting… Continue reading
“Plans to close all but one polling place in a rural Georgia county reverberate through a battleground state”
Fredreka Schouten for CNN:
Election officials in a rural Georgia county are weighing plans to close all but one polling place ahead of this year’s elections, alarming local voting and civil rights groups.But Wednesday’s vote by the Lincoln County… Continue reading
“Texas rejects hundreds of mail ballot applications under new voting limits”
Reuters:
Texas election officials have rejected hundreds of mail-in ballot applications, abiding by a new Republican-backed law just weeks before a March 1 primary kicks off this year’s U.S. election cycle.“My friends, this is what voter suppression looks like,” Democrat… Continue reading
“‘Crazy Like a Fox’: Voting Machine Maker Smartmatic Sues My Pillow, CEO for Defamation”
Oral argument in Alaska RCV case
As Rick blogged earlier today, the Alaska Supreme Court heard oral argument in an important case challenging the constitutionality of the state’s new electoral system, which has a nonpartisan primary that sends the top four candidates to the general… Continue reading
“Colorado secretary of state files lawsuit to block Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters from overseeing the 2022 election”
Colorado Sun:
Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold on Tuesday filed a lawsuit seeking to block Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters from having any oversight role in the 2022 election. The lawsuit comes after Peters, a Republican, refused last week… Continue reading