Thanks again to Justin, Tabatha, Derek, Guy, and Rick P. for excellent work being primary bloggers during May while I had to attend to other things. Here’s the June blogging schedule: Week of June 5: Nick Stephanopoulos Weeks of June… Continue reading

From the WP: An Atlanta-area investigation of alleged election interference by former president Donald Trump and his allies has broadened to include activities in Washington, D.C., and several other states, according to two people with knowledge of the probe… Continue reading

A sad story that exemplifies what’s been happening with election administrators in several areas around the country. From the WP: After facing an onslaught of harassment and violent threats for certifying the results of the 2020 election, a Republican on… Continue reading

Marion County, IN (home of Indianapolis) has been the site of two major Supreme Court election-law cases, Whitcomb v. Chavis and Davis v. Bandemer. A  lawsuit has now been filed asking a federal court to declare Marion County’s system of… Continue reading

This NYT story runs counter to a lot of the narratives after 2022, but the story explains what its data analysis differs from those narratives: In the 2020 presidential election, voters who were 18 to 29 in 2008 backed Joe… Continue reading

Charles Stewart summarizes some of the main findings at ElectionLine. The full report is here. The percentage of voters who cast their ballot by mail dropped more than 10 points from 2020, to 32%. 40% of mail voters… Continue reading

NBC News: “The large-scale voter contact effort that conservatives have put at the center of their political operations in recent years is plagued with issues, according to more than a dozen people who’ve worked in GOP-aligned field operations and internal… Continue reading

I have posted on SSRN a very close to final version of this paper, to be published in the University of New Hampshire Law Review. Here is the abstract: Total Vote Runoff (TVR) is an electoral system designed to be… Continue reading

From the Daily Montanan: Ten Montanans, including former elected officials and Constitutional Convention delegates, have sued the state arguing a bill that adds a host of new requirements for people trying to get initiatives and constitutional amendments onto the ballot… Continue reading

From this piece in The Hill by Steven Lubet: Adding members to the House will only increase partisanship and feed extremism, as the behavior of state legislatures has amply demonstrated…. Smaller districts would theoretically bring representatives closer to the people,… Continue reading

Josh Douglas has this detailed report on the subject for The Institute for Responsive Government. He also has a related piece for the Washington Monthly which criticizes Florida’s new restrictions on third-party registration efforts.

NBC News: Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration has quietly changed state guidelines, essentially giving its blessing for a state-level political committee he previously ran to move millions of dollars to a super PAC helping his presidential campaign. For years, elections officials… Continue reading