“High-profile lawyers face lasting consequences of election fraud claims”
Elections have consequences. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reminds us that — at least sometimes – lying about elections has consequences too.
“Eric Adams sues Campaign Finance Board for denying him millions in matching funds”
Politico has the latest in the Eric Adams adventure.
“Pennsylvania tallies up votes for poll workers, amid shortage of candidates”
Someone once explained me to a third person thus: “‘Pollworker’ is Justin’s love language.” They weren’t wrong.
Pennsylvania ran primaries for electing its 27,000 pollworkers last week, and Votebeat has the story on the now-unique practice dating back to 1799. … Continue reading
“Experts: Narrow timeline creates strain on New Bedford’s elections”
This is a good article about a horrible idea: an October 7 municipal primary for a November 4 municipal general election. In accessible fashion, the local independent New Bedford Light breaks down a bunch of the logistics that occupy election… Continue reading
“Elections board prepares to revamp R.I.’s aging campaign finance software. It just needs the money.”
Yet another piece – this one from States Newsroom affiliate the Rhode Island Current – about yet another impact of radically underfunding elections offices.
“What Just Happened: The Trump Administration’s Dismissal of Voting Rights Lawsuits”
Hot off the presses at Just Security, Chiraag Bains — a former colleague at both DOJ and the White House — walks through in impressive detail the current Administration’s dismissal of “all salient pending cases” brought by the decimated… Continue reading
“Deepfake Election Laws Spread Amid Court Challenges”
Bloomberg News out this morning with an analysis of the legislative landscape for deepfakes in the electoral process.
USCIS updates SAVE immigration database to be queried with Social Security numbers
From the press release this past Thursday:
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services updated the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) program to ensure a single, reliable source for verifying immigration status and U.S. citizenship nationwide. State and local authorities can… Continue reading
“Qatari foreign agents frequently donate to the congressional offices they lobby”
From the Washington Examiner. I suspect the practice isn’t limited to Qatar.
Judicial elections at home and abroad
The Kansas City Star reports the latest on a plan to switch from merit elections to direct elections for the Kansas Supreme Court.
Meanwhile, the International Crisis Group summarizes the landscape ahead of Mexico’s impending June 1 elections, when the… Continue reading
“Controversial voting machine gaining use in NY elections”
Per the Times-Union, the controversy with the ES&S ExpressVote XL is the barcode used to tally results (which also drew the ire of President Trump’s executive order on elections, though the purported mandate with respect to voting machines… Continue reading
“Venezuela’s ruling party claims election win as opposition boycotts poll”
The BBC reports on the democracy mess in Venezuela.
You got me again
Hi, folks. It’s Justin again. As Rick mentioned, I’ll be your temporary guest host this week.
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“How Donald Trump Has Remade America’s Political Landscape”
NYT:
Donald J. Trump’s victory in 2024 was not an outlier.
It was the culmination of continuous gains by Republicans in much of the country each time he has run for president, a sea of red that amounts to a… Continue reading