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The NYT has one all about ballot design. And another replaying some debates about electing judges that will be very familiar to domestic versions of the same question. And still another reviewing the ...
Past, Present, and Future in Oxford Handbook of American Election Law (Eugene Mazo, ed., 2024) Nonprofit Law as a Tool to Kill What Remains of Campaign Finance Law: Reluctant Lessons from Ellen Aprill ...
Steve Ford discusses the NC legislature’s partisan transfer of the power to select the State Board of Elections from the governor to the state auditor.
Caller calls out low-propensity Republican voters. Given that restrictions on access to the ballot generally hit low-propensity voters harder, I’ve been wondering for a while whether the political ...
This labour dispute is a real test for the new government. Will it be the same old or will they chart a new path?
The Blade reports on a proposed Ohio state budget to eliminate the bipartisan commission enforcing state campaign finance law, which would leave the secretary of state’s office with statewide ...
Votebeat with a report on a ruling from Cochise County, Arizona, allowing a new election when 11,000 inactive voters were – improperly — not sent ballots for a May 2023 all-mail election decided by ...
That’s the lead analysis of this morning’s WaPo Early Brief. But see, e.g., this piece from the Daily Signal: “Maine Poised to Become First State to Withdraw From Popular Vote Compact” ...
To be clear, these are just the campaign finance schemes. And the sentence announced today: probation.
From the Vancouver Sun, the most important paragraph in my mind is this one: Still, Boegman insists that in each case the problems were fixed and the overall outcome of the election was not affected.
The Oklahoman covers (paywall) threats of litigation to a new Oklahoma requirement (with some comparisons to recent measures in other states restricting direct democracy) that restricts the number of ...
The Wisconsin Elections Commission says small communities don’t need the state’s permission to stop using electronic voting machines, siding with a northwestern Wisconsin town that switched to ...