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 ...

This AP story is presented as a cybersecurity issue.  And it is. But one of the dangers of running government without any regard for standard administrative process is that it makes fraud so much ...

Well this is a very interesting development in the case I’ve been tracking closely and expect the Supreme Court to hear, especially given that Marc Elias has not been one to generally defend campaign ...

Of Trump’s 60 pardons or commutations unrelated to Jan. 6, about one in five of them have gone to those who have some sort of financial or political connection to him. Here is a list of those … Contin ...

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 ...

A congressional watchdog office has found reason to believe that Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick requested community project funding, also known as earmarks, on behalf of a for-profit entity — a ...

A lawsuit alleges that state superintendent Ryan Walters added a provision on election questions without notifying some board members before they voted.” A further excerpt from the article: The draft ...

The NYT reports on the NYC campaign finance board’s decision, which turns on “redboxing” – the practice of campaigns issuing public documents that sure look like very-thinly-veiled instructions to ...

Rob’s been arguing for decades for instant runoff voting, and I think in many contexts it can be a good idea to eliminate the need for a second round of voting flat-out. But if you’re going to have a ...

Further turmoil in Shasta County, which has been a hotbed of conspiracy theory over the past few years.

The Washington Examiner looks at some of the congressional district plans most likely to be modified over the next year.

In his most recent Substack, Rob Richie offers some (exceedingly respectful) pushback on my post here about this New Bedford decision to hold a primary on October 7 before a general election November ...