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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 ...
A coming vote on new mid-decade maps for Tarrant County, Texas (where Ft. Worth is the county seat) has been quite controversial, with charges of racial and partisan impropriety, and likely litigation ...
I somehow missed this AP report from Tuesday, about the current U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security (with a cameo by John Eastman) expressly campaigning in Poland for a particular candidate in ...
I mentioned Mexico’s historic upcoming judicial elections a few days ago, but hadn’t then focused on the campaign finance regime. Now the NYT digs a little deeper: They weren’t allowed to buy ads on ...
They don’t want someone who’s just going to be like, ‘We’re going to follow the law and do the originalistic thing, and whatever the result is, so may be it,’” said the consultant. “They want someone ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 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 ...