Yunus Aybas, Oguzhan Celebi, and Surabhi Dutt posted this paper on measuring harm from redistricting. Here’s the abstract: District-based elections must reconcile two objectives: representing each ...
You can read the district court’s 26 page ruling at this link. Judge Carter minces no words at the beginning: This case is about the right of every American citizen to vote in a free and fair election ...
Today’s New York Times story, if true, strikes me as a political bombshell: despite public denials of a connection, people associated with Democratic U.S. Senate candidate in Alaska Mary Peltola and ...
Matzav: Israel’s Central Elections Committee announced Tuesday evening that ballot slips containing certain defects or irregularities must still be counted if election officials can clearly determine ...
She has the president’s ear,” Steve Bannon, Trump’s former chief strategist and a close ally of Mitchell’s, said in a July interview. “A lot of the momentum things we’ve seen over the last six months ...
On November 4, Americans wake up to news that Democrats are leading in the House of Representatives and have also won 49 Senate seats. But then we’ll wait to find out the balance … Continue reading “F ...
Rick H. linked yesterday to the NYT’s new analysis of partisan gerrymandering in congressional plans nationwide. I want to ...
Danielle Friedman is the Legal Director of the State Democracy Research Initiative at the University of Wisconsin Law School. Here’s an excerpt from her essay today; read the full piece to learn what ...
Politico: The Trump administration is ramping up its focus on noncitizen voting as the midterms approach. As signs increasingly point toward losses for Republicans, the Justice Department and ...
Meanwhile, the letters counties received last week threatened potential criminal charges for election officials who “knowingly tabulate ballots cast by individuals identified by federal agencies as ...
CAP: Over the past several months, the Trump administration has taken unprecedented steps to try to impose new rules governing the November midterm elections and engineer final results. Federal courts ...