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 ...
Rick H. linked yesterday to the NYT’s new analysis of partisan gerrymandering in congressional plans nationwide. I want to emphasize how methodologically strong the NYT’s analysis was and to show how ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
There was a time in American history when Congress enacted a statute to provide federal oversight of a state’s procedures for conducting congressional elections. In the wake of the Civil … Continue re ...
I interviewed David Becker to address all the remaining concerns about the election process. David works with election officials of both parties throughout the country and runs the Center for Election ...