The Washington Post data team has been examining how much parties are spending on ads in the midterms and what they focus on. Republicans have outspent Democrats in competitive Senate, House and ...

As Mississippians gear up to cast ballots for a major U.S. Senate race and all four U.S. House seats, some voters could still be sent to the wrong location on Election Day at multiple polling places ...

U.S.C. §611(a) recognizes that a state (or locality) may grant aliens the right to vote in elections for local office (below the state level). An alien voting legally in … Continue reading Michael Ros ...

NYT: It was before dawn when Amandeep Kaur turned herself in to federal authorities in downtown Los Angeles last Monday. Wrapped in a tasseled shawl, she paced and shivered as she waited outside the ...

Lots of reports from throughout Ohio, particularly Northeast Ohio, of extremely long lines with up to 2 hour waits on last day of early voting. My understanding is state law permits only one early ...

Shane Harris, at The Atlantic, is a top national security journalist. This issue has been getting less attention than many others. Here’s his piece on this issue: In a speech to the nation in July, ...

Interesting substack post at Slow Boring from Matt Yglesias. Too long to summarize the explanations for each of the elections he picks out. The case for the first six is strong; I don’t agree with his ...

Last weekend, Chaya Raichik, the popular right-wing influencer who goes by Libs of TikTok, made an ominous claim to her nearly 5 million followers on X. “In Minnesota, the USPS offices are inside ...

Under the US Constitution, elections are run by states and localities, and that decentralized way of doing things has come in for a fair bit of criticism over the years. State election law, we … ...

You can find the order at this link. The district court found that the U.S. did not have standing because it could not demonstrate that the court could grant any relief that would not violate voters’ ...

NYT: As a Justice Department lawsuit challenging the presence of two U.S. Senate candidates named Dan Sullivan on the Alaska ballot plays out, Democrats have filed a lawsuit in Alaska accusing ...

In 2020 (How to Stop Consultants from Weaponizing Voter Choice) and in 2024 (Weaponizing Minor Parties: 2024 Edition) I wrote guest posts on an often overlooked problem in American politics: political ...