CNN: Daines was aware that if he withdrew too soon then Democrats would have a chance at fielding one of several potential Democrats — namely former Sen. Jon Tester or former Govs. Brian Schweitzer or ...

When the Supreme Court issued an emergency order this week that protected the congressional district of a New York Republican, it intervened in a voting rights dispute, pre-empting the state’s highest ...

Politico: Crockett said thousands of votes from her home base of Dallas County could potentially end up uncounted, as a pair of court rulings over poll closing times led to uncertainty about which ...

ELB readers will recall the slow moving train wreck of ballot access disputes on a range of fronts in 2024, from litigation over Trump’s disqualification, to Biden’s withdrawal. But one of those ...

I’m on the road so this will be brief. The Supreme Court over the dissent of the three liberal Justices reversed a lower court order requiring the drawing of a minority opportunity district that the ...

Faux Campaign Finance Regulation and the Pathway to American Oligarchy (conference paper dated Apr. 24, 2025, draft available, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm ...

Several high-ranking federal election officials attended a summit last week at which prominent figures who worked to overturn Donald Trump’s loss in the 2020 election pressed the president to declare ...

The UK held a special election (what they call a by-election) for a parliamentary seat from Gorton and Denton. In an area held by Labour for nearly 40 years, the Green Party won, with the Reform Party ...

Faux Campaign Finance Regulation and the Pathway to American Oligarchy (conference paper dated Apr. 24, 2025, draft available, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm ...

Elizabeth Beyer at Cardinal News on impacts of uncertainty on local election officials coping with re-redistricting referendum in Virginia: The General Assembly last week passed legislation that set ...

The Washington Post is running an “exclusive” story about an effort to get Trump to sign an executive order that would “ban mail ballots and voting machines as the vectors of foreign interference.” ...