There’s a challenge to the eligibility of 60,000 voters in the NC Supreme Court race decided by just a few hundred votes.  Among the challenged voters: the incumbent justice’s parents.  Any mass ...
An interesting opinion from the 4th Circuit today, rejecting claims of state immunity in claims under the Virginia Readmission Act of 1870.  The plaintiffs’ suit asserts that the federal statute ...
Pew is out with new data on voters’ views about the 2024 electoral process, from a survey out Nov. 12-17 of this year.  As they dryly note, “It’s not unusual in presidential elections for voters who ...
An important new piece from Votebeat on the division of responsibilities in Maricopa (and negotiation of new relationships) between the recorder and the board of supervisors.
As expected, President-elect Donald Trump has filed a motion in the Georgia Court of Appeals to dismiss the conspiracy prosecution against him in Georgia on the basis that “a sitting president is ...
I’ve gotten a few questions about this. First, there was a request for a machine recount of the by-a-tiny-nose North Carolina Supreme Court election between incumbent Allison Riggs and challenger ...
December 5 (30 days after election day) is the final final day for certifying elections in California. Usually, many California counties have certified before today. But this year, as a one-time only ...
A description from Meta about the state of their social media in the recent election cycle (including covert foreign influence operations Meta says it detected and quashed). Of course, it’d be nice if ...
H/t to Sean Parnell for the new paper by Ron Rivest and Philip Stark: National Popular Vote (NPV) Interstate Compact [Koza et al., 2024] attempts to provide direct presidential elections in the U.S.
Marketplace does the numbers … and I’m not sure this accounts for the value of billionaire-driven social media.
Your regular reminder that the 2024 elections aren’t over, and I’m not just talking about the counting and certifying.  Local runoffs in Georgia are today, and runoffs (and state constitutional ...