Leon County Commissioner Bill Proctor signed onto a federal challenge to a 2018 constitutional amendment, which created restrictions barring former elected officials from lobbying their former governmental bodies.Source: 'I'm being targeted': Proctor joins legal challenge to Florida amendment barring lobbying....
Making it easier to register to vote and obtain an absentee ballot, funding a system of publicly financed campaigns and launching automatic voter registration are among the measures New York officials are being urged to focus on to strengthen the state's voting infrastructure.Source: Officials urged to modernize New York's election systems....
Hitting mute button on political content recommendations brought unintended consequences, documents show.After the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc. said it wanted to scale back how much political content it showed users. The company went further than almost anyone knew.Source: Facebook Wanted Out of Politics. It Was Messier Than Anyone Expected.....
As state legislatures begin their 2023 sessions, Americans should know what their states did in 2022 to improve or damage the integrity of the election process.Source: Election Integrity 2022 in Review: More Improvements Than Damage....
A group of Republican donors is calling for a change in leadership at the Republican National Committee (RNC), throwing their support behind attorney Harmeet Dhillon’s challenge to Chair Ronna McDaniel. The group of more than two dozen donors threw their support behind Dhillon in a letter to RNC members dated Monday and reported by Fox…Source: Group of GOP donors backing...
Gov. Mike DeWine signed a major overhaul of state election laws on Friday that will require voters to present a photo ID at the polls. Under the new law, voters must present a photo ID when they cast their ballot in person, although the ID doesn't need to have their current address on it.Source: Gov. Mike DeWine signs photo ID...
Vermont, Kentucky and Nevada dramatically expanded the ability to cast ballots before Election Day, and neither party gained an edge. If there was any doubt Donald Trump’s vilification of early voting is only hurting the GOP, new receipts from the midterm elections show it.Source: New data shows the folly of Trump’s crusade against early voting....
OAKLAND — The revelation this week of an unprecedented error in Alameda County’s counting of election results has upended an Oakland school board race.Source: After election debacle in Oakland, what’s next for ranked choice voting?....
Republican candidate for attorney general Abe Hamadeh and his attorneys are continuing to question results and exploring legal options after a statewide recount showed a significant vote gain in his favor. With almost 2.Source: 'Assessing our options': Hamadeh calls for hand count, explores legal avenues in AG race....
The new Electoral Count Reform Act will have an effect on state election laws in presidential elections. The timing mechanisms have changed, and rules now expressly invite state legislatures to make explicit choices before Election Day.Source: State legislatures should examine their election codes after passage of the Electoral Count Reform Act #ELB....
