On the morning after Election Day, county registrars across California announced that 100 percent of precincts had reported results. Seeing that, some people assumed it was just a matter of time until candidates with leads were confirmed to be winners.Source: California voting officials need a clearer way of reporting results...
The battle for control of the House led to unprecedented spending, by both candidates and super PACs, particularly in contested toss-up races.Source: Each of the five most expensive House races ever took place in 2018...
As November’s election results become clear, so does a new California conundrum: Voters may like the top-two primary — which doesn’t guarantee any political party a spot on the fall ballot — but a lot of them skipped last month’s contests in which the only choices were candidates with theSource: Millions of California voters saw same-party races on November's ballot...
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THE BIG IDEA: More than a month after the midterms, the results in North Carolina’s 9th Congressional District still haven’t been certified because of credible allegations of election fraud. It’s possible a second race will be held.Source: The Daily 202: This week foreshadows the continuing escalation of the voting wars...
Virginia’s House of Delegates is one of the most gerrymandered bodies in the country. In 2017, Democrats won the statewide popular vote in Virginia’s legislative races by over nine percentage points.Source: Republicans just got bad news about one of their worst gerrymanders...
EL PASO—When Jody Casey came aboard as Beto O’Rourke’s campaign manager in late summer 2017, she faced a dilemma. She was a political novice and O’Rourke family friend who had quit her sales job at General Electric to join the campaign.Source: The Hardest Glass Ceiling in Politics...
The Supreme Court is scheduled to return to a deeply divisive issue on Friday when the justices meet behind closed doors to discuss an issue left unresolved last term: when do states go too far in drawing district lines for partisan gain?Source: Supreme Court discussing partisan gerrymandering behind closed doors Friday...
In one rural county, several individuals requested absentee ballots on behalf of hundreds of voters. What happened to those ballots? ELIZABETHTOWN, N.C.Source: North Carolina investigators zero in on absentee ballots in unresolved House race...
The Supreme Court should strike down campaign-finance rules that play partisan favorites. Can the government pass laws that effectively silence groups on one side of a political debate but not the other? You might think not.Source: Supreme Court Should Strike Down Unfair Campaign Contribution Rules...
