Cheryl Kinlaw told WSOCTV, a local news station in Charlotte, N.C., that Leslie McCrae Dowless Jr. paid her $100 to collect ballots in their district, adding that Dowless “has been doing it for years."Source: Second woman says she was paid to collect absentee ballots in North Carolina House race...
The release of a taped telephone conversation between Michael Cohen and Donald Trump has given rise to renewed questions about whether President Trump committed federal campaign-finance violations in hiding extramarital affairs.Source: Trump Exposes the Holes in Campaign-Finance Laws...
Election night was painful for California Republicans, but it was nothing compared to the slow torture we’ve endured ever since. For three agonizing weeks, Republicans have watched registrars update their tallies with late absentee and provisional ballots.Source: California Democrats rewrite the voting rules in their favor...
In the most recent June 5th election, most of the Sacramento County voters were shocked or confused and some were angry. They were unaware that one year prior, the Sacramento County Board of Supervisors had fundamentally changed the way we vote.Source: Sue Frost: Evaluating Sacramento County’s New Voting System...
The party lost big in the state's November House races, and Republicans didn't see it coming. Rep. Steve Knight’s (R-Calif.) campaign went into election night thinking another tough victory was at hand.Source: Inside the GOP's California nightmare...
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Control of Alaska state government, at least for the next two years, could hinge on a mystery ballot that an election worker found on a table in a Fairbanks voting precinct more than three weeks ago. The uncounted ballot could break a tie in an Alaska state House race.Source: Mystery ballot could sway control of Alaska...
SAN FRANCISCO — A growing chorus of Republicans are casting doubts about the integrity of the voting system in California, where the party lost at least six House seats in the midterm election — including a handful where the GOP at first appeared to have emerged victorious on election night.Source: GOP cries foul after California thumping...
When the dust settled from the 2018 Florida Senate recount, Republican Rick Scott had beaten Democratic incumbent Bill Nelson by 10,033 votes. Give or take a few hundred. Maybe more.Source: Can Florida Fix Its Election Problems in Time for 2020?...
The redistricting after the 2020 Census will mark the first time in modern history that Maryland has redrawn its congressional maps under a divided government. Early signs suggest a prolonged fight.Source: Maryland faces big battle over partisan gerrymandering...
SALT LAKE CITY — Proposition 4, the ballot initiative creating an independent redistricting commission as a stopgap against what's known as gerrymandering by lawmakers, appears to have narrowly won voter approval.Source: Utah proposition to battle gerrymandering set to narrowly pass...
