Ballot design in Broward County is one possible cause of votes cast for one contest but apparently not another. The vote count in Florida’s Senate race keeps getting tighter. Gov.Source: A Mysterious ‘Undervote’ Could End Up Settling the Florida Senate Race...
THE MID-TERM elections in Florida featured some momentous races, including razor’s-edge counts in the Senate and governor’s contests.Source: Why the restoration of felons’ voting rights in Florida is a big deal...
Most of 2018's midterm winners spent more money than their opponents. But some, like Texas senator Ted Cruz and incoming freshman congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, pulled out victories despite being outspent. Why it matters: Candidates who outspend their opponents usually win.Source: Axios...
Broward’s elections supervisor accidentally mixed more than a dozen rejected ballots with nearly 200 valid ones, a circumstance that is unlikely to help Brenda Snipes push back against Republican allegations of incompetence.Source: Whoops! Brenda Snipes’ office mixed bad provisional ballots with good ones...
Election Day may be over, but California has more than 4.5 million ballots left to count. The uncounted ballots could push voter turnout to nearly 60 percent of those registered.Source: California has 4.5 million ballots left to count. That could spell trouble for GOP...
WASHINGTON, DC - NOVEMBER 06: House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), joined by House Democrats, leaves the podium after delivering remarks during a DCCC election watch party at the Hyatt Regency on November 6, 2018 in Washington, DC.Source: Gerrymandering suffered big, potentially permanent blows last night...
On the eve of Election Day, even the most apolitical people have probably seen their social media feeds taken over by voter-turnout enthusiasm.Source: Is It Legal to Take a Selfie with Your Ballot?...
Facebook has unveiled its new election war room designed to assist employees with finding and deleting fake news and bogus accounts aimed at interfering with elections. (Oct. 18) APSource: Facebook discloses possible election meddling by Russia, foreign actors on eve of midterms...
An Arizona man pleaded guilty in a federal court in Manhattan Friday to creating six PACs and misrepresenting their activities to potential donors, resulting in tens of thousands of donors being defrauded.Source: Arizona man pleads guilty to using scam PACs to defraud donors...
The companies acted under threats of federal regulation after reports that Russian operatives bought politically divisive social media ads under fake names.Source: Facebook, Google and Twitter shine light on campaign ads — but only so far...
