With three weeks to go before the midterm elections, the American political system is drowning in cash. Is that a bad thing? Right now the answer is no, but that’s precisely because this situation is so unusual.Source: The midterm elections are drowning in money. How worried should that make us?...
Allies of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell used a blind spot in campaign finance laws to undercut a candidate from their own party this year — and their fingerprints remained hidden until the primary was already over.Source: The hidden money funding the midterms...
Posted: 4:29 p.m. Monday, October 15, 2018 Nearly one in 10 vote-by-mail ballots have been rejected by Gwinnett County election officials, alarming voting rights groups.Source: High rate of absentee ballots thrown out in Gwinnett...
Las Vegas casino mogul Sheldon Adelson is pumping tens of millions of dollars more into Republican Party coffers in an 11th-hour push to save their congressional majorities, according to two senior Republicans familiar with the donation.Source: Adelson drops tens of millions more to save the GOP Congress...
Ballots for the November election are now available, and for the second time this year, voters in five of California’s 58 counties — Sacramento, Madera, Napa, Nevada and San Mateo — will see one in their mailboxes without asking.Source: ‘Voter’s choice’ spikes turnout + New crime measures cleared...
Taylor Swift’s decision to jump into politics over the weekend, announcing her support in an Instagram post for two Democrats in Tennessee and urging her 112 million followers to register to vote, appears to have contributed to a flurry of last-minute registrations before deadlines in many states.Source: Voter Registrations Spike as Deadlines Loom. Taylor Swift Had Something to Do With...
In a little-known case out of Alaska, the federal courts have been weighing whether the U.S. Constitution allows states to impose limits on out-of-state contributions, an issue that could soon come to a head at the U.S. Supreme Court. The case, Thompson v.Source: USA Today: Out-of-state donors are pouring cash into local campaigns of Democrats across the country (In the News)...
The LA Times reported this week that another 1,500 registration errors have been identified in the DMV “motor voter” process. This time, the errors are being blamed on “data entry” errors.Source: More DMV mistakes in California’s new “motor voter” process...
Despair appears to be the common mood of the day. Everything is terrible. U.S. democratic norms have devolved so much that it seems impossible to know how to recover. Our political outcomes don’t consistently reflect our true aspirations.Source: Don't worry, all is not lost. State and local activists are fixing our elections...
