The Supreme Court ruled Thursday a broad state ban on wearing “political apparel” at the polls violates the free speech rights of voters.Source: Supreme Court strikes down Minnesota law prohibiting voters from wearing political apparel to polls...
California’s 168-year run as a single entity, hugging the continent’s edge for hundreds of miles and sprawling east across mountains and desert, could come to an end next year — as a controversial plan to split the Golden State into three new jurisdictions qualified Tuesday for the Nov.Source: Radical plan to split California into three states earns spot on November...
WASHINGTON -- Failing to vote can lead to getting knocked off voter registration rolls, a divided Supreme Court ruled Monday in a decision that likely will help Republicans and harm Democrats.Source: Supreme Court: States can purge voters who don't vote or respond to warnings...
As mid-term elections get underway and lawmakers in Washington contemplate new rules to regulate political advertising online, the digital advertising industry is attempting to beat them to the punch.Source: Ad Group Announces Rules for Transparency in Political Advertising...
California's elections officials have found themselves with an unexpected headache ahead of the June 5 primary: potentially thousands of cases where two voter registration forms were created for one person, errors caused by the state's "motor voter" program that launched last month.Source: One voter, two registration forms: Errors reported in rollout of California's 'motor voter' system...
Sacramento County District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert is taking to texts to get her message out in her bid for re-election in June. Schubert for two months has sought the support of potential voters via messages that pop up on cell phones.Source: Get a text ad from a candidate? Invasive, maybe, but it works, say experts....
California voters went for Hillary Clinton by a whopping 30 percentage points in 2016, the largest defeat for Donald Trump in any state on the U.S. mainland.Source: A Simple Guide to How California’s “Jungle” Primary Could Cost Democrats the House...
The chief of California's campaign watchdog agency abruptly quit Tuesday -- just a week before the state's June 5 primaries. The departure of Jodi Remke, who in 2014 was appointed by Democratic Gov.Source: California's top campaign watchdog quits week before primary elections...
Predictions of a Democratic washout are premature, an increasingly confident group of House Republican incumbents say. IRVINE, Calif. — Democrats boasted as recently as a few months ago that GOP Rep. Mimi Walters was as good as gone.Source: A GOP surprise: House midterm hopes rise in blue California...
MIAMI — The elections supervisor in Florida’s second-most populous county broke state and federal law by unlawfully destroying ballots cast in Rep.Source: Florida to monitor Broward election chief after judge finds ‘unlawful’ ballot destruction in Wasserman Schultz race...
