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...
Interns will soon be sprinting down the steps of the Supreme Court to deliver printouts of rulings to TV anchors, something of an annual tradition at the highest court in the land.Source: Five rulings to watch at the Supreme Court...
How secure are our voting systems? Elections expert Doug Chapin talks about what we know has happened, how we know, and what's next in the fight to secure American democracy.Source: How secure is our election system?...
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