Can you believe it’s September already? Where did the summer go? For this last newsletter before the Fall deluge hits us, I want to take a look at the various announcements the tech companies have made about their midterm election plans.Source: A Comparative Look at Tech Company Election Announcements....
RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina and national Republicans sued Friday seeking to block the State Board of Elections from extending the fall absentee-ballot receipt deadline because of a holiday and from enforcing a rule that could disrupt the movement of some polling site observers.Source: GOP sues over NC board's absentee ballot, observer rules....
WASHINGTON — After Democrat Mary Peltola defeated Sarah Palin in Alaska's special election Wednesday, Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., discredited the voting system used by Alaska voters that they chose to implement in their state.Source: After Sarah Palin's election loss, Sen. Tom Cotton calls ranked choice voting 'a scam'....
“Ready for Ron,” a political action committee eager for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to run for president, said today that the Federal Election Commission is attempting to stifle its effort to nudge the GOP superstar into the 2024 race.Source: Pro-DeSantis group says FEC trying to stifle 2024 draft effort....
Bear with me for a moment, but to understand the conservative case for preserving the guardrails of democracy, one has to understand the M1 Abrams main battle tank. Introduced in 1980, it was the most powerful land warfare vehicle ever devised by the mind and industry of man.Source: An Upgrade, not a Rebuild....
Lea este artículo en español. From the editor: A change was made to this story after publication. Please see the explanation at the end of the story.Source: Force multipliers: How one donor network is pushing the envelope on California campaign money....
Andrew Yang—an entrepreneur, a policy celebrity, and a proud nerd—recently co-founded Forward, America’s newest political party.Source: Andrew Yang Thinks Three Parties Aren’t Nearly Enough....
New Hampshire’s attorney general announced on Thursday that the state had arrested the publisher of a local weekly newspaper in Londonderry earlier this week, alleging she illegally published political ads without properly disclosing them to be ads.Source: New Hampshire AG Arrests Small-Town Newspaper Publisher Arrested for Improper Ads....
LAS VEGAS (AP) — As parts of rural Nevada plan to count ballots by hand amid misinformation about voting machines, the Nevada secretary of state’s office on Friday approved regulations for counties to hand count votes starting as soon as this fall’s midterm elections.Source: Amid fears of voting machines, Nevada approves hand counting....
Some more stories from the failed recall effort against L.A. District Attorney George Gascon, including a UC Berkeley IGS poll suggesting that voters were in favor of the recall 41-20%.Source: California: Continued fallout from failed LA D.A. recall....
