An escalating dispute between national Republicans and technology giant Google threatens to bring political heat on the company and could spur significant changes in political email practices.Source: GOP's Gmail feud escalates....
The “Elections Transparency Act” — a name that does not come close to describing this massive proposal that would dramatically change New Jersey’s campaign finance system — stalled ahead of votes in the full Senate and Assembly after making rapid progress through committees over the last week. It was introduced just two weeks ago.Source: Legislature taps the brakes on massive campaign...
Billionaire Ken Griffin put $50 million of his own money behind Republican candidate for governor Richard Irvin. The Aurora mayor was originally the frontrunner, but in the end, lost to conservative state Sen. Darren Bailey, who received Donald Trump’s endorsement Saturday. Source: How Money is Impacting Illinois’ Primary Election....
“[P]ortable, handheld signs still are a rich part of the American political tradition and are one of the most common (if not the most common) methods of free expression.Source: Ban on hand-held signs very likely violates First Amendment, U.S. appeals court rules....
A State Supreme Court judge from Staten Island said the measure, which would have allowed more than 800,000 noncitizens to vote, violated the State Constitution.Source: New York City’s Noncitizen Voting Law Is Struck Down....
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) seems to think the DISCLOSE Act is a political cure-all. His latest sales pitch is that, if adopted, it would help “the American people … find out who funded the Jan. 6 insurrection.”Source: Sheldon Whitehouse's DISCLOSE Act would not have prevented Jan. 6....
With political power on the line, state redistricting commissions have been held up by voter advocates as a way to get congressional districts that are more reflective of the communities that live in them.Source: A fair maps success story or 'multi-layered stages of Dante's Hell'? Where redistricting commissions worked -- and didn't work -- this cycle....
A group of state lawmakers is raising red flags about the number of ballots rejected in the special U.S. House primary. Ballots are still being tallied but, so far, about 4% of the roughly 155,000 ballots received statewide have been rejected.Source: About 1 in 8 rural Alaska ballots have been rejected in special primary, raising red flags with lawmakers....
What is the Biden administration hiding? With the 2022 midterm elections approaching fast, the White House has ordered every federal agency to register and mobilize voters — and it’s refusing to tell people whom it’s targeting or what it’s saying.Source: The White House must come clean on its election agenda....
In 2014, New York voters approved changes to the state Constitution designed to reform the congressional and state legislative redistricting process and end partisan gamesmanship. Or so they thought. Sadly, this reform was doomed to fail.Source: New York's redistricting fiasco: Where do we go from here? ....
