The tortuous legal fight over the future of Texas’ voter ID law is over ― at least until the November election. “These terms contemplate the formulation of a plan for educating voters and training election workers,” U.S.Source: Judge Orders Texas To Spend At Least $2.5 Million To Not Enforce Its Voter ID Law...
Did liberals botch their chance to take down Trump by hyperbolically attacking past Republican nominees? Probably, though the GOP is no more innocent. Donald Trump really is different.Source: The Democrats Who Cried Wolf...
Each week, Nate Cohn, The Upshot’s elections analyst, based in Washington, and Toni Monkovic, an Upshot editor in New York, discuss the 2016 race and post a lightly edited transcript of their written exchange. By now, it’s clear that Donald Trump has a realistic shot to become president.Source: Donald Trump’s Path: What Map Should Democrats Fear the Most?...
Email exchanges involving top officials at the Democratic National Committee released along with private documents by WikiLeaks show that DNC officials hoped to reward top donors and insiders with appointments to federal boards and commissions in coordination with the White House.Source: Leaks show DNC asked White House to reward donors with slots on boards and commissions...
The Commission shall not enforce 52 U.S.C. § 30118, as well as any implementing regulations, against Plaintiffs with regard to the monetary contributions described in Plaintiffs' complaint made by MCFL corporations to delegates to a national nominating convention. See Verified Compl. (Doc. No. 1) TlH 31, 53; FEC v. Massachusetts Citizens for Life, Inc., 479 U.S. 238, 263-64 (1986).PillarvFECSettlement.pdfTwo delegates...
When the technology investor Peter Thiel takes the stage just before Donald J. Trump at the Republican convention this week, he will become the most prominent public face of a species so endangered it might as well be called extinct: the Silicon Valley Trump supporter. Nobody knows what Mr.Source: Peter Thiel’s Embrace of Trump Has Silicon Valley Squirming...
If something's amiss, you can contact your local registrar of voters office. In Riverside County, call 951-486-7200 or go to www.voteinfo.net. In San Bernardino County, call 800-881-VOTE or go to http://ift.tt/29Sa7lx. Think there's fraud? Go to www.sos.ca.gov and search for "voter complaint.Source: ELECTION 2016: Protecting your voting information from fraud, tampering...
Few topics have excited the collective electiongeek imagination in the last week or so more than the potential for the hot new game Pokemon Go to be used as a means to generate interest in, and turnout at, the polls in November.Source: In Which I Am (a Bit of) a Killjoy About Pokemon Go at the Polls...
In the wake of the defeated attempt to force a roll call vote on the rules package at the Republican National Convention -- summary from FHQ forthcoming -- there have been a number of questions and comments lobbed FHQ's way about the possibility of a suspension of the rules on the nomination roll caSource: Thoughts on a Motion to Suspend...
Republicans are denouncing Ohio Gov. John Kasich for ditching his own party’s convention held in the state he governs. Of course, he’s not the only nationally known GOP leader to skip the proceedings.Source: They talk the talk, but don’t write the checks: No Trump donors on Republican stage yet...
