The Center for Public Integrity’s reporters crunched a lot of numbers during 2018 — a year that distinguished itself for record election spending and extreme political turbulence. 2: Number of donors to Texas Forever, a secretive Democratic super PAC that spent $2.Source: By the numbers:...
Final Utah election returns show that Proposition Four, setting up an independent redistricting commission for U.S. House and state legislative boundaries, passed with 50.3% of the vote. The final tally is: yes 512,218; no 505,274. The measure failed in 25 of Utah’s 29 counties.Source: Utah...
The already meager ranks of female House Republicans had just been further decimated in the midterms when Rep. Ann Wagner was readying a play to head the party’s campaign arm — in the hopes of leading a recovery.Source: ‘I wasn’t asking for permission’: GOP women...
On the morning after Election Day, county registrars across California announced that 100 percent of precincts had reported results. Seeing that, some people assumed it was just a matter of time until candidates with leads were confirmed to be winners.Source: California voting officials need a...
The battle for control of the House led to unprecedented spending, by both candidates and super PACs, particularly in contested toss-up races.Source: Each of the five most expensive House races ever took place in 2018...
As November’s election results become clear, so does a new California conundrum: Voters may like the top-two primary — which doesn’t guarantee any political party a spot on the fall ballot — but a lot of them skipped last month’s contests in which the only...
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THE BIG IDEA: More than a month after the midterms, the results in North Carolina’s 9th Congressional District still haven’t been certified because of credible allegations of election fraud. It’s possible a second race will be held.Source: The Daily 202: This week foreshadows the continuing...
EL PASO—When Jody Casey came aboard as Beto O’Rourke’s campaign manager in late summer 2017, she faced a dilemma. She was a political novice and O’Rourke family friend who had quit her sales job at General Electric to join the campaign.Source: The Hardest Glass Ceiling...
In one rural county, several individuals requested absentee ballots on behalf of hundreds of voters. What happened to those ballots? ELIZABETHTOWN, N.C.Source: North Carolina investigators zero in on absentee ballots in unresolved House race...
