Cheryl Kinlaw told WSOCTV, a local news station in Charlotte, N.C., that Leslie McCrae Dowless Jr. paid her $100 to collect ballots in their district, adding that Dowless “has been doing it for years."Source: Second woman says she was paid to collect absentee ballots in North Carolina House race...
Election night was painful for California Republicans, but it was nothing compared to the slow torture we’ve endured ever since. For three agonizing weeks, Republicans have watched registrars update their tallies with late absentee and provisional ballots.Source: California Democrats rewrite the voting rules in their favor...
In the most recent June 5th election, most of the Sacramento County voters were shocked or confused and some were angry. They were unaware that one year prior, the Sacramento County Board of Supervisors had fundamentally changed the way we vote.Source: Sue Frost: Evaluating Sacramento County’s New Voting System...
The party lost big in the state's November House races, and Republicans didn't see it coming. Rep. Steve Knight’s (R-Calif.) campaign went into election night thinking another tough victory was at hand.Source: Inside the GOP's California nightmare...
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Control of Alaska state government, at least for the next two years, could hinge on a mystery ballot that an election worker found on a table in a Fairbanks voting precinct more than three weeks ago. The uncounted ballot could break a tie in an Alaska state House race.Source: Mystery ballot could sway control of Alaska...
SAN FRANCISCO — A growing chorus of Republicans are casting doubts about the integrity of the voting system in California, where the party lost at least six House seats in the midterm election — including a handful where the GOP at first appeared to have emerged victorious on election night.Source: GOP cries foul after California thumping...
SALT LAKE CITY — Proposition 4, the ballot initiative creating an independent redistricting commission as a stopgap against what's known as gerrymandering by lawmakers, appears to have narrowly won voter approval.Source: Utah proposition to battle gerrymandering set to narrowly pass...
How a GOP lawyer managed politics, the law and big egos to defend Rick Scott. WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Jessica Furst Johnson was supposed to fly from Washington to Orlando this week for a post-election Walt Disney World vacation with her husband and their two small children.Source: Republicans had a secret weapon in the Florida recount fight...
For a party in free-fall the last two decades, the midterm election was unhappy proof to California Republicans that it’s possible to plunge even further.Source: Going, going ...
Nearly two decades after the world learned about hanging chads, Florida is under scrutiny again as officials count and recount votes in three statewide races. Hanging chads are long gone from Florida, but many of the same issues that plagued the state during the 2000 election remain.Source: Nearly 2 Decades After Hanging Chads, Florida Encounters Another Election Nightmare...
