First Read is your briefing from "Meet the Press" and the NBC Political Unit on the day's most important political stories and why they matter.Source: Turnout will be enormous in the election. And that creates lots of unpredictability....
More than 4.3 million Americans have already cast their ballots in the midterm elections, and early signs point to a huge increase in turnout from the last midterm elections in 2014, when overall voter participation hit a 70-year low.Source: Early voting hints at huge turnout...
As tens of thousands of voters in Florida’s storm-tossed Panhandle try to recover from the devastation of Hurricane Michael, their communities are grappling with yet another problem — an election season thrown into disarray.Source: Hurricane aftermath threatens to unleash Florida election chaos...
Posted: 4:29 p.m. Monday, October 15, 2018 Nearly one in 10 vote-by-mail ballots have been rejected by Gwinnett County election officials, alarming voting rights groups.Source: High rate of absentee ballots thrown out in Gwinnett...
It was mid-July 2016 when Neil Jenkins learned that someone had hacked the Illinois Board of Elections.Source: The Crisis of Election Security...
On September 26, the Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) released a statewide poll for various California races and ballot measures. It shows that 23% of residents who say they will cast a ballot, intend to leave U.S. Senate blank.Source: Poll Shows 23% of Californians Who Plan to Cast a Vote Will Leave U.S. Senate Blank...
More than 1.5 million Florida residents are barred from voting in state elections for the rest of their lives, because of a tough law that permanently revokes voting rights for anyone convicted of a felony.Source: Florida ballot measure looks to restore felon voting rights...
The Motor Voter program went into effect in April with the simple goal of increasing the number of people who could register to vote. Since its launch in April, Secretary of State Alex Padilla has touted the increase in new voter registrations.Source: Motor Voter sparks unusual spike in ‘no party’ registrations at California DMV...
The California Department of Motor Vehicles on Wednesday said it has discovered it sent the Secretary of State’s Office 23,000 erroneous voter registrations.Source: California DMV mishandled thousands of voter registrations...
The Kansas Supreme Court has ruled that a grand jury must be convened to investigate whether Secretary of State Kris Kobach intentionally botched voter registration in the state in the 2016 elections.Source: A grand jury will investigate whether Kris Kobach intentionally botched voter registration in 2016...
