After more than three decades, Republicans are free of a federal court consent decree that sharply limited the Republican National Committee's ability to challenge voters' qualifications and target the kind of fraud President Donald Trump has alleged affected the 2016 presidential race.Source: Judge ends consent decree limiting RNC 'ballot security' activities...
RICHMOND — A Virginia elections official reached into an artsy stoneware bowl, pulled out a name and declared Republican David Yancey the winner of a House of Delegates race that could determine which political party controls the chamber.Source: A random drawing out of a bowl helped Republicans win a tied Virginia election....
The name of David Yancey was pulled out of a film canister, a wild end to an election that could determine the fate of Medicaid expansion in the state.Source: Republican wins drawing to decide control of Virginia statehouse...
The First Amendment makes it very difficult to regulate "fake news," and it raises dangers that those who would regulate would do so not to stop the spread of misinformation but to protect their own political position. I have a paper coming out in the First Amendment Law Review on this very question, including the issue of foreign interference: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3017598 We may...
The election in the 94th House of Delegates District is now a tie, after a three-judge panel ruled that a ballot that was rejected in Tuesday’s recount should be counted as a vote for Del. David Yancey, R-Newport News.Source: After 94th District recount, judges rule it's a tie...
After a recount conducted Tuesday, Democrat Shelly Simonds had 11,608 votes to Republican incumbent David Yancey's 11,607 votes in Virginia's 94th House District.Source: One-vote recount win gives Democrats tie in Virginia state House...
The Alabama Supreme Court stepped into Tuesday’s U.S.Source: Alabama Supreme Court Blocks Digital Ballot Preservation in Eleventh Hour...
While most people were focused on election results on Tuesday night, lawyers in Philadelphia were in court dealing with yet another election problem in Philadelphia. At best in Philadelphia, it is hard to say where the incompetence ends and the vote fraud begins.Source: From Incompetence To Jim Crow: Elections In Philadelphia Are Out Of Control...
With allegations that Republican candidate for Senate in Alabama Roy Moore initiated sexual contact with a 14-year-old when he was 32, there is already talk about him withdrawing from the race. Derek Muller reports that Alabama law would not allow a replacement this late.Source: Should Alabama Republican Party Get to Replace Roy Moore on Senate Ballot If He Withdraws?...
As we reported yesterday, Election Day 2017 featured several high profile ranked choice voting elections in cities and towns. Altogether, more than 200,000 voters ranked their choices in Minneapolis, St. Paul, Cambridge, Mass. and Takoma Park, Md in cities with a total population of about 844,500.Source: Voter Turnout Surges in All Four Cities with Ranked Choice Voting...
