Alaska held its top-four primary on August 16. For U.S. House, Republican Tara Sweeney finished fourth with 3.71% of the vote, thus entitling her to appear on the November ballot. But on August 23, she withdrew.Source: Tara Sweeney, Alaska U.S. House Candidate Who Placed Fourth...
Elections should not be among the victims of the coronavirus. Mr. Bauer, Mr. Ginsberg and Mr. Persily were members of the Presidential Commission on Election Administration.Source: We Must Vote in November. This Is How to Ensure That We Can....
When Ted Cruz and John Kasich finally suspended their campaigns for the Republican nomination in May of 2016, Donald Trump had collected 40.2% of primary votes.Source: Assessing the Prospects for a Brokered Convention...
Vote harvesting gives party activists, campaign consultants, and other political guns for hire the ability to manipulate election outcomes either through coercion of voters or outright ballot theft and forgery.Source: Vote Harvesting a Recipe for Coercion, Election Fraud...
By Staff Writer Rep. Paul Cook (R-Yucca Valley) will retire from Congress at the end of his term and will announce a run for a seat on the San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors, according to John Sobel, the congressman’s chief of staff.California’s Republican U.S.Source:...
The Special Election to fill the rest of the late-Senator John McCain's 6-year term will not be moved up from next November.Source: BREAKING: Judge Dismisses Effort To Accelerate Special Election For Arizona's U.S. Senate Seat (READ decision)...
The Senate cleared legislation on Monday night to block individuals who meddle in U.S. elections from being able to enter the United States. The legislation, known as the DETER Act, easily passed the Senate by unanimous consent — a move that any one senator...
"The Washington Post," "Baltimore Sun" and other newspapers are urging a federal appellate court to continue blocking a new Maryland electioneering law that requires news sites to post information about political ads.Source: Electioneering Law Will Curb Political Ads, Newspapers Say...
The U.S. Supreme Court ended Monday five years of legal battles by the Utah Republican Party to quash a 2014 election law that allows candidates to qualify for the ballot by collecting signatures and/or through the caucus-convention system.Source: Long legal battles over Utah election law...
It was a crowded primary field and Tony Evers, running for governor, was eager to win the support of officials gathered at a Wisconsin state Democratic party meeting, so the candidate did all the usual things: he read the room, he shook hands, he networked.Source:...
