On July 13, the California Secretary of State released the official tally for the June 5, 2018 primary. In three U.S. House races and nine Assembly races, a write-in candidate placed second and will appear on the November ballot.Source: Twelve Write-in Candidates in California Primary Place Second and Will Run in November...
House Democrats are trying to ramp up pressure to send more election security funding to states by spotlighting the ones they say are most vulnerable going into November.Source: The Cybersecurity 202: House Democrats list states with weakest election security in new report...
Charles Davis, Kavanaugh and campaign finance: , SCOTUSblog (Jul. 13, 2018, 2:28 PM), https://ift.tt/2KWk2M7Source: Republican National Committee v. Federal Election Commission...
The Supreme Court has for decades avoided definitively resolving the question of how much political gerrymandering is too much for the Constitution to tolerate. And so, when many legal commentators read the Court’s recent opinion in Gill v.Source: Justice Kavanaugh can help fix gerrymandering...
On Tuesday, July 10, attorney David Boies argued in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles in a case charging that the winner-take-all system for choosing presidential electors violates the Fourteenth Amendment. Ridriguez v Brown, c.d., 2:18cv-1422.Source: First Oral Argument in Lawsuits Against “Winner-take-all” Electoral College...
Of course, Judge Brett Kavanaugh is a conservative jurist. You knew the nominee was going to be a conservative before he was announced.Source: What kind of conservative judge is Brett Kavanaugh?...
So-called “dark money” funded nearly 44 percent of outside groups’ television ads in Senate and House races so far this year, according to an analysis by USA Today of Kantar Media data.Source: Analysis: Dark money groups have funded 44 percent of 2018 congressional ads...
(CNN)Seven-in-10 registered voters say they're extremely or very interested in the November elections, a record high in Fox News polling for their midterm election tracking since 2010.Source: Voters are extremely interested in the 2018 midterms...
Brett Kavanaugh, President Trump’s nominee for the open seat on the Supreme Court, is going to be asked a lot of questions in the near future.Source: Kavanaugh Could Narrow Ban on Foreign Money in Elections...
In a sign of how modest expectations have become of Californians actually casting ballots, elections officials and advocates alike found relief Monday in the final tally showing 37% of voters cast ballots in June — small compared with total registration but the highest for a nonpresidential primSource: California's primary election saw higher turnout than recent years, but most voters still...
