The U.S. Supreme Court will take up the issue of redistricting in Virginia, agreeing to hear an appeal filed by Republican legislators of a lower court’s ruling that 11 House of Delegates districts must be redrawn to correct racial gerrymandering.Source: U.S. Supreme Court to take up Virginia redistricting case on racial gerrymandering...
Democrat Stacey Abrams has vowed not to concede to Republican Brian Kemp and plans to file a federal class-action lawsuit to push back the date of certification until every ballot has been logged. WXIASource: Federal judge orders review of all provisional ballots in Georgia, delays deadline for certification...
County officials in California are still slogging through more than four million uncounted ballots four days after Election Day.Source: Why California counts its ballots so slowly...
No state in the nation had as many voters show up for last week’s midterm elections as California. Preliminary data show that about 12 million ballots were cast — some coming in races that produced razor-thin outcomes, the kind that fuel talk about a recount in other states.Source: Even with some very close races left to decide in California, a...
The two-term Congressman said his vote was deemed to have an invalid signature and he couldn't remedy it in time. Bill Nelson is suing to get his vote and others restored. 'How come they never find votes for Republicans,' Trump tweeted. In fact, Republicans continue to add thousands of votes, too.Source: Judge orders Broward elections chief to turn over vote...
THE MID-TERM elections in Florida featured some momentous races, including razor’s-edge counts in the Senate and governor’s contests.Source: Why the restoration of felons’ voting rights in Florida is a big deal...
Ballot design in Broward County is one possible cause of votes cast for one contest but apparently not another. The vote count in Florida’s Senate race keeps getting tighter. Gov.Source: A Mysterious ‘Undervote’ Could End Up Settling the Florida Senate Race...
Most of 2018's midterm winners spent more money than their opponents. But some, like Texas senator Ted Cruz and incoming freshman congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, pulled out victories despite being outspent. Why it matters: Candidates who outspend their opponents usually win.Source: Axios...
Broward’s elections supervisor accidentally mixed more than a dozen rejected ballots with nearly 200 valid ones, a circumstance that is unlikely to help Brenda Snipes push back against Republican allegations of incompetence.Source: Whoops! Brenda Snipes’ office mixed bad provisional ballots with good ones...
Election Day may be over, but California has more than 4.5 million ballots left to count. The uncounted ballots could push voter turnout to nearly 60 percent of those registered.Source: California has 4.5 million ballots left to count. That could spell trouble for GOP...
