More than 100,000 noncitizens are registered to vote in Pennsylvania alone, according to testimony submitted Monday in a lawsuit demanding the state come clean about the extent of its problems.Source: Lawsuit: 100,000 noncitizens registered to vote in Pennsylvania...
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in Minnesota Voters Alliance v.Source: Free Speech vs. Freedom From Intimidation...
Vote buying, a practice carried over from England’s early experiments with democracy, was widespread in United States elections until the modern era.1×1. See Richard L. Hasen, Vote Buying, 88 Calif. L. Rev. 1323, 1327 (2000).Source: Rideout v. Gardner...
Cross-posted at NYU Journal of Legislation & Public Policy. American campaign finance law is at a crossroads.Source: Electoral Integrity In Campaign Finance Law...
Late last month, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court issued a ruling that congressional redistricting maps drawn after the 2010 census and in use for the last 3 election cycles (2012, 2014, and 2016) violated the Pennsylvania Constitution.Source: Pennsylvania Redistricting - Impeach PA Supreme Court Justices for Violating the PA Constitution?...
Facebook’s global director of policy programs says it will start sending postcards by snail mail to verify buyers of ads related to United States elections.Source: Facebook will verify the location of US election ad buyers by mailing them postcards...
Care about freedom of the press? Support independent investigative journalism.Source: How Democrats use ‘dark money’ — and win elections...
According to PlanScore’s basic model, the remedial plan adopted today by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court is impressively symmetric—both in absolute terms and compared to its predecessor. Its likely efficiency gap is -2% (versus its predecessor’s -10%), its likely partisan bias is -4% (versus -12%), and its likely mean-median difference is -3% (versus -4%). In my view, this is the single most important fact...
The Republican brand has been so severely damaged and diminished in California that, barring a dramatic reversal of fortune in the polls, the party will not have a candidate on the ballot for governor or U.S. senator in the November election.Source: Former Republican Steve Poizner will test California’s independent streak...
On February 8, the Utah House defeated HB 68 by 34-37. It would have given parties the right to exclude anyone from running in their primaries who did not show substantial support at a party meeting.Source: Utah Bill, Giving Parties Right to Confine Primary Ballot Only to Candidates with Support at a Party Meeting, Loses...
