Using data from the U.S. Election Assistance Commission’s Election Administration and Voting Survey, this indicator measures the percentage—out of all ballots cast—of absentee ballots that were rejected.Source: Elections Performance Index...
For the past few decades, presidential elections have been dominated by voters of the Baby Boom and previous generations, who are estimated to have cast a majority of the votes. But their election reign may end this November, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis of census data.Source: This may be the last presidential election dominated by Boomers and...
Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Cali.) agreed Thursday to reimburse his campaign account $49,000 after spending on everything from oral surgery to a garage door to fast food, The San Diego Union-Tribune reports.Source: Congressman will repay $49,000 after spending campaign money on garage door, Disneyland, 16 trips to Jack in the Box...
Find our content interesting and worth supporting? Donate to The Center for Public Integrity.Source: Super PACs, ‘dark money’ groups eschew presidential race for Senate...
Recently, the Washington Post, Yahoo News, Time, the Columbia Journal Review and a host of other news organizations reported on a Center for Public Integrity study detailing the federal campaign-finance filings of journalists, reporters, news editors, television news anchors and other donors workingSource: Presidential Pollsters’ Political Contributions: Heavily For Hillary Clinton...
He made himself the biggest news story since 9/11, and almost neutered the press in the process. No matter who claims the presidency on November 8, the 2016 election was a story about one human being's domination of the media.Source: How Trump Took Over the Media By Fighting It...
Artie Samish, the infamous lobbyist who wielded immense power in the state Capitol before and after World War II, practiced what he called “selecting and electing.Source: California Legislature’s ‘reform’ of campaign spending was phony...
Outside spenders have poured more than $170 million into contests for US House and Senate seats in the last two weeks of the campaign, our analysis of Federal Election Commission data shows.Source: Outside Spenders Make Final Push To Win Congress...
Via Chris Geidner, comes this short order from a Sixth Circuit panel in the OH case against the Trump campaign and others to stop voter intimidation.Source: Breaking 6th Cir. Panel, Without Full Response from Democrats, Reverses OH Trump Voter Intimidation Order...
Much has been made of the Democrats’ losing a number of cases they have filed to try to get Trump, the RNC and Roger Stone to be barred from acts of voter intimidation. But, as I wrote yesterday regarding the loss in the DNC v. RNC case:Source: Breaking: Roger Stone and Stop the Steal Call Off the Hounds, and Dems...
