Each week, Nate Cohn, The Upshot’s elections analyst, based in Washington, and Toni Monkovic, an Upshot editor in New York, discuss the 2016 race and post a lightly edited transcript of their written exchange. By now, it’s clear that Donald Trump has a realistic shot to become president.Source: Donald Trump’s Path: What Map Should Democrats Fear the Most?...
The Commission shall not enforce 52 U.S.C. § 30118, as well as any implementing regulations, against Plaintiffs with regard to the monetary contributions described in Plaintiffs' complaint made by MCFL corporations to delegates to a national nominating convention. See Verified Compl. (Doc. No. 1) TlH 31, 53; FEC v. Massachusetts Citizens for Life, Inc., 479 U.S. 238, 263-64 (1986).PillarvFECSettlement.pdfTwo delegates...
When the technology investor Peter Thiel takes the stage just before Donald J. Trump at the Republican convention this week, he will become the most prominent public face of a species so endangered it might as well be called extinct: the Silicon Valley Trump supporter. Nobody knows what Mr.Source: Peter Thiel’s Embrace of Trump Has Silicon Valley Squirming...
If something's amiss, you can contact your local registrar of voters office. In Riverside County, call 951-486-7200 or go to www.voteinfo.net. In San Bernardino County, call 800-881-VOTE or go to http://ift.tt/29Sa7lx. Think there's fraud? Go to www.sos.ca.gov and search for "voter complaint.Source: ELECTION 2016: Protecting your voting information from fraud, tampering...
Few topics have excited the collective electiongeek imagination in the last week or so more than the potential for the hot new game Pokemon Go to be used as a means to generate interest in, and turnout at, the polls in November.Source: In Which I Am (a Bit of) a Killjoy About Pokemon Go at the Polls...
On July 19, U.S. District Court Judge Lynn Adelman, a Clinton, issued an order in Frank v Walker, e.d., 11-cv-1128. This is the case filed in 2011 over Wisconsin’s law requiring voters at the polls to show photo I.D.Source: U.S. District Court Rules that Wisconsin Must Allow Voters without ID To Vote If They Sign Under Penalty of Perjury That...
CLEVELAND — The balloons have already been stuffed into the rafters. The nominee is already known. The story lines are few. Yet 15,000 journalists — six for every one of the 2,500 delegates here — have encamped for the Republican National Convention.Source: ‘This is preposterous,’ says the media about the media’s convention overkill...
Republicans are denouncing Ohio Gov. John Kasich for ditching his own party’s convention held in the state he governs. Of course, he’s not the only nationally known GOP leader to skip the proceedings.Source: They talk the talk, but don’t write the checks: No Trump donors on Republican stage yet...
In the wake of the defeated attempt to force a roll call vote on the rules package at the Republican National Convention -- summary from FHQ forthcoming -- there have been a number of questions and comments lobbed FHQ's way about the possibility of a suspension of the rules on the nomination roll caSource: Thoughts on a Motion to Suspend...
The 2016 Republican National Convention is a scary time for many Americans—including many Republicans—and so on the Late Show on Monday night, Stephen Colbert brought back two figures from the in-retrospect quite comforting era of the mid-to-late 2000s: Stephen Colbert (the character) andSource: Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart return to explain Trump (VIDEO)....
