The NYT has one all about ballot design. And another replaying some debates about electing judges that will be very familiar to domestic versions of the same question. And still another reviewing the ...

Past, Present, and Future in Oxford Handbook of American Election Law (Eugene Mazo, ed., 2024) Nonprofit Law as a Tool to Kill What Remains of Campaign Finance Law: Reluctant Lessons from Ellen Aprill ...

Steve Ford discusses the NC legislature’s partisan transfer of the power to select the State Board of Elections from the governor to the state auditor.

They don’t want someone who’s just going to be like, ‘We’re going to follow the law and do the originalistic thing, and whatever the result is, so may be it,’” said the consultant. “They want someone ...

Caller calls out low-propensity Republican voters. Given that restrictions on access to the ballot generally hit low-propensity voters harder, I’ve been wondering for a while whether the political ...

This AP story is presented as a cybersecurity issue.  And it is. But one of the dangers of running government without any regard for standard administrative process is that it makes fraud so much ...

A coming vote on new mid-decade maps for Tarrant County, Texas (where Ft. Worth is the county seat) has been quite controversial, with charges of racial and partisan impropriety, and likely litigation ...

I somehow missed this AP report from Tuesday, about the current U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security (with a cameo by John Eastman) expressly campaigning in Poland for a particular candidate in ...

I mentioned Mexico’s historic upcoming judicial elections a few days ago, but hadn’t then focused on the campaign finance regime. Now the NYT digs a little deeper: They weren’t allowed to buy ads on ...

Evan Osnos, in the latest issue of the New Yorker, reviews the state of American oligarchy and the First Family’s use of the Oval Office as a private moneymaking machine. One small excerpt: Even ...

Well this is a very interesting development in the case I’ve been tracking closely and expect the Supreme Court to hear, especially given that Marc Elias has not been one to generally defend campaign ...

Civic News Company is pleased to announce the appointment of Carrie Levine as the new editor-in-chief of Votebeat, its nonprofit newsroom dedicated to election administration coverage. Levine, who has ...