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“In Crucial Judicial Race in Wisconsin, G.O.P. Now Has a Financial Edge”
NYT: The last time Wisconsin held an election for the state’s Supreme Court, Republicans cried foul over the wave of money from out-of-state Democrats that overwhelmed their candidate. Two years later ...
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“Universal vote by mail is popular in Utah. GOP lawmakers continue to move away from it in a revised bill.”
The Salt Lake Tribune reports.
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NJ Appellate Court Upholds State’s Ban on Fusion Candidacies
The New Jersey Appellate Division held that the state’s ban on fusion candidacies does not violate the State Constitution. New Jersey, like other states, prohibits a candidate for public office from ...
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Divided Ninth Circuit finds Congress holds power to regulate presidential elections as it does congressional elections
Justin helpfully runs through the major elements of the Ninth Circuit’s holding in Mi Familia Vota v. Fontes, but I wanted to highlight a divide in the opinion I wrote about back in 2022 just as this ...
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9th Circuit affirms limits on AZ proof of citizenship laws
Justin here. A 9th Circuit panel is out with 156 pages’ worth of opinion in Mi Familia Vota v. Fontes, the latest in the battles revolving around Arizona’s laws requiring documentary proof of ...
Election Law Blog1d
“State Election Officials Seek to Avert Deeper Cuts”
NYT: Alarmed by cuts already made to federal agencies that help safeguard elections, and fearful that more could be coming, a bipartisan group of the nation’s top state election officials has appealed ...
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“Before Ascending to Top Tier of F.B.I., Bongino Fueled Right-Wing Disbelief”
NYT: On a recent episode of his wildly popular podcast, the right-wing provocateur Dan Bongino asserted that he would soon be able to show that pipe bombs found near the Capitol the day of the Jan. 6, ...
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Connecticut: “Arrest warrants detail charges of voter fraud in Bridgeport”
State prosecutors took a big step Friday when they charged five Bridgeport Democrats with more than 150 election-related crimes, but arrest warrants suggest the sprawling investigation into voter ...
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Department of Insanity (and Inanity): “Warner, Who Said CIA Stole Election, Now Leads DOJ Civil Rights”
The Justice Department has inserted Mac Warner, who last year espoused false claims that the CIA stole Trump’s 2020 presidential victory with the FBI’s help, to run the civil rights division, ...
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“New polling shows most Portlanders prefer ranked choice”
Axios: A new poll shows most voters in Portland preferred ranked-choice voting to the city’s previous election method. Why it matters: Previous polling showed the new system was widely understood by ...
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Pennsylvania: “Millbourne officials charged with brazen voter fraud scheme to try to steal a mayoral election”
Three officials in a tiny borough in southeast Delaware County illegally cast dozens of ballots in a 2021 mayoral race, only to have their candidate lose, federal prosecutors allege. Federal ...
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“GOP Email System Infiltrated by Chinese Hackers Last Summer, New Book Reveals”
WSJ: As the Republican National Committee was gearing up for its convention in Milwaukee, it was also quietly dealing with a serious security breach of its internal communications by hackers with ties ...