by jpitney | Mar 18, 2022 | Election Security, Elections, Violence
Mark Z. Barabak at LAT: In the combustible days and weeks following the November 2020 election, Adrian Fontes was threatened so many times he lost count. As Maricopa County recorder, Fontes oversaw the balloting in Phoenix and its sprawling suburbs, the swing portion...
by jpitney | Mar 6, 2022 | Congress, Elections
Contrary to conventional wisdom, Ron Elving notes that Congress can pass serious legislation during a midterm year: A salient example of the latter dynamic would be the election year of 1996. Bill Clinton was running for a second term as president. Both the House and...
by jpitney | Jan 22, 2022 | Congress, Elections, House of Representatives, Senate
Don Wolfensberger at The Hill: What has been overlooked in media accounts, amidst all the speechifying, caucusing and presidential jawboning over voting rights, is the roundabout way the issue was being forced in both houses, using the drastic tactic of attaching an...
by jpitney | Jan 21, 2022 | Elections, Electoral College
[On Jan 13] Committee on House Administration Chairperson Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) released a Committee Staff Report on the Electoral Count Act of 1887 (ECA). The report, compiled over a months-long review, examines the ECA and argues it is badly in need of reform. Part...
by jpitney | Dec 21, 2021 | California Politics, Elections, Population, Redistricting
From the Final Report of the Los Angeles County Redistricting Commission: Although beyond the scope of the LA County CRC, the Commissioners received frequent input regarding the size of the SDs and the benefits of increasing the number of County Supervisors....
by jpitney | Dec 4, 2021 | Elections, Montana, Rural voters
Steve Bullock writes in NYT: I was re-elected as Montana’s governor in 2016 at the same time Donald Trump took our state by more than 20 points. It’s never easy for Democrats to get elected in Montana, because Democrats here are running against not only the opponent...
