And current Mayor Adams will be running as an independent in the general election, after skipping the Democratic Primary. And we do not use RCV in the general election. Which means a factional ...

From the Alabama Reflector, with the subhead based on a Brennan Center report: Nearly 9 in 10 state lawmakers reported facing insults and 4 in 10 facing harassment and threats. And these threats ...

In the Alabama redistricting case, readers will recall the May 8 unanimous 571-page-opinion from one judge first appointed by Reagan and two judges appointed by Trump; the opinion said, inter alia, ...

Travis Crum noted at the time that this decision made an ideal candidate for “bail-in” back into the preclearance regime under section 3 of the Voting Rights Act, which remains a viable (but ...

Yet another reminder that early and mail voting options help mitigate the degree to which a system of voting only on one day is subject to anomalies on that day that don’t really have anything to do ...

Ohio’s redistricting process has been, charitably, a mess. WLWT in Ohio focuses on the coming summer redraw of Ohio’s congressional lines, which were valid only for 2022 and 2024 under Ohio’s ...

Donovan Dela Cruz voted four times in favor of passing a bill designed to protect māmaki tea, even though he owns a māmaki tea business. . . . The Senate’s rules require that members … Continue readin ...

Bloomberg Law Senate Parliamentarian rules that the Senate Republican proposal to restrict the ability of judges to hand down initial rulings against the federal government is subject to the Byrd Rule ...

Washington Post article enumerates in concrete terms the post-Watergate guardrails that are under attack, including: As the article notes, conservatives see these reforms as an unconstitutional ...

There are lots of reasons to watch the NYC Democratic primary this week. It will be another opportunity to see whether rank-choice voting moderates who emerges out of a party’s primary. It is also ...

One critical fact cutting against the risk that “President Trump’s second administration . . . [would] fit the definition of fascism” was that “the president did not have and probably would not … Cont ...

Yale Youth Poll The most intriguing finding is about partisanship (framed not as party-identification but as party-vote): Still, on almost all social issues, youth voters take more “liberal” positions ...