Archive for May 2013

North Carolina’s Gary Bartlett – recently replaced by a new state board of elections – shared some thoughts with electionlineWeekly about succeeding in elections. Simply put, it’s worth reading.

Voter fraud is once again an issue in Hamilton County (Cincinnati) Ohio, where a dispute about how to handle allegations of double voting by apparently confused voters is dividing on partisan lines.

Two precincts in yesterday’s Jersey City election were unable to receive voters until late morning because poll workers – and the poll books in their possession – were no-shows when the doors opened.

Brian Newby’s latest Election Diary takes on the “future of elections” and describes the challenges facing election administrators in their efforts to plan – and pay for – that future.

A proposal to allow legal non-citizens to cast ballots in New York City elections raises a host of fascinating administration issues beyond the obvious policy disputes accompanying an expansion of the franchise in the nation’s largest city.

The Census Bureau has released its report on registration and voting in 2012. While some of the findings are jarring (Mississippi #1 in turnout? Minnesota begs to differ) the linkage of participation data to demographics makes the report a valuable tool.

What happens when the underlying decision to be made in an election is suddenly moot before voting is over? That’s the question in South Florida when the tax deal supporting a Dolphins stadium vote fell through in the Legislature.

A proposal to establish an early voting pilot in selected Connecticut municipalities is encountering the same constitutional questions that resulted in an ongoing effort to enact an amendment to allow the practice at the state level.

The cost of the troubled 2012 election in Richland County, SC includes over $150,000 in legal fees to investigate and resolve the problems … but the cost could have been much higher had not one attorney been willing to work even longer for free.

Election reform bills in Florida and Colorado are very close to becoming law after votes last week – but those votes reflect the continuing divisions between the parties on elections policy.