Archive for 2013

A new report examines the impacts of off-year municipal elections in California and suggests that cost and turnout concerns should prompt a closer look at consolidation.

A new legal opinion by Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne makes the case for the legality of two-track registration systems apparently in the works in Arizona and Kansas – and could be seen as the basis for similar efforts elsewhere.

The State of Kansas is moving toward establishing a two-track voter list as uncertainty (and litigation) about the impact of the state’s proof-of-citizenship voting law continues.

Brian Newby’s latest ElectionDiary looks at the challenges associated with finding polling sites in a strangely unfriendly commercial market where optimism and Halloween(!) are constant competitors.

Yesterday, Detroit’s clerk successfully defended sending out absentee ballots for November’s election, citing the need to serve military voters (and the cost of reprinting unnecessary ballots) in addition to asserting her authority to run the city’s elections.

Detroit’s rough election year continues as the city clerk is ordered to court after allegations that absentee ballots were distributed without approval by the city’s election commission.

Prairie View A&M University will get an on-campus polling place for the first time in years – thanks in part to a surprising intervention by voting integrity activists at True the Vote.

The federal government is preparing to sue the State of North Carolina to enforce the Voting Rights Act in a case that could have wide-ranging implications for the field.

Minnesota will be the 15th state to offer online voter registration after the launch of a new portal that also allows military and overseas voters to apply for an absentee ballot online.

MIT’s Charles Stewart has a new blog post describing his visits to a number of Boston polling places on Election Day earlier this week. It’s a powerful endorsement for the value of observational data in election administration research.