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After another election with lengthy tabulation delays, a Minnehaha County, SD committee recommends several changes – including earlier counting – to ease problems at the polls.

From this week’s electionlineWeekly: Despite varied paths into elections, it’s no accident election administrators are good at what they do.

Los Angeles just approved charter amendments designed to boost sagging municipal turnout by pairing those elections with federal and state races beginning in 2020. Those changes are worth watching given the slump in big city turnout nationwide.

Hillsborough County (Tampa) has established an Adopt-a-Precinct program that recruits nonprofit organizations to provide pollworkers and then donates their pay to charity. The supervisor calls it a “triple win” for the community.

Two Arkansas counties are discovering what happens when you lost track of election funding – either spending more than expected or failing to seek reimbursement – and now they’re scrambling to recover.

Even as the election community nationwide celebrates the return of the Election Assistance Commission, Congressional opponents – who think the EAC is unnecessary and wasn’t missed during its lack of a quorum – are moving ahead with legislation to eliminate it.

Danville, IL’s new election director is a 21-year old college student who will get his degree this spring. Still, he has embraced his new job and could be the harbinger of similar generational shifts across the profession.

Connecticut (the “Land of Steady Habits”) has a new habit of fighting about what to do about recent election problems. The Secretary of State says the state should appoint nonpartisan registrars – and the current partisan registrars (surprise!) don’t like it.

The EAC held its first meeting in four years yesterday – electing officers and doing some crucial business on voting system testing and certification. It’s a promising start and hopefully it bodes well for the agency’s future.

The idea of a federal constitutional right to vote is once again gathering steam, but Yale Law School’s Heather Gerken notes in a new paper that such a right would likely be even more difficult to enforce than it would be to enact.