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Minnesota’s Secretary of State-elect Steve Simon has a “wish list” for next year – including early voting, moving the state’s primary to June and streamlining voter registration. Republican legislators appear to be on board with some but not all of these proposals.

On the road – no blog today – see you next Monday, November 17!

The post-election survey from Pew’s Center on the People and the Press is a feast for political junkies – but there are tasty morsels for election geeks as well, including data on early/absentee voting, wait times and voter confidence in local and national outcomes.

Wisconsin’s Government Accountability Board is often held up as a structural ideal for non-partisan election administration nationwide – but its record and reputation for impartiality despite partisan attacks is what really makes the agency a national model.

The Center for Civic Design’s Whitney Quesenbery has a dispatch from her “chatty, food-y” New Jersey pollworking experience, where a local issue and a “type-in” challenge on electronic machines kept workers busy on Election Day.

The U.S. Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals once again invalidated proof-of-citizenship requirements in Kansas and Arizona, setting up likely conflicts in state and federal court – and maybe Congress – as the country begins to look ahead to the 2016 election.

A North Dakota man who discovered that his voter record hadn’t been updated ended up on a 200-mile Election Day roundtrip only to discover he couldn’t cast a ballot.

Election Day problems in Hartford are leading Connecticut’s Secretary of State and other policymakers to confront how local election offices are staffed and what tools exist to conduct oversight of their work before, during and after elections.

A quick rundown of the (preliminary!) results from last night’s contests for Secretary of State and other chief state election officials.

Check back throughout the day for liveblog updates on Election Day 2014!