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In Iowa, voting and high school football – two popular autumn pastimes – are together in the same place as Johnson County brings its VoteMobile to schools on Friday nights. As electionline’s Mindy Moretti notes: “With clear eyes and full hearts voters … can’t lose.”

The Kansas Senate controversy is finally out of court and Johnson County’s Brian Newby shares what it means for “ballot printing” – a concept that involves far more time and effort than rolling ballots through a printer.

A campaign mailer by the Florida governor’s re-election campaign is prompting complaints from county election officials because it suggests that voters return vote-by-mail ballots – even though they won’t be mailed until this week.

UC-Irvine’s Rick Hasen has a fantastic piece over at Slate setting the scene for the next round of “voting wars” litigation now reaching the U.S. Supreme Court. Says he: “We ignore what’s coming at our peril.”

California’s Secretary of State candidates are vying for the opportunity to serve in a high-visibility job with a long, long to-do list that covers the entire landscape of election policy issues from voter registration to voting machines – and the money to fund it all.

This week’s electionlineWeekly takes on the considerable task of compiling the latest news on the various pre-election lawsuits underway across the country. As electionline’s Mindy Moretti says, there are still several legal shoes yet to drop.

The 6th Circuit’s opinion upholding the expansion of early voting in Ohio tees up a conflict with other courts on the technical but vitally important question of retrogression – in particular, the baseline for comparison when considering Voting Rights Act complaints.

Florida’s county election supervisors have come together in a bipartisan call to their state legislature to enact online voter registration next year – with implementation delayed until after the 2016 Presidential election. It’s a pretty big deal.

The U.S. Senate controversy in Kansas has hit local election officials particularly hard, as court action and other uncertainty occurred right at the federal deadline for sending out military and overseas ballots.

A new controversy has erupted in Wisconsin over the state’s proposed ballot design, with Republicans claiming it unfairly advantages their opponents, and many Democrats making changes to improve its clarity and usability – all in the crucial weeks before Election Day.