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Colorado’s outgoing SoS Scott Gessler is the subject of the latest First Person Singular from Mindy Moretti and electionline.org … and the “Honey Badger of Colorado politics” has a lot to say about his tenure and the future of election administration in Colorado.

Rick Hasen, UC-Irvine law professor and the Hardest Working Man in Election Law Business, has a fantastic new piece looking at the issue of uniformity in election administration which urges a focus on voters and not just entities like counties.

The main challenger to Massachusetts’ long-serving Secretary of State is trying to use online voting as a campaign issue in an effort to paint the incumbent as out of touch. It isn’t likely to succeed but is definitely a sign of the times.

Minnesota is the latest state to join a multistate voter registration exchange – a move that will improve list quality and afford eligible but unregistered voters a chance to join the rolls.

A three-judge panel of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals has reinstated Wisconsin’s voter ID law – setting off a series of races against time as supporters and opponents try to resolve the controversy in their favor before Election Day.

New York City’s Board of Elections is once again the subject of controversy for its rule prohibiting multilingual pollworkers from assisting voters unless it’s in certain languages and an approved bipartisan pair of workers is present.

A local Mississippi race is tied – and will be decided by a coin flip or some other random method – if a single voter who cast an affidavit ballot without ID doesn’t come forward soon. It’s a terrific story that raises small yet important questions.

Arizona and Kansas implemented dual-track voting as a response to their dispute with the federal government about proof-of-citizenship. The impact on voters is still unknown (only 22 primary voters in both states) – but the fiscal impact on election offices is quite clear.

What do you do when large numbers of ballots are returned with no votes recorded in one or more contests? In Florida, one potential solution being discussed involves offering a “no selection made” option – though support isn’t unanimous. It’s also not clear it would help.

Downloads of the Federal Post Card Application by military and overseas voters are down this cycle – but federal officials believe that is a direct result of the growth of state online voter registration systems.