With the hotly-contested ranked choice primary in NYC on Tuesday, voters in NYC (and well beyond) are getting a lot of publicity about how ranked-choice voting works. The New Republic offers praise ...

Election Law–Cases and Materials (7th edition, Carolina Academic Press, 2022) (with Daniel Hays Lowenstein, Daniel P. Tokaji, and Nicholas O. Stephanopoulos) 2024 Casebook Supplement (Free) ...

The FTC announced its approval today of a consent agreement governing the acquisition by Omnicrom of The Interpublic Group – both offer (inter alia) media buying services.  The agreement allows the ...

I flagged an important 4th Circuit opinion rejecting Virginia’s claims that it was immune from suit under the Virginia Readmission Act, which plaintiffs’ assert prevents the Commonwealth from ...

Armchair Lehigh Valley and The Morning Call have a report on some of the latest in 2020 fallout: A prominent Lehigh Valley Republican and major supporter of President Trump has agreed to pay $500,000 ...

Votebeat continues to be on top of the expanding fight between Maricopa’s (Republican) recorder and Maricopa’s (Republican) board of supervisors, both of which exercise control over different parts of ...

The LA Times reports, as we near the 50th anniversary in August of the expansion of language protections under the federal.

And current Mayor Adams will be running as an independent in the general election, after skipping the Democratic Primary. And we do not use RCV in the general election. Which means a factional ...

From the Alabama Reflector, with the subhead based on a Brennan Center report: Nearly 9 in 10 state lawmakers reported facing insults and 4 in 10 facing harassment and threats. And these threats ...

In the Alabama redistricting case, readers will recall the May 8 unanimous 571-page-opinion from one judge first appointed by Reagan and two judges appointed by Trump; the opinion said, inter alia, ...

Travis Crum noted at the time that this decision made an ideal candidate for “bail-in” back into the preclearance regime under section 3 of the Voting Rights Act, which remains a viable (but ...

Yet another reminder that early and mail voting options help mitigate the degree to which a system of voting only on one day is subject to anomalies on that day that don’t really have anything to do ...