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12 Aug 2016, 10:36 am by Tom Smith
Roughly half of Republican members of The POLITICO Caucus — activists, strategists and operatives in 11 swing states — believe that Trump’s path to 270 electoral votes is basically shut off after another week in which the GOP nominee appears to have ceded ground in national and most battleground state polls.Story Continued Below via www.politico.com [read post]
3 Jul 2007, 1:37 am
The State Election Board says he is a local appointee.? [read post]
3 Apr 2012, 6:37 am by Janai S. Nelson
”  Moreover, this principle was reinforced in several voting qualifications cases from the late 50s through early 70s in which states attempted to structure the electorate based on the perceived viewpoint of would-be voters. [read post]
15 Jul 2019, 8:00 am by Dan Ernst
Spitzer, University of Washington School of Law, has posted Be Careful What You Wish For: Private Political Parties, Public Primaries, and State Constitutional Restrictions, forthcoming in the Washington Law Review 94 (2019): 823-50:Political parties always disliked the Progressive Era changes that pulled the entire electorate into nominating candidates. [read post]
19 Sep 2021, 9:02 pm by Series of Essays
Supreme Court has issued several recent decisions with important implications for voting rights and electoral districting. [read post]
29 Oct 2020, 9:00 pm by Austin Sarat and Daniel B. Edelman
There is nothing in American history or legal precedent that authorizes even a conservative-activist Court to second-guess what the Congress decides.The ECA recognizes the possibility that there may be more than one return listing electors from a particular state or states. [read post]
29 Oct 2014, 2:44 pm by Alan J. Borsuk
And come the spring, all of these elected officials will be involved (some much more than others) in creating a state budget for 2015-17. [read post]
31 Mar 2003, 12:28 pm
Smith [decision syllabus], the Court ruled in a complicated split decision that a federal court can redraw electoral boundaries when state redistricting procedures fail, and that federal judges correctly blocked a Mississippi state court redistricting plan that had favored Democrats. [read post]
9 Oct 2003, 8:07 am
Texas state legislators from both sides of the aisle have tentatively agreed to a new congressional redistricting plan for their state, only two years removed from the state's last redistricting effort. [read post]
21 Nov 2016, 5:41 pm by Sandy Levinson
 One such honorable conservative is Michael Stokes Paulsen, who has a valuable analysis of the electoral college and the constitutionally-guaranteed autonomy of electors. [read post]
8 Mar 2018, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
First, the electoral college is skewed in favor of less populous states, because the number of electoral college votes given to a state depends on its number of representatives and senators. [read post]
27 Feb 2020, 10:48 am by Kalvis Golde
Panelists Elizabeth Prelogar of Cooley, Grant Sullivan of the Colorado Attorney General’s office and Kimberly Strawbridge Robinson of Bloomberg Law will discuss high-profile cases on faithless electors, abortion, state judicial appointments, the First Amendment and more. [read post]
19 Jul 2018, 8:13 am by Kenneth Hall
Vote Leave [advocacy website], an advocacy group spearheading the UK’s withdrawal from the EU, was fined £61,000 and referred to authorities by the country’s Electoral Commission [official website] on Tuesday for breaking electoral laws during the 2016 referendum. [read post]
14 Mar 2013, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
The Novelty of a State’s Looking to the National Electorate One thing Professor Williams points out is that, until now, no state has tried to pick its electors based upon national voter popularity. [read post]
8 May 2008, 5:05 pm
For more on how the electoral vote may play out, see my post a few weeks ago based on an analysis by William Arnone, The Electoral Map and the Battleground States. [read post]
27 Apr 2016, 7:04 am by Brian Kalt
By way of background, if nobody wins a majority of the electoral votes for president, the House chooses from among the top three electoral-vote-getters, with each state’s delegation getting one vote, and a majority of states needed for victory. [read post]
13 Dec 2008, 9:38 am
The panelists were also asked whether they supported state funding of elections as considered by various committees in the past including the Indrajit Gupta Committee Report on State Funding of Elections (1998), and the 170th Report of the Law Commission of India on the "Reform of Electoral Laws". [read post]
14 Jun 2010, 12:55 pm by Brandon Bartels
This provocative book is essential reading for anyone interested in the politics of judicial selection, law and politics, or the electoral process. [read post]
12 Feb 2024, 7:44 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
“The study of urban and local politics in the United States has long been hindered by a lack of centralized sources of election data. [read post]