If Congress (and administrative agencies) can regulate through data and analytics, do both acquire a legislative character (and when appropriately delegated an administrative quasi legislative character) that can subject both the formulation of data and the construction of analytics (and the algorithms that give analytics political consequence) to the traditional constraints of statutes and administrative regulation, not indirectly through authorizing provisions, but directly as… [read post]

The bottom line is that Cuyahoga County will have to switch to a notice-based system, probably precinct-count optical scan, unless the Ohio legislature changes the law. [read post]

Hunter and his wife, Margaret, who also pleaded guilty, illegally converted over $150,000 in campaign funds from 2010 through 2016 to buy goods and services for their own interests, according to the plea agreement. [read post]