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NYP: A Long Island voter pretended to be someone else to cast an extra ballot in the 2024 election but his scheme was exposed when the resident he impersonated showed up on Election Day, cops said.
Amid the Republican Party’s broad effort to hamstring voting by mail, the chair of an independent federal election commission said he believes states should no longer accept and count ballots after ...
Since returning to office, Trump has taken multiple executive actions related to elections and campaign spending, with Democrats challenging his moves in court. Meanwhile, House Republicans have ...
Imagine that a state’s statute (or constitution) required a photo ID to vote, but only in certain counties that had a history of consistently voting for Democrats by wide margins. Everyone … Continue ...
I have posted this draft for an upcoming conference on SSRN. Here is the abstract: The collapse of campaign finance ...
NYT: The pitch from “ZMoney” arrived on the encrypted messaging app Signal just days before Donald J. Trump’s presidential inauguration. “ZMoney” was Zachary Folkman, an entrepreneur who once ran a ...
Donald Trump’s appointees at the Department of Justice have removed all of the senior civil servants working as managers in the department’s voting section and directed attorneys to dismiss all active ...
It was a Sunday in late October 2024 when Jesus Rodriguez, then 29, voted for the first time. He voted in person for the presidential and state races, but his polling place wasn’t at a church, school ...
NOTUS: The Federal Election Commission will soon lose its powers to enforce and regulate campaign finance laws, NOTUS has learned. This de facto FEC shutdown will be triggered when Republican ...
NYT: The lone Republican vote in the Senate last month to protect consumers from bank overdraft fees came from an unlikely Democratic ally: Senator Josh Hawley, the archconservative from Missouri best ...
Voting means (swimming) costume party It has become a tradition – especially in surfing communities – to vote in their swimwear. Here is a young lady voting in “Surfers Paradise”. Yes, that is the ...
Politico: A new club is coming to Washington — and you probably can’t get in. Donald Trump Jr., megadonor Omeed Malik and several other investors are launching an invite-only club that costs more than ...