Political scientists Paul Herrnson, Michael Hamner, and Richard Niemi have published “The Impact of Ballot Type on Voter Errors”. See a description of the paper here. The paper concludes that voters make fewer errors in the absence of a straight-ticket … Continue reading
On February 10, the Voting Rights Section of the U.S. Justice Department formally withdrew its objection to the switch from partisan city elections, to non-partisan elections, in Kinston, North Carolina. The voters of Kinston had voted to start using non-partisan … Continue reading
For the last few years, some Oregon election officials have been trying to get permission to stop printing the full names of political parties on general election ballots, and replace the full names with three-letter abbreviations. On February 23, the … Continue reading
Two Pennsylvania Democratic Congressmen, Jason Altmire and Mark Critz, are running against each other in the April 24th primary because Pennsylvania’s new districts put both of them in the same district, the 12th district in the western end of the … Continue reading
On February 24, the Kentucky Supreme Court issued a two-page order, agreeing with a lower state court that the new legislative district boundaries are unconstitutional. Here is the lower court opinion, which struck down the new boundaries because the population … Continue reading
