Election Administration Reports, the nation’s oldest periodical devoted to election administration, will cease publication this year. It has been published biweekly ever since 1971. The first editor was Richard Smolka, and the only other editor it has ever had has been John T. Willis.
The suspension of the publication is announced in the June 7, 2021 issue. The purpose of the publication was to help election administrators. It was an expensive publication; it cost $219 per year.
On July 7, U.S. District Court Judge J. P. Boulee declined to enjoin any of the new Georgia laws that affect voting procedures, relative to the upcoming July 13 legislative runoff elections. Here is the 11-page order in Coalition for Good Governance v Kemp, n.d., 1:21cv-2070. The order says the new voting rules were in use for the initial elections in those same districts earlier this year, and it would not be good to have a different set of rules for the runoff.
This news story describes the debate in the Mississippi legislature, as proposals to restore the statewide initiative process are debated.
The New York city Board of Elections webpage has these election returns for the June 2021 Democratic primary for Mayor and other city office. It shows that Eric Adams has won, with 50.5% of the voters voting for him in at least one of the rounds. The counting required eight rounds.
On July 2, the Mississippi Supreme Court refused to rehear the decision that eliminated the initiative process. See this story.
