On February 20, Rhodes Cook died at the age of 78. He was the author of America Votes for the volumes that appeared every two years, starting in 1996, all the way through 2020. He also had his own monthly newsletter, the Rhodes Cook Letter, which contained election returns data and analysis. See this description of himself, written while he was still alive.

Sadly, the America Votes series of books has died out. The last volume, 35, which covered the 2022 election, was authored by J. Miles Coleman. After it was published, the publisher, Sage Reference, decided to discontinue the series.

On February 17, Fulton County, Georgia election officials filed this brief in Pitts v USA, n.d., 1:26cv-809. This is the case over whether the FBI was right to seize ballots.

Florida candidate filing fees are not only the highest in the nation, but are twice the state with the 2nd highest fees, Georgia. The Cape Coral Breeze has a letter to the editor criticizing Florida’s filing fee amounts. The letter writer says he is considering running for legislature this year, but the fee is $1,700. He says he once was a member of the New Hampshire legislature, where the filing fee to run for state house is $2.