Arit John has this article on Bloomberg, discussing ideas for improving voter turnout. It mentions redistricting reform, universal registration (in which the government prepares the voter registration list, so that individuals don’t need to register), mandatory voting, and proportional representation. It does not mention ballot access or altering primary systems. Thanks to Rick Hasen for the link.
Here is a link to the California Secretary of State’s web page for election returns, for the 39th Assembly race. Only seven votes separate one of the Democrats from the other Democrat, as of 5:44 p.m. Pacific time on November 10. There are many ballots remaining to be counted.
See this story, which explains why Alaska vote-counting takes so long. As of November 10, there are 53,000 uncounted ballots.
According to this blog post at FrontloadingHQ, Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp is working to persuade as many southern states as possible to hold their 2016 presidential primaries on March 1.
On November 7, National Review columnist Jim Geraghty published this column, suggesting that certain states controlled by Republicans might wish to alter selection of presidential electors, so that each U.S. House district would elect one elector. The column has now been discussed in several other major publications, including the Washington Post.
