Year: 2024

  • How Alaska’s election rules have affected the contested primaries

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    Welcome to the Wednesday, July 24, 2024 Brew.  By: Ethan Sorell Here’s what’s in store for you as you start your day: A closer look at Alaska’s two contested top-four state legislative primaries in 2024 In last Thursday’s Brew, we looked at how an Idaho ballot initiative that would establish top-four primaries and ranked-choice voting…

  • Sequoyah Public Schools, Okla., to hold redo election after discovery of irregular votes

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    Voters in Oklahoma’s Sequoyah Public Schools will see a court-ordered redo election on their ballots on Aug. 27 after the discovery of irregularities in a close race from last spring. Greg Perry and Lyndsey Young ran in a special general election for the Office 2 seat on April 2, Oklahoma’s statewide school board general election…

  • Most contested state legislative primaries in Wyoming this year since at least 2010

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    Wyoming has 54 contested state legislative primaries on August 20, 2024, the most the state has had since Ballotpedia began tracking in 2010.  All contested primaries are Republican primaries, marking a record high for Republicans and a record low for Democrats. About 35.1% of all possible state legislative primaries are contested, the highest percentage since…

  • RNC leads DNC in cash on hand for first time this election cycle

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    As of June 30, 2024, the end of the most recent party committee campaign finance filing period, the three committees associated with the Democratic Party have raised a cumulative $636 million and spent $472 million for the 2024 election cycle, while the three committees associated with the Republican Party have raised $586 million and spent…

  • Labor department ESG rule sent back to lower court for rehearing

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    ESG developments this week Economy and Society is Ballotpedia’s weekly review of the developments in corporate activism; corporate political engagement; and the environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) trends and events that characterize the growing intersection between business and politics. In Washington, D.C. Labor department ESG rule sent back to lower court for rehearing The…

  • Signatures submitted for measure that would raise Oklahoma’s minimum wage

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    Welcome to the Tuesday, July 23, 2024, Brew.  By: Ethan Rice Here’s what’s in store for you as you start your day: Signatures submitted for measure that would raise Oklahoma’s minimum wage The campaign Raise The Wage Oklahoma submitted roughly 180,000 signatures on July 15 to the secretary of state for State Question 832. If…

  • Voter identification initiative certified in Nevada for November ballot

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    A Nevada initiative that would require photo identification to vote was certified for the Nov. 5, 2024 ballot.  On July 19, county officials announced that 131,590 signatures were verified out of the 179,000 signatures submitted. In order for the constitutional amendment to qualify for the ballot, 102,362 valid signatures were required. The initiative would require…

  • Alaska has two contested top-four state legislative primaries in 2024. Here is a closer look

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    Alaska has two contested top-four state legislative primaries on August 20, 2024. This is the second state legislative primary since Alaska voters approved a ballot measure to establish a top-four primary system in 2020. Under the system, the top four vote-getters in the primary, regardless of partisan affiliation, advance to the general election. The state’s…

  • Incumbent Frank Mrvan (D), Randell Niemeyer (R), and four other candidates are running in the general election in Indiana’s 1st Congressional District

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    Incumbent Frank Mrvan (D), Randell Niemeyer (R), and four other candidates are running in the general election in Indiana’s 1st Congressional District on Nov. 5, 2024. Democrats have won every election for this district since 1930. A Daily Kos analysis of the round of redistricting following the 2020 census concluded that the 1st district had…

  • Incumbent Yadira Caraveo (D), Gabe Evans (R), and five other candidates are running in the general election in Colorado’s 8th Congressional District

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    Incumbent Yadira Caraveo (D), Gabe Evans (R), and five other candidates are running in the general election in Colorado’s 8th Congressional District on Nov. 5, 2024. Colorado Public Radio describes the 8th as “Colorado’s most politically competitive congressional seat.” Both the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and the National Republican Congressional Committee are targeting the district. In…