The number of special elections to each meeting of Congress has steadily increased over the past twenty years, from an average of 7.6 special elections in the five meetings beginning in 1993, to 11.6 in the five meetings starting in 2003, and to 13.4 in the five meetings that began in 2013 and ended in…
Virginia Commissioner of Elections Susan J. Beals withdrew the state from membership in the Election Registration Information Center (ERIC) on May 11, 2023. This made Virginia the seventh state to resign membership in the multi-state voter list maintenance organization so far this year, and the eighth to do so overall. Beals said of the decision…
Each week, we bring you a collection of the most viewed stories from The Daily Brew, condensed. But first… When Ballotpedia launched 15 years ago, it started small, focused on ballot measures. Now it’s a vital service used by one in four Americans, covering federal and state elections, municipal elections in the country’s largest cities,…