Author: Douglas Kronaizl

  • Six state financial offices at stake in November’s elections

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    Welcome to the Wednesday, August 30, Brew.  Here’s what’s in store for you as you start your day: Note: When published, this newsletter said 14 state financial officer positions were up for election in 2024. We corrected this number to 17 on Oct. 23, 2023. We apologize for the error. November elections to determine six…

  • Tribal ballot measure to legalize marijuana in North Carolina

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    Welcome to the Wednesday, August 23, Brew.  Here’s what’s in store for you as you start your day: Eastern Band of Cherokee Indian voters to decide recreational marijuana measure on September 7 Eight candidates to appear at tonight’s Republican presidential debate 54 candidates filed for congressional and statewide offices last week Eastern Band of Cherokee…

  • An early look at Louisiana’s upcoming gubernatorial primary

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    Welcome to the Friday, August 18, Brew.  Here’s what’s in store for you as you start your day: 16 candidates to face off in Louisiana’s Oct. 14 gubernatorial primary Three Richland, Wash., school board members removed from office after successful recall #FridayTrivia: Republicans make up what percentage of all state legislators? 16 candidates to face…

  • 1.5% of all absentee/mail-in ballots were rejected in 2022

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    Voters cast 36,683,450 absentee/mail-in ballots in the 2022 general election. Of that total 549,824—or 1.5%—were rejected, roughly equal to the 1.4% rejection rate in 2018, the most recent midterm election, and up from the 1.0% and 0.8% rejection rates in the 2016 and 2020 presidential election cycles, respectively. Between the midterm election cycles in 2018…

  • Results from Mississippi’s battleground House primaries

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    Mississippi voters decided 44 contested state House primaries on Aug. 8, a decade-low for the chamber, down one from the previous low in 2019. Ballotpedia identified six battleground primaries in the chamber: one between Democrats and five between Republicans. In Mississippi, a candidate wins a primary outright if they receive a majority vote. Otherwise, the…

  • Five years later: where Janus-related litigation stands today

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    Welcome to the Wednesday, August 9, Brew.  Here’s what’s in store for you as you start your day: Five years after Janus, related Supreme Court appeals taper off Senate has confirmed 140 Biden judicial nominees, behind Trump, G.W. Bush, and Clinton at this point 146 candidates filed for congressional and statewide offices last week Five…

  • Less than one week until Mississippi’s Aug. 8 primaries

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    Welcome to the Wednesday, August 2, Brew.  Here’s what’s in store for you as you start your day: Mississippi holding statewide primaries on Aug. 8 On this date in 1921: Missouri voters approved Proposition 2, allowing women to hold elected office 120 candidates filed for congressional and statewide offices last week Mississippi holding statewide primaries…

  • Three candidates running in Republican primary for U.S. House special election in Utah

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    Becky Edwards, Bruce Hough, and Celeste Maloy are running in the Republican primary for Utah’s 2nd Congressional District on Sept. 5, 2023. The winner will advance to a general election on Nov. 21. The winner of the special election will fill the planned vacancy of incumbent Chris Stewart (R), who was first elected in 2012 and will resign on Sept.…

  • 15 stories for Ballotpedia’s 15th Anniversary

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    Welcome to the Wednesday, July 26, Brew.  To celebrate Ballotpedia’s 15th Anniversary, this week, we are highlighting 15 of our favorite 2023 articles and analyses. We’ll focus on five stories in each of the next three issues of the Brew. Enjoy! Here’s what’s in store for you as you start your day: How this year’s…

  • Odd-year open seat rate currently at a decade-high with further increases likely

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    The percentage of open seats in state executive and legislative elections is at a decade-high 22% compared to all odd-year election cycles since 2011.  And it’s almost definitely going to get even higher. The 2023 rate is around one percentage point higher than the recent peak in 2019 (21%) and about six percentage points higher…