Tag: Ballot Bulletin

Welcome to The Ballot Bulletin, where we track developments in election policy at the federal, state, and local level. In this month’s issue: Redistricting round-up: U.S. Census Bureau releases block-level population data (and other news) U.S. District Court temporarily suspends Georgia voting law barring photographs of voted ballots Legislation update Have a question/feedback/or just want…

Welcome to The Ballot Bulletin, where we track developments in election policy at the federal, state, and local level. In this month’s issue: State trial court upholds Alaska’s top-four primary and ranked-choice voting general election systems Redistricting round-up: Virginia House of Delegates candidate sues over 2021 elections using existing maps (and other news) Legislation update…

Welcome to The Ballot Bulletin, where we track developments in election policy at the federal, state, and local levels. In this month’s issue, we cover the following: U.S. Supreme Court upholds Arizona voting policies Redistricting round-up: Colorado redistricting commissions release preliminary congressional, state legislative maps (and other news) Legislation update Have a question/feedback/or just want…

Redistricting round-up: Illinois lawmakers approve state leg., supreme court maps (and other news) Last week, Illinois lawmakers approved revised maps for the Illinois state Senate, the Illinois House of Representatives, and the Illinois Supreme Court. The votes were as follows:  State legislative redistricting plan (HB2777):  House vote (May 28): 70-45 Senate vote (May 28): 40-18 …

Redistricting round-up: U.S. Census Bureau releases congressional apportionment counts, kicking off redistricting cycle On April 26, the U.S. Census Bureau released congressional apportionment counts. Six states — Texas (two seats), Colorado, Florida, Montana, North Carolina, and Oregon — gained seats. Seven states — California, Illinois, Michigan, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia— each lost…

Redistricting round-up: Census Bureau suggests data can be available to states, in legacy format, in August On March 15, the U.S. Census Bureau announced that redistricting data could be made available to states in a legacy format by mid-to-late August 2021: “In declarations recently filed in the case of Ohio v. Raimondo, the U.S. Census…

On Jan. 27, Kathleen Styles, a U.S. Census Bureau official, announced that the bureau would deliver its final apportionment report by April 30. Styles also said the bureau hoped to release redistricting data after July 31.  The U.S. census is conducted every 10 years and kickstarts the entire redistricting process. Under its original operational timeline,…

New York: State court upholds ranked-choice voting for Feb. municipal special election in NYC On Dec. 16, 2020, a state trial court declined to block the implementation of ranked-choice voting in the municipal special election scheduled for Feb. 2.  What’s at issue  On Nov. 5, 2019, New York City voters approved a charter amendment providing…

As of Dec. 2, 37 states and the District of Columbia have certified their election results. What does this mean, and how does it relate to the finalization of the presidential election? We tackle those questions in this week’s edition.  What it means for election results to be certified  The election results states and localities…