Tag: Ballot Bulletin

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…

%%subject%% Post-election lawsuits have been filed in five states    Sponsored by Probolsky Research Welcome to The Ballot Bulletin, where we track developments in election policy at the federal, state, and local levels. Each issue includes an in-depth feature—such as an interview or legislative analysis—and discussions of recent events relating to electoral and primary systems, redistricting, and…

On Oct. 13, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Dr. Priscilla Chan, announced they would donate an additional $100 million to the Center for Tech and Civic Life. In a Facebook post announcing the grants, Zuckerberg said the money was intended “to support election officials with the infrastructure they need to administer the vote…

With 27 days until Election Day, overlapping court orders in North Carolina and South Carolina have modified absentee/mail-in voting procedures. North Carolina On Sept. 22, the North Carolina State Board of Elections announced a series of proposed modifications to the state’s absentee/mail-in voting procedures: Absentee/mail-in ballot receipt deadline extended to 5 p.m. on Nov. 12…

In the last two weeks, a court order and a settlement have resulted in modifications to several mail-in voting procedures in Pennsylvania. State directs counties not to reject ballots due to signature mismatch On Sept. 14, the League of Women Voters and the Urban League of Greater Pittsburgh dropped a lawsuit against the state after…

On Sept. 1, Facebook chief executive officer Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Dr. Priscilla Chan, announced they would donate a combined total of $300 million to the Center for Tech and Civic Life and the Center for Election Innovation and Research in a bid “to promote safe and reliable voting in states and localities during…