Tag: Daily Brew

Welcome to the Thursday, Aug. 1, Brew.  By: Mercedes Yanora Here’s what’s in store for you as you start your day: Sixty-five percent of July’s elections were uncontested  Throughout July, Ballotpedia covered 525 elections in 11 states, 65% of which were uncontested.  This brings the year-to-date rate of uncontested elections to 73%. For comparison, since…

Welcome to the Wednesday, July 31, 2024 Brew.  By: Ethan Sorell Here’s what’s in store for you as you start your day: Introducing Ballotpedia’s Historic Ballot Measure Fact Book Since Ballotpedia was founded in 2007, we have focused on covering ballot measures and the laws governing them. Sixteen years later, we’ve published nearly 50,000 articles…

Welcome to the Monday, July 29, Brew.  By: Briana Ryan Here’s what’s in store for you as you start your day: The most contested legislative primaries in Arizona since 2010 Continuing our coverage of statewide primaries, today we dive into elections in Arizona. The state is holding primaries for congressional, state executive, state legislative, and…

Welcome to the Friday, July 26, Brew.  By: Mercedes Yanora Here’s what’s in store for you as you start your day: Redo election scheduled for Oklahoma’s Sequoyah Public Schools  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…

Welcome to the Thursday, July 25, Brew.  By: Mercedes Yanora Here’s what’s in store for you as you start your day: Eleven vulnerable trifectas this November   Every year, Ballotpedia releases an annual report on trifecta vulnerability. This year’s report found that 11 state government trifectas could break up, and nine new ones could form in…

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…

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…

Welcome to the Monday, July 22, Brew.  By: Briana Ryan Here’s what’s in store for you as you start your day: President Joe Biden (D) ends 2024 campaign; endorses VP Harris On July 21, President Joe Biden (D) withdrew from the 2024 presidential election. In a statement, he said: “It has been the greatest honor…

Welcome to the Friday, July 19, Brew.  By: Mercedes Yanora Here’s what’s in store for you as you start your day: An average of 45.6% of Democratic legislators, all Republican legislators, backed placing noncitizen voting bans on state ballots Bans on noncitizen voting at the state level have become more frequent since 2018. Voters in…