Number eighteen in our series of occasional roundups on election law and policy:
- Is this where it finally stops? Indiana Senate rejects demands for mid-decade redistricting, with a majority of Republicans joining all Democrats [WRTV Indianapolis] Some of the pressure applied on GOP recusants [swattings and phoned threats; “I’d rather my house not get firebombed”; and then there’s this from DC]
- Administration hires activists from 2020 “Stop the Steal” movement, and its Department of Justice also coordinates with private groups from that movement [Alexandra Berzon and Nick Corasaniti, New York Times; Andrew Brown, Connecticut Mirror; Sarah N. Lynch, Reuters on Nevada; Doug Bock Clark, ProPublica and Carter Walker, VoteBeat on senior Department of Homeland Security appointment]
- NYU Democracy Project publishes 100 essays in 100 days, “promoting dialogue across ideological and political lines” on democracy issues, many familiar names here;
- Maryland Board of Elections releases unredacted voter registration records of spectacular impostor and upwardly mobile school administrator Ian Andre Roberts, who registered without being a citizen or even legally in the country, though the state says he did not vote [Elaine Mallon, Fox Baltimore]
- Bug or feature? Study finds ranked choice voting not “transformative” [Vishwanath, Quarterly Journal of Political Science] And Steven Hill and Paul Haughey pen a critique of recent political science papers that have been skeptical toward RCV;
- Texas AG Ken Paxton is trying to shut down a nonprofit civic-involvement group; the filing says “the group’s decision to hold voter registration drives near DMV locations ‘illuminates its unlawful motive.’” [Alex Nguyen and Eleanor Klibanoff, Texas Tribune]