Updates regarding redistricting litigation in five states
In the aftermath of the 2022 redistricting cycle, at least 82 lawsuits challenging congressional and state legislative maps across the country have been filed. According to the American Redistricting Project, 22 states have ongoing litigation regarding either their congressional or legislative redistricting (or both).
We looked at ongoing redistricting litigation in Thursday’s Brew. You can read that edition here.
2024 presidential candidate filings currently at the third-highest level in forty years
Five hundred and thirty-one people have filed with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) to run for president in 2024 as of Jan. 17. The list includes 77 Democratic candidates (14.5%), 145 Republican candidates (27.3%), and 309 nonpartisan or minor party candidates (58.2%). This is the third-highest number of candidates to file to run since the 1980 presidential election.
Less than 10% of all bills introduced to change ballot initiative processes passed in 2022
In 2022, Ballotpedia tracked 232 bills that would change the citizen-initiated ballot measure processes, the most since 2014.
Twenty-three proposals (9.9% of them) were signed into law, the lowest percentage over that timespan.
Since 2014, lawmakers have introduced an average of 189 bills affecting ballot measure processes. Twenty-seven tend to pass, with an average passage rate of 14.2%.
Listen to our interview with pollster and political analyst Scott Rasmussen for On the Ballot, our weekly podcast
On the Ballot, our weekly podcast, takes a closer look at the week’s top political stories.
In this week’s episode, Ballotpedia’s Editor-in-Chief Geoff Pallay interviews pollster Scott Rasmussen, the president of RMG Research and the author of the Number of the Day column for Ballotpedia.
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Hall Pass is a weekly newsletter that keeps you informed about the conversations driving school board politics and education policy. New editions reach your inbox Wednesday afternoons. Stories featured in this week’s edition included:
- The debate over using school suspensions to discipline students
- Orange County districts fire superintendents
- Eight state executive candidates endorsed 106 school board candidates in Ballotpedia’s coverage scope in 2022
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