Welcome to our collection of articles by Ballotpedia's founder and CEO, Leslie Graves. Since launching her weekly column in Ballotpedia’s Daily Brew newsletter on April 4, 2025, Leslie has been ...

While deadlines to canvass and certify election results determine how and when election results become official, the policies that have a more direct effect on the speed of ballot counting and ...

Overall, most Republican trifectas and states with divided governments have tended to enact legislation opposing ESG. Most Democratic trifectas have tended to enact legislation supporting ESG ...

Denise Slipy (D) and Keri Heintzeman (R) are running in the special election for District 6 of the Minnesota Senate on April 29, 2025. The previous incumbent, Justin Eichorn (R), resigned on March 20, ...

Minnesota has a Democratic triplex and a divided trifecta. The Democratic Party controls the offices of governor, secretary of state, and attorney general. The Democratic Party controls the upper ...

In Louisiana, citizens do not have the power to initiate statewide initiatives or referendums. As of 2021, voters of Louisiana had never voted on a ballot measure to authorize a statewide initiative ...

↑ Ballotpedia chose to highlight these offices because they are typically the most visible positions in states and serve important administrative functions.

The four sites each contain a mix of projected end dates for the legislative sessions. Ballotpedia used a projected end date if three sites had the same date. If two websites had the same date but two ...

The legislative election method of judicial selection is a process by which state legislators choose judges to serve on a court. This method is unique among selection types in that neither the ...

Oregon has a Democratic trifecta and a Democratic triplex. The Democratic Party controls the offices of governor, secretary of state, attorney general, and both chambers of the state legislature. As ...

Virginia has a Republican triplex and a divided trifecta. The Republican Party controls the offices of governor, secretary of state, and attorney general. The Democratic Party controls both chambers ...

Alan Albright United States District Court for the Western District of Texas January 24, 2018 April 25, 2018 September 6, 2018 Joseph Falvey United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims January ...