Election officials said DMV wasn’t ready to launch Motor Voter. California went ahead anyway

By Bryan Anderson, McClatchy News/Modesto Bee, January 31, 2019

As California prepared to launch its new Motor Voter program last year, top elections officials say they asked Secretary of State Alex Padilla to hold off on the roll-out.

Voting Issues and Gerrymanders Are Now Key Political Battlegrounds

by Trip Gabriel, New York Times, January 2, 2019

Voting rights and partisan gerrymandering, traditionally the preoccupation of wonky party strategists and good-government groups, have become major flash points in the debate about the integrity of American elections, signaling high stakes battles over voter suppression and politically engineered districts ahead of the 2020 presidential race.

Most Voters Have Positive Views of Their Midterm Voting Experiences
After record high turnout, most nonvoters wish they had voted

Post-election voter survey findings released 12/17/18 from the Pew Research Center 

National Popular Vote - Answering Myths

From the book Every Vote Equal, proponents of the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact respond to common questions about their proposal to ensure the Presidential candidate who wins the most popular votes nationwide is declared the winner. 

Post-election odds & ends 
Column by R.V. Scheide describing his experience receiving a notice from his county clerk informing him he needed to provide a new signature so his ballot would get counted. "So. Not the Deep State. Just a local government agency doing its job. That truly is a relief."

It Could Take Weeks to Find Out If Democrats Won the House
California and other key states take a very long time to count votes
By Daniel Costa-Roberts, Mother Jones Magazine, October 30, 2018

If you’ve been nervously counting down the days until the November 6 election, we’ve got some bad news for you: You might have to wait quite a bit longer before you know who will control the House. 

The Crisis of Election Security
New York Times Magazine
By Kim Zetter, September 26, 2018

As the midterms approach, America's electronic voting systems are more vulnerable than ever. Why isn't anyone trying to fix them?

In seconds, we faked our way into a political campaign, got unsecured voter data
Data analytics firm says this is normal: "It's the way that campaigns are run." 
By Cyrus Farivar,  Ars Technica,  June 5, 2018