Happy New Year to everyone.  2011 was a great year.  ElectionLawCenter.com saw record traffic.  It also saw the addition of Tabella as a regular poster, which takes much the burden off me to post the latest news.  Tabella has been particularly vigilant on redistricting issues and sometimes has even better sourcing than I do on various other matters.  See today’s post from Tabella below about the Crawford amicus brief.  News to me.

We’re always happy when we receive the tips we do.  We appreciate the thousands of readers, including the regular level of traffic we get from USDOJ.gov servers (very regular and very frequent) – sometimes even at night and on weekends!

2012 will be busier yet.  We’ve found the readership to be comprised of the predictable sort of election professionals and state officials.  But we also appreciate the many readers who come for election and voting news that they don’t usually find in places like the New York Times, McClatchy Papers or elsewhere in the media.  You are the majority readership of the site – you are the big numbers, and that’s why this website exists – so you can learn about the election process, unfiltered.  Whether it is the very real problem of voter fraud, or the DOJ “puffer fish” on SC Voter ID, this website is intended to take some of the mystery out of the mechanics of the democratic process.  Thank you all and Happy New Year.

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                – Christian Adams