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A mistake listing every Nassau County registered voter as blue had many — especially Republicans — seeing red.Many voters in the GOP-leaning Long Island county got their voter ID cards in the mail on Tuesday, and a half-million who got their cards saw a pretty glaring typo: All the cards say voters are registered Democrats, when in fact they might be Republican, independent or members of another political party.

A Wisconsin judge ordered the state to take as many as 234,000 people off its registered-voter list Friday because they may have moved — a decision that could impede residents of this swing state from voting in next year’s presidential election. The case centers on a letter that the state Elections Commission sent in October to hundreds of thousands of voters, asking them to respond if they were still at that address or to update their registrations if they had moved. Conservatives filed a lawsuit alleging that to avoid fraud, the commission should have thrown out the registrations of voters...

Presidential son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner is registered as a female voter in New York, according to public records. Registration records show that when Kushner, who is married to first daughter Ivanka Ivanka, registered to vote in 2009, he apparently checked a box classifying his gender as a female. Democratic opposition research group American Bridge first spotted the error, which Wired then reported first. "Kushner can't even fill out the most basic paperwork without screwing it up, so it's a mystery why anyone thinks he's somehow going to bring peace to the Middle East," Brad Bainum, a spokesperson for...

For the last several weeks, I have questioned how Gallup can put out polls with registered and likely voter samples that contained large GOP biases unsupported by recent electoral history. For example, the Gallup national polls of early and late September were based on samples that contained 40% and then 43% GOP respondents respectively. Gallup says they don’t weight their samples by party ID but rather by census/demographic factors, because they believe there are large swings in how voters self-identify themselves in the weeks leading up to the election. Other pollsters such as John Zogby feel that party self-identification isn’t...