December 12, 2025 1:13PM # Election Policy Roundup By [Walter Olson](https://www.cato.org/people/walter-olson) --- SHARE Listen to this article Generated with [ ElevenLabs](https://elevenlabs.io/) AI technology. Loading the [Elevenlabs Text to Speech](https://elevenlabs.io/text-to-speech) AudioNative Player... ![voters](/sites/cato.org/files/styles/pubs_2x/public/2024-10/voters.jpg?itok=sj6AyP_D) Number eighteen in our [series of occasional roundups](https://www.cato.org/search?query=%22election+policy+roundup%22) on election law and policy: - Is this where it finally stops? Indiana Senate rejects demands for mid-decade redistricting, with a majority of Republicans joining all Democrats \[[WRTV Indianapolis](https://www.wrtv.com/news/redistricting/indiana-senate-set-for-final-redistricting-vote-thursday?hdklahla&fbclid=IwY2xjawOo_stleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETEyTFljcVcyYnpnRDdZSmlUc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHgUHOuL8-JUJO60faSYOmqlCnJgdaJK4uD9LjY8JvSgoMsgbJ1E-1I-RRvCT_aem_RtLUzbx-xTSeEr6FuWhLBg)\] Some of the pressure applied on GOP recusants \[swattings and [phoned threats](https://fox59.com/news/indiana-state-senator-says-she-received-a-pipe-bombing-threat-on-saturday/); “I’d rather my house [not get firebombed](https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2025/11/indiana-redistricting-republican-trump/685057/)”; and then [there’s this](https://bsky.app/profile/zackbeauchamp.bsky.social/post/3m7pzufgcck2u) from DC\] - Administration hires activists from 2020 “Stop the Steal” movement, and its Department of Justice also coordinates with private groups from that movement \[[Alexandra Berzon and Nick Corasaniti, *New York Times*](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/us/politics/trump-election-deniers-voting-security.html); [Andrew Brown, *Connecticut Mirror*](https://ctmirror.org/2025/09/19/ct-doj-voter-fraud-complaints/); [Sarah N. Lynch, Reuters](https://www.reuters.com/world/nevadas-acting-us-attorney-urged-voter-fraud-probe-help-republicans-document-2025-09-30/) on Nevada; [Doug Bock Clark, ProPublica](https://www.propublica.org/article/heather-honey-dhs-election-security) and [Carter Walker, VoteBeat](https://www.votebeat.org/pennsylvania/2024/02/12/heather-honey-pennsylvania-election-integrity-eric/) on senior Department of Homeland Security appointment\] - NYU Democracy Project publishes 100 essays in 100 days, “promoting dialogue across ideological and political lines” on democracy issues, [many familiar names here](https://democracyproject.org/about/100-ideas-100-days); - Maryland Board of Elections releases unredacted voter registration records of spectacular impostor and upwardly mobile school administrator Ian Andre Roberts, who registered without being a citizen or even legally in the country, though the state says he did not vote \[[Elaine Mallon, Fox Baltimore](https://foxbaltimore.com/news/local/maryland-releases-unredacted-voter-records-of-ex-iowa-superintendent-amid-legal-push-illegal-immigrant-ian-andre-roberts)\] - Bug or feature? Study finds ranked choice voting not “transformative” \[[Vishwanath, *Quarterly Journal of Political Science*](https://www.nowpublishers.com/article/Details/QJPS-23123)\] And Steven Hill and Paul Haughey [pen a critique](https://democracysos.substack.com/p/shaky-political-science-misses-mark) of recent political science papers that have been skeptical toward RCV; - Texas AG Ken Paxton is trying to shut down a nonprofit civic-involvement group; the filing says “the group’s decision to hold voter registration drives near DMV locations ‘illuminates its unlawful motive.’” \[[Alex Nguyen and Eleanor Klibanoff, Texas Tribune](https://www.texastribune.org/2025/11/10/texas-voter-registration-jolt-paxton-lawsuit/)\] ##### Related Tags [Politics and Society](https://www.cato.org/politics-society) [![Creative Commons License](/build/cato_2020/images/creative-commons.svg)](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) This work is licensed under a [Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/).