With the polls deadlocked a few days before the election, a new report from the Brennan Center for Justice details recount procedures in 10 battleground states. These laws, which vary widely from state to state, could determine the winner of the presidential race.

Television ad spending for state Supreme Court races surpassed $13.5 million this week — more than was spent in all of 2010 — as the judicial campaign season enters what is traditionally its highest-spending period, according to data released by the Brennan Center for Justice and Justice at Stake.

This study, released by the Brennan Center for Justice, analyzes the spending patterns emerging in the 25 most hotly contested House races, which will likely determine which party will control the House.

The Brennan Center for Justice and the New York Civil Liberties Union today urged Dutchess County Board of Elections Commissioner Erik Haight to stop requiring Bard College and Culinary Institute of America students to identify the names of their dormitories on voter registration forms.