“When claims of a stolen election become a political strategy “
New post at the Kofi Annan Foundation website.
Combating Misinformation and Building Trust in Elections: Assessing Election Official Communications During the 2022 Election Cycle
New report from Thessalia Merivaki and Mara Suttmann-Lea. Abstract:
In this project, we identify the dominant trust-building campaigns used by state and local election officials, with an emphasis on combating misinformation, during the 2022 election cycle. In partnership with the… Continue reading
“Election certification disputes in a handful of states spark concerns over 2024 presidential contest”
AP:
In Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, two Republican members of a county canvassing board last month refused to sign off on the results of an election that led to the recall of three GOP members of the county commission. They did… Continue reading
“A Republican Election Clerk vs. Trump Die-Hards in a World of Lies”
NYT, with the subhed: “Cindy Elgan has overseen elections in rural Nevada without incident for 20 years, but now even her neighbors wonder if she’s part of ‘the deep state cabal.'”
“The $64 million mystery: How a wave of anonymous donations is fueling the 2024 presidential campaign”
Daniel Klaidman for CBS News:
Washington hates a secret.
Yet in the summer of 2020, when a blandly named entity called the Impetus Fund received a $64 million donation from a single anonymous source, it touched off a guessing game… Continue reading
Key Election Denier Scott Perry Appointed to House Intelligence Committee
Oh man:
Perry, a hard-line Republican who previously served as the chair of the right-wing House Freedom Caucus, played a key role in promoting false claims of election fraud and pushed the Trump White House and Justice Department to… Continue reading
Can State Supreme Courts Preserve–or Expand–Rights?
New Yorker:
James A. Gardner, a professor of law at the University at Buffalo who has written extensively about judicial federalism, has raised other caveats. He is skeptical that state courts can spearhead a meaningful expansion of rights, because of heightened… Continue reading
If You’ve Been Wondering Where My Top Ten List in Recent Election Law Scholarship Posted on SSRN Has Been….Some Bad News
About every two months, I feature on ELB the top ten recent articles in the Election Law topic posted on SSRN. I personally find it a great way to keep up on scholarship in the field.
Unfortunately, SSRN for now… Continue reading
“NewsBreak: Most downloaded US news app has Chinese roots and ‘writes fiction’ using AI”
Reuters:
Last Christmas Eve, NewsBreak, opens new tab, a free app with roots in China that is the most downloaded news app in the United States, published an alarming piece about a small town shooting. It was headlined “Christmas… Continue reading
“Georgia court of appeals indefinitely pauses the election subversion conspiracy case against Donald Trump”
CNN:
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A Georgia appeals court has halted the election subversion conspiracy case against former President Donald Trump and several of his co-defendants until a panel of judges rules on whether Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis should be disqualified.… Continue reading
Illinois court issues permanent injunction for law that changed ballot access rules mid-election
Following up on my earlier posts here and here, the order in Collazo v. Illinois State Board of Elections is here. The court found that strict scrutiny was the appropriate standard of review and that it failed; and… Continue reading
“Republicans slowly rev up poll monitoring operation ahead of election, but questions remain about its scope”
NBC News:
National and state Republican Party officials are slowly revving up recruitment and plans for what they say will be an “unprecedented” Election Day army of 100,000 poll workers, monitors and lawyers.
A Republican National Committee official told NBC… Continue reading
“The G.O.P. Push for Post-Verdict Payback: ‘Fight Fire With Fire’”
NYT:
Republican allies of Donald J. Trump are calling for revenge prosecutions and other retaliatory measures against Democrats in response to his felony conviction in New York.
Within hours of a jury finding Mr. Trump guilty last week, the anger… Continue reading
“Cracks emerge in Michigan’s criminal cases against false Trump electors”
Detroit News:
The Michigan attorney general’s cases against 15 Republicans whose names appeared on a certificate falsely claiming Donald Trump won the 2020 election could be in jeopardy as prosecutors have struggled to supply evidence to back up charges that… Continue reading