A new report by the Bipartisan Policy Center on improving election observation: This report outlines policy best practices for election observers and challengers. The set of recommendations is unanimously endorsed by the Bipartisan Policy Center Task Force on Elections,… Continue reading

This is a guest post by Ed Zelinsky: The office of Oregon’s Secretary of State has concluded that Nicholas Kristoff fails the three year residency requirement of Oregon’s Constitution to run for the governorship of Oregon. Ore. Const. Art. V,… Continue reading

I wrote this short essay for the California Law Review in response to Pam Karlan’s Jorde Lecture, “The New Countermajoritarian Difficulty.” The abstract is below. Also check out the responses by Franita Tolson and Will Baude. In her… Continue reading

This column by Eric Levitz has been generating some buzz. Based on the congressional districts redrawn so far, the piece argues that “the new House map will be much less biased in the GOP’s favor than the old one.” The… Continue reading

West Virginia v. EPA, one of the blockbusters on the Supreme Court’s docket this term, is an administrative law, not an election law, case. The question is whether the EPA has the authority to regulate greenhouse gases in certain ways—and,… Continue reading

WSJ. I buy that redistricting will eliminate a good number of recently competitive districts. I don’t buy that competition will necessarily stay low over the course of the coming decade. Many of the recently competitive districts were drawn to be… Continue reading

Politico on recent developments in Georgia. The same story could presumably be written about Texas, Florida, Arizona, etc. First came passage of one of the nation’s most restrictive voting bills. Then came efforts to overhaul the number of elected offices… Continue reading

Lee Drutman and Yuval Levin in WaPo. They (correctly) don’t argue that expanding the House would combat gerrymandering. At the scale envisioned (an increase from 435 to 585), it wouldn’t be any harder to manipulate the somewhat more numerous districts.… Continue reading

NYT on the growing number of election officials who believe and propagate lies about elections. Mr. Lindemuth’s victory in November in this conservative rural community is a milestone of sorts in American politics: the arrival of the first class of… Continue reading

WaPo with more details about the efforts to overturn the 2020 election: A retired U.S. Army colonel who circulated a proposal to challenge the 2020 election, including by declaring a national security emergency and seizing paper ballots, said that he… Continue reading

David Perdue finding a niche as the anti-democracy candidate in Georgia. Former Senator David Perdue of Georgia, a Republican who is running for governor with the backing of former President Donald J. Trump, filed a lawsuit on Friday seeking the… Continue reading

Fascinating account of how Democrats ended up drawing a 7-1, rather than a 8-0, congressional map in Maryland. But two Democratic members within the delegation were uncomfortable pursuing this most aggressive path. They were Baltimore-area members who came from different… Continue reading

Politico: A Dec. 31 Ellis memo delivered to Trump’s office suggested that Pence — who was constitutionally responsible for presiding over Congress’ counting of electoral votes on Jan. 6 — should simply refuse to open envelopes from states whose election… Continue reading

It is ironic that the U.S. is hosting a “Summit for Democracy” while being the site of voter suppression, gerrymandering, and election subversion that are distant memories in many other countries. President Joe Biden kicked off the inaugural White House … Continue reading