All posts by Rick Hasen

“Purcell Principles for States Courts”

September 12, 2024, 8:04 amelection administration, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

Robert Yablon and Derek Clinger have posted this draft on SSRN (forthcoming, Wisconsin Law Review). Here is the abstract: In recent years, the U.S. Supreme Court has stressed that federal courts ordinarily should not issue remedies, such as preliminary injunctions,… Continue reading

“Georgia’s presidential ballot could include some disqualified candidates”

September 12, 2024, 6:52 amballot accessRick Hasen

AJC: A pair of court rulings in the span of a few hours disqualified two longshot candidates from Georgia’s presidential race. In a twist, though, both could still appear on the ballot in this battleground state. In separate rulings on… Continue reading

“A ballot fight in New Jersey nears an end as 2 counties prepare settlement for new design”

September 12, 2024, 6:44 amballot accessRick Hasen

Politico: Two New Jersey counties are on the verge of settling a constitutional challenge to New Jersey’s controversial “county line” ballot structure after a four-year legal battle, according to two people with knowledge of the talks. The upcoming settlements with… Continue reading

Leonard Leo Holds Up Aggressiveness of the Charlatan Group, “Honest Elections Project,” as An Example of What He Wants to Fund with His Billion Dollars

September 12, 2024, 6:41 amfraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Axios: Leonard Leo, the conservative activist with an estimated $1 billion at his disposal, is threatening to withhold money from the dozens of groups he supports unless they develop plans to “weaponize” their ideas. Why it matters: Leo’s call for conservative… Continue reading

“Judge rules that incarcerated U.S. House candidate can remain on Alaska ballot”

September 12, 2024, 6:39 amalternative voting systemsRick Hasen

ADN: An Anchorage Superior Court judge on Tuesday denied a request by the Alaska Democratic Party to have the name of a jailed non-resident removed from Alaska’s U.S. House ballot. Alaska Democratic Party Executive Director Lindsay Kavanaugh said Tuesday evening… Continue reading

“Feds increase security for Jan. 6 in effort to prevent Capitol attack repeat”

September 11, 2024, 5:29 pmelection administration, election subversion riskRick Hasen

WaPo: The federal government will dramatically increase security protections for the joint session of Congress where lawmakers count states’ electoral votes, an escalation of government-wide efforts to prevent a repeat of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol,… Continue reading

“How unfounded GOP claims about noncitizen voting could cost some eligible voters their rights”

September 11, 2024, 3:25 pmUncategorizedRick Hasen

Votebeat: But this close to an election, the risk of disenfranchising or discouraging eligible voters is high. Efforts to “clean” the voter rolls have indeed wrongly or improperly ensnared eligible voters in the past. In 2019, for example, Texas officials … Continue reading

“Native Leaders Organize to Defend Alaska’s Ranked Choice Voting System”

September 11, 2024, 3:21 pmUncategorizedRick Hasen

New at Bolts.

“Politics might already be factional, which calls for a different reform approach”

September 11, 2024, 3:20 pmalternative voting systemsRick Hasen

Jack Santucci: As a student of how electoral-system change happens, I read the Boston Review’s recent essay collection, “We Need More Parties,” with great interest. It weighs the merits of several responses to a widely held view that the party system… Continue reading

“Election officials warn that widespread problems with the US mail system could disrupt voting”

September 11, 2024, 10:31 amabsentee ballots, election administrationRick Hasen

AP: State and local election officials from across the country on Wednesday warned that problems with the nation’s mail delivery system threaten to disenfranchise voters in the upcoming presidential election, telling the head of the U.S. Postal Service that it… Continue reading

At Debate, Trump Backs Away from Earlier Concession He Lost 2020 Election, Denies Responsibility for January 6, 2021 Invasion of Capitol and Attempt to Disrupt the Peaceful Transition of Power

September 11, 2024, 7:01 amelection subversion risk, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

C-SPAN has the relevant video. From ABC News summary: Trump tried to explain his own remarks recently in which he appeared to accept he lost the 2020 election, including his comment last week that he “lost by a whisker.”… Continue reading

“Managing the vote: Texas sees high turnover of election administrators since 2020 election”

September 11, 2024, 6:45 amelection administrationRick Hasen

CBS News: A CBS News investigation has found since the 2020 election, Texas has seen a high turnover rate of people who oversee the elections in the state’s 254 counties. More than one-third of the election administrators and county… Continue reading

“Missouri High Court Restores Abortion Measure to Ballot”

September 11, 2024, 6:44 amdirect democracyRick Hasen

NYT: The Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected a bid to strike a question on the November ballot that will ask voters whether to establish a right to abortion in the State Constitution. The seven-member court handed down its one-page… Continue reading

“Local Republican official in Michigan promises to certify election results after being sued”

September 10, 2024, 4:51 pmchicanery, election subversion riskRick Hasen

AP: A local Republican election official in Michigan has promised to certify the results of the November presidential election after being sued for stating that he wouldn’t sign off on the results if he disagreed with how the election was… Continue reading

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