AJC:
Certifying elections is a required duty of county election boards in Georgia, and they’re not allowed to refuse finalizing results based on suspicions of miscounts or fraud, a Fulton County judge ruled Tuesday.
Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney rejected… Continue reading
WaPo:
Republican lawsuits in Pennsylvania, Michigan and North Carolina challenging the legitimacy of overseas ballots have prompted a backlash among military personnel, their spouses, veterans and elected officials.
Scores of veterans and active-duty members of the armed forces have posted… Continue reading
NYT:
A group of Republican donors and operatives has been the hidden hand behind some of this campaign’s most controversial advertisements attacking Kamala Harris and bolstering Donald J. Trump.
Over $100 million was raised and spent over the past four… Continue reading
ProPublica:
An investigation by ProPublica, The Texas Tribune and Votebeat, however, found that the governor’s claims about noncitizens on the rolls appear inflated and, in some cases, wrong.
The secretary of state’s office identified 581 people, not 6,500, as noncitizens,… Continue reading
WSJ:
A rising faction within the conservative legal movement is laying the groundwork for Donald Trump to appoint judges who prioritize loyalty to him and aggressively advocate for dismantling the federal government should he win a second term.
The movement’s… Continue reading
Michael Morse (Penn Law), Marc Meredith (Penn), Michael Herron (Dartmouth), Dan Smith (Florida), and Michael Martinez (Florida) have posted this draft on SSRN (AJPS). Here is the abstract:
We introduce a typology of election administration harms and apply it to… Continue reading
AJC:
The chair of the State Election Board says his Republican colleagues have gone too far, taking the law into their hands by passing new Georgia election rules since Donald Trump praised them at a campaign rally.
“Our job is… Continue reading
This should be a great discussion (free registration required):
Monday, October 21, 12:15pm-1:15pm PT, Webinar
Co-sponsored by the Institute for Technology, Law & Policy, UCLA Law
Kate Klonick (St. John’s University School of Law), Brendan Nyhan (Dartmouth) and Nate Persily… Continue reading