All posts by Rick Hasen

“Canvassers for Elon Musk’s America PAC Were Fired and Stranded in Michigan After Speaking Out”

November 3, 2024, 10:40 amcampaigns, chicaneryRick Hasen

Wired: Standing next to her hastily packed suitcase in Michigan’s Macomb County Wednesday night, Tyra Muldrow had a bad feeling in her gut. “I have this eerie feeling that I need to get the hell up out of there,” says… Continue reading

“How a New Mexico county pulled back from the brink of election chaos”

November 3, 2024, 10:38 amelection administrationRick Hasen

WaPo: Sandoval County has overhauled the hand-counting of absentee ballots, reduced its number of ballot drop boxes and curtailed their hours of access. Not only have Brady-Romero and Dominguez, her chief deputy, spent many hours answering questions from a… Continue reading

“Former Trump White House counsel Don McGahn sets post-election talk to anti-Trump conservatives”

November 3, 2024, 10:34 amelection law bizRick Hasen

Politico: Don McGahn, Donald Trump’s first White House lawyer and architect of his judicial appointment strategy, is turning heads in the legal world after agreeing to speak at a gathering of never-Trump conservatives the week after the election. McGahn… Continue reading

“Swing state officials prepare for potential disruptions around December electors meetings”

November 3, 2024, 10:32 amelection subversion riskRick Hasen

NBC News reports.

“Opinion: Voting in America is still secure. But a dark anti-election movement seeks to change that”

November 3, 2024, 10:08 amelection subversion riskRick Hasen

Sean Morales-Doyle oped in the LA Times: In the years since, Trump’s ragtag gang of election deniers has built a movement, organizing everyday American citizens to take democracy down. Cleta Mitchell — one of the lawyers on the January 2021 … Continue reading

“What’s a ‘red’ and ‘blue mirage,’ and how election night vote counts make it hard to tell who will win” (And watch for a potential North Carolina RED shift)

November 3, 2024, 10:06 amelection administration, election subversion riskRick Hasen

Very helpful analysis by Stephen Pettigrew, Andrew Arenge and John Lapinski of NBC News of the complicated patterns we can expect to see of reported vote totals. Some specifics: North Carolina: Most of the mail ballots will likely be reported first,… Continue reading

“Unequal Access: The Perpetual Struggle for Voting Rights and the Case of Wisconsin”

November 3, 2024, 10:02 amVoting Rights ActRick Hasen

Benjamin Edelstein, Mark L. Thomsen & Atiba R. Ellis have written this article for the Fordham Law Voting Rights and Democracy Forum. Here is the abstract: In this Article, we examine the transformation of Wisconsin from a state celebrated for… Continue reading

“Republican lawsuits fly in Fulton County as Election Day nears”

November 2, 2024, 3:02 pmUncategorizedRick Hasen

AJC: Republicans continue to challenge Fulton County elections officials in court as Tuesday’s momentous presidential election looms. On Saturday a Georgia judge rejected a GOP lawsuit trying to block Fulton and other counties from opening election offices on Saturday and… Continue reading

“In Pennsylvania case, SCOTUS’s far-right trio signals an openness to a power grab”

November 2, 2024, 2:08 pmSupreme CourtRick Hasen

Chris Geidner: Which brings us back to Friday night — and the set-up aspect of Alito’s statement. Alito revealed that, in the wake of Roberts’s “middle ground” note in Moore, he, Thomas, and Gorsuch were open, in the context of Tuesday’s… Continue reading

“James O’Keefe warned against helping put hidden cameras at voting locations”

November 2, 2024, 1:01 pmchicaneryRick Hasen

WaPo: The top prosecutor in Arizona’s most populous area of Maricopa County warned conservative activist James O’Keefe, known for his undercover videos, against helping in any sort of video or audio recording near or inside a voting location.

Arizona: “Pinal County demanded proof of citizenship for 900 voters, then backtracked”

November 2, 2024, 12:07 pmUncategorizedRick Hasen

Votebeat: Pinal County incorrectly told hundreds of longtime residents they needed to provide proof of citizenship before voting in Tuesday’s election. The Arizona county’s decision to flag these voters’ registrations came to light when some of the voters tried… Continue reading

“Trump, Preparing to Challenge the Results, Puts His 2020 Playbook Into Action”

November 2, 2024, 11:35 amelection subversion riskRick Hasen

NYT: Former President Donald J. Trump and his allies are rolling out a late-stage campaign strategy that borrows heavily from the subversive playbook he used to challenge his loss four years ago. This time, however, he is counting on reinforcements… Continue reading

“Judge Allows Unusual G.O.P. Strategy to Pump Money Into Senate Races”

November 2, 2024, 11:32 amcampaign financeRick Hasen

NYT: A federal judge ruled on Friday that Senate Republicans may continue to pump tens of millions of dollars into key swing state races in the final days of the 2024 campaign by employing an unusual advertising strategy that Democrats… Continue reading