Philly Inquirer: Pennsylvania has rejected 372,000 requests for mail ballots, straining election offices and bewildering voters in one of the most hotly contested battlegrounds in the presidential election.More than 90% of those applications, or about 336,000, were denied as duplicates, primarily because … Continue reading
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NYT: President Trump called Facebook and Twitter “terrible” and “a monster” and said he would go after them. Senators Ted Cruz and Marsha Blackburn said they would subpoena the chief executives of the companies for their actions. And on Fox … Continue reading
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NYT: Progressive activists who want Democrats to expand the Supreme Court and pack it with additional liberal justices are mustering a new argument: Republican-appointed jurists, they say, keep using their power to make it harder for Americans to vote.Backed by … Continue reading
Here: RankPaperDownloads1.Foreword: The Degradation of American Democracy—and the CourtMichael J. KlarmanHarvard UniversityDate Posted: 31 Aug 2020Last Revised: 01 Sep 20201,9442.Mail-In Voter Fraud: Anatomy of a Disinformation CampaignYochai Benkler, Casey Tilton, Bruce Etling, Hal Roberts, Justin Clark, Robert Faris, Jonas Kaiser and Carolyn SchmittHarvard University, Berkman Klein Center for Internet & … Continue reading
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WaPo: U.S. intelligence agencies warned the White House last year that President Trump’s personal lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani was the target of an influence operation by Russian intelligence, according to four former officials familiar with the matter.The warnings were based … Continue reading
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Politico: Behind the brewing legal battle is a nationally reverberating dispute over a 2016 California law authorizing third parties to collect filled-out mail ballots from voters and submit them to elections officials. Republicans here and in Washington have excoriated the … Continue reading
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Politico: Casino mogul Sheldon Adelson and his wife Miriam Adelson gave $75 million to a super PAC that flooded battleground states with anti-Joe Biden ads in September, a huge investment from the GOP megadonors as President Donald Trump slipped in … Continue reading
The majority decides the case primarily on standing grounds. From Judge Moore’s dissent: Make no mistake: today’s majority opinion is yet another chapter in the concentrated effort to restrict the vote. See, e.g., Raysor v. DeSantis, 140 S. Ct. 2600 … Continue reading
Politico: Democratic candidates and left-leaning groups raised $1.5 billion through ActBlue over the last three months — a record-smashing total that reveals the overwhelming financial power small-dollar donors have unleashed up and down the ballot ahead of the 2020 election.From … Continue reading
NBC News New York video report: Recent election fraud problems in Paterson are being used by President Trump to question vote-by-mail ballots, but election experts say the problems there are the exception rather than the rule. NBC New York’s Jonathan … Continue reading
NBC News: The idea of a rigged election has already taken hold in Trump’s fervent online base, a horde of digital activists who dutifully share links from right-wing blogs and junk news sites and turn the president’s message into memes.Trump’s … Continue reading
New Brennan Center report. … Continue reading
Judge Totenberg pulls no punches. … Continue reading
AJC: Voting slowed to a crawl across Georgia this week in large part because of check-in computers that couldn’t handle the load of record turnout at early voting locations.The problem created a bottleneck as voters reached the front of the line, when … Continue reading
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AP: The lawsuit filed against Postmaster General Louis DeJoy and the U.S. Postal Service on Sept. 9 argued changes implemented in June harmed access to mail services in Montana, resulting in delayed delivery of medical prescriptions, payments, and job applications, … Continue reading
Politico: Joe Biden announced Wednesday evening that his campaign and affiliated committees raised $383 million in September, breaking a record he had just set the prior month as his campaign continues to ride a surge of online donations.Biden, the Democratic National Committee … Continue reading
WaPo: With less than three weeks to go before Nov. 3, roughly 15 million Americans have already voted in the fall election, reflecting an extraordinary level of participation despite barriers erected by the coronavirus pandemic — and setting a trajectory that could result … Continue reading
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ALI podcast with Ned Foley, Steve Huefner, Derek Muller, and Franita Tolson. … Continue reading
AP: A federal judge ordered North Carolina on Wednesday to ensure that absentee ballots have a witness signature in a mixed ruling that allows voters to fix other more minor problems without casting a new ballot from scratch.Judge William Osteen … Continue reading
Justice Kavanaugh wants a response by Friday. … Continue reading
Josh Douglas CNN oped. … Continue reading
Trey Grayson and Robin Carnahan oped in USA Today. … Continue reading
NPR: Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois returned to voting rights questions during his portion of the morning on Wednesday by returning to a case Barrett handled on the appeals court. She wrote that a man involved who had been convicted … Continue reading
27-Order-Denying-Motion-for-Temporary-Restraining-Order-and-Other-Preliminary-ReliefDownload … Continue reading
This is important from a group of journalism and political science professors: As we count down to Election Day in the U.S., November 3, 2020, we find ourselves at a dangerous moment for democracy. As scholarly experts in politics and … Continue reading
Boston Globe: More than 40 former congressional leaders, former Cabinet secretaries, retired military officials, and leaders of civic organizations have formed the bipartisan National Council on Election Integrity to ensure a democratic outcome to the 2020 election. … Continue reading
WaPo reports. The quote in the headline is from J. Christian Adams. … Continue reading
Bloomberg: Benjamin Ginsberg, a longtime Republican election lawyer, puts the odds of the 2020 presidential election ending up in an all-out legal brawl that lasts into January at less than 1%.Democrat Joe Biden has widened his lead over President Donald … Continue reading
WaPo: A federal judge in Virginia agreed Wednesday to extend the state’s voter registration deadline through Thursday after a severed fiber optic cable kept thousands of voters from registering online on Tuesday, the original deadline for doing so.U.S. District Court Judge John … Continue reading
Zoom registration. … Continue reading
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Watch: Barrett is asked if she believes a president should unequivocally commit to a peaceful transfer of power"To the extent that this is a political controversy right now, as a judge I want to stay out of it, and I … Continue reading
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NYT reports. “I know of no evidence that drop boxes have lead to more or less fraud” than sending ballots through the mail, said Charles Stewart III, a professor of political science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who runs … Continue reading
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AP: California’s top elections and law enforcement officials, both Democrats, on Monday said the boxes are illegal, threaten election security and must come down. Those behind the GOP effort could face criminal prosecution, Attorney General Xavier Becerra said.Rick Hasen, an … Continue reading
Looking forward to reading this new Emily Bazelon in the NYT Magazine. … Continue reading
Politico: President Donald Trump took to Twitter on Tuesday to urge the California Republican Party to “fight on” in its move to collect ballots in unofficial “drop boxes’’ around the state, in defiance of legal threats from state officials.Trump’s comments … Continue reading
Gear petition and Swenson petition. More at SCOTUSBlog. … Continue reading
Opinion. [corrected link] The majority panel is made up of two Democratic-appointed judges; Judge Bybee is a Bush appointee. I was shocked when this remedy was granted on the eve of the registration deadline, and given the signals sent from … Continue reading
Auburnpub: A court has denied an appeal from Democratic candidate Dana Balter and the Working Families Party — a decision that will keep Steve Williams on the ballot and ensure there is a three-way race in the 24th Congressional District. The … Continue reading
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