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Rick Hasen
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I spoke with Madeline Brand of KCRW’s “Press Play.” … Continue reading
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AP: The Iowa Supreme Court on Tuesday swiftly granted a request from Republican groups to stay a judge’s ruling that blocked enforcement of an order that has been used to invalidate tens of thousands of absentee ballot requests.The Republican National … Continue reading
Washington Post: An account featuring the image of a Black police officer, President Trump and the words “VOTE REPUBLICAN” had a brief but spectacular run on Twitter. In six days after it became active last week, it tweeted just eight … Continue reading
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NYT: The Trump campaign has suggested that Omarosa Manigault Newman, a former White House aide, pay for an ad campaign costing nearly $1 million as a “corrective” remedy for her critical comments about President Trump in her 2018 book and … Continue reading
Zoe Tillman with the details: Now: The 11th Circuit has blocked a district court order that would have lifted Alabama's witness and photo ID requirements for absentee voters at higher risk of COVID-19; the circuit won't reinstate Alabama's ban on … Continue reading
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AP: The 48-year-old appellate court judge, nominated by President Donald Trump and on track for quick confirmation before the Nov. 3 election, also declined to commit to recusing herself from any cases arising from that election.“I can’t offer an opinion … Continue reading
Political Wire: David Wasserman: “It is absolutely imperative that every news outlet prepare viewers for the reality that unprecedented partisan polarization of early/Election Day votes makes lopsided batches of results expected, not suspicious, on 11/3.”Jonathan Bernstein: “I think that’s the best … Continue reading
WUSA: An accidentally cut cable has caused the entire Virginia voter registration system to go down on the last day to register to vote before election day. The Virginia Information Technology Agency tweeted that a fiber cut near Route 10 in … Continue reading
WSJ: With only three weeks until Election Day, many states are already seeing historic levels of early voting as people cast their ballots through the mail in the middle of a pandemic.Pennsylvania, Kentucky and Virginia have already received more early … Continue reading
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Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel: Groups seeking to allow late-arriving absentee ballots to be counted in Wisconsin are taking their case to the U.S. Supreme Court.The push comes a week after an appeals court determined that none of Wisconsin’s voting laws should be changed because … Continue reading
Texas Tribune: Texas counties may collect mail-in ballots at only one location, a federal appeals court ruled late Monday, once again upholding an order from Gov. Greg Abbott that restricts voting options.Abbott in July acted to lengthen the early voting period and … Continue reading
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Tampa Bay Times: A few months ago, we and ProPublica wanted to answer a question: How many people with felony convictions have registered to vote under Amendment 4?Passed by nearly two-thirds of voters in 2018, the amendment was supposed to … Continue reading
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WaPo: A dispute over how North Carolina voters should correct problems with their mail ballots remains unresolved roughly three weeks before Election Day, leaving at least 6,800 votes — including more than 3,300 ballots from people of color — in … Continue reading
WaPo: While the lines were longest in the state’s heavily Democratic strongholds in and around Atlanta, Augusta, Savannah and Macon, hours-long waits were also reported in smaller, more conservative counties, including Lowndes and Floyd, officials said. By the evening, at … Continue reading
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Details: % of US adults (by main source of political news) who say "voter fraud has been a major problem when it comes to voting by mail in US presidential elections"Fox News: 52%CBS: 20%ABC: 17%CNN: 16%NBC: 14%MSNBC: 5%NPR: 3%The New … Continue reading
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Axios: Facebook users engage with content from untrustworthy outlets twice as often today as they did at the time of the 2016 U.S. election, researchers at the German Marshall Fund found, despite the many measures the platform and its competitors … Continue reading
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The Hill: Democrats are accusing app-based gig companies including Uber and Lyft of playing dirty in their multimillion-dollar ad campaign supporting a California ballot measure that would allow their drivers to continue to be treated as independent contractors rather than … Continue reading
New Brennan Center resource on what’s allowed and what’s prohibited in each state. … Continue reading
Jonathan Bernstein: Early-voting maven Michael McDonald has been running evaluations of the vote so far every weekend, and if you want to understand what’s happening it’s a must-read. This week he added a prediction: “I predict in the coming weeks the Democratic … Continue reading
KQED’s Scott Shafer: “When the Secretary State’s office becomes a stepping stone to other office, it’s inevitable that it’s going to serve a kind of partisan purpose. And I think that that disserves the voters,” said U.C. Irvine Law Professor … Continue reading
Just wow: Some Trump allies say their best bet is to hope that the results look close election night, before some of the mail-in ballots are counted, allowing Trump to declare victory and have the results thrown to the courts. … Continue reading
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Reuters: In separate interviews with Reuters about their plans for election night, top executives at five major news networks described a focus on restraint, not speed; on transparency about what remains unknown; and on a reassuring message that slow results … Continue reading
ABC News: “One of the major concerns about poll watching is that it will still lead, intentionally or not, to voter intimidation,” said Sean Morales-Doyle, the deputy director of voting rights and election programs at the Brennan Center for Justice.“An … Continue reading
NYT: Microsoft and a team of companies and law enforcement groups have disabled — at least temporarily — one of the world’s largest hacking operations, an effort run by Russian-speaking cybercriminals that officials feared could disrupt the presidential election in … Continue reading
Politico: The online fundraising edge that Democrats have enjoyed for years has mushroomed into an overpowering force, with small-dollar donors smashing “donate” buttons over the last three months to process their disgust for President Donald Trump, fury with Senate Majority … Continue reading
Politico: President Donald Trump has demanded to know the results of the 2020 election on election night, even though some states warn that it will take days to count their votes. But if there is a winner declared on Nov. … Continue reading
Nikolas Bowie has posted this draft on SSRN (forthcoming, Yale LJ). Here is the abstract: The Assembly Clause is the ugly duckling of the First Amendment. Brooding in the shadow of the heralded Free Speech Clause and the venerated Religion … Continue reading
Ned Foley in WaPo: There is a way to avoid this outcome, if it comes to that.The court could protect itself — and help reassure the country — by appointing a three-member expert panel that would consider any vote-counting challenges … Continue reading
This is something: Half of all likely voters say they plan to vote early, and an additional 7 percent say they have already voted. Among likely voters who have voted or say they will vote early, 40 percent are voting … Continue reading
WaPo: Democrat Jaime Harrison raised a record-breaking $57 million in the past three months in his bid to unseat Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.), shattering the mark for a Senate candidate.The single-quarter haul Harrison raised from July through September smashes … Continue reading
After I and others called out these comments as potentially delegitimizing the election, Biden quickly issued the following clarification: Biden (via @JTHVerhovek): “One of the comments I made have been taken out of context. I’m going to accept the outcome … Continue reading
Philadelphia Inquirer: What if in-person votes suggestPresident Donald Trump is winning Pennsylvania after the polls close, but the slow counting of mail ballotsin Philadelphia flips the tally in favor of Democratic nomineeJoe Biden in the days after? And what happens if … Continue reading
This interesting ruling has some interesting discussions about the working of the electoral college/safe harbor rules. … Continue reading
NYT: President Trump’s order to his secretary of state to declassify thousands of Hillary Clinton’s emails, along with his insistence that his attorney general issue indictments against Barack Obama and Joseph R. Biden Jr., takes his presidency into new territory … Continue reading