New Brennan Center report. … Continue reading
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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
NYT reports. … Continue reading
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
WBUR’s Here and Now. … Continue reading
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I spoke with Madeline Brand of KCRW’s “Press Play.” … Continue reading
Andrew Appel blogs. … Continue reading
I spoke to NPR’s “Here and Now.” … Continue reading
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
AP reports. … Continue reading