Ned Foley WaPo oped: President Trump can rail as much as he likes, but he can’t stop the counting of valid votes. And while he is threatening to race to the Supreme Court to overturn any result against him, that, … Continue reading
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Joey Fishkin for TPM Cafe. … Continue reading
Politico: A federal judge gave a skeptical reception Wednesday to a Republican lawsuit seeking to throw out votes in a Pennsylvania county that contacted some voters to give them an opportunity to fix — or “cure” — problems with their … Continue reading
I’ve been saying consistently that the only way the 2020 presidential election ends up being decided by the courts is if there is a dispute in a state that is central to an electoral college victory and that the dispute … Continue reading
Tweet: There it is: Trump says: "This is a fraud on the American public…Frankly we did win this election." He wants "voting" to stop but there is no more voting. He says he's going to the Supreme Court.This is profoundly … Continue reading
Here’s the tweet: We are up BIG, but they are trying to STEAL the Election. We will never let them do it. Votes cannot be cast after the Polls are closed!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 4, 2020 There is … Continue reading
Hamm v. Boockvar, a state court case attacking some PA Secretary of State curing procedures. Hearing on Wednesday. Keep your eye on this one, and the other suit I wrote about earlier today. … Continue reading
Nevada Independent: The Nevada Supreme Court has denied an emergency request by President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign and the state Republican Party to immediately order Clark County election officials to stop processing mail ballots.The appeal, filed Tuesday in the state … Continue reading
AJC: Fulton County’s absentee-by-mail processing operation at State Farm Arena was delayed four hours today after a water pipe burst in a room with ballots.No ballots were harmed thanks to the slant of the room, voting officials told the elections … Continue reading
Me, over at the Slate live blog. … Continue reading
Do yourself a favor and read Franita Tolson in the NYT on the 1876 election and Samuel Randall: In the weeks leading up to Tuesday’s election, scholars and political commentators have been busy gaming out doomsday scenarios on the small, … Continue reading
I have written this piece for Slate. It begins: Republicans filed a new lawsuit in Pennsylvania on Tuesday, and it is a window into the kind of post-election maneuvering that we could see both legally and politically should the election … Continue reading
Can’t wait to read this (hopefully not timely) one from Justin Levitt (forthcoming NYU L. Rev.). Here is the abstract: Questions about the state legislative role in determining the identity of presidential electors and electoral slates, and the permissible extent … Continue reading
Order: BREAKING: U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan orders USPS to sweep facilities for remaining mail ballots and immediately send them for delivery pic.twitter.com/pBvJRmzcqi— John Kruzel (@johnkruzel) November 3, 2020 … Continue reading
Tweet: Members of our Election Task Force have investigated this allegation. This polling place is located in an interior room and the sign in question is further than 10 feet from it. This tweet is deliberately deceptive. #PhillyVotes #Election2020 https://t.co/szKgxoigVm— … Continue reading
NBC News rounds up the reports. … Continue reading
FairVote blog. … Continue reading
Politico: Democrats have been clear in their condemnations of the president’s comments, which they consider the most worrisome of Trump’s four years in office, which were often marked by anti-democratic rhetoric.“When Donald Trump says, ‘I think I deserve a third … Continue reading
Axios reports. … Continue reading
WaPo: An unidentified robocaller has placed an estimated 10 million calls in the past several weeks warning people to “stay safe and stay home,” spooking some Americans who said they saw it as an attempt to scare them away from … Continue reading
You really need to read the whole thing: President Trump is talking about “bedlam” — and even “violence in the streets” — if results aren’t known on election night. In fact, he is trying to create bedlam where none exists. He’s seeking to precipitate … Continue reading
The latest: https://twitter.com/johnkruzel/status/1323643248263503874 … Continue reading
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ProPublica reports. … Continue reading
Read the brief, asking for relief tonight, before Election Day, but limited: “Plaintiffs respectfully requests that this Court reverse the order below which found a lack of standing by Plaintiffs to challenge drive-thru voting on Election Day, and to issue … Continue reading
Hidden behind a Twitter warning that “Some or all of the content shared in this Tweet is disputed and might be misleading about an election or other civic process,” President Trump tweeted the following: The Supreme Court decision on voting … Continue reading
You can find the order in two parts. The reasoning was primarily about lack of standing and laches in bringing suit, something I anticipated would play a great role in this case: defendants knew this voting was going on for … Continue reading
AP: A veteran Republican operative who got his start in politics by helping to persuade a judge to throw out hundreds of mail-in ballots is organizing an “army” of volunteers for President Donald Trump’s campaign to monitor voting in Democratic-leaning … Continue reading
Brian Stelter for CNN: If President Trump comes out and prematurely claims victory on Election Night, what will television networks and social media websites do?The scenario — undemocratic and unthinkable in the past but a very real possibility with Trump seeking to … Continue reading
NYT: With absentee ballots flooding election offices nationwide, the officials processing them are tentatively reporting some surprising news: The share of ballots being rejected because of flawed signatures and other errors appears lower — sometimes much lower — than in … Continue reading
NYT: A video of Joseph R. Biden Jr. deceptively edited to make it appear as though he were admitting to voter fraud was viewed more than 17 million times on social media platforms, according to Avaaz, a progressive human-rights nonprofit … Continue reading
The following is a guest post from Rob Richie of FairVote: A Super PAC called the True Kentucky Patriots has a message for Bluegrass State voters that’s been all over local TV stations: The “true conservative” in the U.S. Senate … Continue reading
NYT: With the election coming to a close, the Trump and Biden campaigns, voting rights organizations and conservative groups are raising money and dispatching armies of lawyers for what could become a state-by-state, county-by-county legal battle over which ballots will … Continue reading
ProPublica/KQED: At least two dozen groups on the Chinese-owned social media app WeChat have been circulating misinformation that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security is “preparing to mobilize” the National Guard and “dispatch” the military to quell impending riots, apparently … Continue reading
WaPo oped: Each of us served as attorney general of the United States, one for a Democratic president, the other for a Republican. Over the years, in the course of disputing matters of law and policy, each of us has … Continue reading
Gary Stein post. … Continue reading
Great dispatch from Slate’s Jeremy Stahl who trained as a “True the Vote” poll watcher: Alan Vera, ballot security chairman for Texas’ Harris County GOP, wants prospective poll watchers to keep an eye on their coffee.“Here’s a tip that I … Continue reading
Kim Zetter for Politico: Stein’s experience is far from unique: Time and again, people seeking answers about perplexing results or election anomalies encounter obstacles. Often the only examination occurs if parties or candidates request a recount — which means voters … Continue reading
The judge ruled that plaintiffs lacked standing, which was one of the many reasons this lawsuit was easy to resolve and garbage. My earlier analysis of why this case is so weak is here. The judge is giving an oral … Continue reading
When I was writing my book, Election Meltdown, I recognized that although there are decent medium- and long-term ways to improve how our elections are run and bolster voter confidence in the legitimacy of our election system, short term solutions … Continue reading
The pandemic has drastically shifted many people to voting by mail, but President Trump’s statements against voting by mail has created a partisan divide: more Democrats and independents are voting by mail and more Republicans are voting in person. Depending … Continue reading
Steve Vladeck in WaPo. … Continue reading
His Atlantic piece is called “How Trump Could Attempt a Coup”: In public, Biden and his senior advisers profess full confidence in the electoral system to work as it always has. Every vote will be counted, they say, and the … Continue reading
Trip Gabriel for the NYT: “Hello, Elections.”“Hello, Elections.”“Hello, Elections.”The rapid-fire calls were pouring in to Marybeth Kuznik, the one-woman Elections Department of Armstrong County, a few days before Election Day. “This is crazy,” she told an anxious caller. “Crazy, crazy, … Continue reading
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Nevada Independent: A District Court judge has again blocked efforts by President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign and the Nevada Republican Party to delay the counting of mail ballots in populous Clark County over alleged issues with signature verification and observation … Continue reading
Eric Geller for Politico. … Continue reading
Release via email: Pornhub, the premier online destination for adult entertainment, today announced “Give A F**k, Get A F**k,” a campaign to encourage American users to vote. On Election Day, Pornhub will be reserved only for those who have voted … Continue reading
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Jessica Huseman: Donald Trump Jr. looked straight into a camera at the end of September as triumphant music rose in a crescendo. “The radical left are laying the groundwork to steal this election from my father,” he said. “We cannot … Continue reading