And here’s the subtitle from this must-read piece in The Atlantic from Russell Berman: “Experts now say the health risk of casting an in-person ballot is relatively low. Will Democrats tell their voters that?” I’m thrilled to see this piece.… Continue reading

This WSJ piece makes several important points about the absentee voting process. In particular, Rove strongly endorses a crucial policy change that should be made now, particularly in six battleground states: permit election officials to start the processing of verifying… Continue reading

Rand has issued this important and extensive report on public attitudes toward voting this fall. It first “key finding” is that most voters believe voting will be safe this fall — and that older voters are even more likely to… Continue reading

At 5pm EST today, I’ll be talking with Ben Wittes and Kate Klonick on their fun program of informal conversations that substitute for the fun we can’t be having right now. We’ll discuss voting issues and lots of other subjects.… Continue reading

With New York predictably moving to no-excuse absentee voting for this fall, we are now down to six states that will not permit all voters to vote by mail: IN, MS, SC, TN, TX, WV. In those states, voters will… Continue reading

            In-person voting is going to remain critical this fall – far moreso than is widely recognized currently.  Yet as of now, many election officials are assuming they must ensure 6 feet of social distance between the actual polling booths;… Continue reading

Very significant that Michelle Obama’s speech last night (transcript here) emphasized the importance of voting in person. That’s a signal that the discussion among Democrats is beginning to turn in this direction.

Once again, the Trump administration has strongly endorsed no-excuse absentee voting – the form of voting that matters most this fall.  This time the endorsement came from Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, whom Jake Tapper interviewed this Sunday.  As usual,… Continue reading

As a follow-up to Dr. Fauci’s comments on the safety of in-person voting, it is worth noting that, back in April, South Korea was one of the first countries to hold major national elections since the pandemic began. South Korea… Continue reading

This is a critically important statement from Dr. Fauci, from this interview two days ago. It’s important that people have the option of voting by mail, which at least 80% or so of voters will now have. But as a… Continue reading

The Daily Beast has this story about a 17-minute documentary which was to have appeared at the Democratic Convention in WI, about the tremendous turnout Democrats had in WI’s April 7th primary. I quoted the subtitle to the story, because… Continue reading

As this blog recently noted here, Senator Rubio has introduced legislation to change the two key dates in the federal law that governs the electoral college process. Ned Foley and I today published this op-ed in The Hill, aiming… Continue reading

Once again, as this CNN story recounts, President Trump strongly endorsed absentee voting even as he criticized “universal mail-in voting.” And once again, journalists completely fail to recognize the significance of his endorsement of absentee voting. I am going to… Continue reading

Original perspective here on this issue, from a new academic article by Ryan Doefler and Sam Moyn. In the same spirit as Mark Tushnet’s book from several years back, Taking the Constitution Away from the Courts. Here is the abstract:… Continue reading