Mitt Romney’s failure to receive any reported votes in 49 Philadelphia election precincts in 2012 has been viewed suspiciously by some commentators, including Donald Trump, who recently said:  “Philadelphia is one that’s mentioned.  I think Romney got no votes… Continue reading

This chart, showing a strong relationship between voter turnout and perceptions of electoral integrity, comes from a recent paper, here, by Pippa Norris, as part of her work with the international Electoral Integrity Project.  The data is taken from… Continue reading

Cross-posted from Balkinization: Egalitarian arguments in the US for regulating campaign spending almost always stop at regulating money in the context of elections.  But why don’t the same arguments also extend to regulating spending in the context of public debate… Continue reading

I’m posting this two-minute video segment I did on what happens if a presidential nominee withdraws, from the very good website Talks on Law, mostly for the amusement of my friends.  This is the first time I’ve worked with a… Continue reading

In response to lots of media requests on improbable election scenarios, I’ve laid out in today’s Washington Post/Monkey Cage, here, the existing legal framework and gaps for the four crucial contexts in which a presidential nominee or “President-elect” might… Continue reading

I suggested in my recent Washington Post piece on the history of the Presidential nomination process, here, that after the fall election there is likely going to be significant pressure to reconsider the post-1960s process that has developed for… Continue reading

Federal courts have now issued two major decisions invalidating North Carolina’s laws regulating the political process — yesterday’s decision on racial redistricting and last week’s decision on the state’s package of changes regarding access to the ballot box.  While the… Continue reading

From Greg Stohr, at Bloomberg Politics here: Under the state’s agreement with the Obama administration and voting-rights advocates, people lacking one of the required IDs will have more options in November. They will now be able to provide voter… Continue reading

The new, 5th edition of The Law of Democracy:  Legal Structure of the Political Process is in print and now available for all the academics, judges, and lawyers who rely on the book.  For the first time, we are also… Continue reading

At The Atlantic, Michelle Cottle has a nice piece on the difficulty down ballot Republicans are likely to have in separating themselves from Donald Trump (if he proves to be a liability), given how much more nationalized elections have become… Continue reading

The significantly revised new edition of The Law of Democracy, which now includes Professor Nate Persily as our new co-author, is available from us in page proofs and will be published over the summer.  The new edition will also feature… Continue reading