Short answer: around 80%. As we discuss the numbers that are emerging each day of absentee ballots that have been returned already in various states, I went back to look at the final tallies on this issue from 2016. From… Continue reading

From the WSJ, which is closely tracking this issue: That puts critical votes at risk in an election that, more than any before, will hang on mail-in ballots. To find choke points for those ballots, the Journal is tracking… Continue reading

The fact that the New Hampshire Union Leader is endorsing Biden has made big news, understandably enough given that it’s the first time in more than 100 years the Union Leader has endorsed a Democrat for President. Here’s what the… Continue reading

Here’s the start: Monday, Oct. 19, 2 a.m.: I’m so overactivated, I can’t sleep. I want to vote during the first hour of the first day of early voting here in surprisingly purple mid-South Florida. I have to vote… Continue reading

In today’s Washington Post story about President Trump’s “repeated” discussions with aides about whether to fire FBI Director Christopher A. Wray after Election Day, here’s what the President’s aides reportedly say about the reasons for these repeated discussions and why… Continue reading

Later today, the Social Science Research Council’s “Anxieties of Democracy” program is hosting this event. The event features Harvard’s Steven Levitsky, co-author of How Democracies Die; the Director of the Agora Institute at John Hopkins, Hahrie Han, whose… Continue reading

I’m a member of this Task Force and we have just released our legal analysis and report on these election issues. The other members of the task force are James A. Gardner, Deborah Pearlstein, Shugerman, Ava B. Ayers, Wilfred U.… Continue reading

This Vox story, titled “Silicon Valley megadonors unleash a last-minute, $100 million barrage of ads against Trump,” is intriguing on several fronts — not just for the massive amount invovled. Our campaign-finance laws were written before the digital age… Continue reading

The sharply divided CA 4 en banc decision also illustrates what a mess trying to apply the Purcell “doctrine” can be. Purcell cautions federal courts against changing the status quo in election cases too close to the election. It’s probably… Continue reading

After having just divided 4-4 on the PA case, which centered on the “independent legislature” constitutional issue, the Court might soon be faced with that issue yet again. The en banc 4th Circuit split yesterday on precisely this issue… Continue reading

That’s the title CNN put on my piece on the Supreme Court’s decision in the PA case. I’ll keep the excerpt short, since most readers here will already understand much of the background: In the most important pre-election case this… Continue reading

“Neil deGrasse Tyson warns asteroid could hit Earth the day before the election”

The Supreme Court has taken an exceptionally long time – given the impending election — to address the legal challenges before it involving voting issues in Pennsylvania.  Given that length of time, it’s reasonable to assume we are going to… Continue reading

From the Washington Post: It’s not Election Day that worries most county officials. It’s the next stage — the count. This spring, in the primary, it took 10 days for the county elections office to count about 30,000 mail-in… Continue reading