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AJC: Two computers that are used to check in voters were stolen from a west Atlanta precinct hours before polls opened Tuesday for a city school board election.Officials replaced the computers before voters arrived, and the election wasn’t disrupted, according to the … Continue reading
Earlier today, the North Carolina legislature approved remedial maps to replace the state house and state senate plans that were recently struck down as partisan gerrymanders. PlanScore assessed the remedial maps, and here are the results. For the state house, … Continue reading
That’s the title of an op-ed today in the NY Times, by David Shribram of McGill University, with the subtitle: “The campaign for prime minister just started. And it’s almost over.” The piece points out many ways in which Canadian … Continue reading
Ciara Torres-Spelliscy oped. … Continue reading
NPR: After its failed attempt to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census, the Trump administration has forged ahead with ordering the Census Bureau to use government records to produce data about the U.S. citizenship status of every person … Continue reading
HuffPost: A Texas appeals court appeared hesitant on Tuesday to overturn the criminal conviction of Crystal Mason, a 44-year old woman sentenced to five years in prison for illegally voting in the 2016 election.Mason cast a provisional ballot in 2016 while … Continue reading
Disgusting: This article describes how Cooper was there; a source on the ground tells me other Democrats were also attending a 9/11 memorial event. https://t.co/fYk9lOJIx6— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) September 11, 2019 More: While North Carolina Democrats were at a … Continue reading
The latest from Issue One. … Continue reading
News & Observer: Republican Dan Bishop narrowly defeated Democrat Dan McCready on Tuesday in North Carolina’s 9th Congressional District, with a strong showing in suburban Union County and three rural eastern counties.With 99% of precincts reporting, Bishop led McCready 50.8% … Continue reading
NYT: But files from the Hofeller backups recently made available to The New York Times offer a much broader view of Mr. Hofeller’s partisan work. The New Yorker reported on the contents of the Hofeller files in an article published on Friday.Among … Continue reading
Yael Bromberg has posted this draft on SSRN (University of Pa. Journal of Constitutional Law). Here is the abstract: The Twenty-Sixth Amendment was designed to bring young people into the political process by constitutionalizing their right to vote. However, the … Continue reading
Message from Ellen Weintraub: SYMPOSIUM: Digital Disinformation and the Threat to Democracy: Information Integrity in the 2020 Elections As the technology for manipulation of information steadily advances, and malicious outsiders and foreign influence operators resort to the dissemination of false … Continue reading
The Tennessean: Tennessee ranks 44th nationwide in voter registration, but saw a surge in voter registration during the 2018 midterm elections.The voter registration bill came during this year’s legislative session, after Hargett said he noted many of the 10,000 registrations … Continue reading
Isaac Chotiner: Over the past several decades, Eric Foner, a professor emeritus of history at Columbia, has established himself as one of the preëminent historians of the Civil War and Reconstruction. In 1988, he published “Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877,” … Continue reading
Tuesday at 10 am. Witness list: Myrna Pérez, Voting Rights and Elections Program Director, Brennan Center for Justice at NYU LawVanita Gupta, President and CEO, Leadership Conference on Civil and Human RightsDale Ho, Voting Rights Project Director, ACLUDerrick Johnson, President … Continue reading
Donald J. TrumpVerified account @realDonaldTrump House Republicans should allow Chairs of Committees to remain for longer than 6 years. It forces great people, and real leaders, to leave after serving. The Dems have unlimited terms. While that has its own problems, … Continue reading
WaPo: As Congress returns this week, Mitch McConnell remains the one-man roadblock for Democrats’ election security bills. He’s still refusing to allow a vote, even as Democrats deride him as “Moscow Mitch” and accuse him of inviting Russia to interfere on Republicans’ behalf in the … Continue reading
Remarkably, yesterday’s decision striking down North Carolina’s state legislative maps as partisan gerrymanders was the eighth straight ruling against gerrymandering by a state or lower federal court. Florida and Pennsylvania state courts preceded yesterday’s decision by a three-judge North Carolina … Continue reading
Goldfeder and Perez in the NYLJ. … Continue reading
Jason Harrow for Take Care: Rick Hasen is among the sharpest minds in the world of election law, and I find myself nodding in violent agreement with most of what he writes. That’s why I was surprised to read his … Continue reading
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WaPo reports. … Continue reading
This set of three opinions raises some important, unresolved VRA section 2 questions. This one could well go en banc given Judge Willett’s dissent and the increasingly hard conservative makeup of the Fifth Circuit. … Continue reading
Jerry Goldfeder in the Albany Times-Union. … Continue reading
Dan Balz’s analysis. … Continue reading
Fresh off a settlement involving Ohio’s voter purge process comes a new lawsuit and request for TRO from the Ohio Democratic Party. … Continue reading
Houston Chronicle: As people filed in and out of the massive driver license office in Southwest Houston on Tuesday morning, two workers at a tent affiliated with a conservative advocacy group asked if the passersby would sign a petition or … Continue reading
Looking forward to this: HAMMER FORUMSupreme Court PreviewTHURSDAY SEP 19, 2019 7:30PM The Supreme Court’s new term begins Monday, October 7 and promises to be a momentous one. Not only does the term overlap with a presidential election year, the court … Continue reading
Orlando Sentinel: John Morgan, a political rainmaker, on Wednesday threatened to sue Andrew Gillum, if the Florida Democratic gubernatorial candidate runs for office again.Morgan’s remarks to the Tiger Bay Club in Tallahassee were an escalation of a public tirade over … Continue reading
You can watch the CSPAN video of this APSA panel here. The panelists were Josh Chafetz, Matt Glassman, Henry Olsen, Ilya Somin, Victoria Nourse, and me, with David Karol moderating. … Continue reading
NYT reports. The video in question raises issues of voter registrations and redistricting. … Continue reading
Here is the opinion in LULAC v. EAA. I find Judge Higgenbotham’s argument in concurrence, where he says no one is disenfranchised, and it is just about the weighting of votes, to be curious. As I told my class of … Continue reading
SF Chronicle reports. … Continue reading
NYT: Running as something of a patrician populist, Mr. Steyer brushed aside the dissonance of someone with his résumé — Exeter, Yale, Stanford, Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, his own hedge fund — flooding the airwaves with ads that castigate the influence of “the … Continue reading
Malfunctioning voting machine. These are usually calibration errors but they often bring up cries of a conspiracy. … Continue reading
Opinion here. … Continue reading
Bloomberg: The Democratic National Committee has raised substantial cybersecurity concerns over virtual caucusing, potentially dooming the effort just five months before Iowa begins its process of choosing a presidential nominee.At a closed-door session of the Rules and By-Laws Committee on Thursday, the … Continue reading
Breaking News Panel: Trump, Constitutional Crisis, and American Democracy Thu, August 29, 4:00 to 5:30pm, Marriott, Salon 3 Session Submission Type: Roundtable Session Description Breaking News Panel: Trump, Constitutional Crisis and American Democracy Sub Unit Theme Panel Chair David Karol University of Maryland … Continue reading
Bruce Cain and I , who organize the panels for the Law and Political Process Study Group, hope to see many of you at these: The Electoral College: New Theoretical and Empirical Thinking Thu, August 29, 10:00 to 11:30am, Marriott, … Continue reading
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KC Star: The Kansas Secretary of State’s office received 218 rounds of ammunition for a handgun Thursday morning after the FBI conducted an investigation into bullets that went missing after Kris Kobach left the post in January.Kobach’s GOP successor, Kansas … Continue reading
Kevin Johnson looks at alternatives to the National Popular Vote plan for reforming the electoral college. … Continue reading
David Ettinger with the details. A finding that the provision violates the CA Constitution would moot the many federal lawsuits raising US Constitution challenges. … Continue reading
San Diego Union-Tribune: The San Diego County Republican Party recently launched a new political communications tool that looks like a local news website, albeit a politically right-leaning one.You wouldn’t know that Sandiegonewsdesk.com was a Republican Party product unless you read … Continue reading
Gary Fineout thread starts here: BOOM@GovRonDeSantis says Fla will join multi-state partnership that will allow the state to flag duplicate registrations in other states.But it comes with a requirement that the state reach out to 4.2 million eligible and unregistered … Continue reading
That’s what I called the assertions from Dr. Robert Epstein in his July testimony to a Senate committee. Epstein’s non-peer reviewed report and testimony have gotten much more attention in the last couple of days after President Trump tweeted about … Continue reading
SacBee reports. … Continue reading
SacBee: The city of Roseville may soon change how it elects council members, following a trend of Sacramento suburbs switching to “by-district” voting in the face of expensive litigation threats that claim “at-large” elections disenfranchise minority voters.The Roseville City Council … Continue reading
The Detroit News reports. … Continue reading