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“Independent State Legislature Theory Undermines Elections Principles”
BPC:
ollowing the Supreme Court’s decision to hear Moore v. Harper, one of the more consequential cases in recent years, the Bipartisan Policy Center’s Structural Democracy Project released their latest report, Independent State Legislature Theory Undermines Elections Principles. The… Continue reading
“Lawyers Who Advanced Trump’s Election Challenges Return for Midterms”
NYT:
At least three dozen lawyers and law firms that advanced Donald J. Trump’s failed attempt to overturn the 2020 election are now working for Republican candidates, parties and other groups, filing lawsuits and other complaints that could lay… Continue reading
“Biden says Americans ‘can’t take democracy for granted any longer'”
WaPo:
With just six days until Election Day, President Biden delivered a speech in which he warned the country about the risk posed by voter intimidation and political violence. “What we’re doing now is going to determine whether democracy will… Continue reading
“New poll workers raising concerns in Michigan, other states”
AP:
A shortage of poll workers has concerned local election officials in some parts of the country as the midterm elections approach. Not so in Michigan.Conservative groups and local Republican Party operatives who have pushed false claims about the 2020… Continue reading
“Canvassing Deserts: When Obstacles to Reaching Urban Voters Become Voter Suppression”
Interesting piece at Just Security.
More related to Ranked Choice Voting
I had the opportunity to discuss Ranked Choice Voting on WOSU All Sides with Ann Fisher. (Mike Thompson was substituting for Ann Fisher today.) I was fortunate to be joined in the conversation by Nate Atkinson, who teaches… Continue reading
“Nye County, Nevada: A Harbinger of Future Elections if 2020 Deniers Win”
My New Piece in The Atlantic: “The Courts Are the Only Thing Holding Back Total Election Subversion”
I have written this piece for The Atlantic. It begins:
The United States has failed its first important test for democracy since the 2020 election season: Election denialism has taken hold among a significant segment of Republican voters, and election… Continue reading
“Opinion: Election deniers aren’t the only threats to democracy this year”
“N.Y. absentee ballot laws upheld in cases before Appellate Division”
Times Union:
The state’s absentee balloting rules for the this year’s general election — and in future elections — were upheld in two legal cases argued before a panel of judges on the Appellate Division of state Supreme Court… Continue reading
“Supreme Court Rules That Lindsey Graham Must Testify in Georgia Inquiry”
NYT:
The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to block a Georgia grand jury subpoena seeking testimony from Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, about his activities in the aftermath of the 2020 presidential election.The court’s order was a paragraph… Continue reading
“Prosecutors Look at Florida Election Protest as a Model for Jan. 6”
NYT:
President Donald J. Trump and other top Republicans were stoking claims that the election had been stolen, and their supporters were protesting in the streets. Members of the far-right group the Proud Boys and people close to Roger J.… Continue reading
Census data lawsuit
Harvard Law School’s Election Law Clinic (together with Selendy Gay Elsberg PLLC) filed this lawsuit to compel the Census Bureau to disclose important data about the Bureau’s 2020 products. For the first time, the Bureau used a method known as… Continue reading