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WaPo: After years of violent threats and harassment for accepting the results of the 2020 election in Arizona’s largest county of Maricopa, the Republican who led the Board of Supervisors during the last presidential election said Thursday that he will… Continue reading

Rick linked yesterday to a Slate column arguing that an originalist perspective on the pending Colorado case would need to conclude that states don’t have the authority to remove candidates from the ballot in a presidential election because there were… Continue reading

AP: In pushing Michael Whatley as the next leader of the Republican National Committee, Donald Trump zeroed in on the North Carolina GOP chairman’s dedication to “election integrity,” baselessly suggesting he would ensure the 2024 race “can’t be stolen.” Some… Continue reading

The second edition of Ballot Battles has gone to press (it’s scheduled for release on May 10), and so I won’t be able to include any discussion of the newly disclosed documents. (Maybe there will be a third edition… Continue reading

Current Challenges to Election Administration Co-hosted by the Elections Research Center (ERC) and the State Democracy Research Initiative (SDRI) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Sponsored by Stafford Rosenbaum LLP When: Friday, March 8, 3-4:15 p.m. CTWhere: UW Law School, RM 2260 (or… Continue reading

AJC: A top Georgia Republican Party official and talk show host accused of election fraud, Brian K. Pritchard, testified Friday that he never voted illegally while serving a felony sentence for forging checks, but state attorneys showed evidence that he… Continue reading

Common Ground Democracy essay that develops further the proposal discussed in the Project Syndicate column with Eric Maskin. This essay includes more examples of congressional elections for which the proposal would make a significant difference and also connects the… Continue reading

This Washington Post story features Prof. Doug Spencer, an election law expert, in both his personal and professional identities: Professor Douglas Spencer began his Thursday afternoon class at the University of Colorado Law School by reading a text message he… Continue reading

Synder, a well-known Yale political scientist, participated in an amicus brief in the case on behalf of academics who study democratic backsliding in other countries. A recent substack post of his illustrates the kind of reaction the Court can expect… Continue reading

For The Atlantic: “The justices seem ready to leave the issue of Donald Trump’s eligibility up to Congress. Here’s why they shouldn’t.” After acknowledging why the justices would be inclined to rely on Trump’s congressional exclusivity argument, the piece… Continue reading

Eric Maskin and I have co-authored a Project Syndicate column that describes a “top three” variation of California’s “top two” electoral system. It would enable effective electoral competition by a new third party in between MAGA Republicans on the right… Continue reading

I have written this piece for Slate. It begins: After oral arguments at the Supreme Court in Trump v. Anderson, a grand bargain that appears to make practical sense as a compromise is beginning to come into view: the Supreme Court… Continue reading

On Monday, the University of Arizona law school held a conversation on the pending U.S. Supreme Court case from Colorado involving the question whether Trump is disqualified by section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment. Andy Coan, the director of the… Continue reading