Bob in The Atlantic:
Only months before November’s elections, the Republican National Committee has launched a new legal attack on the rules that govern federal elections. Supported by 24 states, the RNC is seeking, on an emergency basis, a Supreme… Continue reading
…back in 2018, when Common Cause asked a court to extend the certification deadline to amend ballot count totals after Stacey Abrams’s loss. From the plaintiff’s request:
Although the requested injunctive relief may “require additional efforts” from Secretary Kemp… Continue reading
Jonathan Weisman in the NYT:
If Democrats can’t make the nation fear Donald Trump, they have decided that perhaps they can persuade voters to laugh at him instead.
For more than four years, under the leadership of President Biden, the… Continue reading
Walter Olson, Michael Sozan, and Cissy Jackson in a Baltimore Sun oped:
We’re living through an age in which American democracy and the rule of law face deep challenges. Mob violence, vicious rhetoric and even attempted assassinations have raised… Continue reading
WaPo:
Mayoral candidate Victor Miller, a bespectacled librarian with an AI obsession, stood between an American flag and a Wyoming flag, preaching what he sees as the untapped potential of artificial intelligence in government.
AI would be objective. It wouldn’t… Continue reading
From the Detroit News:
Independent presidential candidate Cornel West has been disqualified from the state’s ballot because of problems with the way a required document his campaign submitted was notarized, the Michigan Bureau of Elections announced Friday.
West, a longtime… Continue reading
CNN has a piece raising this issue. In response, Michael Parsons (Senior Legal Fellow at Fair Vote) and David Daley (Senior Fellow, Fair Vote) have written this guest post for ELB:
Maine values its long history of independent politics, electing… Continue reading
From the NYT:
Brad Raffensperger, Georgia’s Republican secretary of state, has been forced to spend half a million dollars defending himself in court for having stood up to former President Donald J. Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
The… Continue reading
From Columbus Dispatch:
Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose’s office is proposing loaded ballot language for a redistricting reform measure, including references to manipulating the boundaries of legislative districts and repealing constitutional protections against gerrymandering.
The proposed ballot language for… Continue reading