Justin and Rick have already noted the California Supreme Court’s major decision yesterday about the CVRA. I wanted to flag a few reasons why the decision is commendable — a model for state voting rights acts (and courts construing state… Continue reading

Electionline: Today, based on suggestions made by state and local election staff who conduct data analysis, the MIT Election Data + Science Lab is proudly launching the “Election Data Analytics Group,” a supportive community for data analysts working for federal, state,… Continue reading

Bolts: Louisiana’s Ascension Parish stores its voting machines in a warehouse without climate control, says Bridget Hanna, the parish’s elected clerk of court and top elections official. This worries her on days like these, when temperatures routinely hit 100 degrees,… Continue reading

Politico: A federal judge quickly shot down bids Wednesday by two former Trump administration officials — Mark Meadows and Jeffrey Clark — to derail the criminal proceedings against them in Fulton County, where they’re charged alongside Donald Trump with a… Continue reading

WaPo: A Trump supporter indicted last week in Fulton County, Ga., for allegedly harassing an election worker was charged earlier this year with attacking an FBI agent working on the Justice Department’s parallel investigation of efforts to overturn the… Continue reading

Here (via Greg Bluestein):

Roll Call: In 2020, Republicans had a net gain of 14 seats in the House, and every seat they flipped from Democrats was captured by a woman, a veteran or a candidate of color. In 2022, the party put forth… Continue reading

Jeff Wice and Piper Benedict oped: The redistricting process created by the 2014 state constitutional amendment brought us to today’s situation. The amendment’s poorly developed and incomplete language should compel legislators and the public to look for a better… Continue reading

WaPo: At her first hearing overseeing the 2020 election obstruction case against former president Donald Trump, U.S. District Judge Tanya S. Chutkan tried to draw a line in the sand: “I intend to keep politics out of this.” Legal… Continue reading

I spoke with ABC Radio Australia about my recent Slate piece. Listen.

Shiro Kuriwaki (Yale Political Science), Jeff Lewis (UCLA Political Science), and Michael Morse (Penn Law) have posted this draft about whether releasing individual-level cast vote records would violate the secret ballot. Here is the abstract: After an election, should election… Continue reading

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