Recordings of our Fall 2024 EventsIf you missed any of our events this fall, you can catch up with these recordings or visit our website www.safeguardingdemocracyproject.org. Sept. 12: From Here to There: How States Can and Should Certify the Results… Continue reading

Philly Inquirer: Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner on Monday sued to halt Elon Musk’s $1 million daily giveaway to voters in battleground states including Pennsylvania, calling it an illegal lottery that skirts state requirements and violates consumer protection laws. The… Continue reading

Josh Gerstein for Politico: A bid by Republican officials in Virginia to purge of potential non-citizens from the voter rolls there appears headed for the Supreme Court after a federal appeals court refused to disturb a lower court order that… Continue reading

NYT: Nearly half of all voters are skeptical that the American experiment in self-governance is working, with 45 percent believing that the nation’s democracy does not do a good job representing ordinary people, according to a new New York Times/Siena … Continue reading

From the Wash. Post: Political campaigns and their surrogates are pouring millions of dollars into social media influencers with scant regulatory oversight or public transparency, as they embrace a marketing tactic that has revolutionized the U.S. economy. Online influencers who… Continue reading

Molly Ball for WSJ: The sun was shining. Bruce Springsteen was strumming an acoustic guitar. Yet beneath the peaceful surface, the stadium packed with thousands of Democrats practically thrummed with anxiety. “I’m honestly legit kind of terrified,” said Rebekah Williams,… Continue reading

The Fifth Circuit decision holding that federal law invalidates (preempts) state laws that permit absentee ballots received some number of days after Election Day to count if they are postmarked on or before Election Day is not likely to be… Continue reading

As Rick Hasen blogged yesterday, the RNC is going to seek Supreme Court action, based on the independent state legislature doctrine, of the PA Supreme Court decision in the Genser case. As his post explains, the PA court held that… Continue reading

This is from the WSJ, which is paywalled. Here’s an excerpt: The Electoral Count Reform Act of 2022, which amended the Electoral Count Act of 1887 … greatly reduces the risk of uncertainty and chaos after Americans vote… The Electoral… Continue reading

New report from Angelo Ancheta of Demos.

One of the major (but less -well appreciated) accomplishments of the new, bipartisan Electoral Count Reform Act is that it repealed the provision in federal law that permitted state legislatures to appoint electors if the presidential election had “failed” in… Continue reading

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