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Here’s the opening paragraph of the opinion. Link is here. On January 4, 2021, two days before the Vice Presidentof the United States was set to preside over a joint session of the United States Congress to certify the results… Continue reading

Details: The State Democracy Research Initiative and the Elections Research Center at UW-Madison invite you to join us for “Election Matters 2024: The Promise & Perils of AI in American Elections,” sponsored by Stafford Rosenbaum LLP. This event will… Continue reading

Via email: Fordham Law’s Voting Rights and Democracy Forum is currently seeking two types of submissions: Articles and Essays. Articles. Articles are typically under 15,000 words (excluding footnotes) and tend to analyze a problem and offer a solution. Articles should… Continue reading

NYT: The Republican campaign for president is quietly being remade by new federal guidelines that empower big-money groups and threaten to undermine party control well beyond the 2024 election. Former President Donald J. Trump’s team has enlisted some of these… Continue reading

This is a lengthy piece that’s difficult to excerpt because it goes state by state in detail. Here are are few excerpts: There is a prevailing view among Democrats and journalists that 2024’s presidential election will have more barriers for… Continue reading

From CNN: Google said Wednesday that an alleged Iranian hacking operation aimed at US presidential campaigns is ongoing and more wide-ranging than previously known as the hackers continue to target the email accounts of current US officials and people associated… Continue reading

From the Financial Times: Kamala Harris has spent 10 times as much as Donald Trump on digital advertising since becoming the Democrat’s presidential candidate, a sign the campaigns are diverging in their tactics to reach voters and small-dollar donors. Harris… Continue reading

The National Voter Registration Act (the NVRA) applies to all federal elections and creates a federal voter registration form that States are required to treat as sufficient when it comes to federal elections. Arizona argues that Congress can apply this… Continue reading

AP has the news: A pro-Trump lawyer who is facing felony charges in Michigan of improperly accessing voting equipment following the 2020 presidential election has been disqualified from representing a prominent funder of election conspiracy theorists who is being… Continue reading

From The Hill: Independent presidential candidate Cornel West will be on the ballot in North Carolina, a federal judge ruled Monday, siding with a group of West supporters who challenged a state board of elections decision to keep… Continue reading

In the WSJ, an excerpt: For more than a year, the Federal Election Commission has faced calls to regulate the use of artificial intelligence in political campaigns. But we have neither the expertise nor the legal authority to do… Continue reading

NPR: Meta has been bombarded by academics, researchers, politicians and regulators about a tool called CrowdTangle, which most people probably haven’t heard of. It’s been used to investigate the spread of violence, political disinformation and false narratives on Facebook and… Continue reading

“Democrats will stream their convention next week using vertical video on TikTok, Instagram and YouTube,” Axios reports. “The party hopes making the stream available via vertical video apps will draw in younger viewers who get most of their news on… Continue reading