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
I wrote this response to Joshua Kleinfeld and Stephen Sachs’s forthcoming article, “Give Parents the Vote.” The response will be published in the Notre Dame Law Review alongside Kleinfeld and Sachs’s article. Here’s the abstract:
Joshua Kleinfeld and Stephen… Continue reading
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
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