NYT: For months, Donald J. Trump and his allies have described a nation facing almost unthinkable darkness. The United States is under “under invasion” from “thousands and thousands and thousands of terrorists,” Mr. Trump told thousands at a rally on… Continue reading

WaPo: A key election official in Arizona’s Maricopa County plans to ask the state’s highest court as early as Tuesday to prohibitnearly 100,000 longtime residents from voting in state and local races this fall after discovering the state has no… Continue reading

In the 2010s, Ohio voters approved constitutional amendments that aimed to curb partisan gerrymandering primarily by requiring parties’ legislative seats to be roughly proportional to their statewide votes. This strategy has now come to be seen as a failure because… Continue reading

The following is a guest post from Julie Zavon, which shows how citizens seeking to improve the process of election administration really can make a difference, especially when they can get a reporter interested in a story: The PA polling… Continue reading

As with the first assassination attempt on President Trump, I condemn in the strongest possible way the second attempted assassination which occurred on Sunday. We must solve our disagreements through the democratic process not through political violence. And we must… Continue reading

NYT feature.

AP: Just hours after it began, legal betting on the outcome of U.S. Congressional elections has been put on hold by a federal appeals court. The Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit issued an order Thursday… Continue reading

Richard Primus: On Oct. 30, 2020, just days before the U.S. presidential election, a Biden-Harris campaign bus was traveling along Interstate 35 between Austin and San Antonio when a group of Trump supporters in cars and trucks—a “Trump Train”—surrounded … Continue reading

I had been flagging this case as a potential first U.S. Supreme Court test for the independent state legislature theory post-Moore v. Harper. But the PA Supreme Court rejected the case because the plaintiffs did not sue all of Pennsylvania’s… Continue reading

NPR reports.

Politico: More than 30 House members, including a half-dozen Republicans, have signed a bipartisan pledge to uphold the results of the 2024 election amid an increased focus on Congress’ role in certifying the tally next January. A pair of House… Continue reading

NBC News: he judge in the election interference case against Donald Trump and several co-defendants in Georgia has thrown out three counts in the indictment — including two counts brought against the former president. The original 41-count indictment accused Trump… Continue reading

Harvard Law Today covers TrueViews, the new tool for seeing public opinion on many policies and at many geographic levels. [T]hanks to a new freeware data tool created by experts from Harvard Law School and the Bloomberg Center for… Continue reading

Votebeat: But this close to an election, the risk of disenfranchising or discouraging eligible voters is high. Efforts to “clean” the voter rolls have indeed wrongly or improperly ensnared eligible voters in the past. In 2019, for example, Texas officials … Continue reading