Ciara Torres-Spelliscy in the University of Illinois Law Review. Abstract: This piece will argue that the Roberts Supreme Court’s protection of lying and its choice to fence government speech as outside of First Amendment analysis have created a perfect storm… Continue reading

WaPo: Gov. Ron DeSantis is making it easier for voters to cast ballots in three southwestern Florida counties that were hit hard by Hurricane Ian and are bastions for GOP support, sparking criticism that he is “politicizing a natural disaster.”More… Continue reading

Eric Geller for Politico: There’s a largely overlooked hacking target that could help those who want to sow doubt about vote tallies in the November midterms: cellular modems that transmit unofficial election-night results.The modems, which send vote data from precincts… Continue reading

NYT Interactive: They include candidates for the U.S. House and Senate, and the state offices of governor, secretary of state and attorney general — many with clear shots to victory, and some without a chance. They are united by at… Continue reading

NYT: The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol voted on Thursday to subpoena former President Donald J. Trump as it presented a sweeping summation of its case placing him at the center of a calculated, multipart… Continue reading

Last Friday, the University of New Hampshire Law Review held a symposium on “Contemporary Issues in Election Law.” Among those making presentations were Andrew Appel, Jonathan Cervas, Joel Goldstein, Gene Mazo, Derek Muller, Sam Wang, FEC Commissioner Ellen Weintraub,… Continue reading

Reuters: As the United States enters the final stretch to November’s midterm elections, Reuters documented multiple incidents of intimidation involving an expanding army of election observers, many of them recruited by prominent Republican Party figures and activists echoing Trump’s false… Continue reading

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In a lengthy opinion today, a federal court granted a preliminary injunction barring Jacksonville from holding any elections under its newly drawn city council districts. Seven of those districts, the court held, are likely unconstitutional racial gerrymanders: four “packed” districts… Continue reading

NYT: Millions of dollars in television advertisements blasting schools for teaching critical race theory and assailing corporations like BlackRock, Uber and American Airlines for catering to “woke politicians.”A lawsuit pending before the Supreme Court to radically reshape how federal … Continue reading

AP:  Colorado’s secretary of state office says it mistakenly sent postcards to about 30,000 noncitizens encouraging them to register to vote, blaming the error on a database glitch related to the state’s list of residents with driver’s licenses.The office of… Continue reading

New article from Ruoxi Li in PS. Abstract: In the latest round of the apportionment of the US House of Representatives following the 2020 Census, the State of New York lost a seat by an extremely small margin: if a… Continue reading

From an email I recently sent to the AALS Section on Election Law listserv: The AALS Section on Election Law is soliciting submissions for its annual scholarship award. The award is given to a single work that exemplifies excellence in… Continue reading

NYT reports.