Important brief given earlier developments.

NYT: In March 2020, when Joseph R. Biden Jr. and Donald J. Trump competed for the White House for the first time, American life became almost unrecognizable. A deadly virus and a public health lockdown remade daily routines with startling… Continue reading

Politico: When Donald Trump’s team invited Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose last summer to a gathering of Republican elected officials at the former president’s Bedminster golf club, it was a big moment for the Senate hopeful. But it came… Continue reading

Chicago Tribune: Already the Chicago area’s most closely watched primary campaign this year, the race for Cook County state’s attorney devolved into some confusion and much frustration this weekend as city election officials acknowledged a mistake in communicating how many… Continue reading

Nate Cohn for the NYT: “Realignment” is the holy grail of American politics — the fantasy of every political consultant who wants to usher in a new era of Democratic or Republican dominance. What’s a realignment? It’s a lasting shift… Continue reading

NYT: Georgia, with its long history of the suppression of Black voters, has been ground zero for fights about voting rights laws for decades. The state has often seen stark differences in turnout between white and nonwhite communities, with the… Continue reading

AP: Donald Trump’s new joint fundraising agreement with the Republican National Committee directs donations to his campaign and a political action committee that pays the former president’s legal bills before the RNC gets a cut, according to a fundraising invitation… Continue reading

Joe Mathews’ new column.

Remember those “Leonard Leo is fighting with Donald Trump” stories? LOL. NBC News: Huge funding from influential conservative donor networks is flowing into groups affiliated with a conservative venture aimed at creating a Republican “government-in-waiting,” including over $55 million from… Continue reading

Electionline: Today, the MIT Election Data + Science Lab released the latest iteration of the Elections Performance Index (EPI). The index, which provides an objective measure of election performance in each state for federal elections, has now been updated… Continue reading

New Common Ground Democracy column with this subtitle: “Ohio’s U.S. Senate race this year, as in 2022, illustrates how the current electoral system causes the defeat of the candidate whom a majority of voters prefer to each other candidate in… Continue reading

Rick LaRue at The Fulcrum.

Tyler Simko and I wrote this column for New Jersey Spotlight News about the distortive “county line” system of ballot design. HLS’s Election Law Clinic also filed this amicus brief in the ongoing litigation over the county line. The brief… Continue reading

New report from the Conference Board: Conducting an election that is secure, credible, and accessible is essential not only to ensuring public trust in elections but also to the position of the US as a global beacon of democracy. A… Continue reading