The Fulcrum: This is the first of four parts in an exclusive weekly series of articles in The Fulcrum by J.H. Snider on Alaska’s 2022 periodic constitutional convention referendum. Part I describes the spending spree over the referendum. Part II proposes… Continue reading

NYT: On the 797th day after the defeat of former President Donald J. Trump, a rural Pennsylvania county on Monday began a recount of ballots from Election Day 2020. Under pressure from conspiracy theorists and election deniers, 28 employees of… Continue reading

Politico: Control of the Wisconsin state Supreme Court is on the ballot this spring, and the contest could decide the fate of abortion rights, redistricting and more in the critical swing state. Should a more liberal-leaning jurist win the job… Continue reading

CEIR: In 2021, The Center for Election Innovation & Research (CEIR) partnered with Echelon Insights to better understand voter confidence and perceptions of election integrity in the wake of the widespread election denial that followed the 2020 election. That survey… Continue reading

The Guardian: Heavily armed Florida police officers descended on the homes of two men accused of illegally voting and arrested one of them at gunpoint as part of Governor Ron DeSantis’s crackdown on voter fraud, new body-camera footage obtained… Continue reading

WaPo: A wide-ranging subpoena sent to Trump campaign officials last month shows new areas of investigative interest as part of the Justice Department’s extensive Jan. 6 criminal probe, according to a copy reviewed by The Washington Post, and lawyers say… Continue reading

AP: Democratic member of the Wisconsin Elections Commission called Wednesday for a Republican member who bragged about GOP efforts to suppress votes in Milwaukee to resign from the bipartisan panel. Commissioner Robert Spindell’s comments sent in an email to Republicans… Continue reading

Law Dork (Chris Geidner): It may be a truism to say that voting is political, but throughout our nation’s history the questions of who can vote and how also have been viewed through a political lens. The past few years have been no different.… Continue reading

Goldfeder’s latest.

WaPo: The House on Monday passed a rules package that included changes to how ethics-related complaints about members of Congress are handled. According to a summary of the GOP’s proposed rules changes released last week, the package imposes term… Continue reading

Looking forward to this new book out at the end of March from Sam Issacharoff. Kirkus: “An incisive diagnosis of the debilitating disease that has infected democracy and subverted its egalitarian promise.” More from Sam when the book is out.

Complaint. Background.

AJC: The Fulton County special grand jury that has spent the last eight months examining potential criminal interference in Georgia’s 2020 presidential election has completed its work and is being dissolved, according to the judge overseeing the high-profile panel. In… Continue reading

The following is a guest post by Ruth Greenwood, the director of the Election Law Clinic at Harvard Law School: The Election Law Clinic at Harvard Law School (“ELC”) now offers free access to summary measures of racially polarized… Continue reading