From the AZ Mirror: A judge ordered lawmakers to rewrite the description of a ballot proposition to end partisan primaries in Arizona after ruling the summary was misleading. Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Melissa Iyer Julian ruled Monday that a… Continue reading

An example from The Colorado Sun: Another special legislative session on Colorado’s property taxes appeared imminent Monday after a long list of top civic and business groups from across the political spectrum said they supported a deal to stop a… Continue reading

Dear colleagues, I’m excited to share an additional pedagogical resource for voting rights and election law educators: a VIDEO Voting Rights curriculum. This v-casebook is an excellent supplement to any courses and seminars on election law. It features an… Continue reading

From the Press Release: CREW’s report recommends the following preventative and remedial measures: State election boards, secretaries of state, attorneys general and local prosecutors should explicitly advise county officials of their non-discretionary certification duties and the penalties for non-compliance before… Continue reading

NYT: Tina Peters, the former clerk of Mesa County, Colo., was convicted on Monday of tampering with voting machines under her control in a failed attempt to prove that they had been used to rig the 2020 election against former… Continue reading

NBC News: Arizona’s ballot will include a major reproductive rights measure this fall alongside the presidential, Senate and other battleground races, putting a key issue directly before voters in the swing state. JP Martin, the deputy communications officer for the… Continue reading

From the WSJ: The Federal Bureau of Investigation said Monday it was investigating a cyberattack into former President Donald Trump’s campaign that stole internal communications. The announcement is the first sign that the U.S. government has launched a… Continue reading

From the WSJ, so paywalled but here’s an excerpt: Beginning in the spring, Elon Musk quietly blocked out an hour on Fridays for a new pursuit: national politics.  In weekly meetings, consultants and vendors for a super political-action committee… Continue reading

From Sam Levine at the Guardian: There wasn’t anything particularly controversial about Georgia’s presidential primary in March this year. Donald Trump won the Republican contest – picking up a little more than 400,000 more votes than Nikki Haley, who… Continue reading

I wrote this report for Protect Democracy on the relationship between proportional representation and the Voting Rights Act. Here’s some of the introduction: First, the report provides background information about these topics. In particular, PR can refer to either a… Continue reading

From John D. Feerick and John Rogan at The Hill, an interesting piece on the 25th Amendment’s role in Nixon’s resignation: Fifty years ago this week, Richard Nixon resigned from the presidency, and it might not have happened—at… Continue reading

Since I’m blogging this week, I want to expand the discussion here a bit from election law, narrowly conceived, to democratic governance more broadly. I have argued since pretty much the start of my career that scholars of “election law”… Continue reading

Thus bad begins (with a nod to Javier Marais). From the Wash Post: Analysts and intelligence experts warned Sunday that wider efforts may be underway by foreign powers to disrupt the U.S. presidential election, after the Trump campaign said it … Continue reading

So does that mean he would not support the actual proposal? Watch: Vance on ABC struggles to defend his comments about giving parents extra voting rights as a mere "thought experiment" and not something he seriously meant pic.twitter.com/mBIH2i4c32—… Continue reading