Amber Phillips:
Months-long talks among Democrats in Congress about how to pass voting rights legislation over Republican objections are getting more serious — and more urgent.“We had better come up with some way to get around it,” Rep. James… Continue reading
From Steve Rosenfeld, for Voting Booth:
In November, the DOJ sued Texas after the adoption of 2021’s Senate Bill 1, which restricted voting options for people with disabilities—which also clashed with the Voting Rights Act (VRA). The new Texas… Continue reading
Patrick Marley for the Journal-Sentinel:
Republicans and Democrats alike Monday ripped into Wisconsin’s partisan review of the 2020 election, saying it was a baseless exercise that would needlessly damage faith in democracy.State Sen. Kathy Bernier, a Republican from Lake Hallie… Continue reading
I’ll be back in the saddle through the first week of January, and then there will be a new round of primary ELB bloggers in the new year. I so appreciate their help and hard work!
On November 23, the Election Law at Ohio State program held a webinar entitled “The Problem with Plurality-Winner Elections: And can requiring majority winners help save democracy?” It was a great conversation that included Rachel Kleinfeld, Derek Muller, and Franita… Continue reading
WSJ. I buy that redistricting will eliminate a good number of recently competitive districts. I don’t buy that competition will necessarily stay low over the course of the coming decade. Many of the recently competitive districts were drawn to be… Continue reading
Politico on recent developments in Georgia. The same story could presumably be written about Texas, Florida, Arizona, etc.
First came passage of one of the nation’s most restrictive voting bills. Then came efforts to overhaul the number of elected offices… Continue reading
Lee Drutman and Yuval Levin in WaPo. They (correctly) don’t argue that expanding the House would combat gerrymandering. At the scale envisioned (an increase from 435 to 585), it wouldn’t be any harder to manipulate the somewhat more numerous districts.… Continue reading
NYT on the growing number of election officials who believe and propagate lies about elections.
Mr. Lindemuth’s victory in November in this conservative rural community is a milestone of sorts in American politics: the arrival of the first class of… Continue reading
WaPo with more details about the efforts to overturn the 2020 election:
A retired U.S. Army colonel who circulated a proposal to challenge the 2020 election, including by declaring a national security emergency and seizing paper ballots, said that he… Continue reading
David Perdue finding a niche as the anti-democracy candidate in Georgia.
Former Senator David Perdue of Georgia, a Republican who is running for governor with the backing of former President Donald J. Trump, filed a lawsuit on Friday seeking the… Continue reading
Fascinating account of how Democrats ended up drawing a 7-1, rather than a 8-0, congressional map in Maryland.
But two Democratic members within the delegation were uncomfortable pursuing this most aggressive path. They were Baltimore-area members who came from different… Continue reading