Electionline: The MIT Election Lab team has been hard at work at a number of data puzzle pieces since the 2020 election — our ongoing precinct data project, for example. The piece we launched this week, though, is something… Continue reading

Michael Wines reports for the NYT.

WSJ reports.

Des Moines Register: Iowa Democrat Rita Hart is withdrawing her challenge to U.S. Rep. Mariannette Miller Meeks’ election in Iowa’s 2nd Congressional District following what she claimed was a toxic disinformation campaign, she announced Wednesday.The move puts an end to… Continue reading

Morning Consult: President Joe Biden’s victory in November elicited a sharp drop in election confidence among Republicans that, nearly five months later, has not yet recovered.  According to Morning Consult’s tracking of U.S. adults’ trust in a number of American … Continue reading

Anthony Gaughan has posted this draft on SSRN (forthcoming, British Journal of American Legal Studies). Here is the abstract: The United States emerged from the 2020 presidential campaign more profoundly divided than at any time since the Civil War. Donald… Continue reading

See this statement. I never understood why Democrats, if they believed they had a good argument for overturning the results on constitutional grounds, did not try a court challenge. I’d appreciate hearing any inside information on that calculation.

Sam Levine in The Guardian: Texas’ highest criminal appeals court said Wednesday it would hear an appeal from a Texas woman who was sentenced to five years in prison for voting while inadvertently ineligible in 2016.The case has attracted national … Continue reading

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You can find the complaint here. As a regular teacher and scholar of Torts, I am quite skeptical that the officers would be able to prove either the intent necessary for these intentional torts and get around proximate cause problems.… Continue reading

Ned Foley for WaPo: The unwieldy menu of mandates known as H.R. 1 is not the electoral reform legislation that Congress should enact. Among other problems, the bill represents an intrusive and unnecessary federal overreach into state management of elections.Make… Continue reading

Marketplace reports.

Useful explainer from Stephen Fowler of GPB.

AJC: reports.