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“Tribes Challenge Proof of Address Requirements in Arizona”
NARF:
On November 7, 2022, the Tohono O’odham Nation and the Gila River Indian Community filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona challenging the proof of address requirements included in Arizona H.B. 2492. Under… Continue reading
“Voting Rights or Voting Entitlements”
James Sample has posted this draft on SSRN (Houston Law Review). Here is the abstract:
It took nearly 100 years after the United States gained its independence for African American men to secure the right to vote, and almost 150… Continue reading
“BREAKING: Saturday voting upheld in Georgia US Senate runoff”
AJC:
The Georgia Court of Appeals has denied an attempt to stop early voting on Saturday for the U.S. Senate runoff, a ruling that allows counties to open polling places two days after the Thanksgiving holiday.
The court’s one-sentence decision… Continue reading
Watch Archived Video of My Conversation with the Los Angeles League of Women Voters on What the 2022 Elections Tells Us About Election Integrity in 2024
Safeguarding Democracy Project Webinar Tuesday (11/22) at Noon Pacific with Lynn Vavreck and Chris Tausanovich: “Lessons for Democracy from the 2022 Midterm Elections” (Free Registration Required)
Join us!
Link to register: https://ucla.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_MQ6QiD6vS9ue9a97ZQOVfA
“American Democracy Has a Future After All”
Jerry Goldfeder in the NYDN.
With Troubling Changes at Twitter, You’ll Find My Shorter Commentaries Here at ELB, Potentially at Mastodon and Elsewhere (and Maybe Back at Twitter If Things Improve)
With Elon Musk firing much of his staff, restoring Donald Trump after an unscientific Twitter poll (and after promising to set up a content moderation council to consider the issue and then abandoning that promise and deleting the tweet), restoring… Continue reading
“Arizona attorney general demands answers on Election Day printer issues”
WaPo:
Arizona’s Republican attorney general has demanded answers from Maricopa County about widespread issues with printers that plagued voting on Election Day, injecting new uncertainty into a fraught post-election dynamic just days before the county is required to certify the… Continue reading
Thanks to Tabatha for Blogging Last Week
I’m back in the saddle until the week of December 4, when Derek will be in the chair.
Arizona: “Maricopa County Chairman moved to ‘undisclosed location’ for safety after midterm elections”
FOX 10 Phoenix:
Maricopa County Supervisor Bill Gates has confirmed that he moved to an undisclosed location for his safety after security concerns connected to the 2022 midterm elections.
Deputies from the sheriff’s office are also providing a security… Continue reading
New Zealand: “Supreme Court rules in favour of lowering voting age to 16 in case by ‘Make it 16′ group”
News from New Zealand.
“Associational Party-Building: A Path to Rebuilding Democracy”
Didi Kuo (Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law, Stanford University) and I are excited to share our new article, Associational Party-Building: A Path to Rebuilding Democracy, which is out today in the Columbia Law Review Forum.… Continue reading
“Kari Lake Claims Her Voters Were Disenfranchised. Her Voters Tell a Different Story.”
NYT:
When he stepped inside a Phoenix polling place on the morning of Election Day on the way to work, Kevin Bembry was told that the tabulation machines were not functioning properly and he might want to vote somewhere… Continue reading