Some of you might be interested in this thread on Twitter with Lara Putnam analyzing the votes in Pennsylvania. Two themes are worth highlighting:
Split ticket voting is happening in Pennsylvania, and Josh Shapiro has been its beneficiary since he… Continue reading
Politico reports that “The Supreme Court has cleared the way for the House’s Jan. 6 select committee to obtain the phone records of Arizona GOP Chair Kelli Ward, a key ally during Donald Trump’s effort to subvert the 2020 election.”… Continue reading
Politico has a nice summary of the state of the House.
“There are still 20 seats left uncalled, and Democrats have a legitimate — if narrow — chance of holding the lower chamber as well. In those uncalled races, Democrats… Continue reading
Atlanta Journal Constitution reports on the how the Walker and Warnock campaigns are reacting to the news that Democrats have maintained their 50 seats in the Senate. The Warnock campaign is urging early voting and its allies are reframing the… Continue reading
WaPo:
The voting locations that experienced problems on Election Day in Maricopa County, home to more than half of Arizona’s voters, do not skew overwhelmingly Republican, according to ananalysis by The Washington Post.The finding undercuts claims by someRepublicans —… Continue reading
WaPo:
Voters in the six major battlegrounds where Donald Trump tried to reverse his defeat in 2020 rejected election-denying candidates seeking to control their states’ election systems this year, a resounding signal that Americans have grown weary of the former… Continue reading
AJC:
Early voting won’t be allowed on a Saturday before the U.S. Senate runoff in Georgia because it’s the day after the state holiday formerly known as Robert E. Lee’s Birthday and two days after Thanksgiving.Georgia election officials said this… Continue reading
NYT:
Every election denier who sought to become the top election official in a critical battleground state lost at the polls this year, as voters roundly rejected extreme partisans who promised to restrict voting and overhaul the electoral process.The national… Continue reading
Renee DiResta for The Atlantic:
After watching such rumors spread this week—and hundreds of other viral rumors spread during the 2020 election—I’m struck by how familiar, how predictable, the rumor story lines have become. Before the 2020 election, a rash… Continue reading
KLAS:
Democrat Cisco Aguilar has won the race to become Nevada’s next secretary of state, defeating Republican and election denier Jim Marchant.ionDeskHQ called the race for Aguilar around 4:45 p.m. Aguilar was leading by more than 2 percentage points.Aguilar, a… Continue reading
AZ Republic:
Adrian Fontes wasn’t popping the champagne corks just yet.Minutes after being projected as the winner of Arizona’s secretary of state race on Friday night, he said he accepted the conclusion as ‘the media’s best estimation.”But he was quick… Continue reading
New article by Harry Dodsworth in the Utah Law Review. Abstract:
The Purcell Principle—the idea that courts should think twice about changing the rules before elections to avoid confusing voters—is sorely misunderstood. Despite deriving from a three-page opinion, the Purcell… Continue reading