I have written this piece for Slate. It begins: With early voting already underway, one might think that the rules of the game for November’s election are set, and that it will all just come down to turnout, as the… Continue reading

Mark Brown at Jurist.

USA Today reports.

Votebeat reports.

Jesse Wegman for NYT Opinion.

The latest from Bolts.

New from CDT.

NYT: Mr. Trump’s escalating calls to investigate and prosecute election officials he sees as “corrupt” are sounding alarms among democracy experts and the local and state workers preparing to run elections and tally millions of votes across the country. In … Continue reading

Bloomberg Law: The creator of a parody video criticizing Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris is suing California over new legislation that he says would restrict his content. Christopher Kohls, who goes by “Mr Reagan” on Youtube, alleged that a… Continue reading

This decision seems right, given how plaintiffs have filed their challenge as a facial challenge but don’t meet that burden. (Via Zoe Tillman)

NYT: For months, Donald J. Trump and his allies have described a nation facing almost unthinkable darkness. The United States is under “under invasion” from “thousands and thousands and thousands of terrorists,” Mr. Trump told thousands at a rally on… Continue reading

WaPo: A key election official in Arizona’s Maricopa County plans to ask the state’s highest court as early as Tuesday to prohibitnearly 100,000 longtime residents from voting in state and local races this fall after discovering the state has no… Continue reading

In the 2010s, Ohio voters approved constitutional amendments that aimed to curb partisan gerrymandering primarily by requiring parties’ legislative seats to be roughly proportional to their statewide votes. This strategy has now come to be seen as a failure because… Continue reading

The following is a guest post from Julie Zavon, which shows how citizens seeking to improve the process of election administration really can make a difference, especially when they can get a reporter interested in a story: The PA polling… Continue reading