This is a guest post from Ruth Greenwood: Civil rights groups, redistricting litigators, political scientists, and computer scientists largely fell into two camps when it came to privacy protections for the 2020 census: Team TopDown and Team Swapping.* The acrimony … Continue reading

Read this valuable 19-page report co-authored by Rachael Dean Wilson, Kevin Johnson, and David Levine (and jointly produced by the Alliance for Securing Democracy at the German-Marshall Fund and the Election Reformers Network. It’s a balanced and fair-minded assessment what… Continue reading

NBC News reports on today’s statement by Ben Chavis, No Labels co-chair. No Labels will make a decision on whether to run a third-party presidential candidate after Super Tuesday and, according to Chavis, “‘If we find that the polls are… Continue reading

As part of raising a question about the timing of potential lawsuits to bar Trump from the ballot on section 3 grounds, I’m reminded of Derek’s very comprehensive and helpful ELB post mapping out the litigation possibilities on this topic.… Continue reading

In response to my recent musings about the possibility of a congressional compromise statute that would create special expedited civil litigation to adjudicate Trump’s status under section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment, several readers have pointed to the planned lawsuits… Continue reading

New federal court lawsuit arguing a violation of one-person-one-vote in the context of city council elections. Apart from the merits of this particular case, I’ve been wondering whether the current originalist-textualist U.S. Supreme Court would have any appetite to jettison,… Continue reading

Nick Plautz in The Fulcrum on why traditionalist GPO politicians, like “half of Republicans” in the electorate, should support RCV. Here’s a snippet: ‘Recently, a lawmaker told me they supported RCV in theory, but were concerned they could “get flanked… Continue reading

Roll Call reports on the Senate’s confirmation of Dale, well-known to ELB and its readers. Congratulations!

The Wall Street Journal has a deep dive, including great graphics, on the dwindling role of corporate money in financing Republican campaigns. “Instead, they are turning to smaller donations from millions of individuals who tend to be wary of… Continue reading

Following today’s earlier story about the glimmers of an “anti-Trump coalition” forming within the GOP Senate caucus, there is now this development about twenty House Republicans breaking with their party and its leadership to vote for tabling the motion to… Continue reading

Fascinating and astonishing details in this lengthy piece by Patrick Marley in the Washington Post. Of particular relevance from an election law perspective (in addition to the ongoing grip of election denialism): “Over the weekend, Michigan Republicans approved rules… Continue reading

Al From and Craig Fuller in a Washington Post column present a forceful (and bipartisan) argument against a third-party effort: “To save the American republic, former president Donald Trump must be defeated. And that’s why the centrist political organization No… Continue reading

That’s the opening sentence of this report by Burgess Everett in POLITICO. If Senate Democrats wanted to pursue the kind of statute I’m advocating–to establish fast-track civil litigation to adjudicate Trump’s status under section 3 of the Fourteenth… Continue reading

Alex Halderman on the release of a previously sealed 96-page report he co-wrote as part of the litigation over Georgia’s voting machines: “While we are not aware of any evidence that the vulnerabilities have been exploited to change votes in… Continue reading