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Once again, the Trump administration has strongly endorsed no-excuse absentee voting – the form of voting that matters most this fall. This time the endorsement came from Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, whom Jake Tapper interviewed this Sunday. As usual, … Continue reading
Fredreka Schouten for CNN: The Trump campaign is working to dispatch tens of thousands of election monitors to battleground states in what is shaping up as the Republican Party’s largest-ever poll-watching operation.The party’s aggressive plans for poll-monitoring have sparked charges … Continue reading
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As a follow-up to Dr. Fauci’s comments on the safety of in-person voting, it is worth noting that, back in April, South Korea was one of the first countries to hold major national elections since the pandemic began. South Korea … Continue reading
This is a critically important statement from Dr. Fauci, from this interview two days ago. It’s important that people have the option of voting by mail, which at least 80% or so of voters will now have. But as a … Continue reading
Reuters: United Parcel Service and FedEx on Friday shot down social media calls that they step in to deliver mail-in ballots from the U.S. Postal Service, which is warning states of potentially “significant” delays.“State ballots must be postmarked to be … Continue reading
ELJ: Election Law Journal is committed to informing the electoral process at all stages and under all circumstances. In anticipation of the publication of our September 2020 Special Issue on Elections in the Time of COVID-19 and to help inform the conversation on … Continue reading
WSJ: The general election is less than three months away, and Republicans and Democrats are engaged in down-to-the-wire contests to persuade voters—and courts.The 2020 vote, coming amid the coronavirus pandemic and accusations from each side that the other is seeking … Continue reading
NYT: New Jersey voters will for the first time cast their ballots for president predominantly by mail in November.Gov. Philip D. Murphy, a Democrat, announced Friday that the upcoming general election would be conducted using mostly mail-in ballots to ensure … Continue reading
The Daily Beast has this story about a 17-minute documentary which was to have appeared at the Democratic Convention in WI, about the tremendous turnout Democrats had in WI’s April 7th primary. I quoted the subtitle to the story, because … Continue reading
NPR: Election officials are seeking clarification from the Postal Service about how recent cutbacks will affect what’s expected to be an avalanche of mail-in voting in the upcoming election. Changes in postal operations have already led to mail delays around … Continue reading
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Detroit News: The U.S. Postal Service has warned Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson that mail delivery timelines pose “significant risk” to ballots sent too close to Election Day and that could lead to their disqualification. USPS General Counsel Thomas J. Marshall wrote to Benson that Michigan election … Continue reading
AP: The Trump campaign, the Republican National Committee and other GOP groups filed the lawsuits Wednesday against elections officials in Linn and Johnson counties.At issue are absentee ballot request forms that the counties are sending to registered voters with personal … Continue reading
NYT: Ms. Duckworth was regarded by Biden advisers as among the candidates likeliest to help him achieve a smashing electoral victory in November. But legal advisers to the campaign expressed urgent concern that Ms. Duckworth could face challenges to her … Continue reading
Carrie Cordero and Claire Finkelstein. … Continue reading
Politico: White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow on Thursday labeled voting rights funding a “really liberal left” wish list item, slamming congressional Democrats for their coronavirus relief package demands.The comments from a top administration official came hours after President Donald … Continue reading
New report from the National Task Force on Election Crises. … Continue reading
Aaron Blake for WaPo: Back in March, President Trump seemed to blurt out the real reason he opposes expanded voting by mail in the 2020 election. Referring to provisions in the Democrats’ coronavirus stimulus bill to vastly increase funding for voting by … Continue reading
Axios: Facebook is rolling out a new policy that will prevent U.S. news publishers with “direct, meaningful ties” to political groups from claiming the news exemption within its political ads authorization process, executives tell Axios.Why it matters: Since the 2016 election, reporters and … Continue reading
Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel: The signs in battleground Wisconsin increasingly point to a new and volatile election scenario: a big Democratic-leaning bloc of voters casting absentee ballots — and a big Republican-leaning bloc voting at the polls on Election Day. Consider this finding … Continue reading
NBC News: With the conventions and the true sprint to the general election approaching, it’s a good time to take stock of the things President Donald Trump, his campaign and his administration have done that could influence the mechanics of … Continue reading
As this blog recently noted here, Senator Rubio has introduced legislation to change the two key dates in the federal law that governs the electoral college process. Ned Foley and I today published this op-ed in The Hill, aiming to … Continue reading
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Cleveland.com: Secretary of State Frank LaRose said Wednesday he is banning county boards of elections from offering more than one drop box for completed absentee ballots this November, saying it’s grown too late to make changes to how Ohio will … Continue reading
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Once again, as this CNN story recounts, President Trump strongly endorsed absentee voting even as he criticized “universal mail-in voting.” And once again, journalists completely fail to recognize the significance of his endorsement of absentee voting. I am going to … Continue reading
Politico: Google, Facebook, Twitter and other major social media companies are working together to scenario-plan for the last three months before Election Day in the United States — including gaming out what to do it there’s no quickly declared winner … Continue reading
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Tom Edsall NYT column. … Continue reading
Original perspective here on this issue, from a new academic article by Ryan Doefler and Sam Moyn. In the same spirit as Mark Tushnet’s book from several years back, Taking the Constitution Away from the Courts. Here is the abstract: … Continue reading
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Perry Bacon for 538. … Continue reading
The Court’s order is here, with Justices Ginsburg and Sotomayor noting their dissents. … Continue reading
Pam Fessler reports for NPR. … Continue reading
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NBC News: A majority of American adults say they are not confident that the November elections will be conducted in a fair and equal way, according to new data from the NBC|SurveyMonkey Weekly Tracking Poll.Fifty-five percent of adults overall say they … Continue reading
NBC News: An internal investigation by Facebook has uncovered thousands of groups and pages, with millions of members and followers, that support the QAnon conspiracy theory, according to internal company documents reviewed by NBC News.The investigation’s preliminary results, which were … Continue reading
This NYT story echos my point that the main policy fight over mail-in voting is essentially over. Indeed, the NYT story might underestimate the percentage of voters who will have the option of no-excuse absentee voting, because four of the … Continue reading
AP: About 120,000 inactive Ohio voter registrations will be purged from state voter rolls after the November election, the state elections chief announced Friday, while saying that number could go down if people on the list simply vote in the … Continue reading
A couple weeks ago, Jowei Chen and I posted our forthcoming article, “The Race-Blind Future of Voting Rights.” The replication code and data files for this project are now also available online, along with the appendix. The appendix includes detailed … Continue reading
As if Puerto Rico does not have enough problems already, its voting process for primary elections this weekend collapsed when large quantities of ballots did not arrive at the polling stations. For one report, see here. … Continue reading
This piece, from the Executive Director of the New Jersey Election Law Enforcement Commission, makes good use of my recent work showing how outside spending groups increase internal party conflicts. Some excerpts: “McCain/Feingold is what started the stampede toward the … Continue reading
According to this story from Stat News, the money seems to go pretty evenly to both parties, with a slide edge as of now to Republicans (53%). … Continue reading
Nathaniel Lash for NYT Opinion: President Trump has made it clear he’s no fan of mail-in voting. While the president claims he’s concerned about rigged elections and stolen votes, Republicans are also worried that mail-in ballots could favor Democrats. A … Continue reading
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