Travis Crum: A divided panel of the Fifth Circuit recently held that Texas’s provision of no-excuse absentee ballots to senior citizens does not violate the Twenty-Sixth Amendment. Ratified in 1971, the Twenty-Sixth Amendment provides that the “right of citizens of the United … Continue reading
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One of the silver linings of Zoom is being able to talk with law students at places that would be logistically difficult if conferences had to be in person. Nick Stephanopolous and I will be speaking tomorrow at this conference … Continue reading
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New Brennan Center analysis. … Continue reading
Reuters: Ohio Judge Richard Frye ruled that local authorities can set up more drop boxes if they wish, saying LaRose’s restrictions were not reasonable. “Wholly arbitrary rules are entitled to no deference,” he wrote.LaRose’s office did not immediately respond to … Continue reading
Ned Foley oped: Without wading into the details of Pennsylvania’s procedures for permitting challenges to mailed ballots, and appeals from denials of those challenges, there is a risk that those challenges and appeals could bog the process down to the … Continue reading
Happy to talk about this topic on the ACLU’s “At the Polls” podcast. Listen. … Continue reading
Dana Milbank WaPo column: Trump has succeeded in sowing confusion about the ability of the United States to hold a free and fair election. His allies in Congress have abetted the sabotage by refusing to give states the funds they … Continue reading
Jamelle Bouie in NYT Opinion: Instead of making a conventional appeal to voters to give him another term in office, Trump is issuing a threat, of sorts: I cannot lose. If I do lose, the election was stolen. Anyone protesting my … Continue reading
This is a good piece on an under-discussed election reform issue. One reason it’s good is that it’s not all doom and gloom, and recognizes positive developments in this area. The piece also offers a new institutional reform for this … Continue reading
WaPo: A federal judge late Saturday temporarily blocked the U.S. Postal Service from sending a notice about the November elections to more people in Colorado, finding that the mailer “provides patently false information” about the state’s voting system that could … Continue reading
Looking forward to this: Date: September 17, 2020 12:15 PM – 1:15 PMTicketing: RegisterOhio is a bellwether state for national elections and the University of Cincinnati College of Law is leading the conversation about the particularly important topic of election law. Richard L. Hasen, … Continue reading
Details: Join us Sept. 23rd at 5pm EST to hear from a stellar panel on the challenges facing #Election2020.@CardozoLaw Professors @mvadams12 & @DebPearlstein will be joined by @JNelsonLDF, @rickhasen, and @DeanTokaji.Register: https://t.co/to16g9CNOT— Floersheimer Center for Constitutional Democracy (@FloersheimerCtr) September 14, … Continue reading
Demos: Building durable political power in Black and brown communities is central to advancing an inclusive, multiracial democracy. The right to vote is critical to this goal. Yet so many of us know from our lived experience that the right … Continue reading
AP reports. … Continue reading
538 analysis. … Continue reading
Jay Rosen: Four weeks ago I recommended that the big national newsrooms create threat modeling teams to help organize coverage of the Trump government and the 2020 elections. My concern was that American democracy was being put at risk, and traditional campaign … Continue reading
WPXI: In the latest sign of the chaos overshadowing the 2020 election, none of Pennsylvania’s counties will be able to send out ballots to voters Monday, the first day the critical battleground state allows counties to do so.Due to a slew of lawsuits and other issues, the … Continue reading
CNN has published this op-ed of mine on what voters can do at this point to minimize the risk of an election meltdown. My contract with them permits me to offer only this very brief excerpt, so take a look … Continue reading
In this NYTimes survey of security experts about potential risks to the election process and ways to forestall them, I think this suggestion from Michael Chertoff is worth highlighting: But defenses are not perfect, so we also need ways to … Continue reading
This is a must-read piece from Ned Foley on the importance of recognizing the difference between problems in the election process — which social media will inevitably amplify — and issues that would actually cast doubt on the legitimacy of … Continue reading
Marshall Cohen for CNN: While election officials across the country try to prepare Americans for the chance of a prolonged vote-counting process this year, President Donald Trump and his allies have drawn a line in the sand and say they … Continue reading
Denver Post: Colorado’s top election official Saturday filed a federal lawsuit against the United States Postal Service over mailers that contain incorrect election information for state voters.Jena Griswold, Colorado’s secretary of state, said that her office learned Thursday that the … Continue reading
Andrew Appel is guardedly optimistic. … Continue reading
The WSJ editorial page offers another strong endorsement of changing laws in states like PA, MI, and WI to permit election officials to begin processing absentees earlier than Election Day. I strongly agree on that point, without necessarily agreeing with … Continue reading
David Dayen for TAP. … Continue reading
Brennan Center release. … Continue reading
You can find the decision here. … Continue reading
WaPo Fact Checker. … Continue reading
Release: The Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law (CERL) and the Annenberg Public Policy Center (APPC), both of the University of Pennsylvania, in partnership with the Center for a New American Security (CNAS), will present a virtual symposium, Protecting … Continue reading
Indian Country Today reports. … Continue reading
Wired reports. … Continue reading
Release: NLP and The Open Mind Legacy Project (OMLP) released public service announcements today to educate voters on how to avoid being misinformed about the November elections. Comcast, The E.W. Scripps Company and public media stations will air the video and audio … Continue reading
NYT: The Russian military intelligence unit that attacked the Democratic National Committee four years ago is back with a series of new, more stealthy hacks aimed at campaign staff members, consultants and think tanks associated with both Democrats and Republicans.That … Continue reading
The South Florida Sun-Sentinel reports. … Continue reading
Perry Bacon for 538. … Continue reading
My Central Jersey: In a landmark decision for the progressive movement, a Superior Court judge has ruled that it is unconstitutional for candidates for municipal party committee seats to run on the basis of gender.Under state law, both Democrats and … Continue reading
As this piece today in the Washington Post notes, 70% of people are “very confident” their vote will be counted accurately if they vote in person, while only 30% say the same if they vote by mail. Many people want … Continue reading
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AP: A federal judge on Wednesday blocked a Tennessee law for the November election that bars first-time voters from casting ballots by mail unless they show identification at an election office beforehand.U.S. District Judge Eli Richardson in Nashville ordered the … Continue reading
Hope many of you can join us in these virtual panels: Protecting Voting Rights in Redistricting and at the Ballot Box: Past and Future Thu, September 10, 8:00 to 9:30am MDT (7:00 to 8:30am PDT), TBA Session Submission Type: Created Panel … Continue reading
Release: U.S. Postmaster Louis DeJoy should be investigated immediately for an alleged campaign donation scheme that may have violated North Carolina law, according to a complaint filed today by Common Cause NC with the State Board of Elections and also sent to … Continue reading
Very valuable in NYT Opinion. … Continue reading
Brooklyn Law School event: About the ForumLeading up to a highly-contested presidential election, the Sparer Forum will focus on access to voting, particularly structural barriers to equal access such as poverty, disability, and criminal records. This systemic disenfranchisement of significant … Continue reading
Dayton Daily News: Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose will announce the number of absentee ballots requested but not received at local boards of elections by Election Day so Ohioans will know how many valid outstanding votes might still need … Continue reading
VOA: One segment of the electorate may be unable to vote if poll workers are not able to certify their identity. It is the reality facing hundreds of thousands of transgender Americans in the 2020 U.S. presidential election. An estimated 378,000 eligible transgender voters do not have identification such as a driver’s license that reflects their name, appearance or new gender identity, according to a … Continue reading
What: Getting “Election Night” Right, a panel conversation with journalists about the challenges in covering the 2020 election and ensuring fair, accurate reporting Hosts: Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law, ProPublica, and New York University’s John Brademas Center When: Thursday, September 10, 12:00-1:00pm ET … Continue reading
Important resource from Inside Higher Ed. … Continue reading
Princeton’s magazine ran that statement from me as the lead to an interview I recently did with them on voting issues for this fall. As I’ve said, I intend to keep hammering away at this issue, which I see as … Continue reading