In collaboration with Take Care, Election Law Blog is pleased to present a series of posts offering thoughts on legislation to reform the U.S. electoral process. Post from Rick Pildes: House Democrats have signaled that their first proposed legislation once they assume power will be … Continue reading
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Marty Lederman: So what’s the point of the Supreme Court’s cert. grant? Why didn’t the Court at least wait until Judge Furman issued his judgment? If the district court has issued its judgment before December 17, when the government’s opening brief in … Continue reading
Hansi Lo Wang (who is a must-follow on this issue): 7. I've reached out to spokespeople for @TheJusticeDept & @RepJimmyGomez's office for comment, as well as to Ben Aguiñaga, who has left the DOJ and is now a #SCOTUS law … Continue reading
Important WaPo report. [corrected link] … Continue reading
Bloomberg: The Supreme Court agreed to hear arguments early next year on lawsuits challenging the addition of a question about citizenship to the 2020 census, acting with unusual speed in a politically charged case. The justices will consider the Trump … Continue reading
In collaboration with Take Care, Take Election Law Blog is pleased to present a series of posts offering thoughts on legislation to reform the U.S. electoral process. Post from LIsa Manheim There are the laws on the books, and the laws in practice. Democratic leaders … Continue reading
Tampa Bay Times reports. … Continue reading
Video: Cindy Hyde-Smith on voter suppression: "And then they remind me, that there's a lot of liberal folks in those other schools who that maybe we don't want to vote. Maybe we want to make it just a little more … Continue reading
This just happened: Broward failed to make the 3pm deadline. Election planning director uploaded results 2 minutes late due to "unfamiliarity" with the state's website. State did not accept recount numbers. "Basically, I just worked my ass off for nothing," … Continue reading
NEW: 11th Circuit has denied a request by Republicans to delay an order entered this morning giving Florida voters more time to fix problems with signatures on their ballots: https://t.co/X2i8Qc9lx0 Previously from @dominicholden: https://t.co/wvMC0w0fyL pic.twitter.com/z8qtjLllar — Zoe Tillman (@ZoeTillman) November … Continue reading
.@senatemajldr filed cloture on:-Stephen Vaden, General Counsel @USDA -Karen Dunn Kelley, Dep. Secretary @CommerceGov -Thomas Farr, U.S. District Judge (Eastern District of NC)-Jonathan A. Kobes, U.S. Circuit Judge for (8th Circuit).– Kathleen Laura Kraninge, Director, @CFPB — STEW 🇺🇸🐶 ⚾️ … Continue reading
WaPo: “We were very close to the end, and our machines went down,” she said. Bucher estimated the county now only had a “slim chance” of completing its count for the Senate race on time and would not have recounted … Continue reading
In collaboration with Take Care, Take Election Law Blog is pleased to present a series of posts offering thoughts on legislation to reform the U.S. electoral process. Post from Travis Crum: Things have changed in the South since Shelby County. And not for the better. After … Continue reading
Marc Caputo for Politico. … Continue reading
This is a very big deal. More after we have a final ruling. … Continue reading
Politico: The Florida Department of State last week asked federal prosecutors to investigate dates that were changed on official state election documents, the first voting “irregularities” it has flagged in the wake of the 2018 elections. The concerns, which the department … Continue reading
Charles Stewart for the Monkey Cage. … Continue reading
The Orlando Sentinel reports. … Continue reading
In collaboration with Take Care, Take Election Law Blog is pleased to present a series of posts offering thoughts on legislation to reform the U.S. electoral process. Post from Nick Stephanopoulos: Unusually for a Western democracy, the United States allows subfederal bodies—the fifty states—to … Continue reading
Joshua Matz: It’s no great secret that we could do a better job of running elections in the United States. Debates over voter suppression, cybersecurity, conflicts of interest, partisan gerrymanders, ballot design, and many other issues remain standard fare during election … Continue reading
Miami Herald: Palm Beach County’s race to recount votes is heating up — literally. The county’s decade-old ballot-counting machines overheated and gave incorrect totals, forcing the county to restart its recount of about 175,000 early votes., supervisor of Elections Susan … Continue reading
NYT: In the end, the Native American tribes of North Dakota could not save their preferred candidate, Senator Heidi Heitkamp, from a double-digit loss. But, galvanized by anger over the state’s voter ID law and aided by the intensive efforts of tribal … Continue reading
Howard’s got it. … Continue reading
Sam Erman and Neil Weare for Slate. … Continue reading
The Hill: Sen. Bill Nelson‘s (D-Fla.) campaign filed a lawsuit on Tuesday seeking to bar Florida’s top elections official from rejecting unconventionally marked ballots. The lawsuit, filed in federal court by both Nelson and the Senate Democrats’ campaign arm in Tallahassee, asks a … Continue reading
Here’s a post of mine in the HLR Blog on redistricting legislation that the newly Democratic House could and should pass. I’ll have another post soon on voting rights reform in Congress. Lastly, is it politically realistic for the House to … Continue reading
NYT: The concerted effort by Republicans in Washington and Florida to discredit the state’s recount as illegitimate and potentially rife with fraud reflects a cold political calculation: Treat the recount as the next phase of a campaign to secure the … Continue reading
HuffPost reports. … Continue reading
Miami Herald: Florida Secretary of State Ken Detzner was aware of recount issues that surfaced in Broward County on Sunday, but said through a spokeswoman that the issues were resolved. The county had an issue during the logic and accuracy … Continue reading
AJC: Such irregularities appear to have occurred across Georgia in this week’s election for governor and other statewide offices, according to interviews by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution with voters, campaign operatives and election officials. However, no evidence emerged of systematic malfeasance … Continue reading
Here. … Continue reading
Miles Rapoport sees a glass half full. … Continue reading
Release via email: The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) today filed a complaint in federal court on behalf of four Black college students who were unlawfully denied their right to vote in Tuesday’s election in Alabama. The … Continue reading
Mark Barabak for the LAT. … Continue reading
Title IX ELECTORS AND ELECTIONS Chapter 102 CONDUCTING ELECTIONS AND ASCERTAINING THE RESULTS View Entire Chapter CHAPTER 102 CONDUCTING ELECTIONS AND ASCERTAINING THE RESULTS 102.012 Inspectors and clerks to conduct elections. 102.014 Poll worker recruitment and training. 102.021 Compensation of … Continue reading
He explains why it happens and what it means for the perceived fairness of election administration. … Continue reading
The sober Ned Foley with this important WaPo oped: The Georgia race is close enough that the democratic legitimacy of the outcome depends on how ballots that have yet to be counted are handled. Stacey Abrams, the Democrat, trails Brian … Continue reading
Dear god: 18 years after the butterfly ballot in Broward costs Dems the WH, Broward uses a ballot that leads 24.000 people to not vote in the Senate election? WTF Fla Dems?https://t.co/jwoK1Ijneg — Ronald Klain (@RonaldKlain) November 8, 2018 Sun … Continue reading
NYT: But the midterm results have longer-term implications as well. By broadening their Senate majority from 51 seats to about 54 (some races have yet to be decided), Republicans have expanded their chances of retaining control of the chamber after … Continue reading
Pro Publica: While aging infrastructure was already a well-known problem to election administrators, the surge of voters experiencing ordinary glitches led to extraordinarily long waits, sometimes stretching over hours. From Pennsylvania to Georgia to Arizona and Michigan, polling places started … Continue reading
I see that Justin already beat me to the punch, but I wanted to add some more thoughts about the implications of yesterday’s elections for redistricting: First off, yesterday was the most successful day in U.S. history in terms of … Continue reading
Results in progress. … Continue reading
AP: Long lines and malfunctioning machines marred the first hours of voting in some precincts across the country Tuesday. Some of the biggest problems were in Georgia, a state with a hotly contested gubernatorial election, where some voters reported waiting … Continue reading
Catherine Rampell WaPo column. … Continue reading
Adam Klasfeld for Courthouse News: Opening a day before the U.S. midterm elections, a long-anticipated trial over the 2020 census kicked off Monday with a scholar warning that the addition of a citizenship question will discourage participation by Hispanics and … Continue reading
ProPublica: On Sunday morning, Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp unleashed a stunning allegation: State Democrats had committed “possible cyber crimes” after a tipster told party officials he had found gaping security holes in the state’s voter information website. The … Continue reading