Roll Call: State officials from Louisiana and Connecticut on Thursday asked for more money and clear standards from the federal government to help secure voting systems before the 2020 elections.But the officials, Louisiana Secretary of State Kyle Ardoin and Connecticut … Continue reading
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NPR: Recent statements by Census Bureau and Justice Department officials have raised the question of whether the Trump administration plans to diverge from more than two centuries of precedent in how the country’s congressional seats and Electoral College votes are … Continue reading
TPM: The Census Bureau says it can obtain the data President Trump will need to facilitate a game-changing, GOP-boosting redistricting overhaul. The outside experts who work with redistricting data aren’t so sure.Having failed in his attempt to add a citizenship … Continue reading
Jamelle Bouie for the NYT Magazine, part of their 1619 Project (“The 1619 Project is a major initiative from The New York Times observing the 400th anniversary of the beginning of American slavery. It aims to reframe the country’s history, … Continue reading
Here’s the tweet: No debate on Election Security should go forward without first agreeing that Voter ID (Identification) must play a very strong part in any final agreement. Without Voter ID, it is all so meaningless!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) … Continue reading
Mother Jones: On October 20, 2018, just 16 days before that year’s midterm elections, Jim Allen, the spokesperson for the Chicago Board of Elections Commissioners, tried to boost a Facebook post on the board’s page announcing the opening of early-voting locations … Continue reading
Bloomberg: A federal judge in Los Angeles rejected the city’s request to throw out a National Rifle Association lawsuit challenging a new law that requires contractors to disclose all business ties to the organization.The NRA says the law violates its … Continue reading
See the thread from Tierney Sneed beginning here: NEW via Rep. Pressley's office: Census Bureau, in written response confirms, that it will be producing block level data on citizenship voting age population pic.twitter.com/hICWp8j4hW— Tierney Sneed (@Tierney_Megan) August 13, 2019 … Continue reading
AP: Florida’s Republican governor on Friday asked the state’s high court to rule on whether convicted felons must pay all fines and fees before getting their voting rights restored in a move that competes with ongoing litigation in federal court … Continue reading
Sac Bee: Six California residents who were erroneously added onto the voter rolls voted in last year’s midterms, the Secretary of State’s Office confirmed Friday afternoon following a months-long investigation.According to Secretary of State Alex Padilla’s office, all six individuals … Continue reading
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Thread starts here: I'm no fan of Mitch McConnell @senatemajldr (and he's condemned my writings about campaign finance on the Senate floor).But it seems wrong and odd that @Twitter put a lock on his campaign's @Team_Mitch account for RTing a … Continue reading
Doug Chapin: A regular theme of this blog is that “there is no small stuff in elections” – and the latest example comes from Mississippi’s Gulf Coast, where a missing thumb drive has turned a close state Senate race upside … Continue reading
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Here: Top Downloads For: LSN: Election Law & Voting Rights (Topic) Recent Top Papers (60 days) As of: 08 Jun 2019 – 07 Aug 2019 RankPaperDownloads1.Deep Fakes, Bots, and Siloed Justices: American Election Law in a Post-Truth WorldRichard L. HasenUniversity of … Continue reading
Arizona’s Law reports. … Continue reading
Daily Beast: Legal experts said the email appeared to violate laws barring corporations from contributing to political campaigns and requiring campaigns to include “paid for by” disclaimers on their official communications.In an emailed statement late Thursday night, the Kobach campaign’s … Continue reading
Reuters reports. I’m surprised, given standing issues, it wasn’t Trump or the Republican Party suing. … Continue reading
Eric Geller: Today, we're launching a major project that I've been working on for the past five months.It's a page that tracks every state and county using paperless voting machines, including whether they plan to upgrade and where they are … Continue reading
Roll Call: Rep. Kenny Marchant is the latest Texas Republican to decide to retire rather than seek another term in 2020, opening up a competitive seat in the Dallas area.Marchant’s decision was first reported Sunday night by The New York Times, and a GOP source … Continue reading
Listen to the audio: I didn’t get video, but here’s audio of the question and Beto O’Rourke’s answer. This came after an emotional vigil in El Paso, as O’Rourke circled behind a building looking for his wife. pic.twitter.com/VBk8xoE1lz— Eric Bradner … Continue reading
NYT: President Trump’s entire approach to people of color — his attacks on political leaders, his campaign’s social media strategy targeting the black electorate, his ability to fuel black opposition but also demoralize some black voters — is one of the … Continue reading
Hansi Lo Wang thread: https://twitter.com/hansilowang/status/1157665462249033728 … Continue reading
Bob Egelko for the SF Chronicle. … Continue reading
Common Cause release. … Continue reading
Bloomberg: Mississippi has the highest percentage of African Americans of any state in the U.S. It hasn’t elected a black official statewide in more than 130 years. Jennifer Riley Collins wants to break that streak.To become Mississippi’s first black attorney … Continue reading
Ugly Gerry: It's here. GERRY. A font created by your congressional districts. Log on to https://t.co/WkuVp7oDpu and use the font to tell congress how happy you are that your vote doesn't matter. pic.twitter.com/j9U5W7qmTz— Gerry (@UglyGerry) July 23, 2019 … Continue reading
WaPo fact checker: We lost the state of Michigan because everybody from Republicans to Russians were targeting the suppression of African American voters.”— Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.), in remarks during the second Democratic primary debate, July 31These remarks jumped out … Continue reading
Texas Tribune: Nationally, Hurd’s retirement is a massive blow to the morale of Republicans who care about winning back the U.S. House.Since the last redistricting process, several congressional seats have become competitive amid changing demographics and backlash against Trump. But … Continue reading
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Mazie in the Economist: A closer look at the lawsuit suggests the plaintiffs may face an uphill battle. The main Supreme Court case the challengers cite in their favour—a 1990 decision called Rutan v Republican Party of Illinois—doesn’t quite match up. The question … Continue reading
Brennan Center: Using data released by the federal Election Assistance Commission (EAC) in June, a new Brennan Center analysis has found that between 2016 and 2018, counties with a history of voter discrimination have continued purging people from the rolls … Continue reading
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Russians and campaign finance law. Manipulation of democracy through social media. The transformative role of small donors in campaigns. Partisan gerrymandering. Read, and teach, all about it through the 2019 Supplement to The Law of Democracy, now available here: https://3668083.app.netsuite.com/core/media/media.nl?id=3508202&c=3668083&h=6b593bcd626e97f26edb&_xt=.pdf … Continue reading
Resignation: I don’t know if this is breaking or already reported but apparently @NCSBE Chairman Bob Cordle has resigned. Statement attached from @NC_Governor #ncga #ncpol pic.twitter.com/38PPy4occN— Melissa Boughton (@mel_bough) July 30, 2019 Earlier: State Board of Elections Chairman Robert Cordle … Continue reading
The Supreme Court has long recognized that laws regulating candidate access to the ballot implicate the First Amendment and associational rights of voters. After all, if a candidate cannot get on the ballot, voters cannot vote for that candidate. As … Continue reading
News and Observer: A Republican political operative who worked for one-time congressional candidate Mark Harris in Bladen County faces felony charges in connection with the 2018 general election, an indictment revealed Tuesday by the Wake County district attorney shows.Leslie McCrae … Continue reading
Carl Hulse for the NYT. … Continue reading
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The Hill: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), under fire for blocking two election security bills, hit back on Monday comparing the attacks against him to “modern-day McCarthyism.”“I was called unpatriotic, un-American and essentially treasonous by a couple of left-wing pundits on … Continue reading
So holds the Ninth Circuit. … Continue reading
KOCO reports. … Continue reading
Worth your time. Lots of new details, including on what poll workers knew and did. … Continue reading
AL.com: An all-white mayor and council still controls the city despite a population now being more than 50 percent black. No black person has ever been elected to any office. The city is fighting a voting rights lawsuit filed in … Continue reading
Miami Herald: Three months after Florida’s state government was blindsided by the release of previously classified information that two local elections offices were hacked ahead of the 2016 presidential elections, Gov. Ron DeSantis and members of Congress have been caught off-guard once … Continue reading
Anthony Gaughan has posted this draft on SSRN (forthcoming, Cleveland State Law Review). Here is the abstract: In the 2018 case of Husted v. A. Philip Randolph Institute, a divided United States Supreme Court upheld the procedures that Ohio election … Continue reading
Eliza Newlin Carney for TAP. … Continue reading
NPR reports. … Continue reading
Release: The Independent Voter Project (IVP), author of California’s nonpartisan statewide primary system, is one of 7 plaintiffs suing the California Secretary of State, claiming that the State is violating the state’s constitution by failing to conduct an open primary … Continue reading
AP reports. … Continue reading