Justin here. I’m tracking the litigation over election issues related to COVID-19 … and the list of cases just hit 250. (The Stanford-MIT Healthy Elections Project also has a really useful sortable database of these cases, with more info.) A … Continue reading
Category Archives: Election Meltdown
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Great conversation that you can view here. … Continue reading
Coats: The most important part of an effective response is to finally, at long last, forge a genuinely bipartisan effort to save our democracy, rejecting the vicious partisanship that has disabled and destabilized government for too long. If we cannot … Continue reading
Ben Jacobs: With less than seven weeks to the general election, both Democrats and Republicans are preparing for a drawn-out fight to decide who serves the next four years in the White House — with at least some of the … Continue reading
Politico: The unprecedented, pandemic-era 2020 election is bringing increased scrutiny to how the news media report the vote count and project who will be the next president.The National Task Force on Election Crises, a consortium of election experts and academics, … Continue reading
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I have written this brief response to an upcoming Boston University Law Review online symposium on my recent book, Election Meltdown. Here is the abstract: It is easy to assume that the author of a book called Election Meltdown thinks … Continue reading
New analysis from the National Task Force on Election Crises. … Continue reading
I spoke to Cincinnati Public Radio. … Continue reading
NYT: Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s campaign is establishing a major new legal operation, bringing in two former solicitors general and hundreds of lawyers in what the campaign billed as the largest election protection program in presidential campaign history.Legal battles are … Continue reading
Important Ned Foley in Politico: /already, both nominees have suggested that if they lose, it will be because of wrongdoing on the other side, raising the prospect that they might not accept a loss. In a speech in August, President … Continue reading
The National Task Force on Election Crises has issued this analysis. … Continue reading
Politico: President Donald Trump threatened Thursday to “put … down very quickly” riots on election night should aggrieved Democrats take to the streets in the wake of his potential victory.The remarks from the president came in an interview with Fox … Continue reading
Pam Karlan in NYRB: But a huge danger lies ahead even if the upcoming election goes smoothly, or smoothly enough to satisfy the Election Official’s Prayer—“Dear Lord, let this election not be close.” I am less optimistic than Douglas that … Continue reading
Fareed Zakaria WaPo column. … Continue reading
Ron Brownstein for The Atlantic: During the long legal battle in Florida that ultimately determined the 2000 presidential election, Al Gore, the Democratic nominee, specifically discouraged Jesse Jackson, the veteran civil-rights leader, from organizing public protests to demand a full … Continue reading
CNN: Twitter announced Thursday that it is expanding its policies against election-related misinformation, setting new rules that will likely force the platform to more aggressively fact-check President Donald Trump during the final months of the 2020 campaign.The social media giant rolled out … Continue reading
Watch archived video of our event from earlier this week: This webinar brought together experts in elections and election law to consider whether the United States is prepared to run a fair, safe, and legitimate election process in the midst … Continue reading
I have written this oped for the Washington Post. It begins: Concern is rising about what would happen if President Trump loses the November election and refuses to concede, perhaps by claiming victory based on early returns before the mail-in … Continue reading
Details: Date: Tuesday, September 15, 2020, 4:00pm to 5:00pm Location: Register for virtual event details What are the greatest threats to a successful U.S. election in November? Join the Ash Center in discussion with three leading U.S. election practitioners – one litigator, one election … Continue reading
Cass Sunstein has posted this draft on SSRN. Here is the abstract: With respect to the election of the U.S. President, the U.S. Constitution is vague and full of silences and gaps. When the vote is close, and when people … Continue reading
Amber Phillips for WaPo. … Continue reading
Looking forward to participating in this: Voting and Electoral Manipulation Friday, September 25, 20203 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. This virtual event is a cross-university collaboration and is intended for University students and faculty only. Please use only your University email … Continue reading
Very much looking forward to this event (registration link): … Continue reading
Great news: A team at the Stanford-MIT Healthy Elections Project has just launched the COVID-Related Election Litigation Tracker, a free, searchable, litigation tracker to help the interested public find, sort and better understand the flood of COVID-related litigation. The pandemic … Continue reading
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Atlantic ideas piece: In that event, who ought to be obeyed as commander in chief starting at noon on January 20: a reelected President Trump, or an Acting President Pelosi?The best time to act to avert this disaster scenario is … Continue reading
WSJ Editorial: On election night, the electoral map might suggest a solid lead for Mr. Trump that is eroded as mail ballots are canvassed. What if Mr. Trump reprises his tweet from six days after Florida’s 2018 elections? “An honest vote count … Continue reading
Politico: Michigan’s secretary of state said on Sunday her state’s full results of the Nov. 3 elections won’t be available on Election Day, advising voters it could take a week for a final tally.“We should be prepared for this to … Continue reading
Important deep dive by the WSJ: In a year of uncertainties, one thing seems certain: This November’s general election is shaping up to be one of the most complicated in U.S. history.States are racing to make changes to voting procedures … Continue reading
I spoke with Texas Public Radio’s “Texas Matters.” Listen. … Continue reading
Nice Ned Foley piece at WaPo. … Continue reading
WaPo: Russia is seeking “to undermine public trust in the electoral process” by spreading false claims that mail-in-ballots are riddled with fraud and susceptible to manipulation, according to a new intelligence bulletin by the Department of Homeland Security.Many of the … Continue reading
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I have written this piece for Slate. A snippet: Another possible defense is that Trump was “joking” or not being serious about his comments and this was typical Trumpian hyperbole. Perhaps so, and I do not expect Trump to be … Continue reading
Politico: With concerns about an Election Day debacle rising in this critical swing state, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf privately convened a group of Philadelphia Democrats recently to underscore the consequences of another vote-counting fiasco like the one that took place … Continue reading
Rosa Brooks WaPo opinion piece: We wanted to know: What’s the worst thing that could happen to our country during the presidential election? President Trump has broken countless norms and ignored countless laws during his time in office, and while … Continue reading
Reuters: At least a dozen groups are planning a large-scale, bipartisan public relations campaign to counter any attempt by President Donald Trump to cast doubt on the integrity of the November election or dispute the result should he lose, people … Continue reading
Trip Gabriel for the NYT: In Michigan, Ms. Benson predicted that three million votes would be cast by mail this year, 60 percent of the total. She has called for changes to let election clerks process absentee ballots early — opening envelopes, … Continue reading
I talked with Frank Wilkinson of Bloomberg View. … Continue reading
AP: The U.S. armed forces will have no role in carrying out the election process or resolving a disputed vote, the top U.S. military officer told Congress in comments released Friday.The comments from Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint … Continue reading
I spoke with Bloomberg Law’s Kimberly Robinson and Jordan Rubin: Challenges to election laws have poured into the Supreme Court and more are likely as the 2020 campaign season really heats up after Labor Day.Election law expert Rick Hasen, of the … Continue reading
AP: The cumbersome and sometimes slow counting of an expected record number of mail-in ballots — especially in some crucial swing states — could delay results and open the door to challenges in this year’s elections.In 13 states and the … Continue reading
This continues to be a huge concern of mine given what I’ve termed the “weakest link axiom” of election administration: “the accuracy of an electionsystem, and voters’ confidence in the system’s fairness and accuracy during a contest close enough to … Continue reading
The Daily Beast reports. Gore also offers some thoughts on why he conceded after the Supreme Court decided Bush v. Gore. … Continue reading
Brendan Nyhan interview. … Continue reading
I spoke with Alexander Heffner for the Open Mind podcast. … Continue reading
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