New polling from NPR/News Hour/Marist shows increasing distrust in fairness of the electoral process, and worries about the President encouraging election interference (themes of my upcoming Election Meltdown book).: Weeks before the first votes of the 2020 presidential election, Americans … Continue reading
Category Archives: Election Meltdown
Andy Kroll for Mother Jones: Are we prepared going into the 2020 election? After seven months of reporting, interviewing more than 40 experts as well as current and former government officials and reviewing thousands of pages of records, the reality … Continue reading
On Mar. 5 at 12 pm at Stanford, I will talk about my new book, Election Meltdown. An RSVP is required for this event. I hope to see #ELB readers there. … Continue reading
On Feb. 25 at 7:30 pm, I will sit down at the UCLA Hammer Museum with the Lawyers’ Committee’s Kristen Clarke to talk about my new book, Election Meltdown. I hope to see #ELB readers there. … Continue reading
I’ve been working with Dahlia Lithwick and producer Sara Burnigham of Slate on a five-part podcast series (in conjunction with Slate’s Amicus podcast) on my upcoming book, Election Meltdown. The first episode should drop soon. The fifth episode will be … Continue reading
On Feb. 18 at 7 pm, I will sit down at the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library with the NY Times‘ Richard Fausset to talk about my new book, Election Meltdown. I hope to see #ELB readers there. … Continue reading
On Feb. 12 at 5:30 pm at UCI Law, I will talk about my new book, Election Meltdown. An RSVP is required for this event. I hope to see #ELB readers there. … Continue reading
On Feb. 4 at 6 pm, I will sit down at a Brennan Center event at NYU to talk with Victoria Bassetti about my new book, Election Meltdown. An RSVP is required for this event. I hope to see #ELB readers there. … Continue reading
On Feb. 3 at 4 pm, I will sit down at the Campaign Legal Center in DC to talk with Trevor Potter about my new book, Election Meltdown. An RSVP is required for this event. I hope to see #ELB … Continue reading
On Feb. 2 at 3 pm, I will sit down at the Politics and Prose Bookstore in DC with NPR’s Pam Fessler to talk about my new book, Election Meltdown. I hope to see #ELB readers there. … Continue reading
Very excited about this: Can American Democracy Survive the 2020 Elections? The role of media, law, political norms, and technology in assuring acceptance of election results. February 28, 20208:15 a.m.–5:00 p.m.UCI Division of Continuing Education, Yosemite Ballroom RSVP > Tentative Schedule … Continue reading
In the WSJ: Facebook said it would remove or label misleading videos that had been edited or manipulated in ways that would not be apparent to the average person. That would include removing videos in which artificial intelligence tools are … Continue reading
The NYT has published an internal memo written by the Facebook exec overseeing advertising during 2016. The memo touches on Russian ad spending, misinformation, Cambridge Analytica, and more. I have yet to see a headline on stories reporting the memo … Continue reading
This Thursday, Congress will hear from three top experts, and three of the primary manufacturers (ES&S, Hart InterCivic, and Dominion Voting Systems), of voting systems. This is apparently the first time the top executives of all three companies have testified … Continue reading
From The Guardian: An explosive leak of tens of thousands of documents from the defunct data firm Cambridge Analytica is set to expose the inner workings of the company that collapsed after the Observer revealed it had misappropriated 87 million … Continue reading
Madelyn Sanfilippo and Yafit Lev-Aretz reflect in NiemanLab on the impact of the structure of the news media market, and innovations in the delivery of news, on coverage of the 2020 elections. The lede: Coverage of the 2020 U.S. presidential … Continue reading
Rick’s been writing up a storm about dirty tricks like deepfakes in American elections, including in his new book. But the sort of deceptive selective editing at play in the video described here is much more accessible, and has been … Continue reading
The Wall St. Journal highlights the social media fight against disinformation ahead of the 2020 census. … Continue reading
It starts with a tie between the Federalist Papers and the danger of fake news (which started a riot which earned John Jay a rock to the head), and includes a brief paean to the independence of the judiciary from … Continue reading
With lots of election security concerns in the air, a problem in 2016 with electronic pollbooks in Durham County generated a fair amount of attention. At the time, it didn’t look like a malicious incursion, but that didn’t stop speculation, … Continue reading
I am pleased to report that my book Election Meltdown will be published on February 4 (preorders; book website at electionmeltdown.com). Here is a brief description from the publisher: “A hard-hitting critique of the American election process as timely as … Continue reading
You can read the review here, and preorder at Amazon here. … Continue reading
NYT: A few hours after polls closed in Kentucky last Tuesday, a Twitter user writing under the handle @Overlordkraken1 posted a message to his 19 followers saying he had “just shredded a box of Republican mail-in ballots.”It was clear that … Continue reading
Yahoo News reports. … Continue reading
Jonathan Bernstein for Bloomberg Opinion. … Continue reading
The report is here. In light of the Ukraine news, this first recommendation for the Executive Branch is notable: … Continue reading
[Bumping to the top as the event nears.] I’m looking forward to giving this lecture and participating in a broader election law symposium on St. Louis University on October 11: Richard J. Childress Memorial Lecture: American Election Law in a … Continue reading
I’m thrilled that my upcoming book, Election Meltdown, has received a rare starred review from Kirkus: A hard-hitting critique of the American election process as timely as it is frightening. In a slim, cogently argued analysis, legal scholar Hasen (Law … Continue reading
Dahlia Lithwick interview. … Continue reading
On Twitter: pic.twitter.com/eK7swFWq1A— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 11, 2019 How worried should we be about Trump’s “joking” about not giving up power and all of the other things making people nervous about the 2020 election and beyond: I’ve got … Continue reading
Must-read Alex Stamos in Lawfare. … Continue reading
Politico: Nearly 40 percent of registered voters surveyed in a new poll are concerned about the integrity of the results of the upcoming presidential race, echoing warnings of electoral interference blared on both sides of the aisle.Asked how they would … Continue reading
As scooped in today’s Politico Playbook, I have a new book coming out, Election Meltdown: Dirty Tricks, Distrust, and the Threat to American Democracy. For those instructors who have assigned The Voting Wars in their courses in the past (thank … Continue reading