Category Archives: Election Meltdown

“Wall Street fears meltdown over election and Supreme Court”

September 23, 2020, 7:39 amElection MeltdownRick Hasen

Axios: The death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and President Trump’s vow to name her replacement to the Supreme Court before November’s election are amplifying Wall Street’s worries about major volatility and market losses ahead of and even after… Continue reading

“FBI warns against foreign disinformation regarding election results”

September 22, 2020, 5:15 pmchicanery, Election MeltdownRick Hasen

CNN: The FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency warned the public Tuesday that foreign actors might spread disinformation about the results of the 2020 election and encouraged voters to be patient with delayed results.”The increased use of mail-in… Continue reading

Watch Archived Video of UCI Event, “Are U.S. elections rigged, broken or dependable? Lessons from Canada and Australia Offer Insights for Improvement” (featuring Yasmin Dawood, Graeme Orr, and me, with Victoria Jones)

September 22, 2020, 3:09 pmcomparative election law, election administration, Election Meltdown, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Watch: This webinar, recorded on September 21, 2020, covers international perspectives relevant to the upcoming U.S. Presidential Election. Co-sponsored by The UCI Office of Global Engagement, UCI Law and the Jack W. Peltason Center for the Study of Democracy,… Continue reading

The President’s Son Baselessly Suggests That Election Officials Will “add millions of fraudulent ballots that can cancel your vote and overturn the election.”

September 22, 2020, 10:49 amElection Meltdown, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

This is deeply disturbing, and has been part of one of my very greatest concerns about the integrity of the election: that Trump will be ahead in preliminarly vote totals (not including millions of mail-in ballots) in a state… Continue reading

The list of COVID-19 election cases hits 250

September 21, 2020, 10:46 amcourt decisions, election administration, election law and constitutional law, Election MeltdownJustin Levitt

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.)… Continue reading

“Prepare for the Worst and Fight for the Best: A Citizen’s Guide to 2020 Electoral Interference”

September 18, 2020, 11:46 amchicanery, Election MeltdownRick Hasen

Just Security.

Watch Archived Video of My Constitution Day Conversation with U Cincinnati Law Dean Verna Williams on Voting Rights, Election Meltdown, and the U.S. Constitution

September 17, 2020, 2:02 pmElection MeltdownRick Hasen

Great conversation that you can view here.

Former DNI Dan Coats in NYT Oped Calls for High Level Election Commission to Weigh In on Election Issues

September 17, 2020, 7:45 amElection MeltdownRick Hasen

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

“How the Campaigns Are Preparing to Win the Chaotic Election Aftermath”

September 17, 2020, 6:54 amElection Meltdown, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

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… Continue reading

“Watchdogs demand election night clarity from the media”

September 17, 2020, 6:52 amElection MeltdownRick Hasen

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… Continue reading

Brian Stelter: How the Media is Preparing for Potential “Election Chaos” in November

September 17, 2020, 6:40 amElection MeltdownRick Hasen

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“Optimism and Despair About a 2020 ‘Election Meltdown’ and Beyond”

September 16, 2020, 3:36 pmElection MeltdownRick Hasen

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