Stateline: After a presidential primary season plagued by long lines, confusion over mail-in voting and malfunctioning equipment, election experts are increasingly concerned about the resiliency of American democracy in the face of a global pandemic.With four months until the… Continue reading

Jerry Goldfeder in NYLJ.

Max Boot WaPo column: In our scenario, there was no congressional commission. Instead, the Republican Party bombarded the airwaves with claims of electoral fraud and insisted that Trump had been cheated of victory. The GOP filed suit to prevent the… Continue reading

Walter Shapiro at the Brennan Center.

Good quote in an article entitled “The waiting game: Slow vote-counting in primaries could foreshadow November chaos:” The National Association of Secretaries of State told Fox News that “the likelihood of delayed election results in November due to increased absentee… Continue reading

David Corn for Mother Jones: Edward Foley has a nightmare. It’s a poli-sci horror tale. A professor of constitutional law and elections expert at The Ohio State University’s Moritz College of Law, Foley foresees a scenario for the coming election… Continue reading

Ned Foley has posted this draft on SSRN (forthcoming Ohio State L.J. Online). Here is the abstract: In RNC v. DNC, the U.S. Supreme Court issued an important, but sharply divided, 5-4 ruling concerning the power of courts to remedy… Continue reading

The Guardian: Over the last few months, states across the US have seen record numbers of their voters cast their votes by mail as states expand and encourage its use during Covid-19. It’s a change that means election officials are… Continue reading

WaPo reports.

Ariel Malka and Christopher Federico for The Monkey Cage.

Politico: President Donald Trump called mail-in voting the biggest threat to his reelection and said his campaign’s multimillion-dollar legal effort to block expanded ballot access could determine whether he wins a second term.In an Oval Office interview Thursday focusing on… Continue reading