I have written this piece for the Monkey Cage over at the Washington Post. A snippet: I have been tracking election-related litigation brought across the country since 1996. That was four years before Bush v. Gore, in which the… Continue reading

Guy Charles: Rick Hasen is a prolific scholar (and a wonderful interlocutor).  He is not only one of the most thoughtful scholars in the field of election law, he seems to write a book every other year.  He has… Continue reading

Nate Persily: One of the central concerns animating Rick Hasen’s excellent book, Election Meltdown, is Americans’ decreasing confidence in the electoral system.  Genuine worries about voter suppression and voting machine insecurity, as well as manufactured anxieties due to disinformation,… Continue reading

I was on Texas Public Radio discussing my new book.

Tabatha Abu el-Haj: Election Meltdown: Dirty Tricks, Distrust, and the Threat to American Democracy is an accessible, engaging read that synthesizes the stories Rick Hasen systematically collects on his invaluable blog into a graphic depiction of the stresses on our… Continue reading

Franita Tolson: I very much appreciate the opportunity to review Professor Rick Hasen’s timely and thoughtful book, Election Meltdown: Dirty Tricks, Distrust, and the Threat to American Democracy.  The book does a great job of identifying some of the… Continue reading

Stephen Griffin: Rick Hasen delivers a warning with a real punch in Election Meltdown.  This is an essential account of the problems with our electoral system just in time for the 2020 election cycle.  I’m certainly going to have… Continue reading

Dan Tokaji: Rick Hasen’s Election Meltdown tells a story of democracy in decline.  Americans are riven by conflict, distrustful of one another, and bitterly divided over how we should run our elections.  His book identifies four main culprits:  vote… Continue reading

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Great podcast conversation with Chris Riback: Today we continue with our check on the state of American democracy. We began with Harvard professors Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt to get an update on “How Democracies Die” and the… Continue reading

Ciara Torres-Spelliscy: Every voter should read Professor Rick Hasen’s Election Meltdown before they vote in 2020, which focuses on the how elections are run and how partisans are less and less likely to accept an electoral loss.Election Meltdown does… Continue reading

Joey Fishkin: One oddity of writing a book like Election Meltdown is that the worse things get, the better it is for the book. That is, the more conspicuously our election system actually does melt down, the more Rick Hasen’s… Continue reading