Category Archives: election subversion risk

“What the Jan. 6 select committee’s final report will look like”

December 12, 2022, 6:37 amelection subversion riskRick Hasen

Politico: The Jan. 6 select committee’s final report will begin with a voluminous executive summary describing former President Donald Trump’s culpability for his extensive and baseless effort to subvert the 2020 election, according to people briefed on its contents.… Continue reading

“Lofgren, Cheney Request Technical Fixes to Electoral Count Reform Act”

December 11, 2022, 7:43 pmelection subversion risk, electoral collegeRick Hasen

Cato: Reps. Zoe Lofgren and Liz Cheney were the primary sponsors of the House’s version of Electoral Count Act reform, which was passed by the House earlier this year. That bill is unlikely to proceed now, with attention focused… Continue reading

I Spoke with Vox’s “The Weeds” Podcast: “The Bipartisan Bill That Could Protect Elections”

December 6, 2022, 7:52 pmelection subversion risk, electoral collegeRick Hasen

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Donald Trump Calls to Suspend U.S. Constitution and Throw Out the Results of the 2020 Election. Have We Become Immune to How Radical and Dangerous This is?

December 3, 2022, 10:20 amelection subversion risk, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Have we become immune to how radical and dangerous this all is? Just some casual Saturday treason. pic.twitter.com/iPZgyUPmJP— Matt Fuller (@MEPFuller) December 3, 2022

ELB Podcast Episode 4:4: Lynn Vavreck & Chris Tausanovitch: Lessons for Democracy from the 2022 Midterm Elections

December 2, 2022, 1:30 pmELB Podcast, election subversion riskRick Hasen

New ELB Podcast: Did the 2022 U.S. midterm elections demonstrate that we have moved beyond risks to American democracy? What explains continued, persistent divisions across the American public along party lines? Does there remain a potential for violence associated with… Continue reading

“Trump expresses solidarity with Jan. 6 rioters who stormed the Capitol”

December 2, 2022, 7:21 amelection subversion riskRick Hasen

WaPo: Former president Donald Trump expressed solidarity with the mob that attacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, sending a video of support to a fundraising event Thursday night hosted by a group called the Patriot Freedom Project that… Continue reading

“Cochise County, after disregarding state elections law, may go to court without attorney”

December 1, 2022, 7:37 amchicanery, election subversion riskRick Hasen

Arizona Republic: Cochise County officials may go to court Thursday without an attorney to represent them against charges that they broke the law by failing to certify the results of the Nov. 8 election. County supervisors on Tuesday voted to… Continue reading

“The Bottom-Up Election-Denial Strategy; It’s wrong, it seems illegal, and it’s probably not going to work. For now.”

December 1, 2022, 7:11 amelection subversion riskRick Hasen

Elaine Godfrey for The Atlantic: Something that became very clear in 2020 is that America’s election system relies not on spelled-out rules and regulations, but on human beings acting honestly. Before 2016, the certification process was not used as a… Continue reading

“Election certification delays few, but a ‘test run’ for 2024”

November 30, 2022, 7:45 amchicanery, election subversion riskRick Hasen

AP: Before November, election officials prepared for the possibility that Republicans who embraced former President Donald Trump’s lies about voter fraud would challenge the verdict of voters by refusing to certify the results. Three weeks after the end of voting,… Continue reading

“Oath Keepers Leader Convicted of Sedition in Landmark Jan. 6 Case”

November 29, 2022, 2:44 pmelection subversion riskRick Hasen

NYT: Stewart Rhodes, the leader of the far-right Oath Keepers militia, and one of his subordinates were convicted on Tuesday of seditious conspiracy as a jury found them guilty of seeking to keep former President Donald J. Trump in power… Continue reading

Greg Sargent: “New Trumpist threats in Arizona make electoral college reform urgent”

November 29, 2022, 1:00 pmelection subversion risk, electoral collegeRick Hasen

Greg Sargent WaPo column: At first glance, the spectacle of the Incredible Shrinking Kari Lake might be cause for optimism. Lake is contesting her loss in the Arizona governor’s race, but in so doing, she’s shriveling into an almost… Continue reading

“Pennsylvania county deadlocks on certifying election results”

November 29, 2022, 8:39 amelection subversion riskRick Hasen

Philly Inquirer: Officials in a northeastern Pennsylvania county where paper shortages caused Election Day ballot problems deadlocked Monday on whether to report official vote tallies to the state, effectively preventing their certification of the results. Two Democratic members of the… Continue reading

A curious litigation strategy in the Cochise County certification dispute

November 29, 2022, 8:08 amelection subversion riskDerek Muller

On the heels of the Chochise County Board of Supervisors’ decision not to approve the county’s canvass, I noted yesterday that I expected a mandamus action filed in the Arizona Supreme Court. But I was wrong. Two actions were filed,… Continue reading

“Was Election Denial a Passing Threat? Or Is It Here to Stay?”

November 28, 2022, 4:43 pmelection subversion riskRick Hasen

Blake Hounshell in the NYT: In the months before the midterm elections, a reporter for Time magazine asked Mark Finchem, the Republican nominee for secretary of state in Arizona, why he was so convinced that Donald Trump had won… Continue reading