Category Archives: election subversion risk

County boards and hand counts

April 3, 2023, 10:55 amelection administration, election subversion risk, voting technologyJustin Levitt

There’s been ample publicity about the conspiracy-fueled decision in Shasta County, CA to hand-count election results (more here), and a similar truncated effort in Cochise County, AZ. (Aside from the fact that tallies will take far… Continue reading

State enforcement of 14th Amd. insurrection clause

April 3, 2023, 10:54 amelection law and constitutional law, election subversion riskJustin Levitt

Free Speech for People and Professor Gerard Magliocca out with a new blog post and report on state enforcement of section 3 of the 14th Amendment, prohibiting those who have “engaged in insurrection or rebellion against” the United States from… Continue reading

“Here’s how protected election system blueprints are making their way into far-right circles”

March 30, 2023, 11:25 amelection subversion risk, fraudulent fraud squad, voting technologyRick Hasen

LA Times: On the third day of the Conservative Political Action Conference earlier this month, two men delivered on experts’ biggest concerns about attempts to access election machines after the 2020 election. Using copies of election software — improperly… Continue reading

“How to Protect American Democracy; U.S. Elections Are Still Vulnerable to Enemies Foreign and Domestic”

March 29, 2023, 6:50 amelection subversion riskRick Hasen

Larry Norden and Derek Tisler in Foreign Affairs: Despite this outcome, it would be foolish to believe the danger has passed. Election deniers continue to work in some election offices around the country, and in 2022, they won more… Continue reading

“Pence Must Testify to Jan. 6 Grand Jury, Judge Rules”

March 28, 2023, 7:56 pmelection subversion risk, legislation and legislaturesRick Hasen

NYT: A federal judge has ordered former Vice President Mike Pence to appear in front of a grand jury investigating former President Donald J. Trump’s attempts to overturn the 2020 election, largely sweeping aside two separate legal efforts by Mr.… Continue reading

April 4 Free Online Webinar from Safeguarding Democracy Project: “Confronting the Insider Threat on Election Security and Protecting Election Officials” with Judd Choate and Liz Howard

March 27, 2023, 7:00 amelection subversion riskRick Hasen

I’m very much looking forward to this final event for the UCLA Law Safeguarding Democracy Project’s spring webinar series. Join us on April 4 at noon pacific time! (Free registration required.)

“Trump Puts His Legal Peril at Center of First Big Rally for 2024”

March 26, 2023, 10:14 amelection subversion riskRick Hasen

NYT: Former President Donald J. Trump spent much of his first major political rally of the 2024 campaign portraying his expected indictment by a New York grand jury as a result of what he claimed was a Democratic conspiracy to… Continue reading

“Trump, Escalating Attacks, Raises Specter of Violence if He Is Charged”

March 24, 2023, 7:43 amchicanery, election subversion riskRick Hasen

NYT: In an overnight social media post, former President Donald J. Trump predicted that “potential death and destruction” may result if, as expected, he is charged by the Manhattan district attorney in connection with hush-money payments to a porn star… Continue reading

“Election Obstruction”

March 22, 2023, 7:35 amelection administration, election subversion riskRick Hasen

Jason Marisam has posted this draft on SSRN (forthcoming, UCLA Law Review Discourse). Here is the abstract: In 2020 and 2022, multiple Republican county canvassers refused to perform their ministerial duty to approve election returns, obstructing the official certification of… Continue reading

“Six people affiliated with the Oath Keepers convicted in Capitol riot”

March 21, 2023, 7:30 amelection subversion riskRick Hasen

WaPo: Six people described by authorities as being affiliated with the right-wing extremist group the Oath Keepers were convicted Monday of numerous federal crimes related to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. After a trial in U.S.… Continue reading

“Trump Says His Arrest Is Imminent and Calls for Protests, Echoing Jan. 6; His indictment by a Manhattan grand jury is expected, but its timing is unclear.”

March 18, 2023, 7:31 amelection subversion riskRick Hasen

NYT: With his indictment by a Manhattan grand jury expected but its timing uncertain, former President Donald J. Trump declared on his social media site Saturday that he would be arrested on Tuesday, and demanded that his supporters protest on… Continue reading

“Trump-commissioned report undercut his claims of dead and double voters”

March 18, 2023, 7:28 amelection subversion risk, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

WaPo: When Donald Trump called Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger on Jan. 2, 2021, in a now-infamous bid to overturn the 2020 election, he alleged that thousands of dead people had voted in the state. “So dead people… Continue reading

“Democracy on the Precipice?”

March 16, 2023, 1:34 pmelection subversion riskRick Hasen

Archon Fong assesses the state of U.S. democracy.

“Saving Democracy, State by State?”

March 9, 2023, 12:02 pmelection subversion riskRick Hasen

Miriam Seifter has posted this draft on SSRN (California Law Review). Here is the abstract: In his Jorde lecture, Professor Steven Levitsky offers an important account of the nation at a crossroads. Down one path is a thriving multiracial democracy;… Continue reading