Category Archives: election subversion risk

“America’s Election Officials Fight Disinformation and Death Threats Ahead of 2024”

December 4, 2023, 10:59 amelection administration, election subversion riskRick Hasen

Just Security: Karen Brinson Bell has worked in elections administration for more than 17 years. It has always been a hard job – election law is always evolving, work leads to missing family events, and there is no rescheduling an… Continue reading

“Trump attempts to spin anti-democracy, authoritarian criticism against Biden”

December 3, 2023, 5:37 pmelection subversion riskRick Hasen

WaPo: Republican polling leader Donald Trump moved to deflect from criminal charges that he tried to overturn the 2020 election and from his own pledges to take revenge on his opponents if he returns to the White House, seeking to… Continue reading

“How election officials are planning to avoid a repeat of 2020’s slow vote count”

November 26, 2023, 9:44 amelection administration, election subversion riskRick Hasen

Zach Montellaro for Politico: Election officials are preparing to count votes a lot faster in 2024, desperate to avoid a repeat of the long ballot count that left the winner of the presidential race uncertain for days in 2020. Several… Continue reading

“Colorado Supreme Court Agrees to Take Up Trump’s 14th Amendment Case”

November 22, 2023, 6:55 amelection subversion riskRick Hasen

NYT: The Colorado Supreme Court agreed on Tuesday to take up an appeal of a state judge’s ruling allowing former President Donald J. Trump to remain on the state’s primary ballot, in a nationwide battle over his eligibility to run… Continue reading

“The Trump Threat Is Growing. Lawyers Must Rise to Meet This Moment.”

November 21, 2023, 8:22 amelection subversion riskRick Hasen

George Conway, Judge Luttig, and Barbara Comstock NYT oped: Recent reporting about plans for a second Trump presidency are frightening. He would stock his administration with partisan loyalists committed to fast-tracking his agenda and sidestepping — if not circumventing… Continue reading

“Trump’s Dire Words Raise New Fears About His Authoritarian Bent”

November 20, 2023, 5:46 pmelection subversion riskRick Hasen

NYT: Donald J. Trump rose to power with political campaigns that largely attacked external targets, including immigration from predominantly Muslim countries and from south of the United States-Mexico border. But now, in his third presidential bid, some of his most… Continue reading

Watch Archived Video of SDP Webinar, “Covering the Risks to Elections on the State and Local Level: Views from the Beat Reporters” with Pam Fessler, Jonathan Lai, Carrie Levine, Patrick Marley, and Yvonne Wingett Sanchez

November 20, 2023, 4:36 pmcheap speech, election subversion riskRick Hasen

Great discussion that you can watch here:

Must-Read Dan Balz: “Voters must take Trump seriously and literally. The stakes are that high.”

November 18, 2023, 4:55 pmelection subversion riskRick Hasen

Balz in WaPo: The headline on the cover of the latest issue of the Economist magazine does not mince words: “Donald Trump poses the biggest danger to the world in 2024.” The alarm is twofold. First, that the former president… Continue reading

“Fears of political violence are growing as the 2024 campaign heats up and conspiracy theories evolve”

November 18, 2023, 4:51 pmelection subversion riskRick Hasen

AP: The man who bludgeoned former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband with a hammer last year consumed a steady diet of right-wing conspiracy theories before an attack that took place with the midterm elections less than two weeks away. As… Continue reading

Breaking: “Colorado judge rules Trump ‘engaged in an insurrection’ — but can still run for president”; Thoughts on What It Means and What’s Next

November 17, 2023, 4:56 pmballot access, election subversion riskRick Hasen

Politico: A Colorado judge has turned away a challenge looking to disqualify former President Donald Trump from running for president under an interpretation of the 14th Amendment that argued he engaged in insurrection against the United States on Jan. 6,… Continue reading

“State Implementation of the Electoral Count Reform Act and the Mitigation of Election-Subversion Risk in 2024 and Beyond”

November 16, 2023, 7:18 amelection subversion risk, electoral collegeRick Hasen

Very important piece from Kate Hamilton in the Yale Law Journal Forum: The 2020 election and its aftermath were a shocking warning that election subversion poses a threat to the continued health of American democracy. Unlike voter suppression, which is… Continue reading

“Ex-Trump allies detail efforts to overturn election in Georgia plea videos”

November 14, 2023, 6:09 amelection subversion riskRick Hasen

WaPo: Although some of the recordings were garbled, the portions of the four statements that The Post was able to review — from Ellis, lawyers Kenneth Chesebro and Sidney Powell, and Georgia bail bondsman Scott Hall — offered many previously… Continue reading

“Why the fight to counter false election claims may be harder in 2024”

November 12, 2023, 11:05 amelection subversion riskRick Hasen

NPR: Experts say a campaign of legal and political pressure from the right has cast efforts to combat rumors and conspiracy theories as censorship. And as a result, they say, the tools and partnerships that tried to flag and tamp… Continue reading