ThinkProgress on the challenged Florida law requiring sufficient parking for early voting sites, and its impact on college voters. … Continue reading
Category Archives: election administration
We get the election mechanics we pay for. … Continue reading
The legislation passed the Senate yesterday, and now heads over to the House. … Continue reading
A WaPo article on a new Brennan Center report diving into how six states (Alabama, Arizona, Illinois, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Pennsylvania) used 2018 federal election security grants … and the need each has for much more. … Continue reading
Trial has started up in Florida over the law automatically placing candidates of the governor’s party in the first position of the ballot. I’ve been watching this case pretty closely; it’s a really interesting test of the prevailing constitutional doctrine … Continue reading
An important story in Washington State about the integration of county registration systems into a newer statewide system. It’s not important because it’s particularly new or surprising (it’s neither), but just as a reminder of the details to be ironed … Continue reading
New this morning from the AP. A snippet: An Associated Press analysis has found that like many counties in Pennsylvania, the vast majority of 10,000 election jurisdictions nationwide use Windows 7 or an older operating system to create ballots, program … Continue reading
More from the AP. The subhead: “North Carolina election officials are learning that private equity firms which don’t disclose whose money they’re investing hold major stakes in voting-machine makers.” … Continue reading
AJC: The insides of Georgia’s voting system will be cracked open for inspection as part of a lawsuit alleging that the state’s elections are vulnerable to inaccuracies, malfunctions and hacking.U.S. District Judge Amy Totenberg on Tuesday ordered election officials to allow computer … Continue reading
Politico: House Democrats and Senate Republicans may have attended similar classified briefings on election security Wednesday, but they left with opposite conclusions.House Democrats expressed deep concerns about the White House’s ability to protect voting systems in 2020, drawing fresh scrutiny … Continue reading
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AP: The case of whether hackers may have tampered with elections in Georgia has taken another strange turn.Nearly two years ago, state lawyers in a closely watched election integrity lawsuit told the judge they intended to subpoena the FBI for … Continue reading
KQED: Presidential challengers hoping to glide to victory through California’s newly relevant primary, a heads-up: Your electoral fate may hinge on convincing enough left-leaning millennials to send postcards over the holiday season.Welcome to the quirk-filled world of California election law. Here, … Continue reading
Important Greg Sargent interview with Sen. Wyden. … Continue reading
TPM: The Trump administration has supported plenty of moves to make it harder to vote. But an under-the-radar action President Trump took last year, as part of his trade war with China, may be a case of him just stumbling into that outcome, election … Continue reading
Steven Rosenfeld: The Independent Media Institute’s Voting Booth project obtained a copy of Iowa’s RFP and asked industry and academic experts in remote voting and election cyber-security to assess Iowa’s envisioned telephone-based system. The experts’ top concerns—based on observing similar … Continue reading
WaPo editorial. … Continue reading
Read this quite damning portrait: A tiny federal agency that plays a crucial role in assisting the nation’s local election supervisors is gripped by a leadership crisis that hassparked concerns that it is unprepared to play its role in protecting … Continue reading
News and Observer: North Carolina election officials were supposed to certify new voting machines on Thursday for millions of voters to start using in 2020.But they declined to make any decisions, citing uncertainty over who owns the three companies that … Continue reading
Sue Halpern must-read. … Continue reading
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NYT: A raft of legislation to better secure United States election systems after what the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, called a “sweeping and systematic” Russian attack in 2016 is running into a one-man roadblock in the form of the Senate … Continue reading
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Washington Post: A plan released this week by a Stanford University group that includes former top government and tech industry officials aims to be the equivalent of the 9/11 Commission report for election security.Like the 9/11 report, which fundamentally reorganized … Continue reading
Doug Chapin blogs. … Continue reading
Washington Post: It was a single phrase, offered without elaboration, in special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s report: In August 2016, hackers working for Russian military intelligence “installed malware on the company network” of an unnamed voter registration technology vendor … Continue reading
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WaPo: As the 2020 election approaches, voting security groups are trying to rally the public behind an effort to ban Internet connections from U.S. voting machines that could be hacked by Russia and other foreign adversaries.And they’re getting an assist … Continue reading
Release: Franklin County voters are more likely to cast provisional ballots – and have those ballots rejected – than other large counties in Ohio, according to a new analysis of 2018 election data by All Voting is Local released today. … Continue reading
The case is Feehan v. Marcone and the cert petition is here. … Continue reading
Amy Gardner for WaPo: What played out in Tennessee illustrates the messiness that has accompanied some large-scale efforts to draw new Democratic voters into the electorate, providing an opening for critics to push for stricter rules. The fallout is part … Continue reading
The Tampa Bay Times reports. … Continue reading
WaPo: Google, Facebook and Twitter executives came to Capitol Hill to testify about election security. Instead they faced a grilling about whether their platforms are biased against conservatives.A string of Republicans on the House Oversight and Reform Committee skipped questions about how … Continue reading
Politico: An effort to clamp down on potential voter fraud in Florida has been bogged down by an unlikely source: the state’s Republican-controlled administration.More than a year ago, Florida legislators gave permission to the nation’s third-largest state to join a … Continue reading
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Roll Call reports. … Continue reading
Gene Mazo has posted this draft on SSRN (forthcoming, University of Memphis Law Review). Here is the abstract: Voter ID laws are currently in force in 35 states. In most states, these laws have been divisive and controversial. Our political … Continue reading
Important opinion and order in an important case: In sum, the Plaintiffs have alleged that Defendants were aware of serious security breaches in the DRE voting system and failed to take adequate steps to address those breaches. Notably, even after … Continue reading
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WaPo: The voter registration database of a small county in the Florida panhandle was breached by Russian government hackers in 2016, according to two U.S. officials.The Russian military spy agency, the GRU, was responsible for the penetration of Washington County’s … Continue reading
Electionline Weekly reports. … Continue reading
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Tierney Sneed for TPM. … Continue reading
Eliza Newlin Carney: Russian attacks on the U.S. election infrastructure in 2016 were even more serious than reported at the time, recent disclosures show, and intelligence officials say they are bracing for more aggressive attacks from a wider array of foreign adversaries in 2020.Yet … Continue reading
Texas Tribune: Texas’ botched search for noncitizens on the voter rolls, which ended in a legal settlement after state officials jeopardized the voting rights of thousands of legitimate voters, was paid for in part with dollars earmarked for bolstering election … Continue reading
Miles Park for NPR: Sen. James Lankford is worried about election apathy.Not that people will stop caring about politics, but as the weeks and months pass after the release of special counsel Robert Mueller’s redacted report on Russian interference, the Oklahoma Republican … Continue reading
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Charlotte Observer editorial: Kim Strach, the executive director of the state Board of Elections, was doing a good job before she got fired Monday. She’d helped guide the board through the minefield of the 9th Congressional District election fraud scandal. … Continue reading