Category Archives: election administration

“BPC Issues Recommendations to Enhance Legitimacy of November Vote Counting”

August 26, 2020, 6:51 amelection administrationRick Hasen

Bipartisan Policy Center: The Bipartisan Policy Center’s Task Force on Elections—comprised of state and local elections officials across the country—released a set of recommendations today to improve the vote counting process in November, noting that this year ballot counting… Continue reading

“Election Regulation during the COVID-19 Pandemic”

August 26, 2020, 6:46 amelection administrationRick Hasen

Legal Policy Bulletin from Cato.

“LeBron James and a Multimillion-Dollar Push for More Poll Workers”

August 24, 2020, 8:18 pmelection administrationRick Hasen

NYT: More Than a Vote, a collective of athletes headlined by LeBron James that is fighting to combat voter suppression, will announce a multimillion-dollar initiative to increase the number of poll workers in Black electoral districts ahead of November’s general… Continue reading

“Michigan board vote may mandate future state takeover of Detroit elections”

August 24, 2020, 8:05 pmelection administrationRick Hasen

Detroit Free Press: A Michigan board generally tasked with verifying election results wants Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson to have broad authority over election operations in Detroit this fall unless the city meets certain requirements. The Michigan Board of… Continue reading

“Mask Mandates and the Right to Vote Would requiring masks for in-person voting infringe constitutional rights?”

August 23, 2020, 9:05 amelection administrationRick Hasen

Jonathan Adler at Volokh: I would think a mask requirement would be constitutional under Crawford v. Marion County Election Board, in which the Supreme Court upheld a photo ID requirement for voting in person. If the state’s interest in… Continue reading

“Michigan election officials call Detroit’s primary voting problems ‘appalling,’ ‘alarming”

August 22, 2020, 7:35 pmelection administration, Election MeltdownRick Hasen

The Detroit News reports. Urgent need for SOS Benson to get authority to get more involved.

Now Available: Final Version of My Election Law Journal Article: “Three Pathologies of American Voting Rights Illuminated by the COVID-19 Pandemic, and How to Treat and Cure Them”

August 20, 2020, 8:49 pmelection administration, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

You can download the final version of the article here (and here’s the pdf). This article is part of a symposium out next month on COVID and the election. Thanks to ELJ’s publisher for making all the COVID-related election… Continue reading

“Trump Likes Only Certain Kinds of Voters; His relentless attacks on mail-in ballots are part of a larger strategy. There is still time to keep the presidential election fair.”

August 19, 2020, 7:36 amelection administration, Election Meltdown, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

I have written this oped for the New York Times. It begins: The threat to the 2020 election’s legitimacy finally broke through into everyday conversation last week. People who pay little attention to politics started talking about whether President Trump… Continue reading

“Election commission orders top voting machine vendor to correct misleading claims”

August 18, 2020, 7:24 amelection administration, Election Assistance Commission, voting technologyRick Hasen

Kim Zetter for Politico: The federal Election Assistance Commission has rebuked the nation’s top voting-machine maker over marketing materials that the panel says deceptively implied the company’s voting machines are EAC-certified.The commission admonished Election Systems & Software over promotional literature… Continue reading

The Stanford-MIT Healthy Elections Project: Research and Service to Democracy During the Pandemic

August 17, 2020, 7:08 amelection administrationRick Hasen

The following is a guest post from Nate Persily and Charles Stewart: The Stanford-MIT Healthy Elections Project: Research and Service to Democracy During the Pandemic Nathaniel Persily, Stanford University Charles Stewart III, MIT The Stanford-MIT Healthy Elections Project is an… Continue reading

Ned Foley on CNN’s Smerconish Talking About “the Blue Shift” and 2020 Election Legitimacy

August 15, 2020, 12:03 pmelection administration, Election MeltdownRick Hasen

Watch here.

“Guidelines for Healthy In-Person Voting: The Brennan Center and the Infectious Diseases Society of America have issued joint guidelines to minimize the risk of transmitting Covid-19 at the polls this November.”

August 12, 2020, 7:20 amelection administrationRick Hasen

Check it out.

“Georgia State Election Board Approves Absentee Ballot Process Improvements”

August 10, 2020, 2:35 pmabsentee ballots, election administrationRick Hasen

Stephen Fowler for GPB: The Georgia State Election Board made a number of rule changes Monday that will streamline the absentee voting process as officials prepare for a record vote-by-mail turnout in the November general election. County election workers can… Continue reading

Republican National Committee Goes to Supreme Court to Try to Overturn Consent Decree Making It Easier to Vote by Mail in Rhode Island During Pandemic

August 10, 2020, 2:28 pmabsentee ballots, election administration, Supreme Court, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Expect quick action in this case given the upcoming deadlines.

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