“Voters’ Poorly Marked Ovals Could Lead to Contested Ballots”
AP reports.
EVERY state right now should put in place rules beforehand as to how to judge whether a poorly marked oval is counted, and how.
Category Archives: election administration
“Error discovered on Georgia touchscreens in US Senate race”
AJC:
Georgia election officials said Saturday they found a programming error on the state’s voting touchscreens that caused a row of candidates in the 21-person U.S. Senate special election to disappear at times when flipping back and forth between… Continue reading
Trump Campaign Tries to Walk Back Trump Comments About Peaceful Transitions of Power to Axios
Axios:
And Trump advisers are ready to challenge the legitimacy of the election results, especially with the expected late wave of Democratic mail ballots. They’re also ready to defend against Democratic lawyers who mount their own election challenges.
One Trump campaign… Continue reading
Minnesota: “Competitive congressional election delayed after death of third-party candidate”
Politico:
The death of a third-party candidate running against freshman Democratic Rep. Angie Craig has triggered the postponement of this year’s vote and scheduleda special election next year in her Twin Cities-area district.The Minnesota secretary of state’s office confirmed Thursday… Continue reading
“Michigan lawmakers give clerks more time to process ballots”
Very good bipartisan news:
The Michigan Legislature gave final approvals Thursday to a bill that would give local clerks 10 hours extra before the election to begin processing absentee ballots, a nod to the expected uptick in absentee voting… Continue reading
“Republicans sue Texas governor over expanded early voting”
AP:
Republican Gov. Greg Abbott, who has refused calls to expand mail-in voting in Texas during the coronavirus pandemic, was sued Wednesday by prominent members of his own party who now want to halt the biggest change he instead ordered… Continue reading
Very Disappointing to See Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose’s Office Coordinating Policy on Voting with Noted Vote Suppressor Hans von Spakovsky
In the past I’ve found Secretary Frank LaRose of Ohio to be interested in bipartisan and commonsense approaches to election administration. He was one of the two keynotes (along with Michigan SOS Jocelyn Benson) at our February conference, “Can American… Continue reading
“Foreign Hackers Cripple Texas County’s Email System, Raising Election Security Concerns”
ProPublica:
The previously unreported attack on Hamilton illustrates an overlooked security weakness that could hamper the November election: the vulnerability of email systems in county offices that handle the voting process from registration to casting and counting ballots. Although experts… Continue reading
Blockbuster Bart Gellman Atlantic Cover Story on Potential Election Meltdown Quotes Republican Sources Saying Trump Campaign May Try to Push State Legislators to Choose Presidential Electors Directly
Bart Gellman:
There is a cohort of close observers of our presidential elections, scholars and lawyers and political strategists, who find themselves in the uneasy position of intelligence analysts in the months before 9/11. As November 3 approaches, their… Continue reading
“Pennsylvania election officials warn of 2000 Florida redux; A court ruling on so-called naked ballots ‘is going to cause electoral chaos’ in one of the nation’s biggest swing states.”
“Duggan plans to shut down most of Detroit city govt. for 2 days to process ballots”
Michigan Advance:
Citing concerns that President Donald Trump could attempt to declare victory prior to all absentee votes being counted in the Nov. 3 presidential election, Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan said Tuesday that he will “basically be shutting down… Continue reading
Watch Archived Video of UCI Event, “Are U.S. elections rigged, broken or dependable? Lessons from Canada and Australia Offer Insights for Improvement” (featuring Yasmin Dawood, Graeme Orr, and me, with Victoria Jones)
Watch:
This webinar, recorded on September 21, 2020, covers international perspectives relevant to the upcoming U.S. Presidential Election.
Co-sponsored by The UCI Office of Global Engagement, UCI Law and the Jack W. Peltason Center for the Study of Democracy,… Continue reading
In What I Consider to Be Among the Most Important Election Law Cases Before the November Election, Trump Campaign Renews Federal Challenge to Pennsylvania Voting Rules (with a Note on Nevada)
The federal case that had been put on hold pending the resolution of a parallel case in the Pa Supreme Court is now back on following the Pa. Supreme Court’s resolution of related state law claims. Here’s the Trump … Continue reading
The list of COVID-19 election cases hits 250
Justin here. I’m tracking the litigation over election issues related to COVID-19 … and the list of cases just hit 250. (The Stanford-MIT Healthy Elections Project also has a really useful sortable database of these cases, with more info.)… Continue reading