Category Archives: election administration

“Auditors find no fraud in SC election process, but make some clean-up suggestions”

January 18, 2024, 1:18 pmelection administrationRick Hasen

South Carolina Daily Gazette: A review of South Carolina’s election process found no fraud that could have swayed results, but auditors do recommend cleaning up the voter rolls more often. Findings include a few instances of ballots cast by voters… Continue reading

“‘Scared to Death’: Local election officials on edge ahead of 2024 vote”

January 16, 2024, 6:52 amelection administration, election subversion riskRick Hasen

Politico: Election officials across the U.S. are confident they can overcome foreign and domestic hacking threats to run a secure election this November. They’re far less sanguine that Americans will believe them. And they’re terrified of the backlash from… Continue reading

“Prince William County admits election tally in 2020 shorted Joe Biden”

January 15, 2024, 4:20 pmelection administrationRick Hasen

NBC Washington: A Northern Virginia county acknowledged it underreported President Joe Biden’s margin of victory over Donald Trump there in the 2020 presidential election by about 4,000 votes, the first detailed accounting of errors that came to light in 2022… Continue reading

“Former Maryland elections official charged in January 6 case”

January 11, 2024, 12:39 pmchicanery, election administrationRick Hasen

CNN: A member of Maryland’s Board of Elections has resigned after being charged with taking part in the mob during the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol and jabbing an officer during the melee with a flagpole. Carlos… Continue reading

“In Tense Election Year, Public Officials Face Climate of Intimidation”

January 4, 2024, 7:37 amelection administration, election subversion riskRick Hasen

NYT: The caller had tipped off the authorities in Maine on Friday night: He told them that he had broken into the home of Shenna Bellows, the state’s top election official, a Democrat who one night earlier had disqualified former … Continue reading

Michael Morse on Voter List Maintenance in BU Law Review with Doug Spencer Response

January 2, 2024, 10:31 amelection administration, voter registrationRick Hasen

Michael Morse has written Democracy’s Bureaucracy: The Complicated Case of Voter List Maintenance (B.U. L. Rev.): This Article calls attention to the development and derailment of a novel cross-governmental bureaucracy for voter registration. It focuses specifically on voter registration lists… Continue reading

“How Florida Fixed Its Vote-Counting Problem After the 2000 Election”

December 17, 2023, 5:15 pmelection administrationDerek Muller

Reason. Reminds me of this piece by Jeb Bush in the Wall Street Journal in 2020.

Manheim on electoral sandbagging

December 16, 2023, 10:07 amelection administration, Supreme CourtDerek Muller

Just published in the UC Irvine Law Review: Lisa Marshall Manheim (Washington), Electoral Sandbagging. An insidious tactic threatens elections across the United States. Some refer to it as a “bait and switch.” Others recognize a form of “election sabotage.”… Continue reading

Stewart on voting machines

December 16, 2023, 10:06 amelection administrationDerek Muller

Charles Stewart III (MIT), Voting Machines: Friend or Foe? Here is the abstract: Over ninety-nine percent of all ballots cast in the 2020 presidential election were counted by a computer. It is hard to imagine that underlying such a ubiquitous… Continue reading

“Rudy Giuliani must pay two Georgia poll workers who sued him for defamation $148 million after he falsely accused them of helping to steal the 2020 presidential election from Donald Trump”

December 15, 2023, 1:29 pmelection administrationDerek Muller

Live updates from the Washington Post here.

“AI chatbot got election info wrong 30 percent of time, European study finds”

December 15, 2023, 6:31 amcampaigns, election administrationDerek Muller

Washington Post: Want accurate information about elections? Don’t ask an AI chatbot, experts warn — even if it seems confident of its answers and cites seemingly trustworthy sources. New research from a pair of European nonprofits finds that Microsoft’s… Continue reading

“Documents show Republican-led states struggling to clean voter rolls after leaving ERIC”

December 13, 2023, 9:52 amelection administrationDerek Muller

Jen Fifield at Votebeat: Some Republican-led states are struggling to develop new ways to adequately update their voter rolls after withdrawing from a popular cross-state voter roll cleaning program that came under attack by far-right election activists, according to… Continue reading

“Trio of Kari Lake election lawyers set to face disciplinary proceedings. Here’s why”

December 13, 2023, 6:34 amelection administrationDerek Muller

Arizona Republic: A committee that regulates attorneys in Arizona has found probable cause that three lawyers who represented former gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake in election-related cases should face discipline, marking a significant step forward in the attorney oversight process.… Continue reading

“Judge: Giuliani may have defamed Georgia election workers again outside DC courthouse”

December 12, 2023, 12:23 pmelection administrationDerek Muller

Politico: Rudy Giuliani’s defiant public statements outside a Washington, D.C., federal courthouse — just minutes after he departed the first day of his civil trial for defaming two Georgia election workers — may have defamed them yet again, the… Continue reading