Category Archives: election administration

“Trump backers push election change that would make counting slower, costlier and less accurate”

March 27, 2022, 2:32 pmelection administrationDerek Muller

Zach Montellaro at Politico: Trump supporters are pushing to prohibit machine counting of ballots in future elections around the country, which election officials say could make vote-counting slower, more expensive and — most importantly — less accurate.Legislators in at… Continue reading

Election litigation update for week ending March 25, 2022

March 25, 2022, 2:21 pmelection administration, Elections Clause, redistrictingDerek Muller

Filing a complaint or winning a judgment are actions good enough to earn the headlines, but there’s plenty of election litigation ongoing throughout the United States at various stages. A taste of a few things that happened over the past… Continue reading

“Bill easing access to absentee voting in Connecticut wins final passage”

March 24, 2022, 10:24 amabsentee ballots, election administrationDerek Muller

Connecticut Public Radio: A bill that would allow out-of-town commuters and caretakers of the disabled or chronically ill to vote by absentee ballot won final legislative passage Wednesday on a 30-4 vote in the Senate.The measure stops short of… Continue reading

“Lawsuit seeks to block ‘insurrectionist’ Marjorie Taylor Greene from reelection bid”

March 24, 2022, 10:23 amballot access, election administrationDerek Muller

Jan Wolfe at Reuters: A group of Georgia voters on Thursday asked state officials to block Republican U.S. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene from running for reelection, alleging she is unfit for office because of her support of rioters who… Continue reading

“Maricopa County’s vote-counting machines were not connected to internet, independent review finds”

March 24, 2022, 10:22 amelection administrationDerek Muller

Arizona Republic: Maricopa County’s vote-counting machines were not connected to the internet during the 2020 election, an independent review has found, further undercutting claims by former President Donald Trump and his allies that the results were “rigged.”A trio of… Continue reading

“Oklahoma Supreme Court hears arguments in Jim Inhofe special election challenge”

March 24, 2022, 6:33 amelection administration, Elections ClauseDerek Muller

Coverage in the Oklahoman: The Oklahoma Supreme Court on Wednesday heard oral arguments in a case challenging the timing of the special election to fill the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Jim Inhofe. Enid attorney Stephen Jones argues that because… Continue reading

“As GOP lawmakers push for more election fraud charges, prosecutors find few cases”

March 23, 2022, 8:59 amelection administrationDerek Muller

Rosalind Helderman & Amy Gardner in the Washington Post: In Wisconsin, two local prosecutors in recent days have announced they will not file criminal charges over allegations that a bipartisan state elections commission broke the law by changing voting… Continue reading

“Iowa Supreme Court to hear challenge from subpoenaed legislators in voting rights case”

March 22, 2022, 8:36 amelection administration, votingDerek Muller

William Morris in the Des Moines Register: Republican legislators facing subpoenas seeking their emails and other documents will get the chance to make the case to the Iowa Supreme Court that their communications should be private.Iowa’s highest court has granted… Continue reading

“Genesee County elections supervisor on unpaid leave after ballot tampering charges”

March 22, 2022, 4:50 amelection administrationDerek Muller

Not great: Funk was charged on Friday, March 11, with purposely breaking a seal on a ballot container while she worked as the Flint Township clerk following the Aug. 4, 2020, primary election.Because of the broken seal, the votes… Continue reading

“Colorado Democrats look to crack down on insider election threats and misinformation”

March 22, 2022, 4:49 amcheap speech, election administrationDerek Muller

NPR: Eight months after a Colorado clerk allegedly compromised her county’s election machines while searching for proof of fraud in the 2020 election, Democratic lawmakers in the state want to make it illegal for those who run elections to… Continue reading

Absentee ballot envelope design, the Texas debacle, and the one coming to Georgia

March 21, 2022, 6:07 pmabsentee ballots, election administrationDerek Muller

Georgia’s SB 202, enacted in 2021, included a provision to change how it verified absentee ballot submissions. Instead of relying on signature verification, which had been the subject of extensive litigation ahead of the 2020 election, the state would… Continue reading

“Appeals court halts certification of votes in narrow Lehigh County judicial race during appeal over mail-in ballots”

March 21, 2022, 11:46 amabsentee ballots, election administrationDerek Muller

The Morning Call: A federal appeals court has halted the final count and certification of votes in a narrow race for Lehigh County judge while voters ask the court to reverse a decision throwing out their lawsuit to have… Continue reading

“An election without ‘I voted’ stickers? Election officials scrambling amid paper shortage”

March 17, 2022, 7:04 amelection administrationRick Hasen

USA Today reports.

“Yikes”: Texas Election Officials Rejected an Astounding 13 Percent of Submitted Mail In Ballots in Recent Primary

March 16, 2022, 12:32 pmelection administrationRick Hasen

AP: Texas threw out mail votes at an abnormally high rate during the nation’s first primary of 2022, rejecting nearly 23,000 ballots outright under tougher voting rules that are part of a broad campaign by Republicans to reshape American… Continue reading

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