Michael Morse (Penn Law), Marc Meredith (Penn), Michael Herron (Dartmouth), Dan Smith (Florida), and Michael Martinez (Florida) have posted this draft on SSRN (AJPS). Here is the abstract: We introduce a typology of election administration harms and apply it to… Continue reading

NBC News: Republicans have filed lawsuits over the past week in three pivotal battleground states seeking to challenge the legitimacy of some ballots cast by U.S. citizens living abroad, including military members, arguing that some votes are particularly prone to… Continue reading

I asked Michael Morley of FSU to write a blog post on the effects of Hurricane Helene on the 2024 elections because Michael is the leading authority on election emergencies and election litigation. Michael wrote a long and important piece… Continue reading

NBC News: Hurricane Helene has caused significant disruptions for election officials in North Carolina and across the Southeast, scrambling preparations for early and mail voting that have been in the works for months. In western North Carolina, one of the… Continue reading

Wow WaPo report: rizona’s Democratic leaders knew they had no good options when they jumped on a phone call this month. They had just learned tens of thousands of residents had been registered to vote for decades, even though there… Continue reading

Great lineup at this Ash Center event: Election administrators are on the front line of ensuring our elections are safe and fair this November. There is no one for who this is truer than for the Secretaries of State… Continue reading

Yvonne Wingett Sanchez for WaPo: In this conservative bedroom community of Phoenix, where Donald Trump remains popular and his 2020 loss is viewed with suspicion, election falsehoods don’t fizzle. They fester and grow. So as Pinal County officials prepare for … Continue reading