Category Archives: election administration

Is a new Georgia election rule cause for significant concern in 2024?

August 14, 2024, 9:43 amelection administrationDerek Muller

The Guardian lede claims, “Trump’s plan to steal election is taking shape.” Is that right? The New York Times opens this way: “The Republican-controlled Georgia State Election Board approved on Tuesday a measure that could empower local officials to refuse… Continue reading

“Trump’s focus on Georgia election board raises fears for November vote”

August 8, 2024, 6:50 pmelection administration2024 Election Cycle, GeorgiaTabatha Abu El-Haj

Washington Post: Critics, including members of the state’s GOP establishment, worry about the administrative changes to Georgia’s election rules–on the election and on voters’ confidence in the count. “Since May, an unambiguously pro-Trump majority has controlled the state election… Continue reading

Impressive new vote.gov redesign

August 6, 2024, 5:47 pmelection administration, voter registrationelection informationJustin Levitt

On today’s anniversary of the signing of the Voting Rights Act, the Vice President name-checked vote.gov. And it looks like the site recently got a facelift that’s a giant improvement over its effectively 8-bit predecessor (which wasn’t all that… Continue reading

“North Carolina is quickly losing local elections directors”

July 19, 2024, 10:49 amelection administrationDan Tokaji

From WFAE in Charlotte: “With Election Day approaching, North Carolina has a problem. The state is rapidly losing county elections directors. In the past five years, the state says North Carolina’s 100 counties have seen 61 election director changes.… Continue reading

“Nevada county reverses controversial vote and certifies two recounts while legal action looms”

July 17, 2024, 6:04 amelection administration, election subversion risk, recountsDan Tokaji

AP: “The 4-1 decision overturns last week’s vote against certifying election recount results from June’s primary in the politically mixed swath of northern Nevada [Washoe County], which includes Reno. The rare move had potential implications for how the November … Continue reading

CMD on Wyoming Voting Restriction Efforts

July 16, 2024, 1:00 pmabsentee ballots, election administrationDan Tokaji

Center for Media and Democracy: A right-wing think tank in Florida put its thumb on the scales of Wyoming’s election reform efforts, an investigation by the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) reveals. Emails obtained by CMD show that… Continue reading

“Inside the private pressure campaign to force hand-counting of Arizona ballots”

July 16, 2024, 10:10 amelection administration, voting technologyDan Tokaji

Votebeat: Republican lawmakers in Arizona privately pressured county leaders across the state to count ballots by hand instead of using machines, according to previously unreported text messages. The messages, obtained by Votebeat through public record requests, are a window… Continue reading

“Complaint asks Kemp to remove three State Election Board members”

July 16, 2024, 4:18 amelection administrationDan Tokaji

AJC: A Fulton County election official has asked Gov. Brian Kemp to remove three members of the State Election Board and its executive director over actions that may have violated Georgia’s open meetings law. On Friday, three Republican members… Continue reading

“Wisconsin election officials tell clerks best ways to operate absentee ballot drop boxes”

July 13, 2024, 5:29 amelection administrationDan Tokaji

AP reports on the bipartisan Wisconsin Election Commission’s guidance to local election officials. This follows last Friday’s 4-3 decision from the Wisconsin Supreme Court allowing drop boxes and overruling its prior decision to the contrary. According to AP: “The commission… Continue reading

Brennan Center on Georgia Challenge Law

July 10, 2024, 4:29 amelection administrationDan Tokaji

From the analysis by Andrew Garber: A new law went into effect in Georgia this month that makes it easier for people to attempt to kick their neighbors off the rolls through voter challenges. Georgia already made voter challenges far… Continue reading

Divided Wisconsin Supreme Court reverses its 2022 decision, holds drop boxes are permissible under state law

July 5, 2024, 8:08 amelection administrationDerek Muller

The 4-3 decision in Priorities USA v. Wisconsin Elections Commission is here. Part III-A of the opinion focuses on the statutory interpretation issue. Part III-B focuses on the stare decisis issue, including these paragraphs (lightly revised): We have previously… Continue reading

“How Voting Works in the U.K. and France: Your Questions Answered”

July 3, 2024, 4:51 pmcomparative election law, election administrationRick Hasen

Nuts-and-bolts at BOLTS.

“GOP recruits poll monitors from suburban areas to monitor the vote in Democratic cities”

June 29, 2024, 5:21 pmelection administrationRick Hasen

NBC News: Republicans have made suburban areas a recruiting ground for their army of Election Day poll monitors, with plans to deploy some into urban, Democratic epicenters that have remained the focus of conservatives’ erroneous claims of voter fraud.… Continue reading