Watch Video of UCLA Hammer Museum/Safeguarding Democracy Project Forum: Democracy and Risks to the 2024 Elections (Leah Aden, John Fortier, Yoel Roth)
Great conversation that you can watch here.
Category Archives: election administration
“With Trump Ready to Pounce, What Happens When Election Officials Make Mistakes?”
New from Steven Rosenfeld.
“And then what?” should accompany hypotheticals surrounding January 6, 2025 disaster scenarios
Continuing in the spirit of my recent blog post, I want to visit this Politico piece Rick H. posted earlier this week. It offers four specific disaster scenarios surrounding the counting of electoral votes, with no better sourcing… Continue reading
Doomcasting continues to overstate the case for a presidential election going to the House of Representatives
Justin Levitt‘s excellent piece earlier this election season, “Get Ready for the Scourge of Election Season: Electoral-Process Porn,” is well worth another read. That’s because a new round of paranoia about the 2024 election continues to spread.
There are… Continue reading
“Georgia election officials worry a GOP-led board will OK last-minute voting changes”
NPR:
Georgia’s State Election Board is preparing to vote on nearly a dozen rule changes Friday that could take effect before the upcoming election, concerning local officials who are training poll workers and processing absentee ballot applications.
The once-obscure state… Continue reading
“New Guides to Protecting Election Certification from Interference in Battleground States”
“Fontes asks Mayes to explain how AZ can implement reinstated voter registration law”
Arizona Mirror:
Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes wants Attorney General Kris Mayes to provide elections officials guidance on how Arizona can enforce part of a voter registration law that the U.S. Supreme Court recently allowed to go into… Continue reading
“Harris or Trump? Once Again, Election Results Could Take a While.”
NYT:
The hosts of election night parties may want to book a room for more than just one night.
For the second straight presidential election, it is becoming increasingly likely that there will be no clear and immediate winner on… Continue reading
“Fears mount that election deniers could disrupt vote count in US swing states”
Ed Pilkington in The Guardian:
Fears are rising that the vote count in November’s presidential election could be disrupted as a result of the proliferation of Donald Trump’s lies about stolen elections and rampant voter fraud in the key swing… Continue reading
“Purcell Principles for States Courts”
Robert Yablon and Derek Clinger have posted this draft on SSRN (forthcoming, Wisconsin Law Review). Here is the abstract:
In recent years, the U.S. Supreme Court has stressed that federal courts ordinarily should not issue remedies, such as preliminary injunctions,… Continue reading
“Feds increase security for Jan. 6 in effort to prevent Capitol attack repeat”
WaPo:
The federal government will dramatically increase security protections for the joint session of Congress where lawmakers count states’ electoral votes, an escalation of government-wide efforts to prevent a repeat of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol,… Continue reading
“Election officials warn that widespread problems with the US mail system could disrupt voting”
AP:
State and local election officials from across the country on Wednesday warned that problems with the nation’s mail delivery system threaten to disenfranchise voters in the upcoming presidential election, telling the head of the U.S. Postal Service that it… Continue reading
“Managing the vote: Texas sees high turnover of election administrators since 2020 election”
CBS News:
A CBS News investigation has found since the 2020 election, Texas has seen a high turnover rate of people who oversee the elections in the state’s 254 counties.
More than one-third of the election administrators and county… Continue reading
“GOP appeals date ruling on mail-in ballots to Pa. Supreme Court”
Trib Live:
The Republican National Committee and Republican Party of Pennsylvania are appealing a Commonwealth Court ruling that mail-in ballots with incorrect or missing dates on their outer envelopes should be counted.
The appeal to the state Supreme Court was… Continue reading