Associated Press:
When Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg donated $400 million to help fund election offices as they scrambled to deal with the coronavirus pandemic late last summer, he said he hoped he would never have to do it again.Republican… Continue reading
I hope to highlight a few academic pieces this weekend. First up, a piece from Wilfred U. Codrington III forthcoming in the NYU Law Review on SSRN. From the opening of the abstract:
Given the major events in the… Continue reading
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
A Republican state lawmaker sought Friday to seize ballots and voting machines in Milwaukee and Brown counties as conservatives seek to review a presidential election that courts have already determined was decided properly.What happens next is… Continue reading
Politico details a new path using the Spending Clause instead of the Elections Clause (which has some filibuster-related advantages, too):
As the fate of Senate Democrats’ signature ethics and voting reform package remains in limbo, they’re confident they can deliver… Continue reading
An excerpt from an Arizona Mirror investigation:
The county’s master file, known as the “voted list,” shows each person who cast a ballot in the election — and a letter code indicating whether they voted on Election Day, by mail… Continue reading
Coverage and testimony here. It arises out of seeking to fix the problems surrounding New York’s 22d Congressional District election and a 109-vote margin of victory as certified by the board of elections. The problems prompted local election official… Continue reading
Bloomberg:
Christopher Thomas took a consulting gig last year thinking he’d use his decades of experience as Michigan’s elections director to help Detroit prepare for a recount.It didn’t turn out to be the routine retirement gig he expected.Thomas became… Continue reading
The Arizona Republic:
Maricopa County supervisors and Dominion Voting Systems refused to produce additional election material on Monday in response to new subpoenas filed by the Arizona Senate.The subpoenas, issued July 26 by Republican Senate leaders, demanded that representatives for the county… Continue reading
John Kruzel at The Hill:
There is growing concern that election workers will leave their posts in droves following a 2020 presidential contest that saw an unprecedented rise in violent threats against administrators.Election workers had their homes broken into.… Continue reading
Associated Press:
A group of Texas Republicans wants to audit the 2020 election results in just the large, mostly Democratic counties across the state. If they get their way, they’ll miss many of the real — but minor —… Continue reading
Detailed analysis and context from Georgia Public Broadcasting:
The latest battle over Georgia’s massive new voting law is over sections that allow state officials to temporarily take over county elections boards, with Republicans eyeing Fulton County in particular. But… Continue reading
Reid Wilson at The Hill:
Democrats and Republicans are preparing to pour millions of dollars into races for Secretary of State up for election in half the states next year amid a new recognition that those who oversee the… Continue reading
From the Macomb Daily, chronicling efforts in metropolitan Detroit:
The Republican clerk said he added the UBS feature in light of unsubstantiated claims of voting fraud in Michigan and nationally in the November election.“We get a lot of questions… Continue reading