Category Archives: election administration
New Study: “Voting on Tribal Lands”
A New Brennan Center study on voter participation on tribal lands highlights the impact of systemic inequities on turnout. Key findings include:
“Voter participation in federal elections from 2012 to 2022 averaged 11 percentage points less on tribal lands than… Continue reading
Pennsylvania appeals court finds Democratic election observers’ “Voter Protection” badges violated state electioneering statute
From the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania’s decision In re: General Election, 2024, a unanimous three-judge decision (lightly revised):
On Election Day, November 5, 2024, counsel for the [Trump] Campaign [and RNC] appeared at Philadelphia’s Election Court and requested an… Continue reading
“Republicans in North Carolina pass sweeping changes to consolidate power”
Washington Post. North Carolina Republicans are back at it! The North Carolina legislature (controlled by Republicans) is seeking “last-minute inclusions” in a hurricane relief bill that “will strip the incoming Democratic governor and attorney general of significant authority before… Continue reading
Felony disclosure requirement for federal candidates in North Carolina is not an impermissible additional qualification, Fourth Circuit holds
From Sharma v. Hirsch, an opinion by Judge Wilkinson, joined by Judges Richardson and Rushing:
Bucks County, Pennsylvania election official: “People violate laws any time they want, So, for me, if I violate this law it’s because I want a court to pay attention.”
Ugly election administration scene and legal dispute playing out in Pennsylvania, here reported by Katie Bernard, Jeremy Roebuck, Sean Collins Walsh, and Fallon Roth at the Philadelphia Inquirer:
It’s been a week since the Associated Press called Pennsylvania’s tight… Continue reading
“The Internal Law of Democracy”
Kevin Stack has posted this draft on SSRN (forthcoming, Vanderbilt Law Review). Here is the abstract:
The conventional focus of election law is the constitutional, statutory, and judicial constraints on election officials. But the operation of elections also depends on… Continue reading
“Trump Allies Gain Power Over Elections in Arizona’s Largest County”
Bolts:
Justin Heap, an Arizona lawmaker who has pushed for severe voting restrictions and whose campaign was led by an indicted 2020 “fake elector” for Donald Trump, has won control of one of the country’s most important local elections offices. … Continue reading
“California Counts Methodically as House Control Hangs in the Balance; Ten of the 18 races that will determine which party controls the House of Representatives are in California. No state takes longer to tally votes.”
“Why California is still counting votes and how long it may take”
WaPo:
For most of the country, predictions that Election Day would morph into election week or election month did not come topass.
Then there’s California, where millions of ballots remain uncounted.
The most populous state in the union has one… Continue reading
“Pennsylvania counties counted mail ballots faster this year than in 2020”
Votebeat:
Mail ballots in Pennsylvania were counted much faster in this year’s election than in 2020
By 3 a.m. Wednesday, 54 of Pennsylvania’s 67 counties had counted 90% or more of their mail ballots, according to data released by the… Continue reading
“The math is starting to look daunting for Harris in Pennsylvania”
Politico:
Fewer than 37,000 mail ballots are left to count in Philadelphia, the Democratic stronghold where Kamala Harris had hoped to run up the score and offset Donald Trump’s gains in other parts of the state.
Trump is currently… Continue reading
“Election Day largely running smoothly, with just a handful of issues”
Good news via WaPo:
The final day of voting in a deeply divided nation’s high-stakes elections started mostly smoothly on Tuesday, with only scattered problems at some polling locations.
In a presidential race expected to hinge on the outcome in … Continue reading
“Arizona Official Releases Voter List Sought by Activists After Court Order”
NYT:
Adrian Fontes, Arizona’s secretary of state, said Monday that his office had handed over the names of hundreds of thousands of voters to lawyers for a right-wing activist group as ordered by a court, adding that he regretted having… Continue reading