Category Archives: election administration

“State Election Officials Seek to Avert Deeper Cuts”

February 25, 2025, 6:57 amchicanery, election administrationRick Hasen

NYT: Alarmed by cuts already made to federal agencies that help safeguard elections, and fearful that more could be coming, a bipartisan group of the nation’s top state election officials has appealed to Kristi Noem, the secretary of homeland security,… Continue reading

March 4 SDP Event and Webinar: “What Do Documentary Proof of Citizenship Requirements for Voter Registration Accomplish?” (with Arizona SOS Adrian Fontes, Nina Perales, and Walter Olson)

February 24, 2025, 9:23 amelection administrationRick Hasen

I am looking forward to moderating this event at UCLA Law and online, March 4 at 12:15 pm. Register here. Tuesday, March 4, 12:15pm-1:15pm PT at UCLA Law School Room 1327 and online Adrian Fontes, Arizona Secretary of State, Walter Olson,… Continue reading

“Georgia Republicans advance a plan to leave a bipartisan voter data group, despite warnings”

February 19, 2025, 7:38 amelection administration, The Voting Wars, voter registrationRick Hasen

AP: For years, Republicans echoing President Donald Trump’s false claims that the 2020 presidential election was ridden with voter fraud have pushed for states to leave a bipartisan group that lets officials share data to keep voter rolls accurate. Nine… Continue reading

Weiser and Garber: “The SAVE Act Would Undermine Voter Registration for all Americans”

February 10, 2025, 12:49 pmelection administration, voter registrationRick Hasen

The following is a guest post from Wendy Weiser & Andrew Garber: Last month, congressional Republicans pledged to fast-track the SAVE Act (H.R. 22), a bill that would require all Americans to provide a birth certificate, passport, or one… Continue reading

“GOP laws aimed at very rare noncitizen voting could hit eligible voters”

February 10, 2025, 7:15 amelection administration, fraudulent fraud squad, voter registrationRick Hasen

WaPo: In the months before last year’s election, Alabama removed valid voters from the rolls after wrongly tagging them as noncitizens. Tennessee’s secretary of state told 14,000 voters they had to prove their citizenship. And officials debatedwhetherhundreds of thousands of… Continue reading

“Broken elevators threaten St. Louis primary as election equipment trapped on 3rd floor”

February 9, 2025, 9:42 amelection administrationRick Hasen

KSDK: A brewing crisis at a downtown St. Louis building has placed millions of dollars of voting equipment in limbo and raised serious questions about elevator maintenance oversight, just days before the March primary election begins. Approximately 80 steel… Continue reading

“Meagan Wolfe can stay on as Wisconsin’s top election official, state Supreme Court rules”

February 7, 2025, 7:30 amelection administration, election law bizRick Hasen

Votebeat: What happened? The Wisconsin Supreme Court unanimously ruled Friday that the state’s chief election official, Meagan Wolfe, can stay in her job even though her term has expired, heading off a yearslong effort by some Republicans to oust her.… Continue reading

Three thoughts on the 4th Circuit’s decision in the North Carolina Supreme Court dispute

February 5, 2025, 5:41 amcourt decisions, election administrationDerek Muller

Rick H. linked to the unpublished per curiam decision in Griffin v. North Carolina State Board of Elections. Three brief thoughts on it. First, last week I noted that the case potentially implicated a significant shift in what kinds… Continue reading

February 13 Safeguarding Democracy Project Webinar: “Finding Common Ground on Modernizing Voter Registration”

February 3, 2025, 10:16 amelection administration, voter registrationRick Hasen

Very much looking forward to moderating this online event on February 13 at 12:15 pm PT. Free registration required. Christina Adkins, Director of Elections, Texas Secretary of State’s Office, Judd Choate, Director of Elections in Colorado, and Charles H. Stewart… Continue reading

Will Mitch McConnell Save America from the SAVE Act?

February 3, 2025, 7:49 amelection administration, fraudulent fraud squad, The Voting Wars, voter registrationRick Hasen

Votebeat: Lane, one of four congressional staff members on the panel, said the SAVE Act will be a priority for the House this time. He acknowledged a push to consider what a voter identification requirement would look like and… Continue reading

“Arizona officials struggle to straighten out voter rolls after proof-of-citizenship mixup”

February 3, 2025, 7:47 amelection administrationRick Hasen

Votebeat: Because of a 20-year-old government foul-up, about 200,000 Arizona voters will need to come up with proof of their citizenship soon in order to protect their full voting rights, and they might not even know about it yet. County… Continue reading

Watch Archived Video of Safeguarding Democracy Project Conversation with Amy Gardner, Pam Karlan, and Stephen Richer on What To Expect with Voting and Elections over the Next Four Years

January 30, 2025, 4:49 pmchicanery, election administration, election subversion risk, Supreme Court, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

I learned a ton from this excellent discussion. Watch:

California Appeals Court Publishes Opinion Rejecting Argument That the Elections Code Allows Election Observers to “Breath[e] Down the Necks of the Election Workers”

January 30, 2025, 4:44 pmelection administration, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

A California Court of Appeal issued this opinion a few weeks back, but did not deem it suitable for publication. I filed a request for publication, as did the defendant Ventura County election officials and the California State Association of… Continue reading

“Job satisfaction among election administrators continues to sink, survey shows”

January 30, 2025, 11:58 amelection administrationRick Hasen

Jessica Huseman for Votebeat: The vast majority of America’s local election administrators would not encourage their children to do the same job, and a shrinking share of them say they would be proud to tell others about their work. The… Continue reading

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