Category Archives: election administration
“The Nuanced Challenges of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission”
BPC:
The U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC) is once again in the limelight. The EAC has faced extensive criticism since its creation in 2002: It has been accused of political bias in its reporting, hiring discrimination, technical inadequacy, inefficiency, … Continue reading
Feb. 6 Safeguarding Democracy Project Webinar: “What Can We Do to Have a Fair and Safe Election in 2024?”
I’m very much looking forward to this event (free registration required):
February 6, 12pm – 1pm What Can We Do to Have a Fair and Safe Election in 2024?
Webinar Register here
Renee DiResta (Stanford Internet Observatory),… Continue reading
American Law Institute: “Bipartisan Working Group Issues Ethical Standards for Election Administration”
I was very happy to see this work under the auspices of the American Law Institute with a stellar connection of participants, not only because I think these standards will produce useful rubrics by which election administrators can judge the… Continue reading
“The federal agency dedicated to elections is, once again, in turmoil ahead of the 2024 elections”
Jessica Huseman for VoteBeat:
Some news: The U.S. Election Assistance Commission has fired its executive director, Steven Frid, who held the job for less than a year. Frid was the agency’s third executive director in as many years. The agency… Continue reading
“Auditors find no fraud in SC election process, but make some clean-up suggestions”
South Carolina Daily Gazette:
A review of South Carolina’s election process found no fraud that could have swayed results, but auditors do recommend cleaning up the voter rolls more often.
Findings include a few instances of ballots cast by voters… Continue reading
“‘Scared to Death’: Local election officials on edge ahead of 2024 vote”
Politico:
Election officials across the U.S. are confident they can overcome foreign and domestic hacking threats to run a secure election this November. They’re far less sanguine that Americans will believe them.
And they’re terrified of the backlash from… Continue reading
“Prince William County admits election tally in 2020 shorted Joe Biden”
NBC Washington:
A Northern Virginia county acknowledged it underreported President Joe Biden’s margin of victory over Donald Trump there in the 2020 presidential election by about 4,000 votes, the first detailed accounting of errors that came to light in 2022… Continue reading
“Former Maryland elections official charged in January 6 case”
CNN:
A member of Maryland’s Board of Elections has resigned after being charged with taking part in the mob during the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol and jabbing an officer during the melee with a flagpole.
Carlos… Continue reading
“In Tense Election Year, Public Officials Face Climate of Intimidation”
NYT:
The caller had tipped off the authorities in Maine on Friday night: He told them that he had broken into the home of Shenna Bellows, the state’s top election official, a Democrat who one night earlier had disqualified former … Continue reading
Michael Morse on Voter List Maintenance in BU Law Review with Doug Spencer Response
Michael Morse has written Democracy’s Bureaucracy: The Complicated Case of Voter List Maintenance (B.U. L. Rev.):
This Article calls attention to the development and derailment of a novel cross-governmental bureaucracy for voter registration. It focuses specifically on voter registration lists… Continue reading
“How Florida Fixed Its Vote-Counting Problem After the 2000 Election”
Reason. Reminds me of this piece by Jeb Bush in the Wall Street Journal in 2020.
Manheim on electoral sandbagging
Just published in the UC Irvine Law Review: Lisa Marshall Manheim (Washington), Electoral Sandbagging.
An insidious tactic threatens elections across the United States. Some refer to it as a “bait and switch.” Others recognize a form of “election sabotage.”… Continue reading
Stewart on voting machines
Charles Stewart III (MIT), Voting Machines: Friend or Foe? Here is the abstract:
Over ninety-nine percent of all ballots cast in the 2020 presidential election were counted by a computer. It is hard to imagine that underlying such a ubiquitous… Continue reading