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Category Archives: election administration
AJC: Georgia elections officials postponed the presidential primary scheduled for next week because of the coronavirus pandemic, becoming the second state forced to push back a vote in the race for the White House due to the outbreak.The state rescheduled … Continue reading
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Arizona Capitol Times: A Superior Court judge has stopped Maricopa County Recorder Adrian Fontes from sending ballots to all voters who aren’t on the early voters list for Tuesday’s Presidential Preference Election. Attorney General Mark Brnovich filed suit Friday for the … Continue reading
COVID-19 and Elections –brand new. Election Emergencies—from 2018, updated this week. On that first page, some policy options: Policy Options As legislators work to ensure fair elections in times of public health emergencies, they may look for policy options. NCSL does … Continue reading
I have written this piece at Slate. It begins: On Friday, Louisiana became the first state to announce it would be postponing its April 4 presidential primary. Meanwhile, officials in the next four states to hold primaries announced the votes would go forward this … Continue reading
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Dale in NYT Opinion: We can take four simple steps to reduce the risk of disenfranchisement:Ramp up public education on voting by mail. The good news is that in most states, eligible voters can already vote by mail. Thirty-three states and … Continue reading
Boston Globe: Sudden changes to election procedures could lead to long lines and confusion, Hasen said.“You’ve got to have good planning, and you have to have good messaging. If people don’t know where to go, then they can be disenfranchised,” … Continue reading
Press release by email: U.S. Senator Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today introduced a bill to address the risks to American voters and elections posed by the coronavirus (COVID-19), and other outbreaks of infectious diseases or natural disasters.If 25 percent of states … Continue reading
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NYT: Just how big a public health emergency the virus will become remains unknown. But the virus is already affecting the primaries in complications for voters overseas, canceled party fund-raisers and polling places that opened late on Super Tuesday because worried poll workers failed to … Continue reading
WaPo: Just as the presidential primary season began, a government watchdog warned the Trump administration that it “urgently needed” to address problems with election security infrastructure.The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), part of the Department of Homeland Security, was … Continue reading
Sharad Goel, Marc Meredith, Michael Morse, David Rothschild, and Houshmand Shirani-Mehr have written this article for the American Political Science Review. Here is the abstract: Beliefs about the incidence of voter fraud inform how people view the trade-off between electoral … Continue reading
LAT: Perhaps no California county had more at stake in the statewide primary this year than Los Angeles, home to more voters than anywhere else in the state, and whose officials attempted to implement the new law while also rolling out a … Continue reading
Fort Worth Star-Telegram: After some Texans waited more than six hours to cast their ballot on Super Tuesday, national and Texas Democrats filed a lawsuit Thursday to block a state law that would eliminate straight-ticket voting come November.In a federal lawsuit filed in … Continue reading
Detroit News: Results from Michigan’s presidential primary election Tuesday will come later than usual, Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson cautioned during a Thursday press conference.Benson didn’t provide an estimate for how long results will be delayed after polls close Tuesday … Continue reading
Jill Cowan for NYT’s California Today. … Continue reading
LAT: Inadequate staffing, poor communications and balky technology turned election day in Los Angeles County into an anxious quagmire for many voters, whose complaints triggered calls Wednesday by one member of the Board of Supervisors for a “forensic autopsy” on … Continue reading
Texas Tribune: Not even 24 hours later, a university forged during segregation would instead become the epicenter of the challenges and complications often faced by communities of color when they attempt to make themselves heard in Texas. Too few voting … Continue reading
AP: A Georgia county has opted to ditch the state’s new voting machines and switch to hand-marked paper ballots during early voting for the March presidential primary, despite a warning from the county’s attorney that the decision could result in … Continue reading
LAT: Los Angeles County’s new voting system was marked by long lines, snafus and growing anger among voters, with some waiting hours to cast ballots that continued well into the night.“This was a challenging day for a lot of voters in … Continue reading
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Ned Foley and Charles Stewart have posted this draft on SSRN. Here is the abstract: We conduct statistical analysis of a phenomenon identified by Foley (2013), the rise in the number of votes counted after Election Day (“overtime votes”) and … Continue reading
Bad news in the AJC: The State Election Board voted unanimously Friday to conduct recounts of Georgia’s new paper ballots with scanning machines instead of people.The board approved an elections rule that requires recounts to rely on bar codes, despite opposition from … Continue reading
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Steven Rosenfeld with a cautionary tale about data entry error and democracy. … Continue reading
Reuters: Dominican Republic’s nationwide municipal elections were suspended only four hours after voting began on Sunday due to a glitch in the electronic voting system, officials said.More than 7.4 million voters were due to vote to elect 3,849 positions in … Continue reading
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Miami Herald: Less than five weeks before Florida’s March presidential primary, the Department of Homeland Security is investigating a previously unreported cyber attack on Palm Beach County’s elections office, according to Supervisor of Elections Wendy Sartory Link.Link, who was appointed last year by … Continue reading
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Nevada Independent: Nevada Democrats will replace their app-based early voting process for the caucus with a scannable paper ballot, the first concrete details to emerge about the new process the party is designing in the wake of Iowa’s problem-plagued contest … Continue reading
AP: The day Margarita Del Pilar Fitzpatrick applied for an Illinois driver’s license upended her life. When a clerk offered to register her to vote in 2005, the Peruvian citizen mistakenly accepted, leading to long legal battles and eventually deportation.A … Continue reading
Detroit News: Michigan clerks should have been ready to mail absentee ballots to voters on Jan. 30, the state’s elections director indicated in an email to clerks on Thursday, a day after The Detroit News reported concerns about delays in … Continue reading
NYT deep dive: The fragile edifice of the caucuses, which demoralized Democrats in search of a strong nominee to take on President Trump, crumbled under the weight of technology flops, lapses in planning, failed oversight by party officials, poor training, … Continue reading
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Ned Foley has posted this timely draft on SSRN. Here is the abstract: In the wake of President Trump’s acquittal in the Senate impeachment trial, the United States will need to hold a presidential election in unprecedented circumstances. Never before … Continue reading
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I have written this piece as the Saturday Essay for the weekend Wall Street Journal. It begins: Will your vote be fairly and accurately counted in the 2020 elections? It’s a question on a lot of people’s minds after this … Continue reading
Arizona SOS Katie Hobbs has written this oped for the Arizona Republic. … Continue reading
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Well-timed conference at Georgetown Friday that I unfortunately was unable to attend. It looks very important. … Continue reading
KC Star: Kobach condemned the bill Wednesday, saying it’s based on “the illusion that a politician elected in an election without party labels somehow loses all preferences and principles.”“All it would do is make it less clear what that person … Continue reading
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WaPo: The biggest security lesson from last night’s Iowa caucuses: It doesn’t take a hack for technology to undermine confidence in an election. The spectacular failure of a mobile app that was supposed to forward caucus results last night — which are … Continue reading
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You can listen to the second episode of the Election Meltdown podcast (in conjunction with Dahlia Lithwick and Slate Amicus) at this link. (Episode 1 is here.) This episode focuses on issues of election administration in Detroit, speaking to journalist … Continue reading
Politifact on the dubious claim of a North Carolina gubernatorial candidate. … Continue reading