“Election officials brace for confrontational poll watchers”
Important reporting from the AP about the surge of election deniers signing up to be poll watchers ahead of the 2022 midterms.
Category Archives: voting
Rank Choice Voting: A Scaleable Reform?
As more jurisdictions are considering introducing rank choice voting (the issue will be on the ballot in Nevada this fall), Politico offers this long-form essay on Alaska’s experience. Can Alaska “point the way to a more moderate, more nuanced way… Continue reading
“Judge upholds Georgia election laws on all counts in voting rights case”
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that Fair Fights Action has lost its 2018 challenge to Georgia’s election laws after four years. Georgia’s voter registration and absentee ballot practices, while not perfect, the Judge concluded, did not violate either the Constitution or… Continue reading
“Where Democrats’ Grip on Minority Voters Could Slip in Midterm Elections”
Unfortunately, behind a firewall, the WSJ offers an interesting and nuanced analysis of the likely impact of increased support among voters of color for the Republican Party. The bottom line is turnout next month will be key. As per usual,… Continue reading
“Conservative activists in Georgia wage campaign to purge voter rolls ahead of November’s election”
“Activists Flood Election Offices With Challenges”
New article by Nick Corasaniti and Alexandra Berzon at N.Y. Times describes how “false theories about election fraud” underly activists efforts to purge tens of thousands of voters from the rolls in many key battleground states.
Groups in Georgia have… Continue reading
My New Article Posted on SSRN: “Election Reform: Past, Present, and Future”
I have posted on SSRN a draft of this encyclopedia article, forthcoming in the Oxford Handbook of American Election Law (Eugene Mazo, editor, forthcoming 2023). Here is the abstract:
This Chapter considers what election “reform” is and why many Americans… Continue reading
“It’s Time for Universal Voting”
EJ Dionne and Miles Rapoport in The American Prospect.
“Take Me Out to the… Voting Booth!”
Josh Douglas has this comment in Washington Monthly, combining his twin loves of baseball and voting:
It’s hard to run an election in normal times, let alone during a global pandemic and in a period of extreme political polarization. The… Continue reading
“New York City’s Noncitizen Voting Law Is Struck Down”
I blogged last year about a legal challenge to a new extension of voting rights to non-citizens in two Vermont cities. A much more significant expansion took place last fall in New York City, which also faced a similar… Continue reading
“400 million voting records show profound racial and geographic disparities in voter turnout in the United States”
New article by Michael Barber and John Holbein in PLOS One:
One of the core tenets of a well-functioning representative democracy is that the people who vote to elect government officials are representative of the public. Here we reinforce the… Continue reading
Point/Counterpoint on Mandatory Voting with Miles Rapoport and Andy Craig
Miles in the affirmative and Andy Craig in the negative.
Third Circuit Rules Undated mail ballots should be counted. Error was immaterial.
United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit ruled to today, in Migliori et al v. Lehigh County Board of Elections–a case brought by the American Civil Liberties Union–that 257 mail-in ballots that had been excluded from the 2021… Continue reading
“Mary Lou Graves, Nolen Breedlove, and the Nineteenth Amendment”
Draft from Ellen D. Katz, forthcoming in the Georgetown Journal of Law & Public Policy:
This close examination of two cases is part of a larger ongoing project to provide a distinct account of the Nineteenth Amendment. In 1921,… Continue reading