Politico: Monday’s Electoral College vote formalizing Joe Biden’s presidential win will be the culmination of months of orchestration by the Biden campaign to ensure minimum drama — and maximum coronavirus safety — while President Donald Trump’s flailing bid to remain… Continue reading

Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel/AP: Wisconsin faces another effort seeking to overturn the Nov. 3 presidential election — this time in the U.S. Supreme Court — as the state becomes the only one in the nation to miss a federal deadline to finalize… Continue reading

Zach Montellaro for Politico.

Sean Parnell blogs.

Kevin Johnson for The Fulcrum.

Do yourself a favor and read Franita Tolson in the NYT on the 1876 election and Samuel Randall: In the weeks leading up to Tuesday’s election, scholars and political commentators have been busy gaming out doomsday scenarios on the small,… Continue reading

Can’t wait to read this (hopefully not timely) one from Justin Levitt (forthcoming NYU L. Rev.). Here is the abstract: Questions about the state legislative role in determining the identity of presidential electors and electoral slates, and the permissible extent… Continue reading

John W. Burgess, writing in the 1888 Political Science Quarterly, recognized that the Electoral Count Act (adopted after the disputed 1876 election) provides unduly complex and contradictory set rules for choosing the president and gave too much power to the… Continue reading

New NBER working paper from Michael Geruso and Dean Spears: Extremely narrow election outcomes—such as could be reversed by rejecting a few thousand ballots—are likely to trigger dispute over the results. Narrow vote tallies may generate recounts and litigation; they… Continue reading

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