NYT profile of Marc Elias: Mr. Elias is perhaps best known for his role in helping to deliver a handful of previous recounts to Democrats, including in the bitterly fought two-month battle over a Minnesota Senate election in 2008 that… Continue reading

…is now available at this link.

I ran my own study last week, but here’s Brian Leiter’s today, reaching essentially the same results.

The Hill: For more than four decades, when Republicans needed strategic advice drawing political boundaries, the party turned to a small cadre of expert cartographers, trained in the rare art of redistricting. At the heart of that group was Tom … Continue reading

The latest Sisk et al study of scholarly impact and the work of Brian Leiter on scholarly rankings considers the scholarly impact of law school faculty based upon citations in law reviews. (I recently wrote about how my young… Continue reading

Doug announces: Seven years ago, I joined the University of Minnesota to help build and launch the Humphrey School’s election work – and over that time, we’ve built a master’s- and undergraduate-level Certificate in Election Administration program that’s reaching… Continue reading

Sad news from Philadelphia.

Here’s my yearly roundup of election law academic hires, promotions moves, visits, accolades: Ellen Aprill has been given the Outstanding Academic Award for 2018 for distinguished academic achievement in the nonprofit section by the Nonprofit Organizations Committee of the American… Continue reading

I’ll post updates on my Twitter account (@Title52law) while Rick is out this week. And don’t worry, I almost never use it for anything else.

In an earlier post, I linked to a story and posted a picture of an endorsement letter in a South Dakota AG’s race where former FEC Commissioner Lee Goodman is identified as the “Chairman” of the FEC. Former Commissioner Goodman… Continue reading

McClatchy: The nation’s largest voting equipment vendor has for at least nine years coaxed state and local elections officials to serve on an “advisory board” that gathers twice annually for company-sponsored conferences, including one last year at a ritzy Las… Continue reading

Every work day I rely on the excellent work of Ken Doyle.  So I find this notice in today’s report very distressing: Notice to Subscribers Bloomberg BNA will cease publishing Money & Politics Report with the issue dated June 29,… Continue reading

Congrats to Fred Wertheimer, celebrating 50 years of advocacy! I received the following release from Common Cause about an event tonight: One of Washington’s most well-known advocates, Fred Wertheimer, will be celebrated by friends, media, and members of Congress Thursday… Continue reading