Great news for BPC. Kim is former Washington state secretary of state and was most recent working with DHS on election security. She spoke at our recent conference about fair and safe 2024 elections. Congrats all around!

Here’s my yearly roundup of election law academic hires, promotions moves, visits, accolades: Wilfred Codrington was promoted to associate professor of law at Brooklyn and awarded the additional title of Dean’s Research Scholar. He will be visiting at Texas A&M… Continue reading

Our friend Gerry Hebert, with a long and distinguished career in voting rights at the Department of Justice and at the Campaign Legal Center (not to mention his role as “Bailout King“), is ill with brain cancer. Jerry… Continue reading

LAT: Michael Berman, who shaped California politics for generations as the mastermind of Los Angeles’ vaunted “Berman-Waxman Political Machine,” died Friday. He was 75. Berman burst onto the political scene before he was old enough to vote, running Henry… Continue reading

Oregon Public Broadcasting has a deeper dive.

who is (among many other professional accomplishments) a former election law professor, and now the most recent Ninth Circuit judge.

WaPo: Roy G. Saltman, who as the federal government’s top expert on voting technology wrote a prescient butlittle-read report warning about hanging chads on punch-card ballots more than a decade before the issue paralyzed the nation during the 2000 presidential… Continue reading