I have written this piece for Slate. It begins: Republicans filed a new lawsuit in Pennsylvania on Tuesday, and it is a window into the kind of post-election maneuvering that we could see both legally and politically should the election… Continue reading

Read the brief, asking for relief tonight, before Election Day, but limited: “Plaintiffs respectfully requests that this Court reverse the order below which found a lack of standing by Plaintiffs to challenge drive-thru voting on Election Day, and to… Continue reading

You can find the order in two parts. The reasoning was primarily about lack of standing and laches in bringing suit, something I anticipated would play a great role in this case: defendants knew this voting was going on… Continue reading

NYT: With absentee ballots flooding election offices nationwide, the officials processing them are tentatively reporting some surprising news: The share of ballots being rejected because of flawed signatures and other errors appears lower — sometimes much lower — than in… Continue reading

Brief here.

AP: Simon added that the state will not appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, though there might be cause for litigation later. He noted that while there is currently no court order that invalidates ballots arriving after Nov. 3, his… Continue reading

WaPo: Over the past five days, the on-time rate for ballots in 17 postal districts representing 10 battleground states and 151 electoral votes was 89.1 percent — 5.9 percentage points lower than the national average. By that measure, more… Continue reading

It is hard to know where to start with this opinion. The majority suggests that a consent decree extending the deadline for absentee ballots in Minnesota, entered into by the Secretary of State and plaintiffs and approved by a… Continue reading

Politico: A federal judge on Tuesday night ordered the U.S. Postal Service to reverse limitations on mail collection imposed by Trump-backed Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, giving the agency until Wednesday morning to inform workers of the court’s changes as more … Continue reading

Detroit News reports.

Brennan Center resource about what happens when a voter requests a mail ballot and then decides to vote in person, maybe because the mail ballot never arrived, maybe for other reasons. The piece covers the precautions election officials should take… Continue reading

Release: South Carolina election officials must count absentee ballots that election officials had been planning on rejecting due to an alleged mismatched signature, ensuring voters will not be disenfranchised for this reason in the upcoming November election, a South… Continue reading