Category Archives: The Voting Wars
Supreme Court Has Decided at Least 65 Emergency (Shadow Docket) Election Law Cases in Last 12 Years, Including 15 Cases in the 2020 Term; The Number Could Explode after Moore v. Harper
I wanted to highlight some numbers I put together with my co-authors at Manatt for our amicus brief in the Moore v. Harper case:
The amount of emergency election-related litigation filed in this Court is already high. In the… Continue reading
“State courts are fielding sky-high numbers of lawsuits ahead of the midterms – including challenges to voting restrictions and to how elections are run”
Miriam Seifter and Adam Sopko with some interesting data on a shift from federal to state courts in terms of election litigation:
In 2020, election litigation reached a new record high, with hundreds of lawsuits filed around the presidential… Continue reading
“How votes are cast and counted is increasingly decided in courtrooms”
Patrick Marley for the NYT:
In the United States, election season has turned into lawsuit season.One legal challenge in Michigan seeks to remove thousands from the voter rolls. Two lawsuits in Wisconsin seek to have more absentee ballots counted, even… Continue reading
“Trump Allies Challenging Georgia Voters To Suppress Midterm Turnout”
Steven Rosenfeld:
On August 29, eight cartons of notarized paperwork challenging 25,000 voter registrations were delivered by pro-Donald Trump “election integrity” activists to Gwinnett County’s election offices in suburban Atlanta. They were accompanied by additional paperwork claiming that 15,000… Continue reading
“The Fight Against an Age-Old Effort to Block Americans From Voting”
ProPublica:
Even though federal law guaranteed the two women the right to have someone help them vote, Coley-Pearson knew too well that this right was under attack. For all of the recent uproar over voting rights, little attention has… Continue reading
ELB Podcast Episode 3:8: Wendy Weiser: Assessing the State of American Elections and Democracy
New ELB Podcast:
Why has it gotten harder rather than easier to vote in the United States over the past decade?What can be done about the risk of stolen elections in the United States?How have the Supreme Court’s decisions… Continue reading
“Voter ID, mail voting rollback ballot questions likely dead after court rulings”
Nevada Independent:
A pair of Carson City judges struck what appeared to be fatal blows to proposed GOP-backed voting initiatives on Monday, invalidating efforts to roll back the Democrat-backed universal vote by mail law passed in 2021 and… Continue reading
My New Essay Posted in the Harvard Law Review Forum: “Identifying and Minimizing the Risk of Election Subversion and Stolen Elections in the Contemporary United States”
The Harvard Law Review Forum has posted my new Essay, Identifying and Minimizing the Risk of Election Subversion and Stolen Elections in the Contemporary United States (see also this more readable version). Here is the Introduction:
The United States… Continue reading
“What the New Yorker Article Got Wrong About Marc Elias’s Litigation Strategy”
The author of this post sends along this follow-up:
This week’s New Yorker profile of Marc Elias was another entry in the ongoing media coverage about the role of the court system in resolving very live disputes concerning voting and… Continue reading
“Fighting Trump, Dems launch plan to elect thousands of local election supervisors”
Politico:
A Democratic candidate recruiting group is pitching donors on an ambitious three-year program to find, train and support 5,000 candidates for local offices in charge of election administration, a sprawling national effort intended to fight subversion of future… Continue reading
“With Biden’s voting rights push stalled, Georgia activists regroup”
WaPo:
For months, Georgia voting rights advocates and faith leaders warned that a new state law would drastically suppress minority turnout and pleaded with Congress to enshrine protections.But with no signs of progress in President Biden’s push for voting rights… Continue reading
“Georgia voting rights trial to begin after years of heated elections”
AJC:
One of the most prominent voting rights cases in years is going to trial Monday, testing allegations that Georgia’s election policies illegally obstructed voters from casting their ballots.The long-awaited trial will highlight complaints about voting problems in the… Continue reading
“Frustrated Michigan clerks call for election reforms: ‘Now is the time'”
Detroit News:
Two organizations that represent hundreds of Michigan clerks called on state lawmakers Monday “to set aside their agendas” and make bipartisan improvements to voting policies ahead of the November statewide election. Mary Clark, president of the… Continue reading