Doug Chapin: Over the weekend – a little more than three years after its initial release – the report of the Presidential Commission on Election Administration (PCEA), and the rest of its work, was no longer available online after the … Continue reading
Category Archives: PCEA (Bauer-Ginsberg Commission)
Democracy Fund: The United States’ electoral system has always been imperfect — a work in progress. And yet the health of our democracy depends on the quality of our elections. All over the country, we entrust local officials to run … Continue reading
Doug Chapin: My major disagreement with the two critiques is the apparent assumption that the outcome of next year’s presidential election will matter in the ongoing fights over election policy. First of all, the federal government has little if any … Continue reading
Bauer and Ginsberg blog at the Bipartisan Policy Center blog: “The 2016 presidential election campaign is officially underway. Millions of votes will be cast in the primaries and general election. Both parties will contest these elections vigorously, but both parties … Continue reading
Looks like a great event Friday at the Bipartisan Policy Center. [bumping to top with corrrected link] … Continue reading
Check it out, guest edited by Doug Chapin. … Continue reading
Details of March 19 event and link to webcast. It’s an A list of participants. … Continue reading
Release: The Center for New York City Law, the Institute for Information Law and Policy, and the Impact Center for Public Interest Law Present: A Panel Discussion Featuring: Robert Bauer, Partner, Perkins Coie LLP; former Co-Chair of the Presidential Commission … Continue reading
See the letters. [corrected link] More from Matt Weil of Bipartisan Policy Center. … Continue reading
I was lucky enough to be at the excellent APSA panel Rick Hasen organized on the President’s Commission on Election Administration (and unlucky enough to be staying at the fire-plagued Marriot). I though I’d say a few words about the … Continue reading
[Bumping to the top with the meeting this week.] Bruce Cain and I are happy to announce two programs for the law and political process study group at APSA in Washington DC. Both are on Saturday, August 30. Here are … Continue reading
Press release: Building on the successful efforts of the Presidential Commission on Election Administration, the Bipartisan Policy Center’s (BPC) Democracy Project today announced that it will work to implement the commission’s recommendations. Tammy Patrick, a former member of the commission … Continue reading
A ChapinBlog. … Continue reading
After tonight’s great event at the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics on the State of Voting in America (I will post a webcast link when available), Monday brings this big symposium on the Bauer-Ginsberg Commission. … Continue reading
Doug Chapin: “in a field where consensus is often in short supply, it’s encouraging to see that a key political and policy voice like the RNLA finds more than a few things to like in the PCEA report.” … Continue reading
The report and the press release. From the executive summary: While RNLA agrees with a majority of PCEA’s recommendations, we caution against the Commission’s recommendation that states embrace expanded early voting as a solution to the systemic election administration problems … Continue reading
Press release via email: BOXER, NELSON INTRODUCE LEGISLATION TO ENSURE VOTERS WAIT NO LONGER THAN THIRTY MINUTES TO VOTE ‘LINE Act’ Will Help Implement the Recommendation of the Bipartisan Presidential Commission on Election Administration Led by Counsels to the Romney … Continue reading
Pam Fessler reports for NPR on Bauer and Ginsberg’s testimony about the PCEA before the Senate Rules Committee. She also notes the EAC nominations of Hicks and Perez were put off for lack of a quorum. … Continue reading
As previously noted, the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration is going to hear from Mr. Bauer and Mr. Ginsberg on Feb. 12 at 10 am about the recommendations of the Presidential Commission on Election Administration. But now on Feb. … Continue reading
For Feb. 12. … Continue reading
WaPo Editorial on Bauer-Ginsberg. … Continue reading
USA Today: The 2000 presidential election recount resulted in an outpouring of $3 billion in federal funds for states, counties and municipalities to buy new voting equipment, through the Help America Vote Act of 2002. A decade later, “machines that … Continue reading
Christopher Thomas (Michigan’s director of elections and member of the PCEA) has written this article (posted with permission) from the Michigan Bar Journal. … Continue reading
Earlier today, Heritage Sr. Legal Fellow John Malcolm and I had a lively discussion on the Voting Rights Amendment Act and the Presidential Commission on Election Administration’s recommendations on NPR’s Tell Me More. You can listen here. My take in … Continue reading
BLT (or what used to be BLT) reports. … Continue reading
Ben Jacobs on Bauer-Ginsberg. … Continue reading
A Chapinblog. … Continue reading
Read. The RNLA also links to this statement from Rep. (and former Michigan SOS) Candice Miller, who chairs the House Committee on Administration and has been a vocal opponent of any federal role in elections (aside from helping military voters. … Continue reading
Editorial. NYT news coverage. … Continue reading
Tom Mann and Raffaela Wakeman blog. … Continue reading
Demos NAACP Brennan Center LWV So far, I don’t see any statement from True the Vote, Todd Rokita, Kris Kobach, or others who might criticize report from the right. I will update with more statements when I get them. UPDATE: … Continue reading
Nate Persily writes for The Monkey Cage. … Continue reading
The LA Times reports. … Continue reading
Pam Fessler reports for NPR. Ohio SOS Jon Husted, a Republican, expresses support for #PCEA. … Continue reading
Steve Benen: In this sense, the new non-partisan commission represents something of a challenge to Republican policymakers at every level: you can make it easier or harder for Americans to participate in their own democracy. This panel concluded that “no … Continue reading
Do we really want to make elections better? I remain a pessimist about this. To the extent that states want to make it easy for everyone to vote and are willing to devote the resources to achieve that, it’s great … Continue reading
TPM reports. … Continue reading
Jeff Toobin inside the Bauer-Ginsberg Commission. … Continue reading
Moments ago, the Presidential Commission on Election Administration released its report, which is here. We’ve already got thoughts from Rick Hasen, Heather Gerken, and Rick Pildes. At 2:30 pm ET today, immediately after meeting with President Obama, the co-chairs of … Continue reading
The President’s Commission on Election Administration just released its report, and it offers something we don’t often see in policymaking circles these days: sanity. The report provides a knowledgeable, balanced overview of what ails our system, and its recommendations are … Continue reading
The Presidential Commission on Election Administration, headed by Democratic lawyer Bob Bauer and Republican lawyer Ben Ginsberg, and staffed by senior research director Stanford’s Nate Persily, is meeting with President Obama today and releasing its report to the public. The … Continue reading
USA Today: “Obama had been scheduled to receive a report from the Presidential Commission on Election Administration, but that event has been postponed because of the weather.” … Continue reading
Mike Allen: “THE PRESIDENT’S WEEK AHEAD: “On Tuesday, the President and the Vice President will meet with members of the Presidential Commission on Election Administration.” … Continue reading
According to a statement issued by the Presidential Commission on Election Administration (PCEA, or more colloquially, Bauer-Ginsberg for its chairs Bob Bauer and Ben Ginsberg), the Commission is expected to release its report some time in January. When it comes … Continue reading