“Bloomberg Law Brief: Florida Voter Deadline Pushed Back (Audio)”
Nate Persily and I were on Bloomberg Law radio talking to June Grasso and Greg Stohr about the latest voting litigation. Listen.
Monthly Archives: October 2016
“Podcast: The First Amendment and the freedom of expression”
National Constitution Center with Erwin Chemerinsky and Brad Smith.
“Enough already: US elections are fair”
Doug Chapin and Larry Jacobs in The Hill:
We’re hearing lots of talk lately about how “hacking” threatens our elections or that results are “rigged” and how, consequently, Americans can’t trust the outcome of votes held under the current system.… Continue reading
“Libertarians and Greens Can Win—Even If They Lose”
Derek Muller has written this WSJ oped, with the subhead: “Should the Johnson or Stein campaigns earn 5% of the popular vote, their parties could receive public funding in 2020.”
It seems odd to me that Derek’s post does not… Continue reading
Judge Peterson Issues Order to Try to Fix WI Voter ID Softening
As Patrick Marley tweeted, Judge Peterson has now issued a written order related to how to fix the problems with the Wisconsin voter id softening (see his earlier story). From the order:
As the court explained during… Continue reading
“He says he won’t quit, so how do you solve a problem like Donald Trump?”
National Post reports.
“Ohio does not want to add most illegally purged voters back to the rolls”
Think Progress:
A few weeks ago, a federal court declared Ohio’s purge of Harmon and more than one million other inactive voters illegal. Since then, the state and voting rights groups have been negotiating a settlement to allow most of… Continue reading
“Judge refuses to require more early voting in N Carolina”
AP: “A judge has refused to order North Carolina officials to expand early in-person voting in five counties after some voters alleged the counties’ voting schedules didn’t comply with a court’s ruling last summer over ballot access.”
The Russian Hack of U.S. Election Systems is About Delegitimizing, Not Changing, the Result, and It Feeds Trump Vote-Rigging Claim
The headlines over the last few weeks are suggesting Russian “hacks” of U.S. election systems. But the kinds of election systems hacked are not the ones that would change election results (at least so far). Instead, I think the Russians… Continue reading
“How Evan McMullin Could Win Utah And The Presidency; It’s unlikely, but far from impossible”
The Menagerie that is Wisconsin’s Voter ID Law/Litigation
“What If Trump Won’t Concede?”
Noah Rothman for Commentary.
“Conservative group may have broken Fla. law in secret recording of Clinton campaign voter-registration shenanigans”
Politico:
The conservative Project Veritas group might have broken Florida law by secretly shooting video of Hillary Clinton staffers making crude comments and discussing the destruction of Republican voter-registration forms.
The video was shot recently by a Project Veritas mole… Continue reading
Two Dissents Now Filed in 6th Circ. Refusal to Take OH Provisional Ballots Case En Banc
On October 7th, I noted that the 6th Circuit refused to take a controversial Ohio voting case en banc. Then the court promised some opinions to follow. You can now read the two dissenting opinions here.