Monthly Archives: November 2019
“An Inconclusive 2020 Election Night Is Already Looming”
Jonathan Bernstein for Bloomberg Opinion.
Congratulations to Derek Muller
who will be moving to Iowa Law School in the fall. Iowa is one lucky place!
“Make America Great Again” Shirt on Poll Worker and the Ban on Electioneering
From Newsday’s report of New York voting:
One of the issues made a splash in social media. Some voters complained that a poll worker in Remsenburg wore a blue shirt with the slogan “Make America Great Again” emblazoned on the… Continue reading
Kentucky: “Senate president says Bevin should concede election if recanvass doesn’t alter vote totals”
Courier-Journal:
Republican Senate President Robert Stivers believes Gov. Matt Bevin should concede his loss to Democrat Andy Beshear if next week’s recanvass doesn’t significantly change the vote totals.“It’s time to call it quits and go home, say he had a… Continue reading
“Mitch McConnell has to condemn this power grab”
Josh Douglas on Bevin and the Kentucky governor’s race.
Bevin Supporter Fishing for Voter Fraud Evidence They Don’t Have Through Robocalls That May Mislead Voters Into Thinking They Are Coming from Kentucky Board of Elections
Courier Journal:
Conservative political activist Frank Simon, a longtime supporter of Gov. Matt Bevin, is sending robocalls asking Kentuckians to report suspicious activity or voter fraud to the State Board of Elections before Nov. 14 — the day of Bevin’s… Continue reading
Trump, Bevin, and the Voter Fraud Dog That Didn’t Bark
Yesterday at Slate I wrote about how Kentucky governor Matt Bevin has so far made unsubstantiated claims that voter fraud and other irregularities cost him the election against his Democratic opponent Andy Beshear, and that the Kentucky Senate President made… Continue reading
“Congressional Democrats to Revive Equal Rights Amendment Push”
NYT:
Democrats, buoyed by their party’s electoral sweep in Virginia this week, plan on Friday to revive the Equal Rights Amendment in Congress, embarking on what they hope is a final push to add the nearly century-old measure to enshrine… Continue reading
“The Cybersecurity 202: Swing state election websites aren’t secure against Russian hacking, McAfee says”
WaPo:
County election websites in two battleground states are highly vulnerable to hacking by Russia or another adversary that might seek to disrupt the 2020 vote by misleading voters about polling locations or spreading other false information. About 55 percent… Continue reading
xkcd Voting Referendum
Michael Rosin and David Post File Amicus Brief in Supreme Court Urging It to Take Washington State Faithless Elector Case
Mississippi: “Black Democrat Wins in Redrawn District After Racial Gerrymander Case”
Jackson Free Press:
Even as Republicans swept statewide offices in Mississippi on Tuesday night, Joseph Thomas, an African American Democrat in a district that stretches across six counties, narrowly flipped a GOP-held Senate seat. Earlier this year, a federal court… Continue reading
“The Anti-Carolene Court”
Here’s the abstract for a new article of mine arguing that Rucho — along with much of the Court’s other election law jurisprudence — should be understood as the product of the Court’s aversion to Carolene Products-style pro-democratic judicial review.… Continue reading