Monthly Archives: February 2020

“Americans Were Already Primed To Distrust Elections. Then Came Iowa.”

February 11, 2020, 8:13 pmElection MeltdownRick Hasen

538: When the Iowa caucuses went to hell in a handbasket last week, they probably took some of Americans’ last morsels of trust in the political system down too. But when I asked political scientists and psychologists about the… Continue reading

“PolitiFact California: There’s A Lot Of Misinformation About California’s March Primary Election. Here Are The Facts.”

February 11, 2020, 8:08 pmUncategorizedRick Hasen

See here.

“Should Members Of The Electoral College Be Allowed To Vote Their Conscience?”

February 11, 2020, 7:56 pmelectoral collegeRick Hasen

Listen to Texas Public Radio: The Electoral College has the ultimate decision-making power when choosing the next president and members are supposed to — and in some states required to — vote for the winner of their state’s popular vote.… Continue reading

KPCC Airtalk: “‘Election Meltdown’ Addresses Failures In American Elections, And Where We Go From Here”

February 11, 2020, 2:25 pmElection MeltdownRick Hasen

Great discussion with Larry Mantle about my new book, Election Meltdown. Listen.

“Foreign interference in elections is unacceptable. Congress must make it illegal.”

February 11, 2020, 2:23 pmUncategorizedRick Hasen

Jeffrey Smith and John Bellinger WaPo oped.

“The Impact of Partisan Gerrymandering on Political Parties”

February 11, 2020, 10:34 amUncategorizedNicholas Stephanopoulos

My article with Chris Warshaw on how partisan gerrymandering impedes numerous party functions — candidate recruitment, fundraising, appealing to voters, and so on — is now up on the Legislative Studies Quarterly website. The abstract is below: The relationship between… Continue reading

“Why Ranked-Choice Voting Is Having a Moment”

February 11, 2020, 7:51 amalternative voting systemsRick Hasen

NYT reports.

“The Cybersecurity 202: Iowa’s app fiasco worries mobile voting advocates”

February 11, 2020, 7:49 amelection administration, voting technologyRick Hasen

WaPo reports.

“Trump Brings Up Debunked Claim of Democratic Voter Fraud at New Hampshire Rally”

February 11, 2020, 7:47 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

New York reports.

“After Iowa, Americans Should Get Used to Slow Elections”

February 11, 2020, 7:43 amElection MeltdownRick Hasen

AJ Vicens for Mother Jones: He points to the 2018 midterm Congressional elections in California as a prime example. In that case, late-arriving absentee ballots flipped what preliminary and incomplete counts made look like Republican wins to their Democratic opponents.… Continue reading

“Alive and Well: Voter Suppression and Election Mismanagement in Alabama”

February 11, 2020, 7:39 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

New report from the SPLC.

“Nevada Democrats to Use Scannable Ballot for Early Voting, iPad with Google Forms to Check In

February 11, 2020, 7:37 amelection administrationRick Hasen

Nevada Independent: Nevada Democrats will replace their app-based early voting process for the caucus with a scannable paper ballot, the first concrete details to emerge about the new process the party is designing in the wake of Iowa’s problem-plagued contest… Continue reading

“Trump’s latest rally stunts are designed to get you to surrender”

February 11, 2020, 7:26 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

Really smart column from Greg Sargent.

Illinois: “Voter registration error risks deportation for immigrants”

February 10, 2020, 3:18 pmelection administrationRick Hasen

AP: The day Margarita Del Pilar Fitzpatrick applied for an Illinois driver’s license upended her life. When a clerk offered to register her to vote in 2005, the Peruvian citizen mistakenly accepted, leading to long legal battles and eventually deportation.A… Continue reading