Monthly Archives: March 2020

NYT: Erik Prince, Brother of Cabinet Secretary Working with Project Veritas to Spy on Teachers Union, Congressional Campaign

March 7, 2020, 11:56 amchicaneryRick Hasen

In normal times this would be a multi-day major story: Erik Prince, the security contractor with close ties to the Trump administration, has in recent years helped recruit former American and British spies for secretive intelligence-gathering operations that included infiltrating… Continue reading

“Lawsuit settled, giving Georgia voters time to fix rejected ballots”

March 7, 2020, 11:52 amabsentee ballots, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

AJC: Georgia voters must be quickly notified when election officials reject their absentee ballots, allowing them time to correct problems and have their ballots counted, according to a settlement with the Democratic Party announced Saturday. Under the settlement in… Continue reading

I Talked to KCBS “In Depth” About My “Election Meltdown” Book and the 2020 Election

March 7, 2020, 11:42 amElection MeltdownRick Hasen

Listen here.

New in APSR: “One Person, One Vote: Estimating the Prevalence of Double Voting in U.S. Presidential Elections”

March 6, 2020, 10:46 amchicanery, election administrationRick Hasen

Sharad Goel, Marc Meredith, Michael Morse, David Rothschild, and Houshmand Shirani-Mehr have written this article for the American Political Science Review. Here is the abstract: Beliefs about the incidence of voter fraud inform how people view the trade-off between electoral… Continue reading

“Mike Bloomberg plans new group to support Democratic nominee”

March 5, 2020, 7:45 pmcampaign finance, campaignsRick Hasen

WaPo: Former New York mayor Mike Bloomberg has decided to form an independent expenditure campaign that will absorb hundreds of his presidential campaign staffers in six swing states to work to elect the Democratic nominee this fall.The group, with a… Continue reading

“Facebook Removes Misleading Trump Census Ads”

March 5, 2020, 7:41 pmcampaigns, census litigation, chicaneryRick Hasen

NYT: Facebook said on Thursday that it had removed misleading ads run by President Trump’s re-election campaign about the 2020 census, in a stand against disinformation ahead of the decennial population count that begins next week.Earlier this week, Trump Make… Continue reading

“California officials demand changes to L.A. voting after election day chaos”

March 5, 2020, 7:36 pmelection administrationRick Hasen

LAT: Perhaps no California county had more at stake in the statewide primary this year than Los Angeles, home to more voters than anywhere else in the state, and whose officials attempted to implement the new law while also … Continue reading

“How Mike Bloomberg Hid His Billions from You”

March 5, 2020, 7:29 pmUncategorizedRick Hasen

Dave Levinthal for CPI: Michael Bloomberg is extraordinarily rich. And in December, soon after becoming an extraordinarily rich presidential candidate — one required by law to publicly disclose his personal assets within one month’s time — Bloomberg pleaded plenitude.“Mr.… Continue reading

“National, Texas Democrats file lawsuit to keep straight-ticket voting for 2020 election”

March 5, 2020, 7:16 pmelection administration, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Fort Worth Star-Telegram: After some Texans waited more than six hours to cast their ballot on Super Tuesday, national and Texas Democrats filed a lawsuit Thursday to block a state law that would eliminate straight-ticket voting come November.In a … Continue reading

“Secretary of state: Expect Michigan primary results to come later”

March 5, 2020, 7:12 pmabsentee ballots, election administrationRick Hasen

Detroit News: Results from Michigan’s presidential primary election Tuesday will come later than usual, Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson cautioned during a Thursday press conference.Benson didn’t provide an estimate for how long results will be delayed after polls close Tuesday… Continue reading

“How Pennsylvania’s New Mail-in Ballot Law Could Create Election Night Chaos”

March 5, 2020, 9:50 amElection MeltdownRick Hasen

AJ Vicens for Mother Jones: Imagine this: It’s the night of November 3, 2020 and eyeballs across the country are glued to television. As results trickle in, networks begin making calls in the presidential race, filling states red for President… Continue reading

“Why Trump and the RNC are spending $10 million to fight Democrats’ voting rights lawsuits”

March 5, 2020, 9:40 amElection MeltdownRick Hasen

I have written this piece for the Monkey Cage over at the Washington Post. A snippet: I have been tracking election-related litigation brought across the country since 1996. That was four years before Bush v. Gore, in which the… Continue reading