Monthly Archives: April 2020

“Call for Papers: Elections During the COVID Pandemic”

April 21, 2020, 2:14 pmUncategorizedRick Hasen

ELJ: Manuscript Submission Deadline: June 15, 2020. Before submission, please refer to the Election Law Journal author submission guidelines.The recent primary elections in Wisconsin exposed the problems of trying to hold an election during a pandemic and demonstrated the difficulties… Continue reading

“Constitution by Convention”

April 21, 2020, 12:59 pmUncategorizedRick Hasen

Sam Issacharoff and Trevor Morrison have posted this draft on SSRN (forthcoming, California Law Review). Here is the abstract: Constitutionalism has never been exclusively reduced to the written text either in terms of its commands or its interpretation. In the… Continue reading

“Senate panel backs assessment that Russia interfered in 2016”

April 21, 2020, 11:23 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

AP: A bipartisan Senate report released Tuesday confirms the U.S. intelligence community’s conclusions that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election to sow chaos. Senators warned that it could happen again this presidential election year.The heavily redacted report from… Continue reading

Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill Shows Great Disrespect to Voter Who Asks About How Voters Are Supposed to Make Copies of Their IDs to Vote by Mail in Pandemic

April 21, 2020, 11:16 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

Just wow: https://twitter.com/Sifill_LDF/status/1252660780778037254

Must-read: “‘They should have done something’: Broad failures fueled Wisconsin’s absentee ballot crisis, investigation shows”

April 21, 2020, 11:14 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel: An investigation by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, the PBS series FRONTLINE and Columbia Journalism Investigations into Wisconsin’s missing ballot crisis reveals a system leaking from all sides, buckling under the weight of a global pandemic and partisan… Continue reading

“At least 7 new coronavirus cases appear to be related to Wisconsin’s election, Milwaukee health commissioner says”

April 21, 2020, 8:22 amelection administrationRick Hasen

Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel: Officials have identified seven people who appear to have contracted COVID-19 through activities related to the April 7 election, Milwaukee Health Commissioner Jeanette Kowalik said Monday.Six of the cases are in voters and one is a poll worker,… Continue reading

“Joe Biden Starts General Election Nearly $187 Million Behind Trump”

April 21, 2020, 8:18 amcampaign finance, campaignsRick Hasen

NYT: Joseph R. Biden Jr. and the Democratic Party could raise almost $1 million every single day between now and November, and he would still barely catch up to what President Trump and the Republican Party had in the… Continue reading

NYT Analysis: Mail Vote Favored Liberal Supreme Court Candidate in Wisconsin Election (No, This Doesn’t “Upend” Conventional Thinking About Partisanship and Mail-in Voting)

April 21, 2020, 8:16 amabsentee ballotsRick Hasen

The NY Times has posted this analysis of mail-in voting in the recent Wisconsin primary, showing that the liberal candidate for the state supreme court (favored by Democrats) did better than the conservative candidate (favored by Republicans). This is no… Continue reading

“How hard will it be to vote during the coronavirus? It depends on where you live.”

April 21, 2020, 8:06 amelection administrationRick Hasen

Philadelphia Inquirer reports.

“Two-thirds of voters back vote-by-mail in November 2020; In a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, 58 percent want election rules changed permanently.”

April 21, 2020, 8:02 amabsentee ballotsRick Hasen

NBC News: A majority of voters — 58 percent — favor nationwide reform of election rules that would allow all eligible voters to cast their ballots by mail, a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll finds. And nearly 10 percent… Continue reading

“The Simplest Way to Avoid a Wisconsin-Style Fiasco on Election Day; If voters don’t get absentee ballots on time, states can offer an easy-access write-in ballot—an option that already exists for Americans overseas.”

April 21, 2020, 7:57 amabsentee ballots, election administrationRick Hasen

Ned Foley and Steve Huefner for Politico: While states are required by federal law to accept FWABs from military and overseas voters, a version of the FWAB does not yet exist for domestic voters—essentially because the need for it previously… Continue reading

“Bloomberg’s final bill: $1B for a 104-day campaign”

April 20, 2020, 8:21 pmcampaign finance, campaignsRick Hasen

Politico: Mike Bloomberg ended his ill-fated presidential bid on March 4, but his campaign still shelled out nine figures last month anyway, taking his total spending over $1 billion in a losing run for the Democratic nomination.The billionaire’s campaign… Continue reading

New Federal Lawsuit Seeks 3-Week Delay in Georgia Primaries, and Other Measures to Protect Voters During Pandemic

April 20, 2020, 6:01 pmelection administrationRick Hasen

Release via email: Today, voting rights and election security advocates filed suit in U.S. District Court in Atlanta to seek essential changes in Georgia’s election processes during 2020 to protect voters’ constitutional rights to cast their votes safely during the… Continue reading

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