Monthly Archives: June 2020

Must-Read Nate Persily: “It’s Not Too Late to Save the 2020 Election; Avoiding a debacle for U.S. democracy will require getting as many Americans as possible to vote by mail and ensuring that polling places are safe, convenient and plentiful”

June 12, 2020, 3:43 pmelection administration, Election MeltdownRick Hasen

WSJ Saturday Essay: On Tuesday, citizens in Georgia stood in lines for hours to vote—and some just gave up. The state struggled to handle its primary election, hobbled amid the coronavirus pandemic by a shortage of poll workers and polling… Continue reading

“Free Speech for Whom? And by Whom?”

June 12, 2020, 3:41 pmcampaign financeRick Hasen

Brendan Fischer and Kedric Payne blog.

“How Electronic Voting in Georgia Resulted in a Disenfranchising Debacle”

June 12, 2020, 3:39 pmUncategorizedRick Hasen

Sue Halpern in The New Yorker.

“Alaska Supreme Court Says Initiative for a Top-Four System and Campaign Finance Disclosure Does Not Violate the Single-Subject Rule, and Therefore Can be on November 2020 Ballot”

June 12, 2020, 3:36 pmballot access, campaign finance, direct democracyRick Hasen

BAN reports.

D.C. Circuit Rejects Another Challenge to Presidential Debate Committee’s Exclusion of Minor Party Candidates

June 12, 2020, 3:34 pmcampaign financeRick Hasen

Opinion here.

“Gavin Newsom’s vote-by-mail order blocked after Republicans sue over his emergency powers”

June 12, 2020, 3:31 pmUncategorizedRick Hasen

SacBee reports. The order, which lasts only for two weeks pending further hearing, suggests that the governor exceeded legislative powers in ordering that every California voter be sent a ballot. I expect that the CA Legislature will act to… Continue reading

“The media’s vital role in safeguarding elections”

June 12, 2020, 7:42 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

New report at the Columbia Journalism Review, which quotes from our report, Fair Elections During a Crisis.

“Covid-19, Election Protection, and the Youth Vote in 2020”

June 12, 2020, 7:37 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

Upcoming events from the Civics Center and Lawyers’ Committee.

“The Georgia Primary and the State of Voting Rights”

June 12, 2020, 7:28 amVoting Rights ActRick Hasen

Jeffrey Toobin in The New Yorker.

“‘It’s broken’: Fears grow about strength of US voting system”

June 11, 2020, 8:23 pmElection MeltdownRick Hasen

AP: The chaos that plagued Georgia’s primary this week is raising concerns about a potential broader failure of the nation’s patchwork election system that could undermine the November presidential contest, political leaders and elections experts say.With less than five months… Continue reading

“Georgia Havoc Raises New Doubts on Pricey Voting Machines”

June 11, 2020, 8:19 pmUncategorizedRick Hasen

NYT: As Georgia elections officials prepared to roll out an over $100 million high-tech voting system last year, good-government groups, a federal judge and election-security experts warned of its perils. The new system, they argued, was too convoluted, too expensive,… Continue reading

The list of COVID-19 election cases

June 11, 2020, 5:34 pmelection administration, Election Meltdown, The Voting Wars, votingJustin Levitt

Updated as of December 23: the post below lists 335 cases in 45 states, DC, and Puerto Rico. AND ANOTHER UPDATE: I’ve joined forces in this enterprise with the Stanford-MIT Healthy Elections Project, and a team led by Zahavah… Continue reading

“Is OAN the Leading Edge of Russian Misinformation?”

June 11, 2020, 2:44 pmcampaigns, chicaneryRick Hasen

The Atlantic: In what appears to be a signal of intensifying political warfare ahead of the November election, One America News Network, the Trump-supporting cable channel that has been promoting anti-Biden conspiracies for several months, says it has obtained… Continue reading

Federalist Society Panel on COVID-19 and the 2020 Elections

June 11, 2020, 8:54 amUncategorizedRichard Pildes

This Friday, June 12th, I’ll be participating on this panel on COVID-19 and the 2020 Elections at the National Federalist Society Convention. The Federalist Society does a good job of ensuring ideological diversity on these panels. The entire conference is… Continue reading