Monthly Archives: July 2020

“Anatomy of an Election ‘Meltdown’ in Georgia”

July 25, 2020, 1:26 pmelection administration, Election MeltdownRick Hasen

NYT deep dive: Elections workers described a cascade of failures as they struggled to activate and operate Georgia’s new high-tech voting system. Next came a barrage of partisan blame-throwing: The Republican secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger, accused the liberal-leaning… Continue reading

“As Concerns About Voting Build, The Supreme Court Refuses To Step In”

July 25, 2020, 1:21 pmSupreme Court, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Emmet Witkovsky-Eldred and Nina Totenberg for NPR: Voting rights advocates are batting 0-4 at the U.S. Supreme Court so far this year. A record number of election-related lawsuits are piling up in courts around the country as concerns mount… Continue reading

More Legal Challenges to Ranked-Choice Voting

July 25, 2020, 10:36 amUncategorizedRichard Pildes

Ever since Maine voters approved the use of ranked-choice voting, the system has been under legal attack. Here’s a story about the latest lawsuit. The Fulcrum: The latest suit argues that allowing ranked-choice voting in this fall would deny… Continue reading

“Arizona Democratic Party headquarters fire now an arson investigation”

July 24, 2020, 5:10 pmUncategorizedRick Hasen

NBC News reports.

Race-Blind Redistricting and Partisan Representation

July 24, 2020, 11:24 amUncategorizedNicholas Stephanopoulos

Yesterday I summarized my forthcoming work with Jowei Chen on the implications of race-blind redistricting for minority representation. Today I’ll talk about our partisan representation findings: how the major parties would be affected if district lines were drawn on a… Continue reading

Wisconsin: “Bipartisan Group To Promote In-Person And Mail-In Voting During Pandemic”

July 24, 2020, 10:34 amabsentee ballots, election administrationRick Hasen

WPR: A bipartisan coalition of high-level Wisconsin politicians has launched an initiative to educate voters about in-person and mail-in voting during the COVID-19 pandemic.The initiative, VoteSafe WI, supports both in-person voting and absentee voting by mail for the August… Continue reading

“Facebook ignored racial bias research, employees say”

July 24, 2020, 8:32 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

NBC News: In mid-2019, researchers at Facebook began studying a new set of rules proposed for the automated system that Instagram uses to remove accounts for bullying and other infractions.What they found was alarming. Users on the Facebook-owned Instagram… Continue reading

“All Your Most Paranoid Transfer of Power Questions, Answered”

July 24, 2020, 8:30 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

Ben Jacobs for Gen.

“With November Approaching, Election Officials Still Face Safety, Security Questions”

July 24, 2020, 7:58 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

Pam Fessler for NPR.

“8 Big Reasons Election Day 2020 Could Be a Disaster”

July 24, 2020, 7:54 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

Garrett Graff deep dive for Politico.

Watch Archived Video of Meaty and Interesting July 23 Conversation: 10th Annual UCI Law Supreme Court Term in Review

July 24, 2020, 7:44 amSupreme CourtRick Hasen

Watch here: This lively discussion reviewed the Supreme Court’s key cases decided in the October 2019 term, drawing a large audience for the virtual presentation, recorded via Zoom. Moderated by Chancellor’s Professor of Law and Political Science Richard Hasen… Continue reading

“Month-long vote count in Pennsylvania is another warning for November”

July 24, 2020, 7:41 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

NBC News reports.

“How to safeguard against the worst possible outcomes in November”

July 23, 2020, 9:09 pmelection administration, Election MeltdownRick Hasen

David Ignatius WaPo column: What can U.S. citizens do to help protect the integrity of our November presidential election, after President Trump’s refusal last Sunday to pledge he’ll accept the outcome and his unfounded claims that the election could… Continue reading

“Biden predicts that Trump will try to ‘indirectly steal’ the election”

July 23, 2020, 9:00 pmUncategorizedRick Hasen

WaPo: Joe Biden on Thursday night warned donors that President Trump will try to “indirectly steal” the 2020 election by making a case against mail-in ballots, a voting method that many are expected to use to avoid exposure to the … Continue reading