“How the 2000 Election Came Down to a Supreme Court Decision;As Florida’s electoral votes became too close to call, controversy ensued over hanging chads, dimpled chads and butterfly ballots.”
Timely from History.com.
Monthly Archives: September 2020
“White House touts unusual Justice Department announcement about ‘discarded’ Trump ballots in Pennsylvania”
Marshall Cohen for CNN:
The Justice Department said Thursday that it is investigating “potential issues with mail-in ballots” in the swing state of Pennsylvania and, in a highly unusual disclosure, revealed that several ballots marked for President Donald Trump… Continue reading
“Trump’s talk of rejecting election result evokes chaos scenarios”
LA Times:
According to a report in the Atlantic, the campaign has spoken with at least one Republican leader in Pennsylvania about the possibility of citing voting irregularities to reject a Biden win there and have the state legislature… Continue reading
“Trump And The Republicans Are Doing Everything They Can To Confuse Voters Before The Election”
BuzzFeed News reports.
Justin Levitt (Who Was a Voting Official at DOJ) on the Bizarre DOJ Press Release on an Investigation Into 9 Potentially Mishandled Ballots
Thread starts here:
An investigation here may be reasonable. But there is NO legit reason for:1) a DOJ press release on a pending investigation, that2) announces a partial list of unconfirmed facts, including3) the identity of one of the… Continue reading
October 5: “An election like no other: Getting Californians ready for November”
Looking forward to doing this event for the UC (registration required):
The 2020 election is just over a month away! This is your chance to hear directly from the experts on what Californians need to know as they get ready… Continue reading
Now Available with Free Access: Election Law Journal: Special Section: Elections During the COVID Pandemic
Very glad to be a part of this and kudos to editor David Canon and staff for getting this out so quickly:
VOLUME 19, ISSUE 3 / SEPTEMBER 2020
Special Section: Elections During the COVID PandemicFree
Three Pathologies of American Voting Rights Illuminated … Continue reading
“Election Security and Transparency in 2020”
“‘Something’s in the water’: Florida Republicans see surge in voter registration”
Politico:
Republicans have closed the traditional voter registration gap with Democrats to an historically small margin in Florida, triggering a wave of Democratic apprehension in the nation’s biggest swing state.Top Florida Democrats and longtime activists have increasingly groused in private… Continue reading
Good News: “Republican Leaders Reject Trump Hedging On Transfer Of Power”
NPR reports on these mostly positive developments:
“I’ve been complaining very strongly about the ballots. And the ballots are a disaster,” Trump said, once again pushing his unsubstantiated claims about mail-in ballot fraud.Shortly after his remarks, Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, … Continue reading
Knight Foundation: What’s Next for Tech and Democracy?
Happy to participate in this roundtable (Disclosure: Knight is generously supporting my book leave):
Midway through a year rocked by a pandemic, protests and politics, we asked leading researchers and policy thinkers: What new questions relating to technology’s impact on… Continue reading
“Republicans sue Texas governor over expanded early voting”
AP:
Republican Gov. Greg Abbott, who has refused calls to expand mail-in voting in Texas during the coronavirus pandemic, was sued Wednesday by prominent members of his own party who now want to halt the biggest change he instead ordered… Continue reading
Very Disappointing to See Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose’s Office Coordinating Policy on Voting with Noted Vote Suppressor Hans von Spakovsky
In the past I’ve found Secretary Frank LaRose of Ohio to be interested in bipartisan and commonsense approaches to election administration. He was one of the two keynotes (along with Michigan SOS Jocelyn Benson) at our February conference, “Can American… Continue reading
“Foreign Hackers Cripple Texas County’s Email System, Raising Election Security Concerns”
ProPublica:
The previously unreported attack on Hamilton illustrates an overlooked security weakness that could hamper the November election: the vulnerability of email systems in county offices that handle the voting process from registration to casting and counting ballots. Although experts… Continue reading