Monthly Archives: October 2020
“California Republicans spark national feud over ‘harvesting’ ballot boxes”
Politico:
Behind the brewing legal battle is a nationally reverberating dispute over a 2016 California law authorizing third parties to collect filled-out mail ballots from voters and submit them to elections officials. Republicans here and in Washington have excoriated… Continue reading
Anyone Thinking About Partisan Gerrymandering These Days?
If not, you will be soon enough. To get you in the spirit, Prof. Derek Muller and I will be debating partisan gerrymandering later tonight for the University of Utah’s 37th Annual Jefferson B. Fordham Debate, with link for… Continue reading
“The election is in 19 days. The legal battles have already begun.”
Alabama SOS John Merrill Asks Supreme Court to Kill Curbside Voting
“Adelsons pour $75M into last-ditch effort to save Trump”
Politico:
Casino mogul Sheldon Adelson and his wife Miriam Adelson gave $75 million to a super PAC that flooded battleground states with anti-Joe Biden ads in September, a huge investment from the GOP megadonors as President Donald Trump slipped in… Continue reading
Sixth Circuit Panel on Party Line Vote, Over Stinging Dissent by Judge Moore, Rejects Challenge to Tennessee’s Absentee Ballot Verification Procedures
The majority decides the case primarily on standing grounds.
From Judge Moore’s dissent:
Make no mistake: today’s majority opinion is yet another chapter in the concentrated effort to restrict the vote. See, e.g., Raysor v. DeSantis, 140 S. Ct. 2600… Continue reading
“ActBlue’s stunning third quarter: $1.5 billion in donations”
Politico:
Democratic candidates and left-leaning groups raised $1.5 billion through ActBlue over the last three months — a record-smashing total that reveals the overwhelming financial power small-dollar donors have unleashed up and down the ballot ahead of the 2020 election.From… Continue reading
Possible Good News in PA
There are some signs PA’s legislature and Governor might be moving toward a compromise that would permit election officials to start processing absentees before Election Day. Far from a done deal, but some positives signs and I’ve heard the local… Continue reading
“Learning From Paterson’s Election Scandal to Prevent Voter Fraud”
NBC News New York video report:
Recent election fraud problems in Paterson are being used by President Trump to question vote-by-mail ballots, but election experts say the problems there are the exception rather than the rule. NBC New York’s… Continue reading
Must-read: “For Trump’s ‘rigged’ election claims, an online megaphone awaits; sizable online network built around the president is poised to amplify claims about a rigged election, adding reach and enthusiasm to otherwise evidence-free allegations.”
NBC News:
The idea of a rigged election has already taken hold in Trump’s fervent online base, a horde of digital activists who dutifully share links from right-wing blogs and junk news sites and turn the president’s message into memes.Trump’s… Continue reading
“Small Donor Public Financing Could Advance Race and Gender Equity in Congress”
Federal Court Rips Georgia’s Arguments Seeking Stay of Order on Paper Backups of ePollbook Data, Says Georgia’s Arguments Come from “The Twilight Zone”
Judge Totenberg pulls no punches.
Long Lines in Georgia’s Early Voting Attributed at Least in Part to Slow Statewide Voter Registration System for Checking in Voters
AJC:
Voting slowed to a crawl across Georgia this week in large part because of check-in computers that couldn’t handle the load of record turnout at early voting locations.The problem created a bottleneck as voters reached the front of… Continue reading