“Most Secure Election Ever: Vote-by-Mail Is Here to Stay”
Governing speaks to Amber McReynolds.
Monthly Archives: November 2020
“Election Panel Set to Be Revived But Likely to Remain Deadlocked”
Ken Doyle for Bloomberg Government:
The Federal Election Commission is set to be revived after being sidelined during the most expensive election in U.S. history.Senate Rules and Administration Committee Chairman Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) scheduled a confirmation hearing for Wednesday for… Continue reading
Nov. 19 Ohio State Event: “Presidential Election Debrief: A Conversation among Election Law Scholars”
Details for the virtual webinar:
Election Law at Ohio State is honored to host a conversation among nationally-recognized election law scholars as they assess the election-related lawsuits, the certification of results in the states, and the next steps in the… Continue reading
“Trump campaign sees election lawsuits fizzle”
John Kruzel in The Hill.
“Rep. Andy Biggs wants Congress to appoint a president? How convenient”
I missed this one, from Laurie Roberts at the Arizona Republic
Yet another Arizona congressman has completely lost it over the defeat of President Donald Trump.
It’s expected and accepted that Rep. Paul Gosar lives in the land where conspiracies… Continue reading
“Facebook Knows That Adding Labels To Trump’s False Claims Does Little To Stop Their Spread”
BuzzFeed:
The labels Facebook has been putting on false election posts from President Donald Trump have failed to slow their spread across the platform, according to internal data seen by BuzzFeed News.In the aftermath of the 2020 US presidential election,… Continue reading
“Trump aims to undermine Biden’s legitimacy even as legal challenges fizzle”
CNN:
When President Donald Trump learned at the end of last week that his lawyers were dropping their lawsuit seeking a review of ballots in Arizona, the news caught him by surprise.Summoning members of his team to the Oval… Continue reading
“Trump digs in on baseless election claims even as legal options dwindle”
WaPo:
President Trump began his third straight week of angry defiance of the election results, brooding behind the scenes about the state of his campaign’s legal challenges and of Georgia’s hand recount while refusing the pleas of some advisers to… Continue reading
“Trump campaign would have to pay nearly $8 million for Wisconsin recount”
Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel:
President Donald Trump’s campaign would have to pay nearly $8 million to start a recount in Wisconsin, a state he narrowly lost two weeks ago.Trump will have to decide by Wednesday whether to carry through with the recount… Continue reading
“Why counting presidential votes is not for federal district courts”
Ned Foley:
For the past several months, Election Law at Ohio State and SCOTUSblog have teamed up to track significant election-related lawsuits with the potential to reach the Supreme Court and affect the presidential election. Now, two weeks after Election… Continue reading
Trump Campaign Tries Last Minute Substitution of Attorneys in PA Federal Case and Asks to Postpone Tomorrow’s Preliminary Injunction Hearing; Request Unsurprisingly Denied
Wow:
The new lawyer being subbed in the night before this key hearing in the Pennsylvania election case is not an election lawyer and has been a lawyer on this case for just a couple of hours.Like bringing in… Continue reading
“Election Security Experts Contradict Trump’s Voting Claims; In a public letter, 59 top specialists called the president’s fraud assertions ‘unsubstantiated’ and ‘technically incoherent.'”
NYT:
Fifty-nine of the country’s top computer scientists and election security experts rebuked President Trump’s baseless claims of voter fraud and hacking on Monday, writing that such assertions are “unsubstantiated or are technically incoherent.”The rebuttal, in a letter to be… Continue reading
“How the Court’s Decisions Limit the National Electorate”
Adam Feldman at Empirical SCOTUS.
“Georgia’s secretary of state says fellow Republicans are pressuring him to find ways to exclude legal ballots”
WaPo:
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said Monday that he has come under increasing pressure in recent days from fellow Republicans, including Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.), to question the validity of legally cast absentee ballots in an effort… Continue reading