“Certified Stamp of Approval: When the Election Results Will be Final in Each State”
BPC with a useful list of how this all becomes official.
Monthly Archives: November 2020
Trump, Still Claiming Fraud, Issues Statement Saying He Will Continue to Litigate; Time for Other Republican Leaders to Step Up
Here is the Trump statement:
As I and others have explained, Trump’s litigation strategy is going nowhere. It is not going to make a difference to the election outcome.
It is time for more responsible Republican leaders to step up;… Continue reading
Breaking: Networks Call Election for Biden: What Happens Now with Trump, and His Litigation? Republicans Need to Step Up and Confirm Integrity of the Election
As I write this, some decision desks have called the election for Biden. I expect others will soon follow suit, and the math indicates a Biden win. The results will not be official until January, when Congress counts electoral college… Continue reading
I Talk to Dahlia Lithwick on the New Slate Amicus Podcast on the Election, the, State of Election Litigation, and Voting Rights Going Forward
You can listen here.
Betsy DeVos’s Former Chief of Staff Confirms No Democratic Chicanery in Detroit Vote Count
Tim Alberta (linking to this Politico piece):
This is Betsy DeVos's former chief of staff. He spent years running the Michigan GOP's election day operations. He knows the Detroit election heads personally, has intimate knowledge of the processes there,… Continue reading
“The importance of transparent elections”
Rebecca Green in the Richmond Times Dispatch.
“Federal judge blocks another attempt to stop use of signature verification machine in Clark County, slow count of mail ballots”
Trump Recount Contributions Go 50% Toward Retiring Trump Campaign Debt
Read the fine print:
If you give money to Trump's recount/postelection litigation efforts, half of that money will go towards retiring his campaign debt instead, per the fine print. pic.twitter.com/JnryvupS67— Rick Hasen (@rickhasen) November 6, 2020
Meanwhile,… Continue reading
Military Spouse in California Complains About Nevada Republicans Including Her and Her Air Force Husband Stationed in CA on List of Those Committing Voter Fraud
Here is a military spouse who the Trump campaign has baselessly accused of committing voter fraud in a Nevada lawsuit. When Christian Adams’ PILF made similar accusations calling legal voters “aliens,” they got sued and Adams had to apologize to… Continue reading
PA Democrats Tell Supreme Court That Those Late Arriving Ballots Will Have to Be Counted—At Least in State Races
Important to note that the presidency is not the only thing on the line in the dispute over late arriving mailed ballots in Pennsylvania. From the Democrats’ brief:
the ballots contain votes for state races that are not implicated… Continue reading
A Small but Important Math Point about Recounts (Plural)
Let’s say the probability of a recount in state 1 changing the result of the initially tabulated vote in favor of losing candidate B is 0.2% (I made the 0.2% figure up just for illustration). But B needs to have… Continue reading
“How Florida Became America’s Vote-Counting Model”
Jeb Bush has a very good point-by-point account of how Florida, after the 2000 Bush v. Gore debacle, dramatically modernized its election system to give us one of the best run states this year. He lists 11 changes, too much… Continue reading
How Would Donald Trump Have Done if All States Used Ranked-Choice Voting?
In the key states we are still waiting on, it looks like Libertarian candidates received considerably more votes than the margins Trump is losing by currently. These numbers can of course change, and don’t assume anywhere near all Libertarian voters… Continue reading
What Poll Watching and Ballot Processing Was Like on the Ground
This is the most in-depth story I’ve seen, from the Detroit Free Press, about how the ballot processing went on in one particularly important location, Detroit. Rick linked to it below, but I wanted to highlight that it contains all… Continue reading