Monthly Archives: November 2020
“Twitter names 7 outlets to call election results”
Axios:
Twitter on Monday provided more details about its policies around tweets that declare election results, and named the seven outlets it will lean on to help it determine whether a race is officially called.Driving the news: The list includes… Continue reading
“Has the Court Learned Nothing From Bush v. Gore? Apparently Not”
David Kaplan NYT oped.
Number of Rejected Absentees so Far in NC: 7,675
North Carolina has a lower percentage of votes being cast absentee than many states. According to the most recent data, about 21% of the votes cast thus far have been by absentee ballot, with the rest coming from early in-person… Continue reading
“Biden camp quietly raises money for post-election court brawl”
“Trump Legacy: Boom in Corporate Political Disclosure”
New from Bruce Freed, Karl Sandstrom, and Dan Carroll:
How has the Trump presidency impacted corporate political disclosure and accountability? The answer might come as a surprise. It’s been a boon and a boom.Over the past four years, more large… Continue reading
“How Trump-appointed judges have made it harder to vote”
Josh Douglas at CNN:
In at least 18 cases this year, federal trial courts ruled in favor of plaintiffs and put on hold various election rules, often due to the challenges of voting during the pandemic, only to see federal… Continue reading
“‘America Is a Republic Not a Democracy’ Is a Dangerous—and Wrong—Argument; Enabling sustained minority rule at the national level is not a feature of our constitutional design, but a perversion of it.”
George Thomas for The Atlantic.
I Was on PBS Talking to Ian Bremmer for GZero World About Our Current Election Mess and What It Will Take to Get to the Other Side (Video)
You can watch here.
“Polarized electorate, mail-in ballots could spark post-election legal ‘fight of our lives'”
“A Giant Test for Election Law”
I spoke with Mary Harris of Slate’s “What’s Next” podcast about the state of play in the courts.
A literal Fraudulent Fraud Squad: “The Trump Campaign’s Chaotic Closing Strategy”
McKay Coppins for The Atlantic:
In the coming days, thousands of pro-Trump poll watchers are set to fan out across battleground states—smartphones in hand—and post themselves outside voting locations to hunt for evidence of fraud. This “army” has been coached… Continue reading
County Election Administrators, the Unsung Heroes of This Election
See this story in the NYT, focusing on one official in a small county in PA.
Misleading Headlines With Bad Political Consequences
In advance of a possible Susan Collins loss in Maine, the headline writers at the New York Times and Washington Post are blaming Maine’s ranked-choice voting system (don’t blame the authors of these stories, they do not control the headlines).… Continue reading