Tierney Sneed has been absolutely terrific on the voting rights beat over at Talking Points Memo (which remains one of my go-to sources for news on voting rights and wrongs). She’s heading over to CNN’s digital team to cover justice… Continue reading
Paul Blumenthal for HuffPost:
Democrats plan to introduce legislation in the House and Senate on Tuesday to combat new laws in Republican-run states that could lead to the subversion of fair elections by partisan officials.The new bills come in response… Continue reading
From John Curiel, at Real Clear Politics:
What can be done about redistricting? Unfortunately, with moderate Sens. Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema protecting the Senate filibuster, not much at the national level. Likewise, Republicans have no reason to give… Continue reading
As ELB readers know, I have been looking for a more sustainable model for the Election Law Blog, which I began back in 2003. It’s a labor of love, but labor it is, and it gets very intense especially in… Continue reading
Another crazy, grifty, report on the 2020 election conspiracies, this one from WaPo:
Late last December, as President Donald Trump pressed senior officials to find proof of election fraud, White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows emailed acting attorney general… Continue reading
KC Star:
One Republican candidate in Missouri’s Senate race skipped the state party’s annual convention last week and traveled instead to Arizona, where he toured the site of a discredited 2020 election audit and falsely claimed it could lead to… Continue reading
Politico:
In a surprise that left Democrats from Salem to Washington baffled and angry, the state House speaker handed the GOP an effective veto over the districts in exchange for a pledge to stop stymieing her legislative agenda with delay… Continue reading
NBC News:
Some states have increased the number of votes required to pass ballot initiatives, while others expanded the spread of required petitioner signatures across the state to even bring it to the ballot. In other cases, legislators have put… Continue reading
Nick Corasantini and Reid Epstein for the NYT:
Lonnie Hollis has been a member of the Troup County election board in West Georgia since 2013. A Democrat and one of two Black women on the board, she has advocated… Continue reading
AP:
For a few hours last weekend, thousands of Donald Trump’s supporters came together in a field under the blazing Wisconsin sun to live in an alternate reality where the former president was still in office — or would… Continue reading