Monthly Archives: August 2021
Hearing Monday at 10 am ET: “Oversight of the Voting Rights Act: Potential Legislative Reforms”
Over at the House Judiciary Committee.
Thank you…
to Dan Tokaji, Ned Foley, and Derek Muller, who so ably steered the ELB ship over the last six weeks. I’ll be back for a while before we have another rotation of ELB contributors.
And more great content in the… Continue reading
From Mesa County, Colorado: “Decertified election equipment could prove costly to county “
Thanks again to Rick for allowing me to take the helm for a couple of weeks. It’s now back over to him for the daily grind. My last update for the weekend comes from Mesa County. The latest, after Monday… Continue reading
“The Geography of Law: Understanding the Origin of State and Federal Redistricting Cases”
A timely piece in Political Research Quarterly:
Knowing where legal complaints arise can tell us something about them and reveal clues about their conditions of origin. In this paper, we examine the geographic origins of litigation challenging the boundaries… Continue reading
“All-mail voting in Colorado increases turnout and reduces turnout inequality”
New article from Adam Bonica, Jacob M. Grumbach, Charlotte Hill, & Hakeem Jefferson in Electoral Studies:
The COVID-19 crisis has generated interest in all-mail voting (AMV) as a potential policy solution for avoiding in-person elections. However, the quality of… Continue reading
“Hyperpartisan Campaign Finance”
An article from Michael S. Kang, forthcoming in the Emory Law Journal, now on SSRN:
Hyperpartisanship dominates modern American politics and government, but today’s politics are strikingly different from the preceding period of American history, a Cold War… Continue reading
“Two-Party Structural Countermandering”
Draft from Benjamin Plener Cover forthcoming in the Iowa Law Review now up on SSRN:
The popular narrative surrounding gerrymandering frames it as a performative phenomenon—achieved through the intentional manipulations of malevolent partisan actors. Efforts to curb partisan gerrymandering—which… Continue reading
“Elections supervisor imposes vaccine mandate for all poll workers in Broward special congressional election”
One more thing to watch in election administration in the months ahead. From the South Florida Sun-Sentinel:
Broward Supervisor of Elections Joe Scott has told poll workers that they must be vaccinated for COVID-19 if they wish to work… Continue reading
Hoover report: “Evaluating Look Ahead America’s ‘The Georgia Report’ On Illegal, Out-Of-State Voting In The 2020 Election”
New report from Justin Grimmer, Andrew B. Hall, and Daniel M. Thompson out at the Hoover Institution:
Given the critical importance of safeguarding the American electoral system, it is vital to evaluate the evidence offered for specific claims of fraud… Continue reading
“The Common Good and Voter Polarization”
New draft on SSRN by John G. Matsusaka and Chad Kendall:
Do voters see democracy entirely as a game of self-interest in which one person’s gain is another’s loss, or do they also view it as a search for… Continue reading
Harvard Law and Policy Review releases symposium issue on the Electoral College
I’ll highlight some more academic work this weekend. Up first: It was a pleasure to participate in this terrific event with a fantastic lineup! Volume 15, Issue 1 of the Harvard Law & Policy Review is here.
Lawrence Lessig,… Continue reading
“Colorado redistricting panel votes to end ‘prison gerrymandering’ in new legislative maps”
Colorado Newsline:
For the first time in the state’s history, Colorado will change how it counts incarcerated people when drawing up new legislative maps, a redistricting panel confirmed in a vote on Friday.Historically, prison inmates have been counted by… Continue reading
“Compton city councilman charged with election rigging, bribery in race decided by one vote”
Stories like this show how rare fraud is–and how hard it is to get away with even on the very smallest of scales. It’s also a low turnout, narrow margin (i.e., 1), local election, where the risk of fraud is… Continue reading