Monthly Archives: April 2022

Florida: “DeSantis-sanctioned congressional map passes after Black lawmaker sit in”

April 21, 2022, 11:36 amredistricting, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

WaPo: The Florida House gave final passage to a new congressional map blessed by Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) that favors Republicans in as many as four U.S. House seats and erases a seat held by a Black Democrat following… Continue reading

In Georgia Poll of Republican Primary Voters, Trump “Big Lie” Endorser Jody Hice Has Nearly 2:1 Lead Over Georgia SOS Brad Raffesperger, Who Stood Up to Trump’s Attempt to Overturn 2020 Election Results; Dangers of Election Subversion Ahead

April 21, 2022, 11:26 amelection subversion risk, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Landmark poll: Victories for Big Lie proponents would be very dangerous for democracy, for reasons I describe in my recent article in the Harvard Law Review Forum: Elections are already administered in many places by partisan actors who… Continue reading

I Spoke to the “Future Hindsight” Podcast About My Cheap Speech Book and American Democracy

April 21, 2022, 8:11 amcheap speechRick Hasen

Listen here.

“How Federal Departments and Agencies Can Help Secure America’s Elections”

April 21, 2022, 7:38 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

New Brennan Center report.

The “primary” link between two seemingly different stories

April 21, 2022, 7:13 amalternative voting systems, redistrictingNed Foley

Earlier this morning I blogged about the institutional structure that caused McCarthy and McConnell to cave in response to pressure from their Trump-supporting GOP base. Superficially, one might think that yesterday’s news about the federal court’s decision regarding Ohio’s redistricting… Continue reading

“Democrats Fear for Democracy. Why Aren’t They Running on It in 2022?”

April 21, 2022, 7:08 amelection subversion riskRick Hasen

NYT: One party is running on democracy and elections in 2022, and it’s not the Democrats.Despite a broad consensus on the left that the country’s most revered institutions are in trouble, with President Biden and other leaders warning gravely… Continue reading

“Barack Obama Takes On a New Role: Fighting Disinformation”

April 21, 2022, 6:55 amcheap speechRick Hasen

NYT: In 2011, President Barack Obama swept into Silicon Valley and yukked it up with Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s founder. The occasion was a town hall with the social network’s employees that covered the burning issues of the day: taxes,… Continue reading

“Democrats ramp up investigation into impact of disinformation on elections”

April 21, 2022, 6:44 amcheap speechRick Hasen

WaPo: House Democrats are seeking information from officials in key battleground states about their efforts to combat “lies and conspiracy theories” that could damage the integrity of federal elections as part of a broader investigation into the “weaponization of… Continue reading

“Subtle change may have undermined Georgia automatic voter registration”

April 21, 2022, 6:42 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

AJC: A dramatic drop in automatic voter registrations in Georgia may be caused by a government website that required potential voters to click a button before they could sign up.That’s not how automatic voter registration is supposed to work. The… Continue reading

Wisconsin: “Michael Gableman deleting records he deems ‘irrelevant or useless’ to his taxpayer-funded election review”

April 21, 2022, 6:38 amfraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel: Emails, text messages and other documents gathered and produced by a $676,000 taxpayer-funded review of the 2020 election are routinely being deleted by the former state Supreme Court justice at the probe’s helm, new court documents show. … Continue reading

Can only Congress develop procedures to evaluate disqualification of congressional candidates under Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment?

April 21, 2022, 4:41 amUncategorizedDerek Muller

There’s a robust legal debate happening outside of the pure ballot access issues in the disqualification challenges to Representative Madison Cawthorn and Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, among other challenges. Here’s Professor Josh Blackman and Professor S.B. Tillman in a New … Continue reading

McCarthy & McConnell: The Relevance of Institutions

April 21, 2022, 4:21 amalternative voting systemsNed Foley

This morning’s blockbuster N.Y. Times story by Alex Burns and Jonathan Martin, based on their forthcoming book, raises the question whether Kevin McCarthy and Mitch McConnell would have felt able to act on their immediate instincts after January 6–to… Continue reading

Breaking: Three-Judge Federal Court, Dividing on Party Lines, Allows Ohio to Use Partisan Gerrymandered Map Helping Republicans in Upcoming State Legislative Elections that Ohio Supreme Court Said Was Unconstitutional

April 20, 2022, 4:40 pmredistrictingRick Hasen

You can find the majority opinion by Judge Thapar and the dissent by Judge Marbley at this link. The dissent seems correct that this case has created perverse incentives for Ohio Republicans to run out the clock to… Continue reading

Texas: “Steven Hotze charged for funding voter fraud investigation where repairman was held at gunpoint”

April 20, 2022, 3:34 pmchicanery, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Houston Chronicle: Steven Hotze, the conservative activist who funded a private investigation into voter fraud that ended with the investigator pointing a gun at an innocent air conditioning repairman, has been indicted for his role in the episode.A Harris… Continue reading