Monthly Archives: May 2022

W & M’s Election Law Program is Hiring

May 10, 2022, 6:43 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

I’ve been asked to pass on this message: The Election Law Program (ELP), a joint project of William & Mary Law School and the National Center for State Courts, provides resources for judges called upon to resolve election disputes. The… Continue reading

“Ohio’s redistricting mess threatens a smooth election in November”

May 9, 2022, 5:31 pmredistrictingRick Hasen

Carrie Levine reports for VoteBeat.

Watch My Conversation with Danielle Citron About Cheap Speech, Elon Musk’s Takeover of Twitter, and the Risk of Election Subversion

May 9, 2022, 5:30 pmcheap speechRick Hasen

Great conversation:

“N.Y. Redistricting Master Holds Key to Congressional Power”

May 9, 2022, 11:26 amredistrictingRick Hasen

Bloomberg Law: For the next two weeks, one of the most powerful people in politics is a professor whose professional life has been devoted to studying demographics, political behavior, and mapping.Jonathan Cervas has until May 20 to redraw New… Continue reading

“How 6 GOP candidates shifted their tones on ‘stolen election’ claims”

May 9, 2022, 6:50 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

Aaron Blake for WaPo.

I Talked to Bloomberg’s June Grasso About My Cheap Speech Book for Bloomberg Podcast

May 9, 2022, 6:48 amcheap speechRick Hasen

You can listen here.

“Inside Mark Meadows’s final push to keep Trump in power”

May 9, 2022, 6:44 amchicanery, election subversion riskRick Hasen

WaPo: A review of Meadows’s actions in that periodby The Washington Post — based on interviews, depositions, text messages, emails, congressional documents, recently published memoirs by key players and other material — showshowMeadows played a pivotal role in advancing… Continue reading

“Ranked-Choice Voting Is More Democratic, Not Less”

May 9, 2022, 4:00 amUncategorizedRichard Pildes

This piece, in American Purpose by Peter Ackerman, Larry Diamond, Cara Brown McCormick, responds to a critique of RCV by former member of Congress Mickey Edwards. Some excerpts: Edwards’ principled view is that a two-round runoff… Continue reading

Issacharoff: “Democracy Under Total War”

May 8, 2022, 7:28 amcomparative election lawRick Hasen

New post from Sam Issacharoff: Ukraine is engaged in an existential war for survival. One need not accept the full role of the exception from Carl Schmitt to acknowledge that the struggle to withstand a brutal assault on civilians transcends… Continue reading

More on How Internally Fragmented Our Political Parties Are

May 7, 2022, 12:04 pmUncategorizedRichard Pildes

The title of this Politico story is “Idaho GOP riven by primary civil war.” An excerpt: Idaho’s dominant Republican Party is at war with itself up and down the ballot ahead of its May 17 primaries. It’s not just Gov.… Continue reading

Eliminating plurality-winner primaries?

May 7, 2022, 6:15 amUncategorizedNed Foley

Following upon on my previous post A Rational Two-Party System?, which was prompted by a N.Y. Times story on one of Ohio’s GOP primaries last week, this post is prompted by a N.Y. Times account of Nebraska’s upcoming GOP… Continue reading

Two Mayoral Candidates in Paterson, New Jersey Election Race Under Indictment for Election Fraud from Last Election

May 6, 2022, 6:15 pmabsentee ballots, chicaneryRick Hasen

Oh my.

“GOP donor described botched vote fraud probe in recording, prosecutors say”

May 6, 2022, 6:14 pmchicanery, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

WaPo: On Oct. 17, 2020, influential GOP donor Steven F. Hotze made an urgent request during a phone call with a top federal prosecutor in Texas, according to a court filing Fridayby the Houston district attorney’s office.Hotze claimed that private… Continue reading

“Dozens of mail ballots are going to a GOP ward leader’s South Philly P.O. box, raising ‘ballot harvesting’ concerns”

May 6, 2022, 5:27 pmabsentee ballots, chicaneryRick Hasen

Philadelphia Inquirer: A mail ballot mystery is unfolding at an otherwise unremarkable post office box in South Philadelphia.City elections officials last week received applications from more than three dozen Republican voters across a pocket of the neighborhood. Those applications… Continue reading