Monthly Archives: May 2022

“South Dakota is not following federal voter registration laws, judge rules”

May 27, 2022, 10:30 amNVRA (motor voter)Rick Hasen

Sioux Falls Argus Leader: A federal judge ruled Thursday that the South Dakota Secretary of State’s Office is not following federal laws requiring state agencies to make it easier to register to vote.Judge Lawrence Piersol, of the United States… Continue reading

Third Circuit Issues Its Opinion Signalled by Its Earlier Order Holding that Timely-Received Pennsylvania Ballots Lacking a Date Written in By Voter Must Be Counted (Relevant to Oz-McCormick Recount Too)

May 27, 2022, 10:20 amelection administrationRick Hasen

You can find the unanimous opinion, with a concurrence, at this link. The Court found that the materiality provision of the Civil Rights Act allowed a private right of action and that the failure to include the date on… Continue reading

Special Master Persily’s Proposed NH Congressional Redistricting Plan Posted

May 27, 2022, 8:42 amredistrictingRick Hasen

You can find it here.

“Democracies in the Age of Fragmentation”

May 27, 2022, 8:36 amUncategorizedRichard Pildes

I’ve posted this new essay, which is coming out in the California Law Review, on SSRN. Here’s the abstract: Democracies throughout the West are unable to marshal wide-enough support to deliver effective government. The communications revolution is one reason… Continue reading

“Three Election Law Cases and What They Mean for Democracy”

May 27, 2022, 7:08 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

NCC “We the People” Podcast: There’s a lot happening in the world of election law. From the Supreme Court’s opinion last week in FEC v. Ted Cruz, to a redistricting case in Alabama, to a North Carolina case dealing with… Continue reading

“Canadian intelligence experts are worried about the polarized, unpredictable US”

May 27, 2022, 7:03 amUncategorizedRichard Pildes

From Quartz: A new report by Canadian national intelligence experts says that country faces new threats from a once unlikely source: the United States. The paper, published by a task force that includes two former directors of the Canadian Security… Continue reading

“Feds interview Georgia Republicans who refused to serve as ‘fake’ electors”

May 27, 2022, 6:53 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

AJC: Federal investigators have interviewed several Georgia Republicans who refused to join a phony slate of GOP electors to help Donald Trump’s failed effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election.The interviews, first reported by CNN, involved at least… Continue reading

“Trump probe: Fulton grand jury prepares to hear testimony”

May 27, 2022, 6:51 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

AJC: The Fulton County District Attorney’s wide-ranging criminal investigation into efforts to overturn Georgia’s 2020 presidential election is heating up, weeks after the seating of a special purpose grand jury with subpoena power.Jurors are soon slated to hear testimony from… Continue reading

“Senate confirms Democratic nominee to FEC”

May 26, 2022, 3:32 pmfederal election commissionRick Hasen

Roll Call: The Senate voted 54-38 Tuesday to confirm Democratic political lawyer Dara Lindenbaum, whose clients included the gubernatorial campaign of Georgia Democrat Stacey Abrams, to serve on the Federal Election Commission.An election lawyer with the firm Sandler Reiff… Continue reading

Reforming the Electoral Count Act

May 26, 2022, 10:27 amUncategorizedNed Foley

I’ve written this essay for Democracy: A Journal of Ideas. It starts and ends with Odysseus and the song of the sirens. In the middle is an analysis of why Congress should constrain itself to accepting whatever results the… Continue reading

“Texas state bar files professional misconduct lawsuit against Ken Paxton for attempt to overturn 2020 presidential elections”

May 26, 2022, 7:45 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

Texas Tribune: A disciplinary committee for the State Bar of Texas on Wednesday filed a professional misconduct lawsuit against Attorney General Ken Paxton for his attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential elections in four battleground… Continue reading

Wisconsin: “Republican state elections commissioner Dean Knudson abruptly resigns, rebuking his party’s embrace of Trump’s false election claims”

May 26, 2022, 7:37 amelection administration, election subversion riskRick Hasen

Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel: A Republican member of the Wisconsin Elections Commission under fire from members of his own party for refusing to entertain 2020 election distortions stunned his colleagues Wednesday by announcing his resignation from the oversight board and blasting the… Continue reading

“How Raffensperger went from Trump outcast to MAGA vanquisher”

May 26, 2022, 7:33 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

Zach Montellaro for Politico: As former President Donald Trump was trying to end Brad Raffensperger’s political career, connecting him to conspiracy theories befitting an outlandish spy thriller, the Georgia secretary of state took heart in a different type of… Continue reading

Pam Fessler: “How to tell, and sell, the story of our elections”

May 26, 2022, 7:20 amelection administrationRick Hasen

The following is a guest post from Pam Fessler: Brad Raffensperger – famous for rebuffing Trump’s call to “find” him 11,780 votes in 2020 – might have won the Republican primary for GA secretary of state. But the effort… Continue reading