Monthly Archives: June 2022
Wisconsin: “GOP governor candidate Tim Michels won’t say whether he would certify the next presidential election”
Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel:
Former President Donald Trump’s preferred candidate for governor won’t say whether he would certify the next presidential election if Trump makes another run for the White House and again loses the key battleground state of Wisconsin. Tim Michels,… Continue reading
I Was on Meet the Press Now with Arizona SOS Katie Hobbs Talking About Today’s January 6 Committee Hearing
You can watch here (beginning around the 21 minute mark).
“David Ritter concedes Lehigh County judge race, ending a months-long battle from the 2021 election”
The Morning Call:
Attorney David Ritter conceded Tuesday in the contested 2021 election campaign for judge on the Lehigh County Court of Common Pleas after a monthslong battle over undated ballots that reached the U.S. Supreme Court.
“Congressman Hatton W. Sumners’s 1928 Amendment to the Electoral Count Act”
Josiah Daniel has posted this draft on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
Inspired by the April 4, 2022 issuance of “Principles for ECA Reform” by the working group convened by the American Law Institute, this paper makes three points. First,… Continue reading
Livetweeting Today’s January 6 Hearing
You can follow along here.
“Brad Raffensperger’s Election Contradictions”
Marilyn Marks:
Today the January 6th Committee will hear much anticipated testimony from Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger. But there is deep irony in his appearance as the Committee exposes the roles of Trump allies in attempting… Continue reading
“400 million voting records show profound racial and geographic disparities in voter turnout in the United States”
New article by Michael Barber and John Holbein in PLOS One:
One of the core tenets of a well-functioning representative democracy is that the people who vote to elect government officials are representative of the public. Here we reinforce the… Continue reading
“Election administrators go to Washington”
Politico:
FIRST IN SCORE — FLYING IN — Election workers from across the country are flying into the nation’s capital to beg Washington for two things that have vexed officials since the last election: security and funding. The… Continue reading
“America’s Vulnerable Elections”
Here’s the video of the panel discussion last Thursday, hosted by the Network for Responsible Public Policy and moderated by Pam Fessler, with Larry Jacobs, Kevin Johnson, and me. The conversation was broad, addressing not just vulnerabilities in election administration… Continue reading
New York: “FBI ballot fraud investigation shifts to GOP elections commissioner”
Times-Union:
The focus of an FBI investigation that led to the recent guilty plea of a Troy councilwoman is shifting to Jason T. Schofield, the Republican Rensselaer County Board of Elections commissioner, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter.GOP… Continue reading
“What is the Electoral Count Act, and why are people calling for reform?”
WaPo explainer.
“Politicians certifying election results is risky and unnecessary”
Kevin Johnson opinion for The Fulcrum:
In recent months, we’ve gotten a crash course in the ways that our election systems are now dangerously vulnerable to partisan interference and disorder. Numerous candidates for secretary of state deny the results… Continue reading
“Jan. 6 committee to highlight Trump’s state-level pressure to overturn the 2020 election”
Politico:
Donald Trump’s attempt to overturn the 2020 election depended on one key thing that he never received: the blessing of Republican-controlled state legislatures. But it wasn’t for a lack of trying.The select committee intends to lay out Tuesday how… Continue reading