Monthly Archives: September 2022

“Videos Show Trump Allies Handling Georgia Voting Equipment”

September 20, 2022, 8:16 amchicanery, election subversion risk, voting technologyRick Hasen

NYT: Newly released videos show allies of former President Donald J. Trump and contractors who were working on his behalf handling sensitive voting equipment in a rural Georgia county weeks after the 2020 election.The footage, which was made public as… Continue reading

“Trump’s ‘big lie’ fueled a new generation of social media influencers”

September 20, 2022, 7:58 amcheap speechRick Hasen

WaPo: The 2020 election and its turbulent aftermath fueled a powerful generation of online influencers, a Washington Post data analysis has found, producing sky-high follower counts for an array of conservatives who echoed Trump’s false claims of election fraud, known… Continue reading

“Scholars Ask Congress to Scrap Winner-Take-All Political System”

September 20, 2022, 7:53 amalternative voting systemsRick Hasen

NYT: If there’s one thing we know about America’s creaking democracy, it’s this: Whenever it seems fundamentally broken, people get together to try to fix it.That’s happening now. We’re living through one of the United States’ periodic bursts of… Continue reading

“Michael Gableman, who produced no evidence of 2020 election fraud in $1 million review, now suggests the country needs revolution”

September 20, 2022, 7:48 amelection subversion riskRick Hasen

Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel: Former state Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman told a group of Republicans this month that a revolution against government officials over the 2020 election has become necessary but said people have become too comfortable to water the “tree… Continue reading

“Congress’ latest House-Senate wrangle: Preventing the next Jan. 6”

September 20, 2022, 7:46 amelection subversion risk, electoral collegeRick Hasen

Politico: Efforts to reform an obscure 135-year-old election law, which Donald Trump tried to utilize to subvert the 2020 election, are reviving a classic congressional rivalry: the House vs. the Senate.After signaling for months that they wanted to go further… Continue reading

“A landmark Supreme Court fight over social media now looks likely”

September 20, 2022, 7:44 amcheap speech, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

WaPo: Conflicting lower court rulings about removing controversial material from social media platforms point toward a landmark Supreme Court decision on whether the First Amendment protects Big Tech’s editorial discretion or forbids its censorship of unpopular views.The stakes are high… Continue reading

Recording of Webinar on Alaska’s Ranked Choice Voting

September 19, 2022, 5:55 pmUncategorizedNed Foley

Now available on the Election Law at Ohio State website. Well worth watching for those unavailable to see it live. Among the many interesting and informative points discussed by the panel was the fact that the candidate who won the… Continue reading

“Anti-Gerrymandering Reforms Had Mixed Results”

September 19, 2022, 1:47 pmredistrictingRick Hasen

New analysis from Michael Li of the Brennan Center.

Cheney-Lofgren Bill to Amend the Electoral Count Act Lists Permissible Bases to Object to Counting Certain Electors, Including that Candidate is Ineligible for President Because of Participation in an Insurrection

September 19, 2022, 11:48 amelection administration, election subversion risk, electoral collegeRick Hasen

I’ve just begun reviewing the draft Cheney-Lofgren bill to reform the Electoral Count Act. It is very much in line with the spirit of the Collins-Manchin bill in the Senate, but differs in some particulars. For example, it has a… Continue reading

“In Wisconsin, Election Skeptics Deploy as Poll Watchers for Midterms”

September 19, 2022, 10:29 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

WSJ: Republicans here are recruiting a fresh batch of poll watchers to monitor voting in November as part of a revamped response to allegations of election fraud that roiled the latest presidential contest.Poll watching, a normally mundane duty where… Continue reading

“We Have a Bill to Help Prevent Another Jan. 6 Attack; It’s past time to reform the Electoral Count Act to make clear Congress can’t overturn an election result.”

September 19, 2022, 7:44 amelection subversion risk, electoral collegeRick Hasen

Liz Cheney and Zoe Lofgren oped in the WSJ (with a proposal that sounds very much in line with Collins-Manchin): Despite this, Mr. Trump continues to make intentionally false election-fraud allegations, claiming that he should be reinstalled as president. And… Continue reading

“Trump Rally Plays Music Resembling QAnon Song, and Crowds React” (and Video)

September 18, 2022, 12:43 pmelection subversion riskRick Hasen

NYT: Former President Donald J. Trump appeared to more fully embrace QAnon on Saturday, playing a song at a political rally in Ohio that prompted attendees to respond with a salute in reference to the cultlike conspiracy theory’s theme song.While… Continue reading

“Republicans in key battleground races refuse to say they will accept results”

September 18, 2022, 12:39 pmelection subversion risk, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

WaPo: A dozen Republican candidates in competitive races for governor and Senate have declined to say whether they would accept the results of their contests, raising the prospect of fresh post-election chaos two years after Donald Trump refused to… Continue reading

“How a rural Colorado county became an epicenter of Donald Trump’s Big Lie”

September 18, 2022, 12:37 pmelection administration, voting technologyRick Hasen

Steven Rosenfeld: What happened next in Mesa County gets complex. It also reveals how a rare but recurring trend among a handful of local election officials—mistakes with setting up or using their system’s computers—can be exploited by partisans who claim… Continue reading