“Why Did Mark Meadows Register to Vote Where He Did Not Reside?”

March 6, 2022, 9:27 amchicaneryRick Hasen

The New Yorker: Mark Meadows, who grew up in Florida, moved to North Carolina in the nineteen-eighties and opened Aunt D’s, a sandwich shop in Highlands. He later sold the restaurant and started a real-estate company with a line… Continue reading

Harris County, Texas Missed About 10,000 Ballots in Its Original Ballot Count

March 6, 2022, 9:24 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

Patrick Spivek: Harris County says it’s “identified approximately 10,000 mail-in ballots (6,000 Democratic and 4,000 Republican) that were not added into the original Election Night count” pic.twitter.com/1YGAIQim67— Patrick Svitek (@PatrickSvitek) March 6, 2022

“Republicans Want Courts Out of Election Cases”

March 6, 2022, 9:20 amSupreme CourtRick Hasen

Jost on Justice: When the Supreme Court closed federal courthouse doors to partisan gerrymandering cases three years ago, Chief Justice Roberts stressed in Rucho v. Common Cause (2019) that states still had the authority to devise remedies for politically… Continue reading

Jerry Goldfeder on Electoral Count Act Reform

In the New York Law Journal at this link: https://www.stroock.com/uploads/JG–NYLJ—2022-02-25.pdf

My Conversation with Dahlia Lithwick on Slate’s Amicus Podcast: “Why ‘Cheap Speech’ Threatens Democracy”

March 5, 2022, 10:53 amcheap speechRick Hasen

You can listen here to this great conversation at Slate (with an extended interview for Slate Plus subscribers) (there’s also a transcript there):Election denialism and disinformation threaten the integrity of U.S. elections, but what can we do about this growing… Continue reading

“Florida Senate Passes Voting Bill to Create Election Crimes Agency”

March 5, 2022, 10:49 amfraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

NYT: The Florida Senate passed a sweeping new bill overhauling the state’s electoral process, adding new restrictions to the state election code and establishing a law enforcement office dedicated solely to investigating election crimes.The bill, which passed 24-14, now… Continue reading

“DeSantis says he’ll veto congressional map. Florida lawmakers passed it anyway.”

March 5, 2022, 10:40 amredistrictingRick Hasen

Tampa Bay Times: Gov. Ron DeSantis couldn’t have made his message clearer: “I will veto the congressional reapportionment plan currently being debated by the House. DOA,” he wrote in a tweet delivered just minutes after legislators began final debate… Continue reading

“The Emptiness Inside Donald Trump’s New Social Media Platform”

March 5, 2022, 10:28 amcheap speech, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Ruby Cramer for Politico: Inside Truth Social, everything once blue was now a bright, jewel-toned purple. Tweets, a.k.a. posts, were now “Truths.” Retweets were now “ReTruths,” capital T. And above my username, I saw the site’s default avatar: Twitter’s… Continue reading

“What went wrong in Harris County’s primary”

March 5, 2022, 10:22 amelection administrationRick Hasen

Jessica Huseman: Perhaps the theme of this newsletter is “when things change, things also slow down.” It has ever been thus in elections, and it was thus in Harris County this week, as Texas’s largest county faced delays… Continue reading

“Arizona Republicans keep churning out new election legislation targeting voting access”

March 5, 2022, 10:13 amfraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Fernanda Santos WaPo column: The election-related bills kept coming, most of them aimed squarely at restricting voting access. The files clogged the desk of Pima County Recorder Gabriella Cázares-Kelly — 141 by early last week, she said, or almost … Continue reading

“New Michigan audit debunks dead voter theory in 2020 election”

March 5, 2022, 10:11 amelection administrationRick Hasen

Detroit News: A report released Friday by Michigan’s Office of the Auditor General quashed a conspiracy theory that a significant number of fraudulent votes were cast on behalf of dead people in the state’s 2020 presidential election.The 67-page document… Continue reading

“NC voters can’t challenge Rep. Madison Cawthorn’s eligibility for office, judge rules”

March 4, 2022, 11:58 amlegislation and legislaturesDerek Muller

So reads the headline over at the News & Observer. The basis, as early reports have it, is that Congress’s decision to enact the Amnesty Act of 1872 effectively prevents application of Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment… Continue reading

“Liquidating the Independent State Legislature Theory”

March 4, 2022, 9:11 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

Michael Weingartner has posted this draft on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Following the 2020 Presidential election, an obscure and potentially revolutionary constitutional theory re-emerged. The so-called “independent state legislature” theory posits that the Constitution vests state legislatures with plenary… Continue reading

“Alaska campaign finance commission erases all limits on donations to political candidates”

March 4, 2022, 8:15 amcampaign financeRick Hasen

Anchorage Daily News: The commission charged with enforcing Alaska’s campaign finance laws has lifted all limits on donations to candidates for governor, state legislative seats and municipal races — a decision that could allow a huge wave of cash… Continue reading