“Investigation finds less double voting in Georgia than alleged”

February 9, 2022, 1:03 pmUncategorizedRick Hasen

AJC: After the hectic 2020 Georgia primary, Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger made a bombshell allegation from the steps of Liberty Plaza outside the Georgia Capitol that 1,000 people potentially voted twice.A year and a half later, an investigation… Continue reading

Watch Archived Video of Jan. AALS Panel on the Risk of Election Subversion, Featuring Rep. Jamie Raskin, Guy Charles, Rebecca Green, and Bertrall Ross (I’m Moderating)

February 9, 2022, 12:30 pmelection subversion riskRick Hasen

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“How Progressives Can Take Back the Constitution”

February 9, 2022, 9:53 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

Joey Fishkin and Willie Forbath, authors of the new book, The Anti-Oligarchy Constitution, have this new piece at The Atlantic: America’s slow-burning crisis of economic and political inequality poses a profound challenge to our constitutional system. Today, as in… Continue reading

Useful WaPo Guide: “All the Ways Trump Tried to Overturn the Election–and How It Could Happpen Again”

February 9, 2022, 9:31 amelection subversion riskRick Hasen

WaPo list: President Donald Trump made clear just hours after polls closed on Nov. 3 that he had no intention of conceding the 2020 election to Joe Biden. Instead, he and his allies engaged in overlapping strategies to try… Continue reading

“Giuliani asked Michigan prosecutor to give voting machines to Trump team”

February 9, 2022, 9:15 amchicanery, election subversion riskRick Hasen

WaPo: In the weeks after the 2020 election, Rudolph W. Giuliani and other legal advisers to President Donald Trump asked a Republican prosecutor in northern Michigan to get his county’s voting machines and pass them to Trump’s team, the… Continue reading

“Trump’s Big Lie Forces Attention on the Labyrinth of Local Election Offices”

February 9, 2022, 9:14 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

New report at Bolts.

“‘Legitimate political discourse’: Three words about Jan. 6 spark rift among Republicans”

February 9, 2022, 7:11 amelection subversion riskRick Hasen

WaPo: When the Republican Party voted to censure two of its own members of Congress last week at its winter meeting in Salt Lake City, it justified the move in part by declaring that efforts to investigate the Jan.… Continue reading

“Opinion: More evidence the Supreme Court is hostile to the Voting Rights Act”

February 9, 2022, 7:08 amSupreme Court, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Jennifer Rubin WaPo column: It is hard to come to any other conclusion with this Supreme Court, after it destroyed Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act and crafted an entirely new set of rules for the VRA’s Section… Continue reading

“Trump will keep trying to to overturn the 2020 election ‘until we get the correct result,’ spokeswoman says”

February 9, 2022, 7:07 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

Insider: Former President Donald Trump and his allies will keep trying to overturn the 2020 election “until we get the correct result,” his spokeswoman has said.Liz Harrington made the comment during an episode of Steve Bannon’s “War Room” podcast… Continue reading

“The Supreme Court Has Crossed the Rubicon”

February 9, 2022, 7:04 amredistricting, Supreme Court, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Linda Greenhouse NYT column: You know the Rubicon has been crossed when the Supreme Court issues a conservative voting rights order so at odds with settled precedent and without any sense of the moment that Chief Justice John Roberts feels… Continue reading

“Voting Laws Roundup: February 2022”

February 9, 2022, 7:01 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

Update to the Brennan Center’s indispensable list: With the 2022 regular legislative sessions starting in all but 15 states as of January 14, state lawmakers are already considering hundreds of bills aimed at voter access and the electoral process.The efforts… Continue reading

“North Carolina elections board says it has power to disqualify Rep. Cawthorn from running over January 6”

February 9, 2022, 6:59 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

CNN: The North Carolina State Board of Elections said on Monday that it has the power to block GOP Rep. Madison Cawthorn from running for reelection over his role in the January 6 insurrection — an open legal question… Continue reading

Attack on ERIC: “Right-wing conspiracies have a new target: a tool that fights actual voter fraud”

February 9, 2022, 6:50 amelection administration, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Miles Parks for NPR: If Republicans over the past few years have made one thing clear, it’s that they really care about voter fraud.Sometimes they call it “election irregularities” or “shenanigans,” but the issue has… Continue reading

“Flood of Voting Laws Confront Rights Enforcers With Uphill Fight”

February 9, 2022, 6:49 amDepartment of Justice, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Bloomberg Law: The Justice Department’s voting section faces significant hurdles in challenging new state election laws and redrawn maps that Democrats say will suppress or dilute minority votes.The newly staffed-up section of the Civil Rights Division that’s already… Continue reading