“Corporations Donated Millions to Lawmakers Who Voted to Overturn Election Results”

January 6, 2022, 2:40 pmUncategorizedRick Hasen

NYT: A report published this week by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, a nonprofit watchdog group, showed how corporate money continued to support most of the 147 lawmakers who voted to overturn the election results.In the… Continue reading

“Can one political party defend American democracy on its own?”

January 6, 2022, 2:07 pmelection subversion riskNed Foley

That is the question Ron Brownstein asks at the beginning of his new piece in The Atlantic today. The answer he gives at the end of the piece, by quoting Ian Bassin of Protect Democracy, is “no”–at least not in… Continue reading

“Jan. 6 attack on multiracial democracy requires Senate to protect freedom to vote”

January 6, 2022, 1:45 pmUncategorizedSpencer Overton

My latest in The Hill: “Last year’s assault on the U.S. Capitol is not over. While our nation grows more diverse each day, the attack on multiracial democracy continues today through schemes to suppress votes across the nation. .… Continue reading

“Fixing the Electoral Count Act is no substitute for real election reform”

January 6, 2022, 11:19 amelectoral collegeRick Hasen

Fred Wertheimer and Norm Eisen in WaPo: With the Senate finally scheduling action to address the national epidemic of voter suppression and election hijacking laws, Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and others in his party have suddenly found… Continue reading

“Biden accuses Trump and his allies of holding ‘a dagger at the throat of American democracy.’”

January 6, 2022, 7:43 amelection subversion riskRick Hasen

NYT: President Biden denounced former President Donald J. Trump for promoting lies and tearing down American democracy because he could not stand the fact that he lost an election, accusing his predecessor of putting his own interests ahead of… Continue reading

“A Year After Capitol Riot, Trump’s Hold on G.O.P. Is Unrivaled”

January 6, 2022, 7:27 amelection subversion riskRick Hasen

Shane Goldmacher and Maggie Haberman in the NYT: Today, the Republican Party is very much still Mr. Trump’s, transforming his lies about a stolen 2020 election into an article of faith, and even a litmus test that he is… Continue reading

Dan Balz: “A year after Jan. 6, are the guardrails that protect democracy real or illusory?”

January 6, 2022, 7:19 amelection subversion riskRick Hasen

Dan Balz in WaPo: The Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol, as shocking as it was when it happened, might have seemed at the time like a last, desperate and ultimately unsuccessful attempt by loyalists to then-President Donald Trump… Continue reading

“Scoop: Bipartisan Senate group in talks about election reform measure”

January 6, 2022, 6:43 amelection subversion risk, electoral collegeRick Hasen

Axios: A new bipartisan Senate group is in early discussions about crafting an election reform measure, as the Democrats’ sweeping voting rights proposals continue to run into steep procedural hurdles.Driving the news: Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) convened a… Continue reading

“Republicans Are Even Less Confident in U.S. Elections Than They Were Before Jan. 6 Attack; Just 35% of Republicans trust the U.S. electoral system, down 8 points since before the melee at the Capitol”

January 6, 2022, 6:38 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

Morning Consult poll.

Mike Parsons: “Counting on the Courts”

January 6, 2022, 6:30 amelection subversion risk, electoral collegeRick Hasen

The following is a guest post from Mike Parsons (Senior Legal Fellow at FairVote and Program Affiliate Scholar at NYU Law): Momentum to amend the Electoral Count Act is building across the ideological spectrum. And there is no… Continue reading

The Big Lie & the Primary Problem

January 5, 2022, 6:51 pmalternative voting systems, election subversion risk, primariesNed Foley

This new piece in The Washington Post, as well as several others including one in the N.Y. Times based on Jeremy Peters’ forthcoming book, confirms for me the connection between (1) the entrenchment of Trump’s false claim about the… Continue reading

Nothing to See Here, Folks, Dep’t: “Top GOP lawmaker relied on secret maps, later destroyed, NC gerrymandering trial reveals”

January 5, 2022, 4:33 pmchicanery, redistrictingRick Hasen

Charlotte Observer: A political trial that has mostly been dominated by math and academic research erupted in drama late Wednesday, when a top Republican redistricting leader said on the witness stand that he had used secret maps, drawn… Continue reading

Michael Li on Whether Democrats Have Done Better than Expected in the Latest Redistricting Round

January 5, 2022, 4:08 pmredistrictingRick Hasen

Thread starts here.

“GOP officials in Arizona’s largest county affirm 2020 election was secure in rebuttal to Trump claims”

January 5, 2022, 3:01 pmfraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

WaPo: The November 2020 election in Arizona’s largest county was administered properly and not marred by fraud, the Republican-led local government concluded in a lengthy report released Wednesday. The 93-page document debunks one-by-one vague allegations of potential problems previously… Continue reading

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