“NYS Election Reform 2022: The 3 Most Important Things”

November 9, 2021, 7:19 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

NYC Bar Association virtual event Nov. 16: Join us for a discussion of the most critical legislative and procedural changes needed to ensure smooth election administration and voting in 2022. Election administration and the laws and rules that govern it… Continue reading

ELB Podcast Episode 3:4: Pam Fessler: The Voting Wars and the Media, Then and Now

November 8, 2021, 4:42 pmelection subversion risk, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

On Season 3, Episode 4 of the ELB Podcast: Can the United States continue to run free and fair elections amidst a sea of election disinformation? What has the path of the voting wars looked like since the disputed… Continue reading

“Election Assistance Commission:Assessment of Lessons Learned Could Improve Grants Administration”

November 8, 2021, 11:30 amElection Assistance CommissionRick Hasen

New GAO report.

“A year ago Philadelphia’s vote count decided the presidency, but also inspired conspiracies that live on today”

November 8, 2021, 7:46 amfraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Jonathan Tamari for the Philadelphia Inquirer.

“Pa. Gov. Tom Wolf’s wife dropped off his mail ballot, violating state election law”

November 8, 2021, 7:44 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

Spotlight PA: Gov. Tom Wolf on Tuesday revealed his wife, First Lady Frances Wolf, dropped his mail ballot off for him, a violation of Pennsylvania election law.State law currently prohibits, in most cases, anyone other than the voter from returning… Continue reading

Must-read: “Notes on an Authoritarian Conspiracy: Inside the Claremont Institute’s ’79 Days to Inauguration’ Report”

November 8, 2021, 7:40 amelection subversion riskRick Hasen

The Bulwark: The sun rises on January 6, 2021 while a nation is in crisis.Michigan’s presidential electors are in dispute after a mysterious fire in Detroit destroyed thousands of mail-in ballots, ultimately throwing the election to Congress.The nation’s capital is… Continue reading

“Bipartisan Principles for Election Audits”

November 8, 2021, 7:32 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

New from the Bipartisan Policy Center.

“The Election Sabotage Scheme and How Congress Can Stop It”

November 8, 2021, 7:30 amelection subversion riskRick Hasen

New report from the Brennan Center: Over the past few months, the drive to allow partisan sabotage of the election process had a series of frightening public successes. The Arizona State Senate concluded its partisan review of the 2020 election… Continue reading

“Steve Bannon’s popular podcast is a ‘dangerous’ fantasyland of election lies”

November 7, 2021, 11:52 amelection subversion risk, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Daniel Dale for CNN: Steve Bannon’s aggressive campaign to undermine American democracy didn’t stop on January 6.Bannon, a bellicose right-wing nationalist who served as White House chief strategist under President Donald Trump in 2017, is fighting a subpoena from… Continue reading

“Georgia Grand Jury Looms in Trump Inquiry”

November 6, 2021, 11:33 amelection subversion riskRick Hasen

NYT: As the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot fights to extract testimony and documents from Donald J. Trump’s White House, an Atlanta district attorney is moving toward convening a special grand jury in her criminal investigation of… Continue reading

A 2024 Nightmare Electoral College Scenario

November 6, 2021, 10:37 amelection subversion risk, electoral collegeRick Hasen

As I explained to NPR’s Mara Liasson for All Things Considered: ANGUS KING: One of our great political parties has embraced the idea that our last election was fraudulent, that our current president is illegitimate, that they must move legislatures… Continue reading

“21 municipalities debuted ranked choice voting programs — how did it go?”

November 6, 2021, 4:42 amUncategorizedRichard Pildes

From the Desert News: Ranked choice voting made its debut across 21 Utah municipalities Tuesday. And while the results are still preliminary, we’re starting to gauge how Utah clerks, voters and candidates feel about the system that’s been touted as… Continue reading

“University of Florida Reverses Course to Allow Professors to Testify Against State”

November 5, 2021, 5:30 pmUncategorizedRick Hasen

NYT: Acceding to a storm of protest, the University of Florida abandoned efforts on Friday to keep three political science professors from testifying in a voting-rights lawsuit against the administration of Gov. Ron DeSantis.Hours later, however, the professors sued… Continue reading

“‘Not a fair map.’ Lawsuit accuses NC Republicans of gerrymandering new districts”

November 5, 2021, 4:16 pmUncategorizedRick Hasen

News & Observer: The first lawsuit challenging North Carolina’s new political districts as unconstitutional partisan gerrymandering was filed Friday by a group affiliated with former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder. State legislators passed the maps into law on… Continue reading