“Securing U.S. Elections: A Method for Prioritizing Cybersecurity Risk in Election Infrastructure”

August 16, 2022, 8:41 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

New Rand report: U.S. election systems are diverse in terms of governance and technology. This reflects the constitutional roles reserved for the states in administering and running elections but makes it challenging to develop a national picture of cybersecurity risk… Continue reading

“Independent State Legislatures and Presidential Elections: Addressing Misconceptions About Current Law and Prospects for Reform”

August 16, 2022, 8:39 amelection subversion risk, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

Genevieve Nadeau and Helen White for Just Security: During the recent Senate Rules Committee hearing on Electoral Count Act reform, Senator Angus King (I-ME) asked a question that seems to be on many minds: What is the independent state… Continue reading

“Giuliani Is Told He Is a Target of Trump Election Investigation in Georgia”

August 15, 2022, 10:42 amelection subversion riskRick Hasen

NYT: Lawyers for Rudolph W. Giuliani have been told that he is a target of a criminal investigation in Georgia into election interference by Donald J. Trump and his advisers, one of Mr. Giuliani’s lawyers said on Monday.Mr. Giuliani, who… Continue reading

“Trump-allied lawyers pursued voting machine data in multiple states, records reveal”

August 15, 2022, 9:20 amelection subversion risk, voting technologyRick Hasen

WaPo: A team of computer experts directed by lawyers allied with President Donald Trump copied sensitive data from election systems in Georgia as part of a secretive, multistate effort to access voting equipment that was broader, more organized and more… Continue reading

“Doug Mastriano Plans to Use His Secretary of State Pick to Disrupt Pennsylvania Elections”

August 15, 2022, 8:03 amelection subversion riskRick Hasen

Bolts: Doug Mastriano is a Donald Trump loyalist, and an ardent proponent of the former president’s baseless conspiracies about the 2020 election. He was outside the capitol on Jan. 6th, brought supporters to D.C. that day, and has been subpoenaed… Continue reading

“Election deniers march toward power in key 2024 battlegrounds”

August 15, 2022, 7:51 amelection subversion riskRick Hasen

WaPo: First came Kristina Karamo, a community college instructor from Detroit who claimed without evidence that she witnessed fraud as a 2020 election observer — and who in April became her party’s pick for secretary of state, Michigan’s top election… Continue reading

“Graham must testify in Ga. probe of effort to overturn 2020 election, judge rules”

August 15, 2022, 7:48 amelection subversion riskRick Hasen

WaPo: A federal judge on Monday denied Sen. Lindsey O. Graham’s (R-S.C.) request to quash his subpoena in Georgia prosecutors’ investigation into potential criminal interference in the 2020 presidential election by President Donald Trump and his allies, signaling he… Continue reading

“American Democracy Was Never Designed to Be Democratic: The partisan redistricting tactics of cracking and packing aren’t merely flaws in the system — they are the system.”'”

August 15, 2022, 7:45 amredistrictingRick Hasen

Louis Menand in the New Yorker.

Plaintiffs in Georgia Voting Rights Suit File Emergency Application to Vacate Stay with Supreme Court, Seeking District Elections for Public Service Commissioners. Case Raises Major Purcell Issue

August 15, 2022, 7:34 amSupreme Court, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

You can find the petition here, and my earlier coverage here.

“Blake Masters Could Become the First ‘Based’ Senator”

August 14, 2022, 7:09 pmUncategorizedRick Hasen

Politico: Buried deep in a recent story about Arizona Republican Senate candidate Blake Masters is a particularly revealing comment from one of Masters’ supporters, posted on an exclusive Discord chat: “How can one man be so based?”The uninitiated reader might… Continue reading

“On TikTok, Election Misinformation Thrives Ahead of Midterms”

August 14, 2022, 7:04 pmcheap speechRick Hasen

NYT: In Germany, TikTok accounts impersonated prominent political figures during the country’s last national election. In Colombia, misleading TikTok posts falsely attributed a quotation from one candidate to a cartoon villain and allowed a woman to masquerade as another … Continue reading

“Michigan plot to breach voting machines points to a national pattern”

August 14, 2022, 6:49 pmUncategorizedRick Hasen

WaPo: In states across the country, including Colorado, Pennsylvania and Georgia, attempts to inappropriately access voting machines have spurred investigations. They have also sparked concern among election authorities that, while voting systems are broadly secure, breaches by those looking… Continue reading

There’s plenty of time for litigation under the Electoral Count Reform Act

August 14, 2022, 11:26 amelectoral collegeDerek Muller

A couple of weeks ago, I was privileged to testify before the Senate Rules Committee in support of the Electoral Count Reform Act of 2022. You can view my testimony (along with those of other witnesses and a video of… Continue reading

“Ex-Trump AG Barr, others launch Republican-backed election law group”

August 13, 2022, 5:21 pmUncategorizedRick Hasen

I missed this Reuters story from a few weeks ago: Prominent Republicans including former U.S. Attorney General William Barr on Thursday launched a new legal group they say is aimed at defending state legislatures’ right to set election laws.The nonprofit… Continue reading