“The Bottom-Up Election-Denial Strategy; It’s wrong, it seems illegal, and it’s probably not going to work. For now.”

December 1, 2022, 7:11 amelection subversion riskRick Hasen

Elaine Godfrey for The Atlantic: Something that became very clear in 2020 is that America’s election system relies not on spelled-out rules and regulations, but on human beings acting honestly. Before 2016, the certification process was not used as a… Continue reading

“Why the voting machines failed in Mercer County”

December 1, 2022, 7:07 amvoting technologyRick Hasen

Andrew Appel: On Election Day, November 8, 2022, every voting machine in every polling place in Mercer County, New Jersey failed to work. Voters in each precinct filled in the ovals in their preprinted optical-scan paper ballots, but the voting… Continue reading

“Georgia GOP chairman singled out by judge for central role in fake elector plot”

November 30, 2022, 11:59 amchicaneryRick Hasen

CNN: A state judge singled out Georgia Republican Party chairman David Shafer, one of the fake electors for Donald Trump, for the unique role he played in efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election in the Peach State as… Continue reading

On Party Line Vote, Luzerne County, PA Certifies the 2022 Vote

November 30, 2022, 11:28 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

Hansi Lo Wang: NEW: Pennsylvania's Luzerne County board of elections votes 3-2 to certify its local midterm election results two days after the state's legal deadline as it faces a lawsuit by Democratic Rep. Matt Cartwright after putting some 117,000… Continue reading

Scheduled to Be on MSNBC Around 11:25 AM ET Talking About the Refusal of a Few Counties to Certify Election Results

November 30, 2022, 7:52 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

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“Election certification delays few, but a ‘test run’ for 2024”

November 30, 2022, 7:45 amchicanery, election subversion riskRick Hasen

AP: Before November, election officials prepared for the possibility that Republicans who embraced former President Donald Trump’s lies about voter fraud would challenge the verdict of voters by refusing to certify the results. Three weeks after the end of voting,… Continue reading

Ninth Circuit upholds California’s two-step recall process

November 30, 2022, 6:10 amcourt decisions, recall electionsDerek Muller

The Ninth Circuit issued its decision in Clark v. Weber, approving California’s two-step recall process. In the recall, voters first vote “yes” or “no” on the recall; after that, they may vote on a new candidate for governor, but… Continue reading

“FEC scales back digital ad transparency rule after backlash”

November 29, 2022, 4:41 pmcampaign finance, federal election commissionRick Hasen

Axios: Federal election regulators are scaling back a major digital ad transparency measure after an effort to speed it through the regulatory process drew intense internal and external pushback, records show. Why it matters: A little-noticed, two-word change to a… Continue reading

“Oath Keepers Leader Convicted of Sedition in Landmark Jan. 6 Case”

November 29, 2022, 2:44 pmelection subversion riskRick Hasen

NYT: Stewart Rhodes, the leader of the far-right Oath Keepers militia, and one of his subordinates were convicted on Tuesday of seditious conspiracy as a jury found them guilty of seeking to keep former President Donald J. Trump in power… Continue reading

Greg Sargent: “New Trumpist threats in Arizona make electoral college reform urgent”

November 29, 2022, 1:00 pmelection subversion risk, electoral collegeRick Hasen

Greg Sargent WaPo column: At first glance, the spectacle of the Incredible Shrinking Kari Lake might be cause for optimism. Lake is contesting her loss in the Arizona governor’s race, but in so doing, she’s shriveling into an almost… Continue reading

“Pennsylvania county deadlocks on certifying election results”

November 29, 2022, 8:39 amelection subversion riskRick Hasen

Philly Inquirer: Officials in a northeastern Pennsylvania county where paper shortages caused Election Day ballot problems deadlocked Monday on whether to report official vote tallies to the state, effectively preventing their certification of the results. Two Democratic members of the… Continue reading

“Trump Immunity Claim in 2020 Civil Rights Suit Rejected by Judge”

November 29, 2022, 8:37 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

Bloomberg: Donald Trump can’t claim presidential immunity to avoid a lawsuit that accuses him of civil rights violations in his efforts to undermine the results of the 2020 election, a federal judge ruled Monday. Trump had argued that he was… Continue reading

“G.O.P.-Controlled County in Arizona Holds Up Election Results”

November 29, 2022, 8:28 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

NYT reports.

“The Supreme Court Case That’s All About Donald Trump: Even if it’s not explicitly about him at all.”

November 29, 2022, 8:24 amlegislation and legislatures, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

Quinta Jurecic on thie Moore v. Harper case in The Atlantic: Over the past several months, both the litigants and outside parties—known as amici curiae, or “friends of the court”—have filed a mountain of briefs hashing out these issues. These… Continue reading