“Officials brace for unprecedented efforts to disrupt 2022 vote”

October 28, 2022, 6:53 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

Axios: U.S. election officials are anticipating unprecedented efforts to disrupt the 2022 election, and putting battleground states on heightened alert.Why it matters: Efforts to intimidate voters and spread misinformation can erode the public’s trust in the democratic process, and safety… Continue reading

“Drop box watchers in Arizona connected to national effort from ‘2000 Mules’ creators; Clean Elections USA is trying to mobilize thousands of volunteers to collect evidence for True the Vote and a conservative sheriffs’ group, internal communications show.”

October 27, 2022, 6:36 pmchicanery, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Scoop from Votebeat: The movement to try to catch illegal voting at ballot drop boxes in Arizona, which is spurring complaints and lawsuits alleging voter intimidation, is not the local grassroots effort it appears to be. The drop box watchers… Continue reading

Nevada Supreme Court Moves to Stop Information Release of Votes and Tallies from Hand Count of Ballots in Nye County

October 27, 2022, 6:34 pmUncategorizedRick Hasen

Following up on Gowri’s post and this AP report, the ACLU just got the following order from the Nevada Supreme Court: Filed Order Granting Motion for Clarification. Petitioners have now filed an emergency motion for clarification, asserting that… Continue reading

Former Prosecutors File SCOTUS Amicus Brief on Speech or Debate Clause in Lindsay Graham Emergency Motion Not to Testify Before Georgia Grand Jury Investigating 2020 Election Subversion

October 27, 2022, 6:30 pmUncategorizedRick Hasen

Interesting filing.

“Why We Need to Take the Partisanship Out of Certifying Elections”

October 27, 2022, 3:11 pmUncategorizedRick Hasen

Kevin Johnson oped for Governing.

New Common Cause Report on Proposed Bills Making It Harder to Vote

October 27, 2022, 3:11 pmUncategorizedRick Hasen

Find them here.

“Election Day is Nov. 8, but legal challenges already begin”

October 27, 2022, 8:21 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

AP: Election Day is 12 days away. But in courtrooms across the country, efforts to sow doubt over the outcome have already begun.More than 100 lawsuits have been filed this year around the Nov. 8 elections. The legal challenges, largely… Continue reading

“Nevada officials begin unprecedented hand count of ballots”

October 27, 2022, 8:19 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

AP: Volunteers in a rural Nevada county where voting machine conspiracy theories led to an unprecedented hand-count of mail-in ballots came face-to-face with one messy reality of their plan Wednesday: It’s more time-consuming than anticipated.After a full day in the… Continue reading

“Big Tech is failing to fight election lies, civil rights groups charge”

October 27, 2022, 8:14 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

WaPo: Two years ago, Silicon Valley’s biggest technology giants faced criticism from activists and voter suppression experts for not moving sooner to restrict former president Donald Trump’s accounts after his repeated misleading claims disputing the legitimacy of the 2020 election.Now,… Continue reading

“How Mike Lindell’s Pillow Business Propels the Election Denial Movement”

October 27, 2022, 8:12 amchicanery, election subversion riskRick Hasen

NYT: American entrepreneurs have long mixed their business and political interests. But no one in recent memory has fused the two quite as completely as Mr. Lindell. In less than two years, the infomercial pitchman has transformed his company into… Continue reading

Muller amicus brief in Moore v. Harper

October 27, 2022, 7:34 amlegislation and legislaturesDerek Muller

I filed this amicus brief in support of the respondents in Moore v. Harper. It argues that 2 U.S.C. § 2c requires that congressional single-member districts be drawn “by law,” which embraces state courts and state constitutions, as Justice Scalia’s… Continue reading