“The NYC mayor fundraised for a New York PAC. Now money is going out of state.”

July 11, 2024, 4:54 amcampaign financeDan Tokaji

Politico: A PAC run by a close ally of Mayor Eric Adams, which raised more than $1 million from people who support him, is making some curious out-of-state expenditures. Al Cockfield’s Striving for a Better New York says on… Continue reading

What’s the Real Biden Decision Deadline?

July 11, 2024, 4:45 amballot access, political partiesDan Tokaji

The Washington Post reports: Should Biden bow out now — before he officially becomes the party’s nominee — legal experts say replacing him on the ballot would be relatively straightforward. The process would become significantly more complex and legally… Continue reading

“How best to prepare for a brokered convention”

July 11, 2024, 4:23 amalternative voting systems, political partiesDan Tokaji

Rob Richie in the Fulcrum, advocating ranked-choice voting and concluding: “Out of crisis comes opportunity. If forced to pick a new nominee, Democrats have real options for doing it well. Looking to 2028 and beyond, parties can adapt lessons… Continue reading

Redistricting Reform in Colorado

July 11, 2024, 4:19 amredistrictingDan Tokaji

From Princeton’s Innovations for Successful Societies, this report by Al Vanderlipp. Here’s the abstract: In Colorado, as in most US states, politicians long controlled the process of drawing federal- and state-level legislative districts and manipulated district boundaries to secure political… Continue reading

Pew Finds Partisan Divide Over Absentee & Early Voting

July 10, 2024, 6:41 pmabsentee ballotsDan Tokaji

A highlight from the Pew survey: Americans are now less likely to support no-excuse early or absentee voting than they were prior to the 2020 election. This is the result of shifting views among Republicans. In 2018, when we… Continue reading

“Former Utah attorney general candidate charged with bribery after allegedly offering job to opponent”

July 10, 2024, 6:33 pmbriberyDan Tokaji

NBC News: Frank Mylar was charged with one count of bribery in elections in connection with soliciting fellow Republican Trent Christensen’s endorsement in exchange for a job in his office if he were elected. A detective in Murray, Utah,… Continue reading

House Approves SAVE Act

July 10, 2024, 6:16 pmvoter registrationDan Tokaji

The Hill: House Republicans and a handful of Democrats on Wednesday approved a bill that seeks to expand proof-of-citizenship requirements to vote in federal elections and impose voter roll purge requirements on states, legislation that has been touted by former President… Continue reading

Who Says Democrats and Republicans Never Agree?

July 10, 2024, 6:04 pmballot access, political partiesDan Tokaji

NOTUS has this from an anonymous House Democrat: “It’s pretty wild when Biden loyalists and the Heritage Foundation are circulating the same narratives about how hard it would be for Dems to replace Biden at the top of the ticket,… Continue reading

“Idaho governor announces executive order to tighten up voter registration rules”

July 10, 2024, 1:57 pmfraudulent fraud squad, voter registrationDan Tokaji

The Hill: “Under the new order, the Idaho secretary of state will review the state’s voter rolls with local police and the transportation department to identify anyone who is not a citizen. The secretary of state can also work… Continue reading

“The man who cries voter fraud”

July 10, 2024, 10:04 amfederal election commission, fraudulent fraud squadDan Tokaji

The Guardian has this profile of Hans von Spakovsky, who authored the FEC chapter of the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025.

11th Circuit Denies Rehearing En Banc in Georgia VRA Case

July 10, 2024, 9:50 amVoting Rights ActDan Tokaji

The order in Rose v. Secretary, State of Georgia, is here. As Rick noted in this November post, the panel reversed the district court’s conclusion that the at-large system used to elect Public Service Commission members violates Section… Continue reading

My New One at Slate: “Democrats Sure Aren’t Acting as if Trump Beating Biden Is an Existential Threat to Democracy”

July 10, 2024, 9:00 amauthoritarian threats in USRick Hasen

I have written this piece for Slate. Some snippets: But more recently, Democrats have not done nearly enough to deal with the ongoing risks to democracy that they themselves repeatedly raise. They have supported election deniers running in Republican primaries… Continue reading

Multiple federal courts toss election challenges for lack of standing, citing FDA v. AHM

July 10, 2024, 6:30 amSupreme CourtDerek Muller

Last month, I highlighted the Court’s decision in FDA v. AHM and suggested that the decision could disrupt some election litigation. That prediction is coming true. Yesterday, in Citizens Project v. Colorado Springs, a federal court dismissed Voting Rights Act… Continue reading

“GOP jump-starts 2024 election challenges with Trump-inspired lawsuits”

July 10, 2024, 5:17 amabsentee ballots, fraudulent fraud squad, voter registrationDan Tokaji

Washington Post: The Republican National Committee has expanded legal challenges to voting and election procedures in key swing states since March, when presumptive nominee Donald Trump installed new party leaders with a mandate to pursue his unsubstantiated claims of… Continue reading