“Election Science on Trial: Will the US Supreme Court Further Undermine the Voting Rights Act?”
Michael Latner on Merrill v. Milligan.
“The Pa. Supreme Court is taking on the issue of undated mail ballots just weeks before Election Day”
Philly Inquirer:
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court is taking on the question of undated mail ballots.The court on Friday accepted a lawsuit filed by a coalition of Republican groups, including the Republican National Committee and Pennsylvania GOP, that seeks to block… Continue reading
“Democrats locked in close contests with election deniers for key secretary of state posts; The party is vastly outspending Republicans in the races but is fighting a tough political climate as well as voter disinterest.”
Zach Montellaro for Politico:
Secretaries of state have never gotten more attention than now. Yet Steve Simon is still introducing himself to the voters who elected him four years ago in Minnesota.It’s emblematic of a broader challenge for Democrats trying… Continue reading
“Abrams’ campaign chair collected millions in legal fees from voting rights organization”
Politico:
The voting rights organization founded by Stacey Abrams spent more than $25 million over two years on legal fees, mostly on a single case, with the largest amount going to the self-described boutique law firm of the candidate’s campaign… Continue reading
“Their America Is Vanishing. Like Trump, They Insist They Were Cheated; The white majority is fading, the economy is changing and there’s a pervasive sense of loss in districts where Republicans fought the outcome of the 2020 election.”
NYT:
To understand the social forces converging in that historic vote — objecting to the Electoral College count — The Times examined the constituencies of the lawmakers who joined the effort, analyzing census and other data from congressional districts and… Continue reading
“Curtis Yarvin wants American democracy toppled. He has some prominent Republican fans.”
Vox:
In September 2021, J.D. Vance, a GOP candidate for Senate in Ohio, appeared on a conservative podcast to discuss what is to be done with the United States, and his proposals were dramatic. He urged Donald Trump, should he… Continue reading
Gowri Ramachandran: “Litigation Over a Proposed Hand Count of Ballots in Nye County, Nevada”
The following is a guest post from Gowri Ramachandran of the Brennan Center:
With early voting set to begin the next day, the Nevada Supreme Court issued an emergency writ of mandamus on Friday evening against Nye County, Nevada, in… Continue reading
“Fears Over Fate of Democracy Leave Many Voters Frustrated and Resigned”
NYT:
Seventy-one percent of all voters believe that democracy is at risk, according to a recent New York Times/Siena College poll, but only 7 percent identified that as the most important problem facing the country. Americans face more immediate… Continue reading
“How rural Nevada became the next battleground for the ‘Big Lie'”
Nevada Independent:
Just six weeks after the 2020 election, a group of Nevada Republicans gathered outside the Legislative Building in Carson City to pledge the state’s six electoral votes to Donald Trump.Unlike other swing states, there was never much… Continue reading
Liz Cheney: ‘If Donald Trump Is The Nominee Of The Republican Party, The Party Will Shatter’
On Meet the Press today, Liz Cheney said that a “new conservative party” would form if Trump is the GOP nominee in 2024. The relevant portion of the interview is at about 22 minutes in. A minute later, Chuck Todd… Continue reading
How to return to normal electoral competition?
What jumped out to me from today’s NBC News poll is the intensification of a disturbing trend: the belief on both sides that the nation will be destroyed if the other side wins. It’s just one poll, but NBC News… Continue reading
“Trump Plans to Challenge the 2022 Elections — Starting in Philly”
Rolling Stone:
Donald Trump welcomed a handful of Republican allies to Manhattan’s Trump Tower with an urgent message: He saw a “scam” happening with midterm election voting in Philadelphia and elsewhere in Pennsylvania, and he wanted conservatives to do… Continue reading
“For Trump’s Backers in Congress, ‘Devil Terms’ Help Rally Voters”
NYT:
The analysis of tweets, Facebook ads, newsletters and congressional speeches — more than 3.7 million items in all — relied largely on natural language processing, a technique that uses software to extract information from large amounts of text. The… Continue reading