Monopoli on the Nineteenth Amendment

October 6, 2022, 2:39 pm19th Amendment, theory, votingFranita Tolson

Paula Monopoli (University of Maryland Francis Carey School of Law) has a new article out entitled, “Gender, Voting Rights, and the Nineteenth Amendment.” The article is forthcoming in the Georgetown Journal of Law & Public Policy. The abstract is below:… Continue reading

“A majority of GOP nominees – 299 in all – deny the 2020 election results”

October 6, 2022, 2:33 pmUncategorized2022 Election Cycle, The Big LieFranita Tolson

The Washington Post reports. Yikes.

New Report from the Brennan Center

October 6, 2022, 2:03 pmelection administration, legislation and legislatures, votingFranita Tolson

The Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law has published “Voting Laws Roundup: October 2022,” their latest roundup of state voting and election laws, and “Restrictive Voting Laws Enacted Since 2020 in Effect for the Midterms,” a… Continue reading

“Money flowing to some election deniers sets off scramble in secretary of state races”

October 6, 2022, 1:55 pmelection subversion risk2022 Election Cycle, The Big LieFranita Tolson

CNN reports.

“Election officials confront a new problem: Whether they can trust their own poll workers”

October 6, 2022, 11:19 amelection subversion risk2022 Election Cycle, The Big LieFranita Tolson

Article in Politico sounding the alarm about 2020 election deniers and far right candidates encouraging like-minded individuals to become poll workers (not poll watchers, poll WORKERS) and engage in behavior that is problematic, to say the least. This development could… Continue reading

“Who’s Bankrolling Election Deniers?”

October 6, 2022, 11:09 amelection subversion risk, Uncategorized2022 Election Cycle, The Big LieFranita Tolson

Issue One has a new report out that shows that election-denying secretary of state candidates have collectively raised more than $12 million for their campaigns this election cycle — including more than $5.8 million raised by election deniers who prevailed in… Continue reading

“The Supreme Court Might Be on the Brink of Making Corruption Easier – Again”

October 6, 2022, 11:01 amUncategorizedcorruption, elections, Supreme CourtFranita Tolson

Important article by Michael Linhorst in The New Republic on Percoco v. United States, a political bribery case that the Supreme Court will hear this term. While the other election law cases on the docket have monopolized much of the… Continue reading

“Political spam is out of control. Now Gmail is about to make it worse.”

October 6, 2022, 10:29 amcampaigns, UncategorizedFranita Tolson

Read the article, courtesy of The Washington Post.

I’ll Be Interviewing Dahlia Lithwick About Her New Book, Lady Justice, October 12 at 5 pm PT (Online, Free Registration Required)

October 6, 2022, 7:01 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

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Top Recent Downloads in Election Law on SSRN

October 5, 2022, 10:11 pmUncategorizedRick Hasen

Here: RankPaperDownloads1.Countering the New Election Subversion: The Democracy Principle and the Role of State Courts Jessica Bulman-Pozen and Miriam SeifterColumbia University – Law School and University of Wisconsin Law SchoolDate Posted: 01 Aug 2022Last Revised: 01 Aug… Continue reading

“Talk of ‘Civil War,’ Ignited by Mar-a-Lago Search, Is Flaring Online”

October 5, 2022, 10:18 amelection subversion risk2022 Election CycleFranita Tolson

According to this article in The New York Times, in the hours after the FBI seized documents from Mar-a-Lago, social media saw a marked increase in posts that mentioned “civil war,” a trend that has only escalated in recent weeks.… Continue reading

“Election Deniers in U.S. Push Idea That Brazil’s Voting Was Tainted”

October 5, 2022, 9:59 amelection subversion risk, UncategorizedFranita Tolson

The New York Times has the story here.

“The Ongoing Electoral Efforts to up the Anti-Democratic Ante”

October 5, 2022, 9:22 amelection administration, election subversion risk, UncategorizedFranita Tolson

Important New Yorker article on the difficulties that election administrators face going into the midterm elections. Election administration has been a challenge because of newly enacted voting restrictions enacted by Republican-led legislatures and, importantly, the enforcement of some of those… Continue reading

A Concise Analysis of Oral Argument in the AL Voting Rights Act Case

October 4, 2022, 9:54 amUncategorizedRichard Pildes

The argument traversed a wide range of detail and touched on many important issues. The Court did not seem interested in the most sweeping challenges to the VRA that Alabama’s brief put forward. At the end of the day, I… Continue reading