“How a Billionaire’s ‘Attack Philanthropy’ Secretly Funded Climate Denialism and Right-Wing Causes”

September 7, 2022, 7:38 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

ProPublica: Last month, The Lever and ProPublica as well as The New York Times detailed how Seid secretly handed a $1.6 billion fortune to a key architect of the Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority that recently eliminated federal protections for… Continue reading

“The Election Official Who Tried to Prove ‘Stop the Steal:’ How a group of conspiracy theorists enlisted a county clerk in Colorado to find evidence that the 2020 vote was rigged.”

September 7, 2022, 7:27 amchicanery, election subversion risk, voting technologyRick Hasen

Sue Halpern in The New Yorker on the Tina Peters saga.

ELB Book Corner: Routledge Handbook of Election Law: What a Comparative Study of Election Law Teaches Us About Democracy

September 7, 2022, 7:00 amcomparative election law, ELB Book CornerRick Hasen

I am pleased to welcome to ELB Book Corner some of the authors of the Routledge Handbook of Election Law. Here is the second of three posts, by David Schultz. David Schultz Freedom House notes that after a… Continue reading

Missouri Files Bonkers Amicus Brief in Moore v. Harper Case Arguing That Not Even Congress Can Limit a State Legislature’s Partisan Gerrymandering

September 6, 2022, 8:53 pmredistricting, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

The main dispute in Moore v. Harper, currently pending before the Supreme Court, is whether state legislatures may be constrained by other state actors (such as state courts applying state constitutional provisions protecting voting rights) when they pass rules… Continue reading

Important Amicus Brief in Moore v. Harper Case Filed by Conference of Supreme Court Justices

September 6, 2022, 6:00 pmlegislation and legislatures, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

This brief is well done (Carter Phillips/Evan Caminker) but also important in that it represents the views of Chief Justices of states from across the political spectrum. Tom Wolf tweet thread explains the brief’s significance. From the Brief’s summary of… Continue reading

“Webinar | Alaska’s 1st Ranked Choice Voting Election”

September 6, 2022, 11:46 amUncategorizedNed Foley

Election Law at Ohio State is hosting this webinar, with registration at this link: Alaska’s First Ranked Choice Voting Election Monday, September 121:30 – 2:30 p.m. (ET)Zoom Alaska’s special election on August 16 to fill the US House seat… Continue reading

“What happens when the president calls you an ‘enemy of the people’? Election officials and public sentiment”

September 6, 2022, 11:44 amelection administration, election subversion riskRick Hasen

Joelle Gross, Samuel Baltz, and Charles Stewart III have posted this draft on SSRN. Here is the abstract: False information about the legitimacy of recent American elections has prompted a barrage of harsh rhetoric against the officials who administer them.… Continue reading

“Cameras, Plexiglass, Fireproofing: Election Officials Beef Up Security”

September 6, 2022, 10:16 amchicanery, election subversion riskRick Hasen

NYT: In Wisconsin, one of the nation’s key swing states, cameras and plexiglass now fortify the reception area of a county election office in Madison, the capital, after a man wearing camouflage and a mask tried to open locked… Continue reading

“Judge removes Griffin from office for engaging in the January 6 insurrection”

September 6, 2022, 9:57 amchicaneryRick Hasen

Crew: New Mexico judge ordered Otero County Commissioner Couy Griffin be removed from office, effective immediately, ruling that the attack on the Capitol was an insurrection and that Griffin’s participation in it disqualified him under Section 3 of the 14th… Continue reading

New Politico Owner’s CEO Sent Letter, Perhaps “Ironically,” Asking People to Pray for Reelection of Donald Trump

September 6, 2022, 9:51 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

WaPo: How exactly Döpfner, Axel Springer’s CEO, hopes to define nonpartisan journalism at an especially fragmented time for American politics is a question of intense interest as he aims to leave his mark on American media. His own politics have… Continue reading

“Newly obtained surveillance video shows fake Trump elector escorted operatives into Georgia county’s elections office before voting machine breach”

September 6, 2022, 7:58 amchicanery, election subversion risk, voting technologyRick Hasen

CNN: A Republican county official in Georgia escorted two operatives working with an attorney for former President Donald Trump into the county’s election offices on the same day a voting system there was breached, newly obtained video shows.The breach… Continue reading

Will Democrats Put Electoral Count Act Reform Up for a Vote Before the Midterm Elections? Seems Quite Uncertain

September 6, 2022, 7:53 amelection subversion risk, electoral collegeRick Hasen

Politico: There’s a host of questions facing congressional leaders, in addition to voting on marriage equality, like capping insulin costs, how to approve energy permitting reform sought by Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), and what strategy to use on funding… Continue reading

Two Studies on Political Party Roles in Election Certification from ERN

September 6, 2022, 7:44 amelection administrationRick Hasen

Via TPM: After votes are tabulated locally, state election laws designate an individual or board to confirm the totals add up and to certify victory for the winning candidate. A new Election Reformers Network (ERN) analysis finds that in… Continue reading

“Biden Puts Defense of Democracy at Center of Agenda, at Home and Abroad”

September 6, 2022, 7:38 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

NYT: It is the element of President Biden’s foreign policy that overlaps most significantly with his domestic agenda: defending democracy.His drive to buttress democracy at home and abroad has taken on more urgency as Russia wages war in Ukraine,… Continue reading

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