“Why Republicans Are So Intent on Destroying ERIC”

March 28, 2023, 5:06 amelection administration, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Michael Morse for Slate: Now right-wing groups are plotting to weaken ERIC and revive Crosscheck’s faulty approach. J. Christian Adams has peddled the false claim that ERIC is a “smokescreen” for Democratic efforts to turn out the vote, which… Continue reading

Senate Rules Committee Hearing: “State and Local Perspectives on Election Administration”

March 28, 2023, 5:03 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

Hearing today will be livestreamed.

Census to Release Data on Differential Privacy Method

March 27, 2023, 6:28 pmUncategorizedNicholas Stephanopoulos

In response to a FOIA lawsuit brought by Harvard Law School’s Election Law Clinic on behalf of Columbia political scientist Justin Phillips, the Census Bureau announced today that it will release the data needed to assess the performance of the… Continue reading

April 4 Free Online Webinar from Safeguarding Democracy Project: “Confronting the Insider Threat on Election Security and Protecting Election Officials” with Judd Choate and Liz Howard

March 27, 2023, 7:00 amelection subversion riskRick Hasen

I’m very much looking forward to this final event for the UCLA Law Safeguarding Democracy Project’s spring webinar series. Join us on April 4 at noon pacific time! (Free registration required.)

“Issue One and the Alliance for Securing Democracy at the German Marshall Fund publish new report calling for key election investment and reforms”

March 27, 2023, 6:31 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

Release: Today, Issue One and the Alliance for Securing Democracy at the German Marshall Fund released a new report that outlines thirteen steps the federal government and state legislatures should take to make our elections stronger and more secure going… Continue reading

“Loyola-L.A. Hosts Festschrift, Symposium, And Celebration To Honor Ellen Aprill”

March 27, 2023, 6:24 amelection law biz, tax law and election lawRick Hasen

It was a delight to participate in this event honoring my friend and colleague, Ellen Aprill: Loyola-L.A. hosted a festschrift, live symposium, and celebration to honor Ellen Aprill (Loyola-L.A.; Google Scholar) yesterday: Lloyd Hitoshi Mayer (Notre Dame; Google Scholar… Continue reading

“Did voter fraud kill Edgar Allan Poe?”

March 27, 2023, 6:15 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

WaPo: He’s our reigning master of the macabre, whose ghostly imagination still transports us to the eeriest of places. But one of Edgar Allan Poe’s darkest stories didn’t come from his pen. It’s the haunting mystery of his own death.… Continue reading

“Another political hush-money case offers clues to a possible Donald Trump defense”

March 27, 2023, 6:13 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

Fredreka Schouten for CNN: Americans have heard the story before: A lurid tale of a presidential candidate accused of arranging hush-money payments to conceal an alleged affair. But if former President Donald Trump is indicted by a Manhattan grand jury… Continue reading

“Trump Puts His Legal Peril at Center of First Big Rally for 2024”

March 26, 2023, 10:14 amelection subversion riskRick Hasen

NYT: Former President Donald J. Trump spent much of his first major political rally of the 2024 campaign portraying his expected indictment by a New York grand jury as a result of what he claimed was a Democratic conspiracy to… Continue reading

“GOP states press voter photo ID rules, with unclear effects”

March 26, 2023, 10:07 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

AP: As Ohio’s primary approaches, a strict new photo ID requirement is stirring concerns for military veterans and out-of-state college students, in Amish communities and among older voters. Other Republican-led states are moving in the same direction as they… Continue reading

“Kari Lake ballot signature challenge: What to know about the claims, the evidence and the law”

March 26, 2023, 10:02 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

Arizona Republic: In her lengthy lawsuit first filed in December, Lake argued that based on “information and belief,” “a material number” of votes with signatures that were not properly verified were counted and could have altered the outcome of the… Continue reading

“Former Trump Officials Must Testify in 2020 Election Inquiry, Judge Says”

March 25, 2023, 11:23 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

NYT: A federal judge has ruled that a number of former officials from President Donald J. Trump’s administration — including his former chief of staff, Mark Meadows — cannot invoke executive privilege to avoid testifying to a grand jury investigating… Continue reading

“Russian Emails Behind DA Bomb Hoax Amid Trump Probe”

March 24, 2023, 11:41 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

Law360: Russian email accounts sent a series of hoax bomb threats targeting the Manhattan district attorney and court buildings for three straight days this week amid a grand jury investigation of former president Donald Trump. Security has ramped up outside… Continue reading

“Trump, Escalating Attacks, Raises Specter of Violence if He Is Charged”

March 24, 2023, 7:43 amchicanery, election subversion riskRick Hasen

NYT: In an overnight social media post, former President Donald J. Trump predicted that “potential death and destruction” may result if, as expected, he is charged by the Manhattan district attorney in connection with hush-money payments to a porn star… Continue reading