“Minority districts drop after redistricting, despite population growth”

November 27, 2022, 1:58 pmVoting Rights ActRick Hasen

Reid Wilson for Plurbius News: The number of state legislative districts where racial or ethnic minorities make up a majority or a near majority of the population dropped substantially after the latest round of redistricting, even as those minority groups… Continue reading

“New state voter fraud units finding few cases from midterms”

November 26, 2022, 9:49 amfraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

AP: State-level law enforcement units created after the 2020 presidential election to investigate voter fraud are looking into scattered complaints more than two weeks after the midterms but have provided no indication of systemic problems. That’s just what election experts… Continue reading

“Jan. 6 panel staffers angry at Cheney for focusing so much of report on Trump”

November 25, 2022, 2:44 pmUncategorizedRick Hasen

WaPo: Since Rep. Liz Cheney accepted House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s offer to serve as the vice chair of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, the Wyoming Republican has exerted a remarkable level of… Continue reading

“How the Supreme Court Plans to Undermine Future Elections”

November 25, 2022, 12:51 pmSupreme CourtRick Hasen

Simon Lazarus for TNR.

“Musk says granting ‘amnesty’ to suspended Twitter accounts”

November 25, 2022, 12:36 pmcheap speechRick Hasen

AP: New Twitter owner Elon Musk said Thursday that he is granting “amnesty” for suspended accounts, which online safety experts predict will spur a rise in harassment, hate speech and misinformation. The billionaire’s announcement came after he asked in… Continue reading

“How redistricting shaped the midterms”

November 25, 2022, 12:33 pmredistrictingRick Hasen

Politico: Both parties entered the latest redistricting cycle seeking to press their advantages where they could. The first election held under the new lines showed both succeeded — though Democrats had their most ruthless gerrymanders thrown out in the courts… Continue reading

“Midterms free of feared chaos as voting experts look to 2024”

November 25, 2022, 12:31 pmUncategorizedRick Hasen

AP: Before Election Day, anxiety mounted over potential chaos at the polls. Election officials warned about poll watchers who had been steeped in conspiracy theories falsely claiming that then-President Donald Trump did not actually lose the 2020 election. Democrats… Continue reading

“Here are all of the challenges to Arizona’s 2022 election so far”

November 25, 2022, 12:28 pmchicaneryRick Hasen

Arizona Republic: Arizona is scheduled to canvass its 2022 election results Dec. 5, but a host of challenges are standing in the way. Some losing GOP candidates have refused to concede their races and hope to find reprieve in… Continue reading

“Lawsuit seeks to stop disqualification of WA ballots for signature mismatches”

November 24, 2022, 11:30 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

Seattle Times: During every election in Washington, tens of thousands of ballots are rejected because ballot envelope signatures are flagged as not matching how they’ve looked in the past. In the Nov. 8 midterm alone, nearly 27,000 ballots were challenged… Continue reading

“Doug Mastriano supporters are flooding Pa. courts with baseless recount petitions in the governor’s race”

November 23, 2022, 1:15 pmchicaneryRick Hasen

Philly Inquirer: Doug Mastriano lost by a lot. But some of his supporters wrongly believe the results are inaccurate, and they think they’ve found a way to do something about it. So now election denial groups are flooding Pennsylvania… Continue reading

Third Circuit decision in Mazo v. New Jersey Secretary of State upholds conditions on ballot designations

November 23, 2022, 10:23 amballot accessDerek Muller

The Third Circuit issued a decision today in Mazo v. New Jersey Secretary of State. (Disclosure: I filed an amicus brief in this case, joined by Professor Michael Dimino, in support of appellants.) Eugene Mazo (an election law professor… Continue reading

Georgia Supreme Court Allows Saturday Early Voting in Counties That Wish to Use It for U.S. Senate Runoff

November 23, 2022, 9:32 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

In a brief unsigned order with no noted dissents, the Supreme Court of Georgia allowed early voting on Saturday to go forward over the objections of the Georgia Republican Party. More from the AJC.

If Petitioners Get Their Way in Moore v. Harper Case, the Dispute over Saturday Voting in Georgia Senate Runoff Would Spill into Federal Court as Well as State Court

November 23, 2022, 7:55 amlegislation and legislatures, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

I noted on the blog the other day that the state of Georgia, after losing in the state court of appeals, declined to appeal further the ruling that Georgia law allows counties to set Saturday as a day of early… Continue reading

“G.O.P. Candidate in Arizona’s Attorney General Race Sues Over Election Results”

November 23, 2022, 7:44 amrecountsRick Hasen

NYT: Abe Hamadeh, the Arizona Republican locked in a tight race to become the state’s next attorney general, filed a lawsuit on Tuesday contesting the preliminary results of an election that had already been headed to an automatic recount. The… Continue reading