Reveal: In the last two years, at least 130 bills have been introduced across 42 states that would increase the involvement of law enforcement in the voting process, the analysis shows. Of those bills, 28 have passed in 20 states.Some… Continue reading

Atlanta Magazine reports.

ProPublica: “Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton hasn’t just been pursuing supposed voter fraud. His office has also criminally investigated at least 10 election workers, in a harbinger of potential post-midterm turmoil.” Most of Paxton’s investigations of election workers center… Continue reading

Bertrall Ross and Doug Spencer have posted this draft on SSRN (forthcoming, Cornell Law Review). Here is the abstract: Campaigns’ increasing reliance on data-driven canvassing has coincided with a disquieting trend in American politics: a stark gap in voter turnout… Continue reading

The Election Law Program, a joint project of the National Center for State Courts and William & Mary Law School, is pleased to share the 2022 edition of its Election Law Manual. The Manual is organized around substantive election law… Continue reading

NYT reading list.

BPC: ollowing the Supreme Court’s decision to hear Moore v. Harper, one of the more consequential cases in recent years, the Bipartisan Policy Center’s Structural Democracy Project released their latest report, Independent State Legislature Theory Undermines Elections Principles. The… Continue reading

NYT: At least three dozen lawyers and law firms that advanced Donald J. Trump’s failed attempt to overturn the 2020 election are now working for Republican candidates, parties and other groups, filing lawsuits and other complaints that could lay… Continue reading

WaPo: With just six days until Election Day, President Biden delivered a speech in which he warned the country about the risk posed by voter intimidation and political violence. “What we’re doing now is going to determine whether democracy will… Continue reading

AP: A shortage of poll workers has concerned local election officials in some parts of the country as the midterm elections approach. Not so in Michigan.Conservative groups and local Republican Party operatives who have pushed false claims about the 2020… Continue reading

Interesting piece at Just Security.