Richard Briffault has posted this draft on SSRN (forthcoming, North Carolina Law Review). Here is the abstract: American federal and state elections are largely run by local officials. Although election law is almost entirely determined by the federal government and… Continue reading

Politico: Get ready for Facebook versus the researchers: Round 2.With just over four months to go before midterm elections, academics at New York University are gearing up for another battle with Facebook over how to track digital ads after… Continue reading

Reuters reports.

This is a joint post with Ned Foley:             Along with a bipartisan group of election-law experts, we endorsed the bipartisan Senate draft Electoral Count Act Reform bill as a “vast improvement” over the status quo.  None of the suggestions… Continue reading

In my testimony on the independent state legislature theory (ISLT) to the House Administration Committee, I identified seven different potential versions of such a doctrine, should the Court endorse it at all.  That highlights the fact that the question is… Continue reading

Jonathan Lai for the Philly Inquirer: Pennsylvania’s mail-voting law is constitutional, the state Supreme Court ruled Tuesday,upholding the 2019 measure that allows any voter to use mail ballots and removing a cloud of uncertainty heading into the midterm elections.The law,… Continue reading