A two-track election administration complication for non-citizen voting in the District of Columbia
In the fall of 2022, the District of Columbia enacted a law that permitted residents who were not United States citizens to vote in local elections. Local voting opportunities for non-citizens have been the source of some recent expansion and … Continue reading
“Jan. 6 documents: Georgia legislators answered Trump’s call to overturn election”
AJC:
With his chances of winning Georgia slipping away in December 2020, then-President Donald Trump hit upon a novel scheme to stay in power: State legislators would name him the winner.
So, while his allies spun dubious tales of voting … Continue reading
“Special counsel is locked in at least 8 secret court battles in Trump investigations”
CNN:
Special counsel Jack Smith is locked in at least eight secret court battles that aim to unearth some of the most closely held details about Donald Trump’s actions after the 2020 election and handling of classified material, according… Continue reading
“The Separation of Legislative Powers in the Initiative Process”
Anthony Johnstone has posted this draft on SSRN (forthcoming, Nebraska Law Review). Here is the abstract:
This article recenters the initiative process as a power and considers the implications of a divided legislative branch through a frame of state separation… Continue reading
Haaretz: “The Israelis destabilizing democracy and disrupting elections worldwide”
Haaretz email:
As Israeli democracy confronts its greatest threat yet, an investigation led by Haaretz, TheMarker and Radio France exposes clandestine attacks disrupting democratic processes across the globe.The proprietors of this international chaos machine, as uncovered in the course of… Continue reading
“State Constitutions and Youth Voting Rights”
Josh Douglas has posted this draft on SSRN (Rutgers Law Review, and part of this symposium on the 26th Amendment). Here is the abstract:
This short essay, prepared for the Rutgers University Law Review Symposium on the Twenty-Sixth Amendment, shows… Continue reading
“Donald Trump Changes Tune on Mail-in Voting, Ballot Collection”
WSJ:
After years of assailing early voting, Donald Trump is having a change of heart.
The 2024 presidential candidate remains critical of various forms of early voting, advisers say, but his campaign is nonetheless mounting an effort to pursue such… Continue reading
“Non-Retrogression Without Law”
Eric McGhee, Chris Warshaw, and I just posted this paper, written for the University of Chicago Legal Forum’s symposium on Borders and Boundaries, addressing the extent of retrogression in states formerly covered by Section 5 of the Voting Rights… Continue reading
#ELB20th: 20 Years of the Election Law Blog, and 20 Years of American Democracy’s Slow (and Faster) Deterioration: A Call for Vigilance and Resilience
Twenty years ago this month, I began the Election Law Blog. It was a continuation of sorts of news and commentary that I had been sharing with election law professors, first via a listserv Dan Lowenstein and I created that… Continue reading
“Election deniers face a nationwide wave of pushbacks”
WaPo:
When the new Arizona attorney general took office last month, she repurposed a unit once exclusively devoted to rooting outelection fraud to focus on voting rights and ballot access.
In North Carolina on Tuesday, theState Board of Elections began… Continue reading
“Oklahoma Considers Separating State and Federal Elections if Voting Rights Acts Pass”
Oklahoma Watch:
President Joe Biden is urging Congress to resurrect sweeping voting rights legislation that would mandate same-day and online registration and restore voting rights for people convicted of felonies after leaving prison.
A combined version of the John R.… Continue reading
“Democrats Meddle Again in a G.O.P. Primary, This Time Down-Ballot”
NYT:
Last year, Democrats spent millions of dollars elevating far-right candidates in Republican primary contests for governor and Congress — betting, it turned out correctly, that more extreme opponents would lose general elections.
Now Wisconsin Democrats are trying to… Continue reading
“Combating Disinformation Wanes at Social Media Giants”
NYT:
YouTube, like other social media platforms, spent years expanding its efforts to tackle misinformation after the 2016 election. It hired policy experts and content moderators and invested in more technology to limit the reach of false narratives. Not anymore.… Continue reading