“Exclusive: Emails reveal warning to Trump team about fraud claims”

October 21, 2022, 3:26 pmUncategorizedRick Hasen

Axios: A senior White House lawyer expressed concerns to President Trump’s advisers and attorneys about the president signing a sworn court statement verifying inaccurate evidence of voter fraud, according to emails from December 2020 obtained by Axios.Why it matters: The… Continue reading

“Is the Tide on Campaign Finance Disclosure Quietly Shifting? A Look One Year After Americans for Prosperity v. Bonta”

October 21, 2022, 3:10 pmUncategorizedRick Hasen

Link to recent ABA program.

Georgia: “Election officials brace for disruptions as midterms loom”

October 21, 2022, 9:12 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

AJC: As early voting is underway in Georgia’s first general election since the razor-thin 2020 presidential contest, law enforcement and election officials are watching for disruptions by radicalized individuals feeding off conspiracy theories and disproven allegations of fraud.This year’s… Continue reading

“Why US Courts Are Allowing Voters in 4 States to Use Rejected Congressional Maps”

October 21, 2022, 7:29 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

VOA on Purcell.

“Democratic Secretary of State Candidates Struggle Against Election Deniers”

October 21, 2022, 7:26 amelection subversion riskRick Hasen

NYT: Ted Pappageorge, the head of Culinary Union Local 226, whipped up the crowd of canvassers into a frenzy on a recent Monday morning, earning him “sí, se puede!” chants. But before he sent the canvassers out to knock on… Continue reading

“Cleta Mitchell Is Training Thousands of Trump Loyalists to Monitor the Polls on Election Day. What Could Go Wrong?”

October 21, 2022, 7:23 amelection subversion risk, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

David Freedlander deep dive for New York: “It really makes me sad to see what happened to Cleta Mitchell,” said Rick Hasen, a legal scholar at UCLA who served on an election-law committee with Mitchell through the American Law… Continue reading

Must-read NYT: “How Disinformation Splintered and Became More Intractable”

October 21, 2022, 7:10 amcheap speechRick Hasen

NYT: On the morning of July 8, former President Donald J. Trump took to Truth Social, a social media platform he founded with people close to him, to claim that he had in fact won the 2020 presidential vote… Continue reading

“Texas County Asks for U.S. Election Monitors as State Plans to Send Inspectors”

October 20, 2022, 5:12 pmUncategorizedRick Hasen

NYT: Officials from Harris County in Texas on Thursday requested federal election monitors from the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division after the State of Texas confirmed this week that it would send a contingent of election inspectors there during the… Continue reading

“Alleged voter intimidation at Arizona drop box puts officials on watch”

October 20, 2022, 5:11 pmUncategorizedRick Hasen

WaPo: The report landed in the Arizona secretary of state’s online portal Monday night, around dinnertime. It contained an urgent message.“There’s a group of people hanging out near the ballot dropbox filming and photographing my wife and I as… Continue reading

“Michigan Ballot Measure Seeks to Shield State Elections from Trumpian Conspiracies”

October 20, 2022, 2:12 pmUncategorizedRick Hasen

New at Bolts.

Conservative Luminaries (including former DC Circuit Judge Thomas Griffith) File Amicus Brief in Moore v. Harper Siding with Respondents

October 20, 2022, 2:10 pmlegislation and legislatures, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

This is an interesting one that will get some Justices’ attention. It argues that the North Carolina Republicans are wrong even if one accepts the concurrence by Chief Justice Rehnquist in Bush v. Gore and the dissent by Chief Justice… Continue reading

More on the Varying Meanings of “Congress” and “Legislature”

October 20, 2022, 11:58 amUncategorizedRichard Pildes

This is a guest post from Professor Michael Herz: In a recent Election Law Blog post regarding the Independent State Legislature doctrine, Rick Pildes observes that the term “Congress” in the U.S. Constitution sometimes means Congress acting alone and sometimes… Continue reading

“Records Show Massive Disenfranchisement and Racial Disparities in 2022 Texas Primary”

October 20, 2022, 10:15 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

Brennan Center: Spurred by false claims of voter fraud in the 2020 election, Texas enacted a voting law in 2021 with many egregious provisions. These ranged from new limits on assistance for voters with disabilities or language-access needs to… Continue reading

“Election deniers could make deep changes to Arizona voting”

October 20, 2022, 7:58 amelection subversion riskRick Hasen

AP: Gathered at a table in the state Capitol a little less than two years ago, two Republicans and a Democrat took part in a ceremony prescribed by state law that made official Joe Biden’s 10,500-vote victory in Arizona’s 2020… Continue reading