With this filing, briefing is now complete. The administrative deadline suggested to the Justices was July 22.
I expect the Justices are not going to grant the relief given the closeness to the election and its application of Purcell.… Continue reading
Votebeat:
County election departments across Texas are trying to reassure voters amid a flood of formal challenges questioning whether their registrations are valid.
The challenges, filed by conservative groups and individual activists, seek to remove tens of thousands of voters… Continue reading
NYT:
Amid threats of certification battles and mass voter challenges, Vice President Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign has assembled an expansive senior legal team that will oversee hundreds of lawyers and thousands of volunteers in a sprawling operation designed to be… Continue reading
Politico:
Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell is defending Congress’ ability to permit voting by “proxy” when members are absent, a practice adopted by House Democrats at the height of the Covid pandemic despite intense opposition from Republicans.
In a brief … Continue reading
Rick P. highlights this story from the Detroit News, which explains that Cornel West will be kept off the ballot. It includes a PDF of his “Affidavit of Identity,” which Bureau of Elections claims fails at least four elements… Continue reading
KJZZ:
The Secretary of State’s Office says it erroneously declared the wrong winner in the Green Party’s U.S. Senate primary.
Write-in candidate Eduardo Quintana received 282 write-in votes, the most of any candidate. But the canvass signed by Secretary of… Continue reading
From the Detroit News:
Independent presidential candidate Cornel West has been disqualified from the state’s ballot because of problems with the way a required document his campaign submitted was notarized, the Michigan Bureau of Elections announced Friday.
West, a longtime… Continue reading