New White House Budget Proposes $10 Billion More to Rebuild and Support Election Infrastructure and Administration

March 28, 2022, 10:31 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

From the White House Budget Fact Sheet: Protects Our Elections and the Right to Vote. As our democracy faces threats across the country—and to provide state and local election officials with a predictable funding stream for critical capital investments… Continue reading

“Why redistricting has stalled in 4 unfinished states”

March 28, 2022, 7:06 amredistrictingRick Hasen

Politico reports. The final stage of the redistricting cycle has arrived: gridlock.Spats between governors and state legislators — and between different Republican factions — have brought map-making to a standstill in the final four states still without new congressional… Continue reading

“Supreme Court ruling on Wisconsin legislative map puts voting rights advocates on high alert”

March 28, 2022, 7:05 amSupreme Court, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Jane Timm for NBC News: A Supreme Court order last week blocking Wisconsin’s redistricting map is sparking fresh concerns among advocates that the high court may soon sound the death knell for what’s left of the Voting Rights Act.Experts… Continue reading

“Inside Ted Cruz’s last-ditch battle to keep Trump in power; The Texas senator’s effort alienated some allies and sparked questions about ties to John Eastman, a longtime friend and author of key legal memos in Trump’s efforts”

March 28, 2022, 6:58 amelection subversion risk, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

WaPo: An examination by The Washington Post of Cruz’s actions between Election Day and Jan. 6, 2021, shows just how deeply he was involved, working directly with Trump to concoct a plan that came closer than widely realized to… Continue reading

Federal District Court Denies Preliminary Injunction in Wisconsin Campaign Finance Disclosure Case

March 28, 2022, 6:44 amcampaign financeRick Hasen

From the opinion: In sum, while the First Amendment interests of WFA and its donors at stake in this case are substantial, WFA has failed to make a showing that it would suffer irreparable harm if its motion for… Continue reading

“Perdue welcomes Trump to Georgia by embracing ‘stolen’ election lie”

March 28, 2022, 6:38 amfraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

AJC: Republican David Perdue is cozying up to Donald Trump ahead of his Saturday rally in Georgia by embracing one of the former president’s favorite lies: That the 2020 election was “stolen.”The Trump-backed challenger to Gov. Brian Kemp… Continue reading

“The case for mandatory universal voting”

March 28, 2022, 6:34 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

Didi Kuo reviewing the new Dionne/Rappaport book, 100% Voting.

Listen to Angela Onwuachi-Willig and Nate Persily on Slate Amicus Discussing, KBJ Hearing, Disinformation, and Elections

March 28, 2022, 6:34 amSupreme CourtRick Hasen

Great episode.

“How does a movie win a best picture Oscar? There’s a method to the voting madness”

March 27, 2022, 2:37 pmalternative voting systemsDerek Muller

One last post as I wrap up regular blogging this week, from the Los Angeles Times: Also called instant-runoff voting and ranked-choice voting, the preferential ballot is an electoral system used in places around the world — including in … Continue reading

“Trump backers push election change that would make counting slower, costlier and less accurate”

March 27, 2022, 2:32 pmelection administrationDerek Muller

Zach Montellaro at Politico: Trump supporters are pushing to prohibit machine counting of ballots in future elections around the country, which election officials say could make vote-counting slower, more expensive and — most importantly — less accurate.Legislators in at… Continue reading

“Sen. Mitch McConnell has made it his personal mission to keep the dark money spigot open; The GOP’s hypocrisy on donor transparency has been on full display since President Biden announced Ketanji Brown Jackson as his Supreme Court justice nominee.”

March 27, 2022, 7:12 amcampaign finance, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

Brendan Fischer NBC News oped.

“‘A Mystifying and Distorting Factor:’ The Electoral College and American Democracy (Reviewing Jesse Wegman, ‘Let the People Pick the President: The Case for Abolishing the Electoral College’)”

March 27, 2022, 5:11 amelectoral collegeDerek Muller

A book review from Kate Shaw, forthcoming in the Michigan Law Review: As the 2020 presidential election made clear, the Electoral College is a profoundly dangerous institution. American constitutional democracy survived that election and its aftermath, emerging battered and… Continue reading

“The Dangerous Independent State Legislature Theory”

March 27, 2022, 5:10 amElections ClauseDerek Muller

To the growing body of recent scholarship on the topic, this piece from Jason Marisam, forthcoming in the Michigan State Law Review: In 2020, conservative justices and the Trump Campaign championed a theory, known as the independent state legislature… Continue reading

“Litigating Gerrymandering in the Post-Rucho World: State Law and Political Maps”

March 27, 2022, 5:10 amredistrictingDerek Muller

Kathryn Randolph has a two part series (one, two) with a deep dive on the state law claims over at the State & Local Government Law Blog.

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