“Protecting voting rights isn’t enough to save democracy; Election law expert Richard L. Hasen on the problem of election subversion — and what can be done to stop it.”
I was interviewed for Vox by Fabiola Cineas.
The Uncertain Endgame on Voting Rights
Punchbowl News:
Please pause for a moment and consider just how much political capital President Joe Biden and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer are spending right now on voting rights and scrapping the filibuster. Biden went to Atlanta on Tuesday… Continue reading
I Was on the Slate “What Next” Podcast Talking About Working the Twin Legislative Tracks of Voting Rights and Countering Election Subversion
You can listen here.
“Schumer sets up final Senate confrontation on voting rights and the filibuster”
WaPo on the path to a potentially climactic showdown over the pending voting rights legislation. Step one: the House passes a megabill combining the FTVA and the JLVRAA (and also including some amendments to the previous versions of these bills).… Continue reading
A Triumph for Redistricting Reform
Rick already linked to the Ohio Supreme Court decision striking down the state’s legislative district plans because of their disproportionality and partisan intent. It’s worth flagging that this is the first time a pure partisan effect provision has been enforced… Continue reading
“Democrats: Don’t reject GOP offer to fix electoral count law”
Kevin Johnson has this op-ed in The Hill:
While healthy skepticism of GOP motives is certainly justified, Democrats are wrong not to take up the offer to fix the ECA. Voting rights are important, but the rhetoric behind prioritizing the… Continue reading
“How the Voting Rights Bills Miss the Target on Election Subversion”
Nate Cohn criticizes the FTVA and the JLVRAA (now merged into a new megabill) for not thwarting election subversion. However, the megabill does now include a substantial number of anti-subversion provisions. And while it doesn’t reform the Electoral Count Act,… Continue reading
How to guarantee the right to cast a ballot?
I have seen a lot a skepticism lately about relying on courts to protect the equal right of eligible voters to participate in an election by casting a ballot and having it counted accurately. But unless Congress is going to… Continue reading
Breaking: Ohio Supreme Court Rejects Redistricting Plans, Orders New Maps Drawn
Ohio Supreme Court tweet.
Opinion.
{¶ 1} Respondent Ohio Redistricting Commission adopted a General Assembly–district plan in September 2021 to be effective for the next four years. The complaints in these three cases allege that the plan… Continue reading
What should happen to 2020’s renegade presidential electors?
The Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the Capitol has been digging into the renegade electoral votes submitted by some Republicans in some states that President Joe Biden carried in 2020. POLITICO links to some PDFs of … Continue reading
“The Big Lie’s Long Shadow”
FiveThirtyEight feature about the innumerable voting restrictions being proposed at the state level. It’s notable that these restrictions are supposedly being advanced to build voter confidence in elections — but there’s no evidence that voter confidence actually improves as a… Continue reading
ECA reform & Article II
Nick has posted Larry Lessig’s Slate piece arguing that it’s necessary to put the brakes on ECA reform because of the risk that the Supreme Court will embrace the so-called “independent state legislature doctrine” to authorize state legislatures to appoint… Continue reading
“Financing of Races for Offices that Oversee Elections: January 2022”
New Brennan Center report on fundraising by candidates for secretary of state — including several who deny the validity of the 2020 election results.
Of the six battleground states with secretary of state elections in 2022 (AZ, GA, MI, MN,… Continue reading
“A Voting Rights Push, as States Make Voting Harder”
NYT analysis of President Biden’s big voting rights speech yesterday:
To that end, Mr. Biden called for ending the 60-vote threshold for voting rights bills, a step he opposed taking during his campaign and resisted throughout most of the first… Continue reading