“How Trump Targeted Undecided Voters Without Breaking the Bank”
The NYT with some insight into the microtargeting capability of streaming services.
“Selling Americans a ‘lie’: How election integrity attorneys battled left-wing efforts to upend voting laws”
Fox News presents a view of pre-election litigation as “rife with repeated legal battles to protect the voting processes from left-wing attorneys leveraging the courts to strip election safeguards.” I have to say, I’m still waiting for an explanation of… Continue reading
“‘Bunch of bull.’ NC voters furious to learn candidates want to disqualify them.”
There’s a challenge to the eligibility of 60,000 voters in the NC Supreme Court race decided by just a few hundred votes. Among the challenged voters: the incumbent justice’s parents.
Any mass challenge to voter registration is going to… Continue reading
“How N.C. Republicans Learned to Stop Worrying and Start Loving Early Voting”
The subhead of this story in The Assembly: “GOP lawmakers predicted 25 years ago that Democrats would use early voting to steal elections in North Carolina. This year, they rallied voters to embrace it to secure victory for Donald… Continue reading
4th Circuit on felony disenfranchisement claims under Virginia Readmission Act
An interesting opinion from the 4th Circuit today, rejecting claims of state immunity in claims under the Virginia Readmission Act of 1870. The plaintiffs’ suit asserts that the federal statute prevents the Commonwealth from disenfranchising citizens for convictions other than… Continue reading
“Pop-Up Voting Centers Bring the Polls Directly to Unhoused Angelenos”
A great new piece from Bolts on the mechanics of LA’s attempt to serve eligible voters experiencing homelessness.
“Dems quietly boosted Nebraska’s independent Senate candidate in the final days of the election”
Because of course.
“Richmond’s top election official resigns after critical IG report”
Welp.
How Much Do Laws Listing Candidates from the “Prevailing Party” in the Last Election Improve That Party’s Chances of Victory?
New article from Darren Grant in Social Science Quarterly:
Objective
This article examines the incidence and effects of the most common ballot ordering procedure used in U.S. general elections, Prevailing Party laws, which give the most advantageous ballot position to… Continue reading
“In Fraud We Trust: How Leaders in Politics, Business, and Media Profit from Lies—and How to Stop Them”
New book from Wes Hendricksen from the University Press of Kansas, with potential relevance to election law. It includes a brief discussion of the post-2020 period.
Trump and Cheseboro filings in the Georgia conspiracy case
As expected, President-elect Donald Trump has filed a motion in the Georgia Court of Appeals to dismiss the conspiracy prosecution against him in Georgia on the basis that “a sitting president is completely immune from indictment or any criminal process,… Continue reading
Historically tiny House majority
As a result of the fact that California counties have certified their elections (yes, even in Shasta County), the last U.S. House race (CD 13, in the Central Valley) was called. And as a result of that, there are… Continue reading
Happy California official canvass deadline day, to all who celebrate
December 5 (30 days after election day) is the final final day for certifying elections in California. Usually, many California counties have certified before today. But this year, as a one-time only change responding to some 60,000 … Continue reading
“Voters Broadly Positive About How Elections Were Conducted, in Sharp Contrast to 2020”
Pew is out with new data on voters’ views about the 2024 electoral process, from a survey out Nov. 12-17 of this year. As they dryly note, “It’s not unusual in presidential elections for voters who supported the winning candidate… Continue reading