“Language Access and Voting Rights: An Overview of Federal, State, and Local Policies”
New report from Angelo Ancheta of Demos.
State Legislatures Can No Longer Declare the Election to Have “Failed” in Their State Due to Natural Disasters and Then Appoint Electors
One of the major (but less -well appreciated) accomplishments of the new, bipartisan Electoral Count Reform Act is that it repealed the provision in federal law that permitted state legislatures to appoint electors if the presidential election had “failed” in… Continue reading
Republicans Plan to Go to U.S. Supreme Court Raising Independent State Legislature Theory to Seek to Block Pennsylvania Supreme Court Ruling Requiring Counting of Certain Provisional Ballots
Are we about to see the Supreme Court weigh back into the application of the independent state legislature theory?
Back on Wednesday, I wrote about a divided ruling of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court that required the counting of provisional ballots… Continue reading
“Freedom Caucus leader says North Carolina should consider giving Trump its electors before votes are counted”
Politico:
The chair of the conservative House Freedom Caucus says the North Carolina legislature should consider allocating the state’s presidential electors to Donald Trump even before votes are counted in the swing state.
Rep. Andy Harris (R-Md.) said Thursday that… Continue reading
I Spoke to the Diane Rehm Show: “How Secure is the 2024 Election?”
You can listen here.
“Meet the Pennsylvania nuns falsely accused of voter fraud”
CNN:
For a Republican canvasser going door-to-door to get out the vote in the battleground state of Pennsylvania, the address on East Lake Road in Erie must have seemed like Heaven-sent evidence of the sort of widespread voter fraud many… Continue reading
“A federal judge pauses Virginia’s voter removal program until after Election Day” (Governor Says He Will Appeal to 4th Circuit Next)
Report: About 252,000 Texans Lack Voter ID and Would Need to Fill Out a Reasonable Impediment Declaration to Vote (and More Stats on Georgia)
“Elon Musk’s pro-Trump PAC awards more $1 million prizes despite DOJ warning”
WaPo:
Tech billionaire Elon Musk’s pro-Trump political group awarded two additional $1 million prizes to swing-state voters Thursday night, despite warnings from the Justice Department that the daily giveaways could violate election laws.
The day before, the Justice Department had … Continue reading
“In High-Stakes Pennsylvania, Local Officials Have a Big Hand in Voting Rules”
NYT:
Compared with most other states, Pennsylvania gives county commissioners more discretion when it comes to the details of the voting process — how to deal with different methods of writing the date on mail-in ballot envelopes, whether to let… Continue reading
“‘Big lie’ 2.0: How Trump’s false claims about noncitizens voting lay the groundwork to undermine the election”
Brandy Zadrozny for NBC News:
The “big lie” of the 2024 election is being workshopped on Webex.
In tiny boxes, hundreds of people, most of them white, meet weekly in online video conferences to share specious evidence of a problem… Continue reading
“Trump alumni warn he could deploy troops against Americans”
WaPo:
Now, with less than two weeks until Election Day, some of Trump’s most senior former advisers are warning Americans to take his militaristic impulses seriously. His longest-serving chief of staff, John Kelly, told the New York Times that he… Continue reading
“The Army of Election Officials Ready to Reject the Vote”
Deep dive by Jim Rutenberg for NYT Magazine:
Much of that work would be done by Cleta Mitchell, a Republican lawyer who assisted Trump’s efforts in Georgia after the 2020 election and was on the phone call on Jan.… Continue reading
“RNC is leading the legal charge for Trump amid echoes of 2020 election chaos”
Lawrence Hurley for NBC News:
When a local Republican official in Georgia filed a lawsuit this year declaring that election boards did not have a duty to certify results, the lawyer she turned to was part of the legal team… Continue reading