NBC News: Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration has quietly changed state guidelines, essentially giving its blessing for a state-level political committee he previously ran to move millions of dollars to a super PAC helping his presidential campaign. For years, elections officials… Continue reading

NYT: “The special counsel is scrutinizing the dismissal of Christopher Krebs, who contradicted baseless claims by the former president that the 2020 election was marred by fraud.”

The Supreme Court hands down opinions today at 10 am EST. The Alabama Voting Rights Act case, Allen v. Milligan, is the only argued case from the Court’s first sitting in October that has yet to be decided. The two… Continue reading

This is pretty wild: a court found that enough people had illegally established sham residencies in Laredo TX to change the outcome of a city council election. The court declared the plaintiff the rightful winner of the election. Meanwhile, the… Continue reading

This Politico story raises the question of whether WI is shifting left, with the post-Dobbs abortion issue playing a major role: “We got our butts kicked,” Rohn Bishop, Bachleitner’s predecessor as chair of the Fond du Lac County GOP and,… Continue reading

From WRAL News: The 2024 elections in North Carolina could be conducted under far stricter rules under a proposal being crafted behind closed doors by Republican lawmakers — with input from a lawyer best known for assisting in efforts… Continue reading

This relates to the effort of some election officials to require a hand count of the 2022 ballots in Cochise County, AZ, despite the legal conclusions of the relevant county election lawyers that such a hand count would be illegal… Continue reading

Ciara Torres-Spelliscy with her views on this in the LA Times: The Supreme Court recently reversed the conviction of a onetime aide and campaign manager for disgraced former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo. The decision may have surprised those… Continue reading

From Newsweek: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, a Republican, said former President Donald Trump would have lost in Texas in the 2020 election if his office had not successfully blocked counties from mailing out applications for mail-in ballots to… Continue reading

Here: “In a hypothetical 2024 U.S. Senate matchup in West Virginia, the latest ECU Poll shows Governor Jim Justice with a significant 22-point lead over incumbent Senator Joe Manchin, 54% to 32%, among registered voters in the state (with 13%… Continue reading

New academic article in the Election Law Journal. From the abstract: False information about the legitimacy of recent American elections has prompted a barrage of harsh rhetoric against the officials who administer them. This spike in negativity, largely occurring through… Continue reading