New article by Harry Dodsworth in the Utah Law Review. Abstract: The Purcell Principle—the idea that courts should think twice about changing the rules before elections to avoid confusing voters—is sorely misunderstood. Despite deriving from a three-page opinion, the Purcell… Continue reading

Constitutional Conversations: Richard Hasen and Kevin Kosar are both concerned about the polarizing partisan divide in American political life.  Hasen believes that “rampant conspiracism leads to contagion, not containment.” He argues that in the future “Federalism and decentralization will not… Continue reading

Details.

From the Washington Post, with details over allegations relating to the counting of ballots especially in Maricopa County.

NYT:  Election officials in Arizona’s most populous and politically important county announced Thursday that they would not complete counting ballots until early next week, adding to tensions in a state at the center of the false narrative that the 2020… Continue reading

NPR: In an abrupt reversal, Los Angeles County has dismissed charges against the chief executive of an election software company, marking the end of a case that prominent election deniers cited as evidence of foul play in American elections.Eugene Yu,… Continue reading

You can find the document here.

NYT reports.

NPR reports.

Since publication of the Washington Post column describing the “Total Vote Runoff” variation on Ranked Choice Voting, questions have arisen about the relationship of this procedure to what is known in the electoral systems literature as Baldwin’s method. The two… Continue reading

WaPo: As voters cast ballots largely without incident on Tuesday afternoon, former president Donald Trump took to social media to declare that a minor, already rectified problem with absentee balloting in Detroit was “REALLY BAD.”“Protest, protest, protest,” he wrotejust before… Continue reading