Carrie Levine for VoteBeat:
It turns out that the much-publicized spate of new state laws banning private grants for elections may have left a route open for private money after all. It flows through law enforcement.Conservative nonprofit True the Vote… Continue reading
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Interesting story about the effort by conservatives to call a constitutional convention. One wonders why conservatives are the ones pushing this idea, given the record of the current Court, and why progressives are so content with the constitutional status quo.… Continue reading
Interesting LAT story on the role of the media in reporting on — and shaping — the debate about American democracy.
Top American journalism leaders have publicly argued that the continued existence of democracy in the U.S. is no longer… Continue reading
Politico on the DOJ focusing on the involvement of the RNC’s director for “election integrity,” Joshua Findlay, in fake electors schemes in Arizona and Georgia.
In addition to a group of former President Donald Trump’s top lawyers, the Justice Department’s… Continue reading
San Francisco Chronicle:
A San Francisco law allowing noncitizen parents to vote in local school board elections was overturned Friday by a judge who said the California Constitution permits only citizens to vote.The ordinance, the first of its kind in… Continue reading
WaPo.
Federal authorities charged a Russian man Friday with a years-long malign influence campaign targeting American politics — alleging that he used American groups in Florida, Georgia and California to sow discord and push pro-Russia propaganda.Aleksandr Viktorovich Ionov, who… Continue reading
Barton Gellman in The Atlantic on the potential implications of Moore v. Harper for presidential elections (if, a big if, any independent state legislature holding in the congressional election context extends to presidential elections, too).
To understand the stakes, and… Continue reading
AP on a Nevada county commission that decided to recommend hand-counting all ballots for the odd reason that this would supposedly improve the security and accuracy of vote counts.
For months, conspiracy theories fueled on social media by those repeating … Continue reading
NPR on how Republican candidates for secretary of state who lie about the 2020 election being stolen are faring.
Across the country, numerous Republican candidates for these positions — and others with some role in election administration, like governor and… Continue reading
WaPo. Only this activist’s point isn’t the one he thought he was making, since there’s no evidence of widespread absentee voting fraud in Wisconsin.
A Wisconsin man this week ordered absentee ballots for himself in the names of a mayor… Continue reading
This Lawfare essay by Irina Manta and Cassandra Burke Robertson discusses a pending cert petition that raises the issue of who exactly is entitled to birthright citizenship and offers the Court an opportunity to overrule the Insular Cases.
In the… Continue reading