CNN has a piece raising this issue. In response, Michael Parsons (Senior Legal Fellow at Fair Vote) and David Daley (Senior Fellow, Fair Vote) have written this guest post for ELB: Maine values its long history of independent politics, electing… Continue reading

From the NYT: Brad Raffensperger, Georgia’s Republican secretary of state, has been forced to spend half a million dollars defending himself in court for having stood up to former President Donald J. Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election. The… Continue reading

From Columbus Dispatch: Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose’s office is proposing loaded ballot language for a redistricting reform measure, including references to manipulating the boundaries of legislative districts and repealing constitutional protections against gerrymandering. The proposed ballot language for… Continue reading

I wrote this response to Joshua Kleinfeld and Stephen Sachs’s forthcoming article, “Give Parents the Vote.” The response will be published in the Notre Dame Law Review alongside Kleinfeld and Sachs’s article. Here’s the abstract: Joshua Kleinfeld and Stephen… Continue reading

This post has been corrected and the error was entirely my fault. Apologies!

Here’s the opening paragraph of the opinion. Link is here. On January 4, 2021, two days before the Vice Presidentof the United States was set to preside over a joint session of the United States Congress to certify the results… Continue reading

Details: The State Democracy Research Initiative and the Elections Research Center at UW-Madison invite you to join us for “Election Matters 2024: The Promise & Perils of AI in American Elections,” sponsored by Stafford Rosenbaum LLP. This event will… Continue reading

Via email: Fordham Law’s Voting Rights and Democracy Forum is currently seeking two types of submissions: Articles and Essays. Articles. Articles are typically under 15,000 words (excluding footnotes) and tend to analyze a problem and offer a solution. Articles should… Continue reading

NYT: The Republican campaign for president is quietly being remade by new federal guidelines that empower big-money groups and threaten to undermine party control well beyond the 2024 election. Former President Donald J. Trump’s team has enlisted some of these… Continue reading

This is a lengthy piece that’s difficult to excerpt because it goes state by state in detail. Here are are few excerpts: There is a prevailing view among Democrats and journalists that 2024’s presidential election will have more barriers for… Continue reading

From CNN: Google said Wednesday that an alleged Iranian hacking operation aimed at US presidential campaigns is ongoing and more wide-ranging than previously known as the hackers continue to target the email accounts of current US officials and people associated… Continue reading

From the Financial Times: Kamala Harris has spent 10 times as much as Donald Trump on digital advertising since becoming the Democrat’s presidential candidate, a sign the campaigns are diverging in their tactics to reach voters and small-dollar donors. Harris… Continue reading