“Republicans bring back fake electors in battlegrounds”

November 4, 2024, 6:48 amelection subversion risk, electoral collegeRick Hasen

Politico: Many of the people preparing to cast votes for Donald Trump in the Electoral College in 2024 were involved in his plot to subvert the election in 2020. Some are even facing criminal charges for it. Of the 93… Continue reading

“This election night, the media can better explain how results work”

November 4, 2024, 6:38 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

Kevin Johnson and Nick Penniman at The Fulcrum.

“The Ongoing Relevance of Electoral Reform”

November 4, 2024, 6:23 amUncategorizedNed Foley

A brief Common Ground Democracy post following up on Rick H’s “Hope for Irrelevance By Next Weekend.”

“Iowa can challenge ballots of 2,000 voters on flawed noncitizen list, judge says”

November 3, 2024, 7:48 pmvoter registrationRick Hasen

Des Moines Register: A federal judge has ruled that Iowa poll workers may continue challenging the ballots of more than 2,000 Iowans who are on a flawed list of possible noncitizens, denying a request to order counties to allow those… Continue reading

Global Interest in the Election

November 3, 2024, 12:59 pmUncategorizedRichard Pildes

Not surprisingly, many people overseas are as anxious about the election as Americans. In the last week, I’ve done media in the UK, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Australia and others. You can’t escape it by running to New Zealand, either.… Continue reading

“Trump tells ABC he expects a winner to be declared election night”

November 3, 2024, 11:42 amelection subversion riskRick Hasen

ABC News: In a phone conversation with ABC News Chief Washington Correspondent Jonathan Karl on Sunday morning, Donald Trump said he has “a substantial lead” and predicted the winner of the election will be known by election night. Karl asked… Continue reading

My Hope for Irrelevance By Next Weekend

November 3, 2024, 11:20 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

There’s a certain adrenaline rush that comes with working in the area of election law in the period before presidential elections. That’s especially true if, like me, you do a lot of public speaking and media. It’s great to be… Continue reading

“Why Pennsylvania’s unusual voting laws make it ripe for rigged election claims”

November 3, 2024, 10:48 amelection administration, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Jane Timm for NBC News: With Pennsylvania expected to be a close and crucial state in the 2024 race for the presidency, it’s unusual election laws are again under the microscope. First, there’s the counting. The state doesn’t have… Continue reading

NYT: “Trump Tells Supporters He ‘Shouldn’t Have Left’ the White House; Donald J. Trump, who sought to overturn his loss of the 2020 election, also joked that he didn’t mind if reporters were shot.”

November 3, 2024, 10:44 amauthoritarian threats in US, election subversion riskRick Hasen

NYT: Former President Donald J. Trump told supporters on Sunday that he “shouldn’t have left” the White House at the end of his term during an end-of-campaign rally where he vented angrily about a spate of new public polls showing… Continue reading

“Canvassers for Elon Musk’s America PAC Were Fired and Stranded in Michigan After Speaking Out”

November 3, 2024, 10:40 amcampaigns, chicaneryRick Hasen

Wired: Standing next to her hastily packed suitcase in Michigan’s Macomb County Wednesday night, Tyra Muldrow had a bad feeling in her gut. “I have this eerie feeling that I need to get the hell up out of there,” says… Continue reading

“How a New Mexico county pulled back from the brink of election chaos”

November 3, 2024, 10:38 amelection administrationRick Hasen

WaPo: Sandoval County has overhauled the hand-counting of absentee ballots, reduced its number of ballot drop boxes and curtailed their hours of access. Not only have Brady-Romero and Dominguez, her chief deputy, spent many hours answering questions from a… Continue reading

“Former Trump White House counsel Don McGahn sets post-election talk to anti-Trump conservatives”

November 3, 2024, 10:34 amelection law bizRick Hasen

Politico: Don McGahn, Donald Trump’s first White House lawyer and architect of his judicial appointment strategy, is turning heads in the legal world after agreeing to speak at a gathering of never-Trump conservatives the week after the election. McGahn… Continue reading

“Swing state officials prepare for potential disruptions around December electors meetings”

November 3, 2024, 10:32 amelection subversion riskRick Hasen

NBC News reports.

“Opinion: Voting in America is still secure. But a dark anti-election movement seeks to change that”

November 3, 2024, 10:08 amelection subversion riskRick Hasen

Sean Morales-Doyle oped in the LA Times: In the years since, Trump’s ragtag gang of election deniers has built a movement, organizing everyday American citizens to take democracy down. Cleta Mitchell — one of the lawyers on the January 2021 … Continue reading