Oregon: “Ballot boxes in Portland and Vancouver lit on fire”

October 28, 2024, 8:36 amchicaneryRick Hasen

KGW: A ballot box in Southeast Portland and another in Vancouver were lit on fire early Monday morning. It’s currently unclear whether the two incidents are connected. Portland police officers responded around 3:30 a.m. to reports of a fire… Continue reading

Safeguarding Democracy Project Recordings of our Fall 2024 Events on the Upcoming Elections

October 28, 2024, 8:15 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

Recordings of our Fall 2024 EventsIf you missed any of our events this fall, you can catch up with these recordings or visit our website www.safeguardingdemocracyproject.org. Sept. 12: From Here to There: How States Can and Should Certify the Results… Continue reading

“Philly DA sues to halt Elon Musk’s $1 million voter giveaway in Pennsylvania”

October 28, 2024, 7:14 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

Philly Inquirer: Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner on Monday sued to halt Elon Musk’s $1 million daily giveaway to voters in battleground states including Pennsylvania, calling it an illegal lottery that skirts state requirements and violates consumer protection laws. The… Continue reading

“Before Election Day, Trump is increasingly sowing doubts about the results”

October 28, 2024, 7:10 amelection subversion risk, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

NBC News: As Election Day approaches, former President Donald Trump has increasingly been warning that if he loses, it will be because of cheating. “They’re going to cheat. They cheat. That’s all they want to do is cheat,” Trump… Continue reading

“Inside the Movement Behind Trump’s Election Lies” (NYT Has 400 Hours of Cleta Mitchell Zoom Calls)

October 28, 2024, 7:07 amelection subversion risk, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

NYT: In the aftermath of Donald J. Trump’s defeat in 2020, one of his election lawyers set out to keep the lies about his loss alive. The lawyer, a well-connected conservative named Cleta Mitchell, knit together grass-roots activists, Republican lawyers,… Continue reading

“105. The Supreme Court and the 2024 Election, Part I”

October 28, 2024, 7:00 amSupreme CourtRick Hasen

Steve Vladeck on emergency election litigation at, or almost at, SCOTUS: RFK ballot access, PA provisional ballots, VA voter purge. He also says this about the 5th Circuit Mississippi ruling: And then there’s the Fifth Circuit—which, in a case out… Continue reading

“Musk’s X to undershoot revenue goals from political advertising”

October 28, 2024, 6:49 amcampaigns, cheap speechRick Hasen

FT: Elon Musk’s X is on track to fall well short of its goal of bringing in $100mn in revenue from political advertising in 2024, raising just $15mn in the year to date, largely from an increasing reliance on… Continue reading

“Our Analysis of Statewide Election Recounts 2003-2023”

October 28, 2024, 6:44 amrecountsRick Hasen

FairVote: Conducting election recounts to ensure fair, accurate, and genuine democratic outcomes is a critical component of effective election administration. Trust in elections requires trust in a jurisdiction’s recount process. It is an ongoing learning experience for election administrators to… Continue reading

“GOP drive to revive Virginia voter purge strikes out at appeals court”

October 27, 2024, 4:36 pmUncategorizedRick Hasen

Josh Gerstein for Politico: A bid by Republican officials in Virginia to purge of potential non-citizens from the voter rolls there appears headed for the Supreme Court after a federal appeals court refused to disturb a lower court order that… Continue reading

“Far-Right Figures Escalate Talk of Retribution and Election Subversion”

October 27, 2024, 2:59 pmchicanery, election subversion risk, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

NYT: In the weeks after the 2020 election, retired Gen. Michael T. Flynn, Donald J. Trump’s former national security adviser, was a key figure in efforts to subvert the election outcome. In recent interviews and speeches, he and an associate… Continue reading

“GOP focus on rare noncitizen voting may continue long after Election Day”

October 27, 2024, 2:56 pmfraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Patrick Marley for WaPo: Noncitizen voting is exceedingly rare, research has shown, but Trump and his allies have found that focusing on the issue energizes their supporters by tying together topics that have long animated their base: illegal immigration… Continue reading

New Washington and Lee Law Review Symposium on Voting Rights in a Polarized Era

October 27, 2024, 2:50 pmpedagogyRick Hasen

Check out the Washington and Lee Law Review’s Symposium issue (Volume 81, Issue 3) for the symposium that Maureen Edobor and Chris Seaman organized earlier this year, “Voting Rights in a Politically Polarized Era.” It includes the following… Continue reading

“Republican battleground-state legal blitz falters ahead of election”

October 27, 2024, 8:51 amThe Voting WarsRick Hasen

Reuters: Donald Trump’s Republican allies have suffered a string of courtroom setbacks in battleground U.S. presidential election states as Election Day draws closer, losses which could boost voter turnout and speed certification of the eventual winner. In the past three… Continue reading

“Voters Are Deeply Skeptical About the Health of American Democracy”

October 27, 2024, 8:49 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

NYT: Nearly half of all voters are skeptical that the American experiment in self-governance is working, with 45 percent believing that the nation’s democracy does not do a good job representing ordinary people, according to a new New York Times/Siena … Continue reading