“Still Annoyed at Biden, New Hampshire Democrats Gear Up to Help Him”
New York Times on a primary write-in campaign:
New Hampshire Democrats were furious at President Biden when he shook up the party’s nominating calendar last year, diminishing their state’s political importance by pushing its primary election behind South Carolina’s.
Kicking… Continue reading
ABA webinar: “Eighth Annual State of Voting Rights”
Today, registration link here.
Recent news on paper ballot shortages
In 2022, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania had ballot marking device paper shortages for some voters. Last week, a federal court denied (in part) a motion to dismiss in French v. County of Luzerne, brought by voters who did not… Continue reading
“Jury trial will decide how much Giuliani must pay election workers over false election fraud claims”
“The expensive, daunting fight to get RFK Jr.’s name on state ballots”
Axios:
The Kennedy campaign has divided the state requirements into a tiered system based on whether they require a VP pick, the amount of signatures needed, whether there is a date for when they can begin petitioning and their… Continue reading
“Less appetite — and opportunity — to serve as fake Trump electors in 2024”
Excerpt from the Washington Post:
Another force will make it harder for electors to do what Trump’s slates did in 2020: The Electoral Count Reform Act of 2022, bipartisan legislation intended to prevent the chaos surrounding the events of… Continue reading
“Talk of a Trump Dictatorship Charges the American Political Debate”
Peter Baker for the NYT:
When a historian wrote an essay the other day warning that the election of former President Donald J. Trump next year could lead to dictatorship, one of Mr. Trump’s allies quickly responded by calling for… Continue reading
“Small segment of voters will wield outsize power in 2024 presidential race”
WaPo article, with the subhed: “The electoral college system empowers a sliver of the U.S. population in a diminishing number of battleground states. And the majority may not even prevail.”
“Exclusive: Pro-Trump lawyer Kenneth Chesebro cooperating in multiple state probes into 2020 fake electors plot”
CNN:
The pro-Trump lawyer who helped devise the 2020 fake electors plot and already pleaded guilty to the conspiracy in Georgia is now cooperating with Michigan and Wisconsin state investigators in hopes of avoiding more criminal charges, multiple sources told CNN.
In a dramatic… Continue reading
“Appeals Court Upholds, but Narrows, Gag Order on Trump in Election Case”
NYT:
A federal appeals court on Friday largely upheld the gag order imposed two months ago on former President Donald J. Trump in the criminal case accusing him of plotting to overturn the 2020 election, but narrowed its terms to… Continue reading
Indispensable Resource from Federal Judicial Center: “Emergency Election Litigation in Federal Courts: From Bush v. Gore to Covid-19”
It’s hard to overstate how rich a resource this Federal Judicial Center book is going to be. It is totally free online; a hard copy will be available for sale soon:
Robert Timothy Reagan, Margaret S. Williams, Marie Leary, Catherine… Continue reading
ELB Podcast 5:4: Ian Bassin & Jess Marsden: Protecting Democracy in 2024…and 2025
New ELB Podcast:
Has the United States done enough to minimize the risk of election subversion in 2024?
How might problems in Congress affect a fair tallying of electoral college votes on January 6, 2025?
How much danger of authoritarian… Continue reading
“Inside Trump’s Plot To Corrupt the 2024 Election With ‘Garbage’ Data”
Rolling Stone:
As recently as this summer, Trump had talked to right-leaning legal counselors about the feasibility of laying the groundwork for various post-election “audits” of mailed ballots — inspired partly by a shambolic Arizona audit following the 2020 election… Continue reading