“Pennsylvania’s legislature should protect its presidential vote | Opinion”

September 15, 2020, 10:48 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

Ned Foley oped: Without wading into the details of Pennsylvania’s procedures for permitting challenges to mailed ballots, and appeals from denials of those challenges, there is a risk that those challenges and appeals could bog the process down to… Continue reading

“Trump and Biden’s Florida polls highlights stakes of 2020 voting rights for ex-felons”

September 15, 2020, 10:43 amfelon votingRick Hasen

Josh Douglas at NBC Think.

“Trump just repeated his ugliest claim about the election. Why isn’t it bigger news?”

September 15, 2020, 10:42 amfraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Greg Sargent: Appearing on “Fox & Friends” on Tuesday morning, President Trump again told his supporters to believe that if the election doesn’t deliver the result they want, the outcome is inherently illegitimate — that there are no democratically legitimate… Continue reading

“What Will Election Night Look Like in a Global Pandemic?”

September 15, 2020, 7:57 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

Happy to talk about this topic on the ACLU’s “At the Polls” podcast. Listen.

“Wisconsin elections commission member advised Green Party”

September 15, 2020, 7:39 amelection administrationRick Hasen

AP: A Republican member of the Wisconsin Elections Commission advised a Green Party representative about who to hire as an attorney after its presidential nominee was denied ballot access in the key battleground state, records obtained by The Associated… Continue reading

“Trump is trying to sabotage the election. Here’s why it won’t work.”

September 15, 2020, 7:29 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

Dana Milbank WaPo column: Trump has succeeded in sowing confusion about the ability of the United States to hold a free and fair election. His allies in Congress have abetted the sabotage by refusing to give states the funds they… Continue reading

“Trump’s Perverse Campaign Strategy”

September 15, 2020, 7:27 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

Jamelle Bouie in NYT Opinion: Instead of making a conventional appeal to voters to give him another term in office, Trump is issuing a threat, of sorts: I cannot lose. If I do lose, the election was stolen. Anyone protesting… Continue reading

“Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin decided the 2016 election. We’ll have to wait on them in 2020.”

September 15, 2020, 7:23 amabsentee ballots, election administrationRick Hasen

Zach Montellaro for Politico: Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin are expecting huge surges in ballots cast by mail in 2020, like most states preparing to vote during the coronavirus pandemic. But all three Midwestern battlegrounds, which President Donald Trump flipped… Continue reading

“State Election Chiefs Should Be Umpires, Not Players”

September 15, 2020, 7:08 amUncategorizedRichard Pildes

This is a good piece on an under-discussed election reform issue. One reason it’s good is that it’s not all doom and gloom, and recognizes positive developments in this area. The piece also offers a new institutional reform for this… Continue reading

“Democrats used to rail against ‘dark money.’ Now they’re better at it than the GOP.”

September 14, 2020, 8:26 pmcampaign financeRick Hasen

NBC News: When allies of former President Barack Obama set up a super PAC to support his 2012 re-election, the White House disowned the group, The New York Times published a scathing editorial and former Democratic Sen. Russ Feingold… Continue reading

“Federal judge temporarily blocks Postal Service from sending election mailer to more voters in Colorado”

September 14, 2020, 8:10 pmUncategorizedRick Hasen

WaPo: A federal judge late Saturday temporarily blocked the U.S. Postal Service from sending a notice about the November elections to more people in Colorado, finding that the mailer “provides patently false information” about the state’s voting system that could… Continue reading

“20,000 Mail-in Ballots Didn’t Count in Pa.’s June Primary, Half the 2016 Victory Margin”

September 14, 2020, 8:08 pmabsentee ballotsRick Hasen

NBC Philadelphia reports.

“Introducing the 2020 Election Litigation Tracker”

September 14, 2020, 6:12 pmSupreme CourtRick Hasen

Exciting announcement: Twenty years ago this fall, a hotly contested presidential election led to 36 days of legal turmoil that culminated with the Supreme Court’s ruling in Bush v. Gore. This year, as America prepares to vote during the… Continue reading

“Democracy on a Shoestring”

September 14, 2020, 6:05 pmelection administrationRick Hasen

Joshua Sellers and Roger Michalski have posted this draft on SSRN (forthcoming Vanderbilt Law Review). Here is the abstract: Democracy is expensive. Voters must be registered, voting rolls updated, election dates advertised, voting technology purchased and tested, poll workers trained,… Continue reading