“Trump aides exploring executive actions to curb voting by mail”

August 9, 2020, 9:01 pmabsentee ballots, chicaneryRick Hasen

Politico: Trump, impatient with the slow nature of lawsuits, suggested last week that the November election be postponed, though he later claimed he was merely trying to highlight the possibility of fraud after he faced a backlash from even… Continue reading

“The Voting Will End Nov. 3. The Legal Battle Probably Won’t.”

August 9, 2020, 8:54 pmElection Meltdown, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

NYT: The stormy once-in-a-lifetime Florida recount battle that polarized the nation in 2000 and left the Supreme Court to decide the presidency may soon look like a high school student council election compared with what could be coming after this… Continue reading

“A Look at Voting in the Upcoming Election”

August 9, 2020, 8:46 pmUncategorizedRick Hasen

Lawyer 2 Lawyer podcast: Jim Gardner, a specialist in election law out of the University at Buffalo School of Law, discusses voting in the upcoming election, mail-in voting, foreign interference in elections, and what we will see on election … Continue reading

“Facts and Myths about Misperceptions”

August 9, 2020, 5:09 amUncategorizedRichard Pildes

This is a good survey article by Brendan Nyhan about what we know (or wrongly think we know) about misinformation regarding factual matters, including on policy and politics: the sources of misinformation, the distribution of public beliefs about it, and… Continue reading

Senator Richard Blumenthal: “The threat to U.S. elections is real, and frightening. The public has a right to know.”

August 7, 2020, 5:08 pmUncategorizedRick Hasen

The Senator’s WaPo oped: The warning lights are flashing red. America’s elections are under attack.This week, I reviewed classified materials in the Senate’s Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility and received a similarly classified briefing on malign foreign threats to U.S. elections.… Continue reading

“Fifth Circuit Slow-Walks Argument in Critical Texas Voting Rights Case”

August 7, 2020, 3:10 pmThe Voting WarsRick Hasen

CAC: Last week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit announced that it will not hear oral argument in a critical Texas voting rights case until August 31, pushing its decision-making process dangerously close to the… Continue reading

Norm Ornstein: “Enlist George W. Bush and Al Gore to help us prevent a Trump-Biden nightmare in 2020”

August 7, 2020, 1:36 pmUncategorizedRick Hasen

Norm oped in USA Today: The vote totals counted and announced on Nov. 3 may be very different from the final tallies. We may see state legislatures or even governors contesting these results, and possibly putting up alternative slates of… Continue reading

“Big Tech’s head-spinning rules for the 2020 election”

August 7, 2020, 10:52 amcheap speechRick Hasen

Donie O’Sullivan for CNN: Late Wednesday, Twitter made waves by temporarily restricting a Trump campaign account’s ability to tweet because it shared a video containing false claims President Trump had made about the coronavirus. But Twitter took no action… Continue reading

Alabama: “Absentee voting lawsuit against state dismissed by judge”

August 7, 2020, 10:50 amcourt decisions, election administrationRick Hasen

AL.com: A state judge on Wednesday threw out a lawsuit by disability advocates challenging provisions of Alabama’s absentee ballot laws, saying his court lacked jurisdiction and the plaintiffs lacked standing to sue.The lawsuit, initially filed in May in Montgomery… Continue reading

“Georgia sued over long voting lines”

August 7, 2020, 7:53 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

AJC reports.

“The Latest U.S. Tool to Fight Election Meddling: Text Messages”

August 7, 2020, 7:51 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

NYT: The United States government on Thursday became, for a brief moment, one of the biggest and perhaps most annoying telemarketers in Russia.Seeking to publicize new rewards of up to $10 million for information about people trying to attack American… Continue reading

“Mail-in ballot applications in Virginia tap into worries about fraud with faulty instructions”

August 7, 2020, 7:48 amabsentee ballotsRick Hasen

WaPo: A voter registration group with a history of sending error-ridden mailers has again sown confusion in Virginia, this time tapping into concerns about mail-in ballots sparkedby President Trump’s repeated allegations — without evidence — of election fraud.The Washington-based Center … Continue reading

“Trump campaign ad manipulates three images to put Biden in a ‘basement’”

August 7, 2020, 7:46 amcampaigns, cheap speech, chicaneryRick Hasen

WaPo: The Pinocchio Test Two of these photos fall under the category of “doctored” in the Fact Checker’s Guide to Manipulated Video. In the most egregious case, one image literally takes Biden from a nature preserve and puts him… Continue reading

“GOP asks Supreme Court to reinstate Arizona voting rules deemed racially biased”

August 7, 2020, 7:38 amVoting Rights ActRick Hasen

John Kruzel story from last week: At issue in the lawsuit are a pair of Arizona voting restrictions that were struck down earlier this year by the San Francisco-based 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, which sparked the GOP petition to… Continue reading