“AP-NORC poll: Election security, integrity worry Americans”

February 27, 2020, 7:44 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

AP: Americans have widespread concerns about the security and integrity of elections, with few saying they have high confidence that votes in the 2020 presidential election will be counted accurately. A poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs … Continue reading

“Judge rejects ballot secrecy case against Georgia voting touchscreens”

February 27, 2020, 7:41 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

AJC: A South Georgia judge ruled Wednesday that elections can move forward on Georgia’s new voting computers, deciding against plaintiffs who said the large touchscreens failed to keep ballots secret.The ruling clears the way for voters to cast… Continue reading

“The Primaries Are Just Dumb; There’s a better way to do democracy.”

February 27, 2020, 7:37 amalternative voting systemsRick Hasen

NYT editorial in favor of instant runoff voting.

“Court OKs Texas winner-take-all presidential elector system”

February 27, 2020, 7:34 amelectoral collegeRick Hasen

AP: The winner-take-all system Texas and 47 other states use to assign Electoral College presidential votes is constitutional, a federal appeals court said Wednesday.A three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans unanimously … Continue reading

Latest Issue of Marc Elias’s “Democracy Docket” Newsletter

February 27, 2020, 7:32 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

Available here. This is a valuable resource if you want to track Democrats’ voting litigation activities. I won’t link to this each month, but there’s a link to subscribe to the newsletter.

Torres-Spelliscy: “The Easy and Not So Easy Fixes to an Election Meltdown” (Balkinization Symposium on Election Meltdown)

February 27, 2020, 7:29 amElection MeltdownRick Hasen

Ciara Torres-Spelliscy: Every voter should read Professor Rick Hasen’s Election Meltdown before they vote in 2020, which focuses on the how elections are run and how partisans are less and less likely to accept an electoral loss.Election Meltdown does… Continue reading

From the Election Law Journal Archives: Article by Jason Marisam on How the 1918 Flu Epidemic Affected the Election

February 26, 2020, 1:11 pmUncategorizedRick Hasen

You can find Judging the 1918 Election at this link.

“‘Panties in a Bunch’: Kansas Official Blew Off Concerns About 2018 Polling Place Move Dodge City, Kansas”

February 26, 2020, 12:41 pmUncategorizedRick Hasen

TPM: The House Oversight Committee revealed Wednesday new information about how local election officials in Kansas botched the relocation of a polling place that put Dodge City’s single site for voting at a location more than a mile from the… Continue reading

“Russia, Bloomberg, and Voter Choice”

February 26, 2020, 12:35 pmUncategorizedRick Hasen

Franita and Foley podcast.

“Kemp Praise Aides for Purging Voter Rolls”

February 26, 2020, 12:34 pmUncategorizedRick Hasen

Political Wire: The House Oversight Committee released an email from then-Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp (R) which told aides “good work” after a newspaper story exposed problems in the way voters were removed from electoral rolls.He added: “Good work,… Continue reading

“DeKalb illegally canceled dozens of voter registrations, lawsuit says”

February 26, 2020, 11:52 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

AJC reports.

“Voting tech gone wrong: How scrambled data upended a Nevada caucus site”

February 26, 2020, 10:47 amelection administrationRick Hasen

Steven Rosenfeld with a cautionary tale about data entry error and democracy.

Coronavirus, the Census, and Election 2020: A Desperate Plea for “Plan B”

February 26, 2020, 9:11 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

You are going to hear this message a lot from me in the months going forward: election officials and others need to have a “Plan B” to deal with intentional interference or natural disasters that can disrupt our democratic processes.… Continue reading

Fishkin: “Arguing with Nihilists as the House Burns” (Balkinization Symposium on Election Meltdown)

February 26, 2020, 8:58 amElection MeltdownRick Hasen

Joey Fishkin: One oddity of writing a book like Election Meltdown is that the worse things get, the better it is for the book. That is, the more conspicuously our election system actually does melt down, the more Rick Hasen’s… Continue reading