“A Trump ally’s ‘$25,000 cash giveaway’ for black voters could mean legal trouble”
Donald Sherman WaPo oped.
“Voters need help: How party insiders can make presidential primaries safer, fairer, and more democratic”
Just in time for the start of caucus/primary season, Ray La Raja and Jonathan Rauch have this substantial essay out from Brookings. Here is the summary and table of contents for the piece:
Summary
Presidential-nominating contests in both major political… Continue reading
“How The Trump Admin’s Attempt To Perpetuate The Voter Fraud Myth Failed Miserably”
TPM has posted this excerpt from my new book, Election Meltdown. Here is a taste:
The commission was started to back up Trump’s unsupported claims of massive voter fraud, which he advanced as the reason Hillary Clinton won the… Continue reading
“The Alarming Prospect of the Supreme Court Deciding the 2020 Election; If the country’s nine justices wind up deciding the presidential race, things could get very ugly very quickly”
I have written this piece for The Atlantic, part of the rollout of my new book, Election Meltdown. It begins:
Among the many strange and worrying truths about American elections, one has a tendency to get lost: The path… Continue reading
“2020’s first election security test: Iowa; The nation’s first caucuses Monday may be almost as low-tech as it gets, but it still faces threats from hackers.”
“Revamp House’s election method? Consider the last Parliament vote.”
Kevin Johnson:
Our historical cousins in the United Kingdom vote much like we do — in single-member districts, under simple plurality rules — so their elections are worth paying attention to. This is particularly true now that “the duopoly,”… Continue reading
“Arizona Asks 9th Circuit To Stay Its ‘Ballot Harvesting’ Ban Decision Pending Appeal To Supreme Court”
AZ Law reports.
I expect the Supreme Court to get involved in short order.
“The ‘Living Constitution’ Denied the Vote to Generations; If only late 19th-century courts had followed the original meaning of the 15th Amendment.”
Frank Scaturro WSJ oped.
The Risk of Media Confusion About the Iowa Results
As if the Iowa caucuses were not confusing enough, the Democratic Party will report out three different measures of the result. But on top of that, the campaigns have an incentive to try to manipulate the perceptions of “the” result,… Continue reading
“Election Meltdown, Part 2: Paper jams, lost forms, and lost boxes—incompetence and elections.”
You can listen to the second episode of the Election Meltdown podcast (in conjunction with Dahlia Lithwick and Slate Amicus) at this link. (Episode 1 is here.) This episode focuses on issues of election administration in Detroit, speaking to… Continue reading
“Sweeping changes to Pennsylvania election law could make early voting a norm”
Trib Live:
The heat is on — and it’s getting hotter for election officials across Pennsylvania as the April 28 presidential primary approaches.A new state election law that allows, among other things, no-excuse mail-in balloting 50 days before an election,… Continue reading
“Even Democracy Is Partisan Now; Remember when the League of Women Voters didn’t have to take sides to support voting rights and other democratic values?”
Frank Wilkinson for Bloomberg View.
Now Available: Revised Version of Hasen & Litman, “Thin and Thick Conceptions of the Nineteenth Amendment Right to Vote and Congress’s Power to Enforce It”
You can find a revised version of this paper by Leah Litman and me, part of a Georgetown Law Journal symposium on the centennial of the ratification of the 19th Amendment, at this link. Here is the abstract:
This… Continue reading
“Bloomberg Fueled His Campaign With $200 Million From His Own Fortune”
NYT:
Michael R. Bloomberg put more than $200 million of his personal fortune into his presidential campaign by the end of December, with the overwhelming bulk of that sum going to a mammoth advertising campaign on television and online, according… Continue reading