“Jan. 6 Panel and State Officials Seek Answers on Fake Trump Electors”

January 22, 2022, 11:36 amelection subversion riskRick Hasen

NYT: Law enforcement officials, members of Congress and the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol are digging deeper into the role that fake slates of electors played in efforts by former President Donald J. Trump to… Continue reading

“Read the never-issued Trump order that would have seized voting machines”

January 21, 2022, 9:49 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

Politico: Among the records that Donald Trump’s lawyers tried to shield from Jan. 6 investigators are a draft executive order that would have directed the defense secretary to seize voting machines and a document titled “Remarks on National Healing.”POLITICO… Continue reading

“Texas man charged with threatening election, government officials in Georgia”

January 21, 2022, 9:38 amchicaneryRick Hasen

Washington Post: The Justice Department on Friday arrested a Texas man and charged him with threatening election and other government officials in Georgia, in the first case brought by a task force formed over the summer to combat such… Continue reading

“Trump campaign officials, led by Rudy Giuliani, oversaw fake electors plot in 7 states”

January 20, 2022, 2:51 pmelection subversion riskRick Hasen

CNN: Trump campaign officials, led by Rudy Giuliani, oversaw efforts in December 2020 to put forward illegitimate electors from seven states that Trump lost, according to three sources with direct knowledge of the scheme.The sources said members of… Continue reading

“BREAKING: Fulton DA requests special grand jury for Trump probe”

January 20, 2022, 8:47 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

AJC: Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is requesting a special grand jury to aid in her investigation of former President Donald Trump and his efforts to overturn Georgia’s 2020 election results.In a Thursday letter to Christopher S.… Continue reading

President Biden’s Should Clarify His Remarks on Election Legitimacy and the 2022 Elections. But Even The Troubling Aspects of What He Said Are Nowhere Nearly as Bad as What Trump Repeatedly Has Said About Election Legitimacy

January 20, 2022, 7:08 amThe Voting WarsRick Hasen

There’s been some discussion and attacks on President Biden for the following two exchanges as his press conference on Wednesday: Q Thank you, Mr. President. Speaking of voting rights legislation, if this isn’t passed, do you still believe the upcoming… Continue reading

“GOP gubernatorial candidate David Perdue calls for new election police unit in Georgia”

January 20, 2022, 6:42 amfraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

CNN reports.

“Achievable Federal Election Reform”

January 20, 2022, 6:35 amelection administrationRick Hasen

Release: Today the Bipartisan Policy Center’s Elections Project released a collaborative report undertaken with American Enterprise Institute, Issue One, R Street, and Unite America: Prioritizing Achievable Federal Election Reform. This report’s proposals build on synergy… Continue reading

“Plans to close all but one polling place in a rural Georgia county reverberate through a battleground state”

January 19, 2022, 7:26 amThe Voting WarsRick Hasen

Fredreka Schouten for CNN: Election officials in a rural Georgia county are weighing plans to close all but one polling place ahead of this year’s elections, alarming local voting and civil rights groups.But Wednesday’s vote by the Lincoln County… Continue reading

“The Voting Rights Conundrum”

January 15, 2022, 7:16 pmUncategorizedNicholas Stephanopoulos

Stephen Griffin on how voting rights commentary often ignores history, especially in the South. Unfortunately, this viewpoint leaves out one region and one group of surpassing importance to the Democratic party and, one hopes, to the nation as a whole… Continue reading

What should happen to 2020’s renegade presidential electors?

January 12, 2022, 8:53 amelectoral collegeDerek Muller

The Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the Capitol has been digging into the renegade electoral votes submitted by some Republicans in some states that President Joe Biden carried in 2020. POLITICO links to some PDFs of … Continue reading

“Financing of Races for Offices that Oversee Elections: January 2022”

January 12, 2022, 6:58 amUncategorizedNicholas Stephanopoulos

New Brennan Center report on fundraising by candidates for secretary of state — including several who deny the validity of the 2020 election results. Of the six battleground states with secretary of state elections in 2022 (AZ, GA, MI, MN,… Continue reading

WaPo “Factchecker” on “Jim Crow 2.0” Senate debate

January 11, 2022, 3:18 amDepartment of Justice, voting, Voting Rights ActNed Foley

Accurately describing itself as a “reader service,” this new Fact Checker analysis carefully details the arguments on both sides and the relevant provisions of the new laws in key states (like Georgia and Texas), including the DOJ and other lawsuits… Continue reading

ECA reform must be bipartisan

January 10, 2022, 6:58 pmelection subversion riskElectoral Count ActNed Foley

The ACS Expert Forum has posted my essay Reforming the Electoral Count Act requires bipartisan buy-in—Democrats can’t do it alone even with filibuster reform. I won’t repeat what I wrote there, but here are some points: First, in my… Continue reading

“Pro-Trump Republicans try to rewrite state election laws as a voting rights showdown looms in Congress”

January 10, 2022, 6:08 pmUncategorizedNicholas Stephanopoulos

Fresh off passing dozens of electoral changes in 2021 — many of them making it harder to vote or increasing the likelihood of election subversion — legislatures in states like Arizona, Florida, Michigan, and Wisconsin are now at it again.… Continue reading