NBC News: “The large-scale voter contact effort that conservatives have put at the center of their political operations in recent years is plagued with issues, according to more than a dozen people who’ve worked in GOP-aligned field operations and internal… Continue reading

I have posted on SSRN a very close to final version of this paper, to be published in the University of New Hampshire Law Review. Here is the abstract: Total Vote Runoff (TVR) is an electoral system designed to be… Continue reading

From the Daily Montanan: Ten Montanans, including former elected officials and Constitutional Convention delegates, have sued the state arguing a bill that adds a host of new requirements for people trying to get initiatives and constitutional amendments onto the ballot… Continue reading

From this piece in The Hill by Steven Lubet: Adding members to the House will only increase partisanship and feed extremism, as the behavior of state legislatures has amply demonstrated…. Smaller districts would theoretically bring representatives closer to the people,… Continue reading

Josh Douglas has this detailed report on the subject for The Institute for Responsive Government. He also has a related piece for the Washington Monthly which criticizes Florida’s new restrictions on third-party registration efforts.

NBC News: Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration has quietly changed state guidelines, essentially giving its blessing for a state-level political committee he previously ran to move millions of dollars to a super PAC helping his presidential campaign. For years, elections officials… Continue reading

NYT: “The special counsel is scrutinizing the dismissal of Christopher Krebs, who contradicted baseless claims by the former president that the 2020 election was marred by fraud.”

The Supreme Court hands down opinions today at 10 am EST. The Alabama Voting Rights Act case, Allen v. Milligan, is the only argued case from the Court’s first sitting in October that has yet to be decided. The two… Continue reading

This is pretty wild: a court found that enough people had illegally established sham residencies in Laredo TX to change the outcome of a city council election. The court declared the plaintiff the rightful winner of the election. Meanwhile, the… Continue reading

This Politico story raises the question of whether WI is shifting left, with the post-Dobbs abortion issue playing a major role: “We got our butts kicked,” Rohn Bishop, Bachleitner’s predecessor as chair of the Fond du Lac County GOP and,… Continue reading

From WRAL News: The 2024 elections in North Carolina could be conducted under far stricter rules under a proposal being crafted behind closed doors by Republican lawmakers — with input from a lawyer best known for assisting in efforts… Continue reading

This relates to the effort of some election officials to require a hand count of the 2022 ballots in Cochise County, AZ, despite the legal conclusions of the relevant county election lawyers that such a hand count would be illegal… Continue reading