“Hand-counted ballots, voter ID rules: How GOP lawmakers want to change Ohio elections”
USA Today:
“The bill’s prospects are uncertain. Secretary of State Frank LaRose said it includes some good ideas, but other parts are entirely unworkable or need significant revision. …
“DeWine spokesman Dan Tierney said it’s important to maintain confidence… Continue reading
“Kristi Noem Refuses to Say Whether She Would Have Certified the Election on Jan. 6”
N.Y. Times reports. The country shouldn’t be in the position where a sitting governor and potential vice-presidential nominee won’t say that Mike Pence did the right thing by accepting Biden’s valid Electoral College victory, but unfortunately that’s where we are… Continue reading
Why It Matters Legally Whether We Conceive of the Trump Case as One of “Election Interference”
Jed Handelsman Shugerman in NYT oped:
About a year ago, when Alvin Bragg, the Manhattan district attorney, indicted former President Donald Trump, I was critical of the case and called it an embarrassment. I thought an array of legal problems… Continue reading
Jed Shugerman on what’s wrong with Bragg’s case against Trump
N.Y. Times opinion column explaining the prosecution’s overly expansive conceptive of “election fraud”:
“Mr. Bragg has adopted a weak theory of “election interference,” and Justice Juan Merchan described the case, in his summary of it during jury selection, as… Continue reading
“New Group Joins the Political Fight Over Disinformation Online”
N.Y. Times reports on the formation of American Sunlight Project by Nina Jankowicz and Carlos Álvarez-Aranyos:
“The inception of the group, the American Sunlight Project, reflects how divisive the issue of identifying and combating disinformation has become as the 2024… Continue reading
“Republicans are starting to worry about RFK Jr.”
POLITICO reports on new polling that suggests RFK Jr. might pull support from Trump as well as Biden. Although the story doesn’t say so, the key point should be that a well-designed electoral system wouldn’t let a third-party or independent… Continue reading
“An appeals court dismisses charges against a Michigan election worker who downloaded a voter list”
AP reports:
“The court’s conclusion: James Holkeboer’s conduct was improper but not a crime.
He was charged with election fraud. But Holkeboer’s lawyers pointed out that the state law used by prosecutors only bars acts that change the… Continue reading
“As Meta flees politics, campaigns rely on new tricks to reach voters”
WaPo:
After years of pitching its suite of social media apps as the lifeblood of campaigns,Meta is breaking up with politics. The company has decreased the visibility of politics-focused posts and accounts on Facebook and Instagram as well as imposed… Continue reading
“Tony Evers weighs in on security threats facing Wisconsin elections chief Meagan Wolfe”
Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel. The focus of the story is “Trump’s decision to attack Wisconsin Elections Commission administrator Meagan Wolfe.” Some details:
“Meagan Wolfe will try and steal another election,” Trump said in an interview earlier this month with conservative radio … Continue reading
“Supreme Court rejects Kari Lake, Mark Finchem in machine voting lawsuit, ending legal challenge”
Arizona Republic. No surprise: “Legal experts had predicted the court would not exercise its discretion to add the case to its docket, citing well-established legal precedent and the court’s low acceptance rate.” Moreover:
“U.S. District Judge John Tuchi dismissed their … Continue reading
“Here’s how fusion voting helps to elevate diverse voices in Kansas”
Op-ed by the leaders of the new United Kansas party. For anyone who has been following the advocacy for fusion voting over the last couple of years, the arguments in the op-ed will be familiar. For example, the new party’s… Continue reading
“Wes Allen’s long project of limiting choices”
An editorial castigating the Alabama Secretary of State’s partisan enforcement of election laws, including the refusal to grant the Biden campaign the same kind of deadline extension previously granted the Trump campaign in 2020.
“A crush of lawsuits over voting in multiple states is creating a shadow war for the 2024 election”
AP reports:
“The Republican National Committee, newly reconstituted under Trump, has filed election-related lawsuits in nearly half the states. Recent lawsuits over voter roll maintenance in Michigan and Nevada are part of a larger strategy targeting various aspects… Continue reading