Election Law Blog1h
“Freedom Caucus leader says North Carolina should consider giving Trump its electors before votes are counted”
Politico: The chair of the conservative House Freedom Caucus says the North Carolina legislature should consider allocating the state’s presidential electors to Donald Trump even before votes are ...
Election Law Blog1h
I Spoke to the Diane Rehm Show: “How Secure is the 2024 Election?”
You can listen here.
Election Law Blog2h
“A federal judge pauses Virginia’s voter removal program until after Election Day” (Governor Says He Will Appeal to 4th Circuit Next)
The Stagnation, Retrogression, and Potential Pro-Voter Transformation of U.S. Election Law, 134 Yale Law Journal (forthcoming 2025), draft available: Reckoning with the Undead Irreparable Injury Rule ...
Election Law Blog2h
Report: About 252,000 Texans Lack Voter ID and Would Need to Fill Out a Reasonable Impediment Declaration to Vote (and More Stats on Georgia)
And in Georgia: “About 76,000 Georgian adult citizens (1%), do not have any of the documents they need to vote in Georgia.” ...
Election Law Blog3h
“Trump alumni warn he could deploy troops against Americans”
WaPo: Now, with less than two weeks until Election Day, some of Trump’s most senior former advisers are warning Americans to take his militaristic impulses seriously. His longest-serving chief of ...
Election Law Blog3h
Big lie’ 2.0: How Trump’s false claims about noncitizens voting lay the groundwork to undermine the election”
The “big lie” of the 2024 election is being workshopped on Webex. In tiny boxes, hundreds of people, most of them white, meet weekly in online video conferences to share specious evidence of a problem ...
Election Law Blog3h
“RNC is leading the legal charge for Trump amid echoes of 2020 election chaos”
When a local Republican official in Georgia filed a lawsuit this year declaring that election boards did not have a duty to certify results, the lawyer she turned to was part of the legal team … Conti ...
Election Law Blog3h
“In High-Stakes Pennsylvania, Local Officials Have a Big Hand in Voting Rules”
NYT: Compared with most other states, Pennsylvania gives county commissioners more discretion when it comes to the details of the voting process — how to deal with different methods of writing the ...
Election Law Blog3h
“Meet the Pennsylvania nuns falsely accused of voter fraud”
CNN: For a Republican canvasser going door-to-door to get out the vote in the battleground state of Pennsylvania, the address on East Lake Road in Erie must have seemed like Heaven-sent evidence of ...
Election Law Blog3h
“The Army of Election Officials Ready to Reject the Vote”
Much of that work would be done by Cleta Mitchell, a Republican lawyer who assisted Trump’s efforts in Georgia after the 2020 election and was on the phone call on Jan. 2, 2021, … Continue reading → ...
Election Law Blog17h
Podcast Delves into the Increased Uses of Ranked Choice Voting in the U.S. with Rob Richie
The Stagnation, Retrogression, and Potential Pro-Voter Transformation of U.S. Election Law, 134 Yale Law Journal (forthcoming 2025), draft available: Reckoning with the Undead Irreparable Injury Rule ...
Election Law Blog23h
When Will We Know Election Results in the Swing States? Great New Slide Deck from Protect Democracy Explores
The Stagnation, Retrogression, and Potential Pro-Voter Transformation of U.S. Election Law, 134 Yale Law Journal (forthcoming 2025), draft available: Reckoning with the Undead Irreparable Injury Rule ...