Election Law Blog1h
“Election Officials Face Torrent of Threats as Nov. 5 Looms”
NYT: With less than two weeks until Election Day, law enforcement officials are confronting a rising wave of threats to election workers and political activists in a presidential contest hurtling ...
Election Law Blog1h
“Lancaster County officials hold onto crucial details of investigation over ‘fraudulent’ voter registration applications”
LNP: Thousands of voter registration applications submitted to the Lancaster County elections office are being reviewed because some of them may be fraudulent, District Attorney Heather Adams ...
Election Law Blog3h
State Legislatures Can No Longer Declare the Election to Have “Failed” in Their State Due to Natural Disasters and Then Appoint Electors
One of the major (but less -well appreciated) accomplishments of the new, bipartisan Electoral Count Reform Act is that it repealed the provision in federal law that permitted state legislatures to ...
Election Law Blog7h
“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 Blog7h
I Spoke to the Diane Rehm Show: “How Secure is the 2024 Election?”
You can listen here.
Election Law Blog8h
“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 Blog8h
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 Blog9h
“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 Blog9h
“Elon Musk’s pro-Trump PAC awards more $1 million prizes despite DOJ warning”
WaPo: Tech billionaire Elon Musk’s pro-Trump political group awarded two additional $1 million prizes to swing-state voters Thursday night, despite warnings from the Justice Department that the daily ...
Election Law Blog9h
“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 Blog9h
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 Blog9h
“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 ...