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Ranked Choice Voting Measures on Track to Lose in at Least Some States; Redistricting Reform Goes Down in Ohio
Past, Present, and Future in Oxford Handbook of American Election Law (Eugene Mazo, ed., forthcoming 2024), draft available: Nonprofit Law as a Tool to Kill What Remains of Campaign Finance Law: ...
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“The math is starting to look daunting for Harris in Pennsylvania”
Politico: Fewer than 37,000 mail ballots are left to count in Philadelphia, the Democratic stronghold where Kamala Harris had hoped to run up the score and offset Donald Trump’s gains in other parts ...
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Milwaukee Results, Already Not Expect to Be Mostly Complete Until 2-3 am, Will Be Further Delayed Because of Tabulation Issue
States as Bulwarks Against, or Potential Facilitators of, Election Subversion, in Our Nation at Risk: Election Integrity as a ...
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“Hoax bomb threats linked to Russia target polling places in battleground states, FBI says”
Reuters: Hoax bomb threats, many of which appeared to originate from Russian email domains, were directed at polling locations in four battleground states – Georgia, Michigan, Arizona and Wisconsin – ...
Election Law Blog7h
Richie: “Weaponizing Minor Parties: 2024 Edition”
Weaponizing Minor Parties: 2024 Edition By Rob Richie The presidential election will come down to which candidate wins in the seven swing states – the same closest states from 2020 that … Continue rea ...
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Georgia: “Federal judge blasts GOP attorneys for ‘factually and legally incorrect’ lawsuit”
AJC: A federal judge in Savannah blasted Republican attorneys Tuesday for bringing what he called a factually and legally deficient lawsuit that sought to prevent Democratic-leaning counties from ...
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“Bomb threats sully otherwise uneventful voting across the country on Election Day”
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 ...
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Judge Orders Local Election Official in Fayette County, PA to Do His Job and Not Conduct an Illegal Hand Count of Ballots
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 ...
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“Russia Escalates Effort to Subvert Election and ‘Instill Fear in Voters,’ U.S. Says”
NYT: Russian groups and other foreign adversaries have unleashed an extensive disinformation campaign to undermine confidence in the election, and senior U.S. officials are worried that Moscow’s ...
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A Moment of Thanks to Our Election Officials and Election Workers, the Real Election Heroes
Those who work or volunteer in elections have always had a tiring, stressful, and often thankless job. Now, these workers should be entitled to combat pay– but they at least deserve our thanks. Some ...
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“Non-credible bomb threats against Atlanta-area polling places were from Russia, secretary of state says”
CNN: Several non-credible bomb threats that briefly disrupted voting at two Georgia polling places originated from Russia, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger told reporters Tuesday. “We’ve ...
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“How Trump used the ‘red mirage’ in vote counting to deny his 2020 loss”
WaPo: Shortly after Election Day came and went in 2020 with no presidential decision, then-president Donald Trump declared himself the winner, even though millions of votes had yet to be counted. A ...