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Oct. 18 Wisconsin Event: “Election Matters 2024 | Safeguarding the Vote: Election Subversion Risks and Responses”
I’m very much looking forward to participating in this event this Friday live at the University of Wisconsin and on Zoom: The ...
Election Law Blog2h
Georgia: “‘Inappropriate and unprofessional’: State Election Board chair wants his Republican peers to back down”
AJC: The chair of the State Election Board says his Republican colleagues have gone too far, taking the law into their hands by passing new Georgia election rules since Donald Trump praised them at a ...
Election Law Blog4h
“How we know voter fraud is very rare in U.S. elections”
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 Blog4h
“How Trump may try to challenge the election results if he loses again”
But vulnerabilities persist. The risks this year will depend on the particulars of the election — and the closeness of the results. Many election officials and experts are worried false narratives ...
Election Law Blog18h
“Trump floats sending military after US citizens on election day citing ‘radical left lunatics’ and ‘the enemy from within’”
Donald Trump has chillingly suggested sending the military or National Guard after US citizens on Election Day. The ex-president gave a sit-down interview with Maria Bartiromo, one of the Fox News ...
Election Law Blog18h
“Here’s how Donald Trump could fight to overturn a 2024 loss”
The strategy is nothing new. Trump refused to say he’d concede if he lost to Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton in 2016. Trump was filing lawsuits through Election Day that year, making claims … Conti ...
Election Law Blog18h
My Q and A with Jonathan Weiler on Risks in the Upcoming Elections
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: ...
Election Law Blog2h
“From the Ballot to the Boardroom: Lessons Learned From Election Disinformation Efforts”
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 Blog1d
“Far-right website admits there was no fraud at 2020 vote count in Atlanta”
The far-right website the Gateway Pundit acknowledged for the first time on Saturday that there had not been any fraud during ballot counting in Atlanta in 2020 when Donald Trump lost the presidency, ...
Election Law Blog4h
“In a Tight Presidential Race, Third-Party Candidates Present a Wild Card”
NYT: With a month to go before what is widely expected to be an extraordinarily close election, an extra element of unpredictability looms: In every battleground state, there is at least one ...
Election Law Blog6d
Crazy Resolution Introduced in West Virginia House for State Legislature to Reject Democratic Victory for President
I’ve never seen anything as crazy as this introduced in a legislative body (via Philip Germain ): ...
Election Law Blog2d
Problems with Proposals to Allocate Presidential Electors Proportionately or By Congressional District
As thoughts turn to the Electoral College, I want to mention a point that’s been less discussed about suggestions that states shift to awarding their electors either proportionately to the vote in ...