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Feb 15, 2024 · Voting in the U.S. Shouldn’t Be This Hard, MSNBC Opinion, Nov. 5, 2024. Thousands of Pennsylvania Ballots Will Be Tossed on a Technicality. Thanks SCOTUS, Slate, Nov. 4, 2024. Why the “Blue Shift” Everyone Seems to Have Forgotten About Might Be More Dangerous This Time, Slate, Oct. 24, 2024. Elon Musk …
New York Court Reverses Lower Court, Upholds NYVRA
3 days ago · Voting in the U.S. Shouldn’t Be This Hard, MSNBC Opinion, Nov. 5, 2024. Thousands of Pennsylvania Ballots Will Be Tossed on a Technicality. Thanks SCOTUS, Slate, Nov. 4, 2024. Why the “Blue Shift” Everyone Seems to Have Forgotten About Might Be More Dangerous This Time, Slate, Oct. 24, 2024. Elon Musk …
The Electoral Count Reform Act Prohibits Congress From Rejecting …
Oct 16, 2024 · As we get closer to the election, a lot of misinformation about the all-important Electoral Count Reform Act (ECRA) is beginning to rear its head. This is the statute that defines Congress’ role when it receives and counts the electoral … Continue reading The Electoral Count Reform Act Prohibits Congress From Rejecting a State’s Electoral Votes Based on Congress’ “View” about a ...
Sixth Circuit finds no standing for Michigan legislators to challenge ...
Dec 27, 2024 · Opinion in Lindsey v. Whitmer by Chief Judge Sutton, joined by Judges Bush and Murphy (excerpts lightly revised): In 2022, voters passed Proposal 2, which created new voter-identification options, state-funded prepaid postage for absentee ballots, secure ballot drop boxes, and … Continue reading Sixth Circuit finds no standing for Michigan legislators to challenge ballot initiative under ...
The Time of Choosing Clause and its constraint on more …
Nov 1, 2024 · Voting in the U.S. Shouldn’t Be This Hard, MSNBC Opinion, Nov. 5, 2024. Thousands of Pennsylvania Ballots Will Be Tossed on a Technicality. Thanks SCOTUS, Slate, Nov. 4, 2024. Why the “Blue Shift” Everyone Seems to Have Forgotten About Might Be More Dangerous This Time, Slate, Oct. 24, 2024. Elon Musk …
Cass Sunstein on How the Electoral Count Reform Act Protects the ...
Oct 26, 2024 · Voting in the U.S. Shouldn’t Be This Hard, MSNBC Opinion, Nov. 5, 2024. Thousands of Pennsylvania Ballots Will Be Tossed on a Technicality. Thanks SCOTUS, Slate, Nov. 4, 2024. Why the “Blue Shift” Everyone Seems to Have Forgotten About Might Be More Dangerous This Time, Slate, Oct. 24, 2024. Elon Musk …
NYT On the Decline of Competitive Congressional Districts
Jan 26, 2025 · The NYT has a long story by @miwine and @NYTnickc about the decline of competitive districts in the 2024 elections. A key point from an experienced member of Congress comes at the end of the story: “As competitive districts dwindle, so do incentives to compromise,” said Steve Israel, a former Democratic congressman from New York and the former chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign ...
Divided Pennsylvania Supreme Court, In Case Involving Mail-In …
Oct 23, 2024 · Genser v. Butler County Board of Elections involves a very particular issue under Pennsylvania law, but it raises a potentially larger one that could make it to the Supreme Court. To simplify just a bit: voters send in their mail-in … Continue reading Divided Pennsylvania Supreme Court, In Case Involving Mail-In and Provisional Ballots, Tees Up Potential Independent State Legislature Theory ...
"'We addressed it': Why this election will be harder to stop on Jan.
Oct 23, 2024 · Voting in the U.S. Shouldn’t Be This Hard, MSNBC Opinion, Nov. 5, 2024. Thousands of Pennsylvania Ballots Will Be Tossed on a Technicality. Thanks SCOTUS, Slate, Nov. 4, 2024. Why the “Blue Shift” Everyone Seems to Have Forgotten About Might Be More Dangerous This Time, Slate, Oct. 24, 2024. Elon Musk …
How Many Votes Are Likely at Stake in the PA Litigation Over …
Oct 26, 2024 · As Rick Hasen blogged yesterday, the RNC is going to seek Supreme Court action, based on the independent state legislature doctrine, of the PA Supreme Court decision in the Genser case. As his post explains, the PA court held that voters who cast an absentee ballot that is void because the voter failed to put the ballot inside the required secrecy sleeve can instead vote by casting a ...