Fox News presents a view of pre-election litigation as “rife with repeated legal battles to protect the voting processes from left-wing attorneys leveraging the courts to strip election safeguards.” ...
There’s a challenge to the eligibility of 60,000 voters in the NC Supreme Court race decided by just a few hundred votes.  Among the challenged voters: the incumbent justice’s parents.  Any mass ...
GOP lawmakers predicted 25 years ago that Democrats would use early voting to steal elections in North Carolina.  This year, they rallied voters to embrace it to secure victory for Donald Trump.” … ...
An interesting opinion from the 4th Circuit today, rejecting claims of state immunity in claims under the Virginia Readmission Act of 1870.  The plaintiffs’ suit asserts that the federal statute ...
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 ...
The Stagnation, Retrogression, and Potential Pro-Voter Transformation of U.S. Election Law, 134 Yale Law Journal (forthcoming 2025), draft available: https://papers ...
Pew is out with new data on voters’ views about the 2024 electoral process, from a survey out Nov. 12-17 of this year.  As they dryly note, “It’s not unusual in presidential elections for voters who ...
An important new piece from Votebeat on the division of responsibilities in Maricopa (and negotiation of new relationships) between the recorder and the board of supervisors.
I’ve gotten a few questions about this. First, there was a request for a machine recount of the by-a-tiny-nose North Carolina Supreme Court election between incumbent Allison Riggs and challenger ...
As expected, President-elect Donald Trump has filed a motion in the Georgia Court of Appeals to dismiss the conspiracy prosecution against him in Georgia on the basis that “a sitting president is ...
December 5 (30 days after election day) is the final final day for certifying elections in California. Usually, many California counties have certified before today. But this year, as a one-time only ...