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“A group of Republicans has united to defend the legitimacy of US elections and those who run them”
AP: Sterling, the chief operating officer for the Georgia Secretary of State’s Office, is part of an effort begun after the last presidential election that seeks to bring together Republican officials ...
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“Trump campaign sues Nevada for accepting mail ballots that trickle in after Election Day”
The Trump campaign and its allies filed a lawsuit Friday challenging a Nevada law allowing elections officials to accept mail ballots for up to four business days after Election Day, as long as they ...
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“Two months to count election ballots? California’s long tallies turn election day into weeks, months”
AP: Nearly two months after the election, a recount settled the outcome in a Northern California U.S. House primary contest, breaking a mathematically improbable tie for second place but also ...
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“Georgia bill to strip QR codes from ballots would cost tens of millions of dollars”
Votebeat: Tucked inside a massive elections bill passed last month by Georgia’s legislature is a provision that requires the state to spend millions of dollars to overhaul the state’s existing voting ...
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“The Perennial Eclipse: Race, Immigration, and How Latinx Count in American Politics”
Rachel Moran has written this article for the Houston Law Review. Here is the abstract: In 2016, the U.S. Supreme Court decided Evenwel v. Abbott, a case challenging the use of total population in ...
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Idaho Voters Likely to Vote This Fall on Shifting to Top 4 Primaries, with Instant Runoff Voting in the General Election
This story reports that proponents of this ballot measure appear to have gained enough signatures to get the measured qualified for the ballot this fall. This is “the Alaska model” of primary reform, ...
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ELB 5:7: Rick Pildes: The Two Ricks Discuss the Trump Immunity and Hush Money Cases
How should we understand the Supreme Court’s questions in the Trump immunity case? Will the Court let Donald Trump go to trial for 2020 election interference based just on his acts as a candidate and ...
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“Third parties will affect the 2024 campaigns, but election laws written by Democrats and Republicans will prevent them from winning”
Nonprofit Law as a Tool to Kill What Remains of Campaign Finance Law: Reluctant Lessons from Ellen Aprill, 46 Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review (forthcoming 2023) (festschrift symposium honoring Ellen ...
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“Trump-nominated FEC leader: let political donors hide their identities”
A Donald Trump-nominated Federal Election Commission leader wants to make it easier for political donors to hide their identities — a major impediment to post-Watergate interpretations of political ...
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“How a post falsely claiming migrants are registering to vote spread to millions in four weeks”
The rumor started as a post on X. The post published in early April misrepresented federal data from the Social Security Administration to falsely suggest that hundreds of thousands of migrants may ...
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I Spoke to Jessica Levinson’s “Passing Judgment” Podcast About My New Book, “A Real Right to Vote”
We also talked a bit about the Trump trials and my Cheap Speech book. It was a great conversation with my former star student. Listen.
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“Opinion: The many campaign finance violations divulged in Trump’s hush-money criminal trial”
Terrifying Reports About Trump’s Plans for a Second Term Have One Bright Spot, Slate, November 7, 2023. The Supreme Court Needs to Make a Call on Trump’s Eligibility, The Atla ...