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The post Fourth Circuit Panel, on 2-1 Party Line Vote, Holds That Political Parties and Joint Fundraising Committees are Not Entitled under FCC Rules to Get the Cheapest TV Ad Rates that Must Be Offered to Candidates; Next Stop SCOTUS appeared first on Election Law Blog.

The post MUST READ: “Can the Midterms Be ‘Stolen’ On Jan. 3? It’s Complicated.” appeared first on Election Law Blog.

At least six Arizona residents say three statewide candidates falsely used their names to qualify for more than $4.7 million in public campaign funding.

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The post “How State Laws May Constrain Law Enforcement Seizures of Election Materials” appeared first on Election Law Blog.

For much of his second term, President Donald Trump has been trying to dramatically change how people vote. He’s pushed to limit (or ban) mail voting, create strict voter ID laws, require verification of citizenship, and even once said… Continue reading

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 federal judge temporarily blocked Ohio from requiring proof of citizenship when registering to vote at motor vehicle offices, a setback for conservative efforts to tighten voter registration rules ahead of the November midterms.

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Billionaire Elon Musk will not face criminal charges related to a social media post he made offering $1 million to people who voted in the 2025 state Supreme Court race, the La Crosse County District Attorney’s Office announced Tuesday… Continue reading

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The post Federal District Court Finds that U.S. Government Violated Its Order When USPS Issued Its Final Rule on Mail Ballots; Judge Imposes No Remedy as New Injunctions are in the Pipeline appeared first on Election Law Blog.

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California’s Supreme Court justices appeared skeptical on Monday that Riverside Sheriff Chad Bianco was acting within his legal rights when he seized more than 650,000 ballots from that county’s top election administrator in March.

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The Supreme Court’s decision giving preliminary approval for President Donald Trump’s order restricting mail voting may not lead to a single election procedure changing during the November midterms, but it has already thrown into uncertainty the method that nearly… Continue reading

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Four weeks before President Trump signed an executive order seeking to restrict mail voting, he filed four nominations for vacancies on the Board of Governors of the U.S. Postal Service.

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The Eighth Circuit has held that a state may criminalize lies used to gain access to a hog barn, because the First Amendment does not protect falsehoods… Continue reading

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When we supplied chatbots — including ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Grok — with election falsehoods often peddled on social media, they were mostly truth-tellers. Though the bots frequently mixed up facts, they resisted election misinformation in… Continue reading

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Widely overlooked in the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark campaign finance decision this term is a surprising and robust affirmation of disclosure for combating corruption. With this principle reinforced, we expect many states to strengthen and expand their… Continue reading

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Last March, Donald Trump issued another one of his executive orders trying to assert control over how the United States conducts its elections. On Monday, after a long delay, the Supreme… Continue reading

The post My New One at Slate: “KBJ Warns of ‘Kafkaesque Nightmare’ After Pro-Trump Supreme Court Ruling on Mail Voting. We’ll Know Soon Enough.” appeared first on Election Law Blog.

The six Republican-appointed Justices over the dissents of the three Democratic-appointed Justices sided with the government in the Trump mail-in ballot case. But the Court’s ruling was narrow and technical. The Court makes it… Continue reading

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Back on August 7, I posited some reasons for the… Continue reading

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As detailed in the linked article, Congress has precluded DOJ from obtaining a warrant to seize ballots, voting machines, or other original election materials until after state officials complete the counting… Continue reading

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I’m often asked whether, in the age of Trump, we can trust government data. My answer has always been that we can because our statistical agencies have layers of insulation from such interference. To be clear, that doesn’t… Continue reading

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