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The chief executive of ActBlue, whose lawyers warned her that she might have misled Congress about how the Democratic fund-raising organization vetted its foreign donations, invoked her Fifth Amendment rights and declined to answer questions from a Republican-led House… Continue reading

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The post The AP’s Mark Sherman Retiring from the Supreme Court Beat at the End of June appeared first on Election Law Blog.

State election officials could soon face a stark choice: Hand over voter lists to the Trump administration or risk losing Postal Service delivery for mail-in ballots.

That dilemma… Continue reading

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The constitutional right to vote is in jeopardy. In… Continue reading

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The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is walking back, for now, a plan to sweep up data on millions of Americans who vote by mail… Continue reading

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California’s slow vote counting process — still underway and causing friction after last week’s primary — may be forced to change before November’s midterm elections, as the U.S. Supreme Court … Continue reading

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In the nearly 60 years since that 1967 election, the tools to manipulate outcomes have become technologically more sophisticated, more secretive and ever better at communicating false information… Continue reading

The post “‘All Sorts of Excesses, Like the Worst, Most Brazen Lying’” appeared first on Election Law Blog.

Congress should enact commonsense solutions to ensure that the campaign finance system achieves the key benefits of disclosure without needless privacy risks that could discourage Americans’ political participation. Reforming the system should… Continue reading

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For President Trump, any Democratic election victory is suspicious on its face. Even, apparently, in one of the most liberal cities in America.

“Not possible for… Continue reading

The post “Trump Previews Fall Strategy With Baseless Claims of California Vote Fraud” appeared first on Election Law Blog.

President Donald Trump said “some interesting things” would result from January’s Fulton County ballot seizure. FBI Director Kash… Continue reading

The post “FBI’s Fulton County 2020 investigation fails to deliver, so far” appeared first on Election Law Blog.

Democrats are setting the stage to pursue redistricting efforts in as many as 13 states before 2028, redrawing congressional lines to secure potentially dozens of additional… Continue reading

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Now, entity voting has survived its first legal test. ACLU of Del. v. Town of Fenwick Island sustained Delaware’s principle of “one person, one entity, one vote.” The new precedent has potential relevance to states… Continue reading

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[F]ive months out from the midterm elections that will determine control of Congress, his Justice Department has canceled election-integrity training sessions for prosecutors and FBI agents, deleted a… Continue reading

The post “The Justice Department Hasn’t Taken Its Usual Steps to Protect the 2026 Election” appeared first on Election Law Blog.

During normal times, the president of the United States would not routinely claim, without evidence, an epidemic of “voter fraud.” But Donald Trump is on another tirade about supposed fraud… Continue reading

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The post A Response to Michael Latner on PR and the Political Fragmentation of European Democracies appeared first on Election Law Blog.

It remains to be seen if the recent Election Law scholarship page will ever get updated.

Stay tuned.

The post SSRN: Not Quite Dead appeared first on Election Law Blog.

While investigators seem mainly focused on the 2020 vote, some elections experts believe the Trump administration’s wide-ranging probe is actually designed to create more doubts among Americans about future elections, as Republicans face strong political headwinds that could… Continue reading

The post “The Trump administration’s multiple investigations of the 2020 election may have more to do with 2026” appeared first on Election Law Blog.

Today, those advantages have disappeared, thanks to a technological revolution the Founders could never have imagined. The internet has turned everyone into a potential publisher, able to instantly… Continue reading

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