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Days after the state’s primary, California voters are in a familiar position — waiting to find out which candidates will go on to the general election in their most high-profile races, for governor and Los Angeles … Continue reading

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Today, in a significant victory for Virginia college students, a federal district court judge approved a consent decree requiring Virginia officials to accept certain voter registration applications completed by college students. Previously, students’ voter registration applications were being… Continue reading

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Minority voters are left with limited alternatives for combatting racial discrimination in redistricting, after the U.S. Supreme Court’s latest undermining of the federal Voting Rights Act.

Remaining options for protecting the collective power of racial-minority… Continue reading

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A senior Justice Department official recently instructed prosecutors nationwide to redouble efforts to pursue criminal charges against noncitizens who have voted, a type of fraud that has animated President Trump’s campaigns but that experts say is exceedingly rare.

During… Continue reading

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Republican election officials in Jackson County say they were pressured — by their own party and the state auditor’s office, one says — to reject a plan for an early voting site on Western Carolina University’s… Continue reading

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John Ketcham and I have a new report out today with the Manhattan Institute. In it, we show that the effective number of electoral parties at the last New York City council election was 3.3. We defend this… Continue reading

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South Carolina Democrats at Representative James Clyburn’s “World Famous Fish Fry” on Friday were feeling triumphant.

Mr. Clyburn, South Carolina’s longest serving Black lawmaker and the state’s lone Democrat in Congress, had survived a failed redistricting attempt by state… Continue reading

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Well, they did it: On Tuesday evening, the Supreme Court found a way to make Callais worse.  They actually found several: they made an absolute… Continue reading

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The authors of the Reconstruction Amendments did not trust the Supreme Court to ensure that Black Americans would be able to participate fully in the political life of the nation. That is why the amendments expressly… Continue reading

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In Allen v. Milligan III, decided earlier this week, the Supreme Court stayed a lower federal court injunction that prohibited Alabama from using an electoral map (the 2023 map). The stay is technically interim—until the filling of… Continue reading

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For years I have highlighted new, popular scholarship in the election law field by listing the top recent papers generated by SSRN. That link to generate the top recent election law scholarship has been… Continue reading

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In February 2025, three federal judges in Alabama presided over an 11-day trial that included more than 20 witnesses, 40 lawyers and nearly 800 exhibits about the state’s proposed congressional district map.

At the end,… Continue reading

The post “In Alabama Ruling, Supreme Court Signals Limited Role for Federal Courts in Redistricting Fights” appeared first on Election Law Blog.

The US Supreme Court keeps bolstering Republicans, even as the justices insist they don’t play politics.

The latest move came Tuesday night, when the court said Alabama could eliminate a majority-Black congressional district and in all… Continue reading

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The top election official in Texas, Jane Nelson, is stepping down next month, raising questions about why she is departing and who will administer the state’s most closely watched election in a decade.

Ms. Nelson will serve as Texas… Continue reading

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I really don’t want to go on another tear about how terrible the primary system is for democracy. But the simple fact… Continue reading

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Election officials are scrambling to prepare for a Supreme Court ruling this month that could upend laws in 14 states that allow late-arriving mail-in ballots to be counted.Those laws allowed hundreds of thousands of ballots… Continue reading

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