Election Law Blog

Fox News: ‘The Republican National Committee (RNC) and state GOP leaders filed a lawsuit Tuesday against New Jersey’s top election official and authorities in five counties, alleging they failed to produce federally mandated voter roll maintenance records…

The Hill: ‘The Department of Justice (DOJ) unsealed an indictment Tuesday accusing a former U.S.

Hansi Lo Wang for NPR: ‘While the majority of registered voters still say they feel confident or very confident about timely USPS deliveries of election mail to voters and election officials, that share dropped 13 percentage points over the past… Continue…

Looking forward to seeing ELB readers over there.

When I gave Purdue’s Constitution Day Lecture last week, I was fortunate to meet a number of former staffers to Birch Bayh, who is probably the most significant member of Congress to have represented Indiana (Sen.

Law Dork: [UPDATE, 11:50 p.m.

Great discussion for the Safeguarding Democracy Project with David Kaye, Carrie Levine, and Shannon McGregor.

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Bob Bauer has a thoughtful and important essay as part of the NYU Democracy Project’s current series on this year’s midterms.

NBC News: Secretary of State Marco Rubio defended the Trump administration’s decision to bar three media organizations from the White House, saying in an interview on NBC News’ “TODAY” that President Donald Trump was not closing outlets or arresting… Cont…

A new Justice, Democracy, and Law essay for SCOTUSblog (written before yesterday’s Eighth Circuit ruling, and none of he essay’s points is affected by that ruling), which begins: ‘People complain that the current Supreme Court is a partisan institution, w…

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Missouri is currently holding a general election using its 2022 congressional map.

Steve Vladeck on the latest development in this Missouri saga: ‘It is exceedingly difficult to see how anything the Eighth Circuit said in its ruling tonight will alter [the Supreme Court’s earlier] calculus in the new map’s favor; if… Continue reading The

The opinion is here.

The Missouri Independent: Missourians living overseas began receiving their ballots Friday despite continuing uncertainty over which congressional candidates should be listed on them.

After my post yesterday on proving partisan versus anti-competitive gerrymandering, some readers asked for examples of these theories diverging.

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Tammy Patrick, is the Chief Program Officer at the Election Center, the National Association of Election Officials.

POLITICO’s report with a link to the demand letter: ‘Rep.

Politico: South Dakota’s Republican secretary of state urged voters to cast their ballots for a Democrat in the November election, arguing she could not back the GOP nominee — and drawing the ire of party leadership.

Disclosure: I represent the plaintiffs in the anti-competitive gerrymandering case discussed in this post.

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Carol Leonig and Ken Dilanian for MS NOW ‘A top Justice Department official warned managers in a recent conference call that federal prosecutors could be fired if they decline to investigate and pursue cases of reported election fraud, according to… Conti…

Bolts: ‘After years of attacks on voters’ power to take matters into their own hands, democracy advocates are going on the offensive in Montana and Missouri.

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Very interesting article about Alaska’s gubernatorial election in the Anchorage Daily News (thanks to Rob Richie for the pointer): ‘Treg Taylor, a Republican who weeks ago vowed to be the “last line of defense against Lower 48 liberals who hate… Continue…

A deep dive over at Real Clear Politics: A hotel room in Arizona in January makes for an unusual war room, but that’s exactly where a small group of conservative-minded election attorneys gathered in 2024 to discuss upcoming elections… Continue reading The

We launched NYU’s Democracy Project with a series of 100 essays in 100 days on how a range of people, from the US and internationally, saw the challenges facing democracies in our era.

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Josh Gerstein and Kyle Cheney for POLITICO: ‘Though the high court’s order last week appeared to be the death knell for the GOP-led redistricting measure — once expected to net Republicans one additional seat — a panel of the 8th… Continue reading The post

A new Protect Democracy report, with this summary: Gerrymandering whiplash we see today has six main potential consequences: Severed electoral accountability and representation.

AP interview: ‘The top official at the U.S.

That’s the Department of Justice headline from earlier this week.

I am pleased to welcome to ELB Book Corner Rory Riley Topping and Josh Rultenberg, authors of Draw the Line in Ohio: How One State’s Fight for Fair Maps Explains Gerrymandering in America (ELB readers can use this link… Continue reading The post ELB Book…

You can review the briefing in Onder v. von Glahn here.

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Robert Draper for the N.Y.

Announcement from CEIR: The Center for Election Innovation & Research has just released The Unstoppable Vote, a five-episode documentary podcast series built around the underappreciated fact that no federal general election in American history has ever be…

A US San Diego survey: ‘Only 49% of Americans answered “Yes” when asked “Do you expect that the upcoming midterm elections held in November 2026 will be free and fair elections?”

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South Dakota Searchlight reports: ‘A federal judge will decide whether South Dakota’s secretary of state is violating the U.S.