Election Law Blog4h
“Even before election, Trump, allies sue over claims that non-citizens might vote”
Reuters: Donald Trump and his Republican allies are ratcheting up baseless claims that the Nov. 5 U.S. presidential election could be skewed by widespread voting by non-citizens in a series of ...
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“In Georgia, a New Showdown Is Brewing Over Election Rules”
NYT: A showdown is brewing between the top election official in Georgia and the State Election Board over more than a dozen new rules and procedures scheduled to be voted on by the board at a meeting ...
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“US Senate Warns Big Tech to Act Fast Against Election Meddling”
Wired: Top officials from Google, Apple, and Meta testified Wednesday before the United States Senate Intelligence Committee about each of their company’s ongoing efforts to identify and disrupt ...
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“Network of Georgia election officials strategizing to undermine 2024 result”
Emails obtained by the Guardian reveal a behind-the-scenes network of county election officials throughout Georgia coordinating on policy and messaging to both call the results of November’s election ...
Election Law Blog1d
“California Anti-Deepfake Laws Target of Free Speech Lawsuit”
The creator of a parody video criticizing Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris is suing California over new legislation that he says would restrict his content. Christopher Kohls, who goes by ...
Election Law Blog1d
Federal Court Rejects Facial Challenge to Minnesota Law Barring Material False Statements Made with Intent to Prevent Someone from Voting
This decision seems right, given how plaintiffs have filed their challenge as a facial challenge but don’t meet that burden. (Via Zoe Tillman) ...
Election Law Blog1d
“Travis County sues top Texas officials, accusing them of violating National Voter Registration Act”
Travis County officials sued Attorney General Ken Paxton and Secretary of State Jane Nelson on Tuesday over the state’s attempt to block voter registration efforts ahead of a hotly contested ...
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“Trump Tries to Close Off a Chief Line of Attack: That He’s a Danger to Democracy”
NYT: For months, Donald J. Trump and his allies have described a nation facing almost unthinkable darkness. The United States is under “under invasion” from “thousands and thousands and thousands of ...
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“New Guides to Protecting Election Certification from Interference in Battleground States”
The Stagnation, Retrogression, and Potential Pro-Voter Transformation of U.S. Election Law, 134 Yale Law Journal (forthcoming 2025), draft available: Reckoning with the Undead Irreparable Injury Rule ...
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CA: “Gavin Newsom signs election ‘deepfake’ ban in rebuke to Elon Musk” (I Think It’s Likely Unconstitutional)
Politico: California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the country’s toughest law banning digitally altered political “deepfakes” on Tuesday, following through on a vow to act after rebuking Elon Musk for ...
Election Law Blog2d
“Where third-party candidates have gotten on — or off — the ballot in key swing states”
This is very handy from NBC News: ...
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“Court may decide if Arizonans with missing citizenship records can vote in state races”
WaPo: A key election official in Arizona’s Maricopa County plans to ask the state’s highest court as early as Tuesday to prohibitnearly 100,000 longtime residents from voting in state and local races ...