This morning the Supreme Court unanimously rejected two challenges to the constitutionality of so-called “faithless elector” laws, which penalize or remove presidential electors who fail to vote for the candidate they have pledged to support.Source: Opinion analysis: Court upholds “faithless elector” laws...
The California legislature has placed a proposed constitutional amendment on the November 2020 ballot. Proposition 18 will ask voters if the voting age should be reduced to 17, if the voter would be age 18 by the general election for the same offices.Source: Californians Will Vote on Whether To Let 17-Year-Olds Vote in Primaries If Such Voters Will be 18...
When the novel coronavirus pandemic collided with this year’s primaries, states across the country raced to temporarily adjust voting procedures to make it safer for people to cast their ballots.Source: Voting rules changed quickly for the primaries. But the battle over how Americans will cast ballots in the fall is just heating up....
Joshua A. Douglas is a professor at the University of Kentucky J. David Rosenberg College of Law who specializes in election law, voting rights, and constitutional law. He is the author of "Vote for US: How to Take Back Our Elections and Change the Future of Voting." Follow him @JoshuaADouglas.Source: We don't have to have chaos when America votes this...
Joe Biden's campaign is assembling hundreds of lawyers nationwide to monitor potential voting issues as part of its extensive voter protection efforts heading into the general election.Source: Biden campaign readying hundreds of lawyers in expansive vote protection effort...
Election night is at the center of the opening chapter in The Making of the President 1960, the most influential campaign book ever written. In it, Theodore White conveys the dramatic sweep of a close election as TV reports follow the time zones from Connecticut (safe for John F.Source: The Media Can’t Treat Election Night 2020 Like Years Past...
You can find the 27-page unanimous decision, with no explanation for the 3 year delay in this case, at this link. This is mostly a loss for the plaintiffs in these cases, as the appeals court rejected many (though not all) of the challenges to Wisconsin election law.Source: Breaking : 7th Circuit, after 3 Year Delay, Decides Challenge to Wisconsin...
Edward Foley has a nightmare. It’s a poli-sci horror tale. A professor of constitutional law and elections expert at The Ohio State University’s Moritz College of Law, Foley foresees a scenario for the coming election that could tear apart American democracy.Source: Can a Group of Policy Experts Prevent an Election Catastrophe in 2020?...
Hobbled elections regulator lacks quorum until new nominee is approved by SenateSource: Trump Nominates New Federal Election Committee Commissioner...
