[EL] ELB News and Commentary 6/1/20

[Rick Hasen]

AG Bill Barr Floats Ridiculous Theory of Foreign Governments Counterfeiting and Submittting Absentee Ballots<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=111809>
Posted on June 1, 2020 7:40 am<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=111809> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Michael Li thread starts here<https://twitter.com/mcpli/status/1267443144272031744?s=20>:
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Bless Bill Barr’s heart - this just couldn’t happen. For starters, the return envelopes have unique bar codes that are scanned when the ballots are received. 1/ https://twitter.com/chrismegerian/status/1267434893883179009 …<https://t.co/ATn8cHppgz>
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Bill Barr casually floated a new mail ballot conspiracy theory in an interview with @Schwartzesque — foreign adversaries could print and submit them https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/01/magazine/william-barr-attorney-general.html …<https://twitter.com/ChrisMegerian/status/1267434893883179009>
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Top Recent Downloads in Election Law on SSRN<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=111807>
Posted on June 1, 2020 7:35 am<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=111807> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Here<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/topten/topTenResults.cfm?groupingId=991929&netorjrnl=jrnl>:

Top Downloads For:

LSN: Election Law & Voting Rights (Topic)

Recent Top Papers (60 days)

As of: 02 Apr 2020 – 01 Jun 2020
Rank
Paper
Downloads
1.
Three Pathologies of American Voting Rights Illuminated by the COVID-19 Pandemic, and How to Treat and Cure Them<https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3604668>
Richard L. Hasen<https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=337>
University of California, Irvine School of Law
Date Posted: 19 May 2020
Last Revised: 19 May 2020
232
2.
The Legality of Ranked-Choice Voting<https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3563257>
Richard H. Pildes<https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=121253> and G. Michael Parsons<https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=2449663>
New York University School of Law and New York University School of Law
Date Posted: 22 Apr 2020
Last Revised: 30 Apr 2020
143
3.
The Support-or-Advocacy Clauses<https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3547579>
Richard Primus<https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=104918> and Cameron O. Kistler<https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=4030840>
University of Michigan Law School and Protect Democracy
Date Posted: 27 Mar 2020
Last Revised: 18 May 2020
134
4.
Direct Democracy Denied: The Right to Initiative in a Pandemic<https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3608472>
Richard L. Hasen<https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=337>
University of California, Irvine School of Law
Date Posted: 26 May 2020
Last Revised: 29 May 2020
110
5.
The Year 2020, COVID-19 and Elections in Africa<https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3596662>
Ernest Akuamoah<https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=4143639>
Australian National University
Date Posted: 11 May 2020
Last Revised: 18 May 2020
107
6.
The Best Laid Plans: Unintended Consequences of the American Presidential Selection System<https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3549046>
Samuel Wang<https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=2459280> and Jacob Canter<https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=4037004>
Princeton University and affiliation not provided to SSRN
Date Posted: 31 Mar 2020
Last Revised: 08 Apr 2020
92
7.
Tailoring Election Regulation: The Platform Is the Frame<https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3573127>
Julie E. Cohen<https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=17991>
Georgetown University Law CenterDate Posted: 23 Apr 2020
Last Revised: 27 Apr 2020
82
8.
Legal and Constitutional Issues arising from the 2020 General Election<https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3587047>
Gerard Hogan<https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=1177254> and Hilary Hogan<https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=3387821>
Court of Justice of the European Union and European University Institute
Date Posted: 29 Apr 2020
Last Revised: 29 Apr 2020
79
9.
The Myth of National Popular Vote Presidential Elections and the Reality of Elector Unit Rule Voting<https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3574799>
William Josephson<https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=1409348>
Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP
Date Posted: 06 May 2020
Last Revised: 06 May 2020
62
10.
State Power to Regulate Social Media Companies to Prevent Voter Suppression<https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3582523>
Spencer Overton<https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=266965>
George Washington University – Law School
Date Posted: 23 Apr 2020
Last Revised: 23 Apr 2020
61
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“Old law could leave 2020 presidential race in stalemate”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=111805>
Posted on June 1, 2020 7:30 am<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=111805> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Roll Call<https://www.rollcall.com/2020/06/01/old-law-could-leave-2020-presidential-race-in-stalemate/>:

The nation’s 133-year-old law for picking a president has a provision that has never been needed to settle a disputed election, since it deals with a situation that would only happen after a cascade of seemingly improbable events.

Then again, this is 2020, a year that feels cursed with historic worsts.

And election law experts warn that Congress would be wise to clarify the provision before the country potentially faces this worst-case scenario: A full-fledged constitutional crisis if there is no clear Electoral College winner on Inauguration Day on Jan. 20.

“If you’re asking the question what should Congress do to prepare for November, that would be on the top of the list,” said Edward Foley, a constitutional law professor and director of Ohio State University’s election law program, who has written on the provision and hosted a recent online expert roundtable discussion on it.
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