[EL] ELB News and Commentary 3/2/20

Mon Mar 2 08:09:37 PST 2020

“Super Tuesday to Test Whether Bloomberg’s Ad Presence Pays Off”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=109798>
Posted on March 2, 2020 8:06 am<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=109798> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

WSJ<https://www.wsj.com/articles/super-tuesday-to-test-whether-bloombergs-ad-presence-pays-off-11583150406?mod=hp_lead_pos7>:

TV viewers in Super Tuesday states know this: Michael Bloomberg and his presidential campaign are on almost every channel. All day. And nearly all night.

The former New York City mayor appears on presidential primary ballots for the first time this week as 14 states, a U.S. territory and Democrats scattered around the world weigh in on the party’s nomination contest. It will be a test of whether Mr. Bloomberg can leap ahead of his primary rivals by vacuuming up a substantial number of delegates—and whether pouring more than a half-billion dollars into political advertising, including more than $160 million into TV in Super Tuesday states, will pay off.

That unprecedented amount of spending has bought him an overwhelming presence in American households in just a few short months, a Wall Street Journal analysis of data from political ad tracker Kantar/CMAG shows. Through last Tuesday, Mr. Bloomberg was behind almost 62% of all the political ads from Democratic presidential candidates aired on television in the 14 Super Tuesday states, the data show.
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Posted in campaign finance<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>, campaigns<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=59>

Tolson: “The Default of American Politics: The Perpetual and Never-ending Prospect of an Election Meltdown” (Balkinization Symposium on Election Meltdown)<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=109796>
Posted on March 2, 2020 7:52 am<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=109796> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Franita Tolson<https://balkin.blogspot.com/2020/03/the-default-of-american-politics.html>:

I very much appreciate the opportunity to review Professor Rick Hasen’s timely and thoughtful book, Election Meltdown: Dirty Tricks, Distrust, and the Threat to American Democracy.  The book does a great job of identifying some of the most pressing threats to our election system, and I do not think that voters sufficiently appreciate the seriousness of these threats.  Many individuals assume that our democracy can survive these challenges because the system has survived challenges.[1]<file:///C:/Dropbox/letters/Attachments/Review%20of%20Hasen%20(Tolson).docx#_ftn1>  Professor Hasen challenges this assumption in important ways, presenting current threats as uniquely situated to cause enduring damage to our political system.  According to Professor Hasen, “The synergy of…four factors—voter suppression, pockets of incompetence, foreign and domestic dirty tricks, and incendiary rhetoric—undermines public trust in the fairness and accuracy of American elections and creates a high risk for the 2020 elections and beyond.”[2]<file:///C:/Dropbox/letters/Attachments/Review%20of%20Hasen%20(Tolson).docx#_ftn2>

While I appreciate the risks that Professor Hasen identifies, I do not think that the current dysfunction of our politics is unprecedented or that these risks are unique in the dangers that they pose to our system of democracy.  More often than not, the prospect of an election meltdown has been the baseline from which most of our elections have always occurred.  We have long accepted this risk because we somehow make it through each election cycle, quickly forgetting the problems that plagued the system or, at best, forming a commission of some sort to address immediate past problems (both real<https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/bipartisan-election-commission-releases-list-of-suggested-fixes/2014/01/22/76902880-8374-11e3-bbe5-6a2a3141e3a9_story.html> and perceived<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidential_Advisory_Commission_on_Election_Integrity>).  But it is clear that our elections have never been healthy and robust.  In my view, our current dysfunction is simply a different variation of the same problem that has haunted our country since the Founding.  The default for our political system is, and always has been, well-ordered chaos.  As historian James Baumgardner observed over three decades ago, “there is an often unspoken but well-known axiom to the effect that there never has been a truly honest election in the country’s history.”[3]<file:///C:/Dropbox/letters/Attachments/Review%20of%20Hasen%20(Tolson).docx#_ftn3>  Baumgardner made this comment in the context of the 1888 election, which was especially corrupt, but the idea that our elections are marked by misconduct of some sort could apply to virtually every election cycle.  In the 1888 election, in particular, Republican Senator Benjamin Harrison defeated the Democratic incumbent, Grover Cleveland, although Harrison lost the popular vote by 90,596 votes.[4]<file:///C:/Dropbox/letters/Attachments/Review%20of%20Hasen%20(Tolson).docx#_ftn4>  In what is becoming a familiar narrative, it was the third election (and second in twelve years) in which the popular vote winner lost the Electoral College.
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“The Cybersecurity 202: Officials fear coronavirus could be next front in election interference”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=109794>
Posted on March 2, 2020 7:48 am<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=109794> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

WaPo:<https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/the-cybersecurity-202/2020/03/02/the-cybersecurity-202-officials-fear-coronavirus-could-be-next-front-in-election-interference/5e5c5a1d602ff10d49abf5cb/>

U.S. officials fear adversaries might weaponize public fears about coronavirus ahead of Super Tuesday to spread disinformation, amplify rumors and tamp down voter turnout.

The concern comes as people test positive for the virus in numerous states, including California, Texas and Alabama – which are among the 14 states that will hold their Democratic primaries Tuesday.

The virus, which has killed nearly 3,000 people worldwide<https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/inside-trumps-frantic-attempts-to-minimize-the-coronavirus-crisis/2020/02/29/7ebc882a-5b25-11ea-9b35-def5a027d470_story.html>, could offer a near-perfect test case for how operatives from Russia or elsewhere seeking to undermine confidence in the election could boost public fears to stop people from heading to the polls – maybe enough to swing a tight race or at least raise doubts in the results.

It’s “one of a number of scenarios” of potential interference federal officials are monitoring, the Department of Homeland Security’s cybersecurity division chief Chris Krebs told Kevin Collier at NBC News<https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/coronavirus-provides-unique-opportunity-meddle-u-s-election-officials-warn-n1145331>. Krebs’s office declined to comment this weekend when I asked for more information about the possible response.
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“Enough finger-pointing on Russian interference. Here’s how to prepare for 2020.”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=109792>
Posted on March 2, 2020 7:45 am<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=109792> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Suzanne Spaulding Wapo oped<https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/03/02/enough-finger-pointing-russian-interference-heres-how-prepare-2020/>.
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Posted in Uncategorized<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=1>

Griffin: “Hasen’s Timely Warning” (Balkinization Symposium on Election Meltdown)<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=109790>
Posted on March 1, 2020 8:00 pm<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=109790> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Stephen Griffin<https://balkin.blogspot.com/2020/02/hasens-timely-warning.html>:

Rick Hasen delivers a warning with a real punch in Election Meltdown.  This is an essential account of the problems with our electoral system just in time for the 2020 election cycle.  I’m certainly going to have my students read it when I teach voting rights this fall.
Hasen, a well-known expert in election law, identifies four critical dangers facing American democracy: voter suppression, instances of incompetence by both parties in the administration of elections, “dirty tricks” (by which he means the malignant use of social media by foreign and domestic agents), and “incendiary rhetoric” from the political right and left in terms of charges of “stolen” or “rigged” elections.  These are all useful points that Hasen makes persuasively.
But persuasive to everyone?  The kind of legal and policy analysis Hasen provides in this book is considered more convincing if it follows the evidence and remains even-handed.  Hasen does follow the evidence but this means he cannot be even-handed.  The Republican Party stands accused of multiple instances of trying to suppress the vote of Democratic voters.  Meanwhile Democrats stand accused of occasional incompetence in election administration and often overstating the impact of voter suppression on electoral outcomes.  However, Democrats also seem more interested than Republicans in counting every vote, particularly in jurisdictions in which absentee voting is common.  These accusations do not exactly even out and Hasen does not pretend otherwise.  As he states, “only one party is seeking to make it harder to register and vote for those likely to vote for the other party.”  This will likely limit the impact of his book, but I’m willing to keep an open mind.
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Tokaji: “The Centrifugal Forces of Democracy” (Balkinization Symposium on Election Meltdown)<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=109788>
Posted on March 1, 2020 7:57 pm<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=109788> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Dan Tokaji<https://balkin.blogspot.com/2020/02/the-centrifugal-forces-of-democracy.html>:

Rick Hasen’s Election Meltdown tells a story of democracy in decline.  Americans are riven by conflict, distrustful of one another, and bitterly divided over how we should run our elections.  His book identifies four main culprits:  vote suppression, administrative incompetence, dirty tricks, and overheated rhetoric about stolen or rigged elections.  This constellation of problems,  he contends, has diminished public faith in elections and threatens to undermine our democracy.
I wish I could say he’s wrong.  But in reality, I fear that he’s only scratched the surface.  The pathologies in American democracy run even deeper than those on which Electoral Meltdown dwells.  And they won’t be solved by election law alone.  Rather, they demand a confrontation with the two centrifugal forces:  partisan polarization and economic inequality.  Until we deal with these larger structural issues, the voting wars that he describes will continue to rage unabated.
Early on, Rick emphasizes that his book is not about Donald Trump, and for good reason.  The electoral conflicts that are at the center of his book predate Trump’s presidency.  Still, it’s an understatement to say that “Trump is more a symptom of the American system’s malfunction than a cause” (p. 12).  To paraphrase Billy Crystal in When Harry Met Sally<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUiYdoKUF5w>, that symptom is screwing our democracy.   President Trump’s repeated contention that the last election was “rigged” (before he won), wild assertions of pervasive voter fraud, and general disdain for truth<https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/01/20/president-trump-made-16241-false-or-misleading-claims-his-first-three-years/> exacerbate the mutual contempt that has enveloped the country.  President Trump has made American democracy worse. Rick is surely right that a disputed presidential election in 2020 would be even more destabilizing than the divisive conflict that culminated in Bush v. Gore two decades ago.
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“‘Bloody Sunday’ Commemoration Draws Democratic Candidates to Selma”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=109786>
Posted on March 1, 2020 7:35 pm<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=109786> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

NYT:<https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/01/us/politics/selma-bridge-march-2020-candidates.html>

residential candidates and prominent social justice activists descended on Alabama on Sunday to commemorate the anniversary of the brutal attack on civil rights marchers here in 1965, one of the most violent episodes in the struggle for black participation in democracy.

A who’s who of political figures, including five Democratic presidential candidates, were marking the occasion, nearly 55 years after the day that became known as “Bloody Sunday.” And Representative John Lewis of Georgia, 80, who announced in December that he had advanced pancreatic cancer<https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/29/us/politics/rep-john-lewis-pancreatic-cancer.html>, joined the march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge.

Mr. Lewis, who was 25 when his skull was fractured in the 1965 attack, told a crowd thronging him that they could help “redeem the soul of America.”

“We were beaten, we were tear-gassed. I thought I was going to die on this bridge. But somehow and some way, God almighty helped me here,” Mr. Lewis said. “We cannot give up now. We cannot give in. We must keep the faith, keep our eyes on the prize. We must go out and vote like we never, ever voted before.”
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Posted in Voting Rights Act<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=15>

“N.C. Democrat frustrated with both parties after establishment backs her rival, GOP meddles in Senate primary”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=109784>
Posted on March 1, 2020 7:29 pm<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=109784> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

WaPo<https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/nc-democrat-frustrated-with-both-parties-after-establishment-backs-her-rival-gop-meddles-in-senate-primary/2020/03/01/4765590e-5b13-11ea-ab68-101ecfec2532_story.html>:

Democrat Erica Smith, a two-term North Carolina state senator, was so inspired by women who beat the odds and won seats in Congress in 2018 that she decided to run in this year’s U.S. Senate race.

The party establishment chose another candidate.

The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee endorsed Cal Cunningham, a former state lawmaker and an Army veteran of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars who had run unsuccessfully for the Senate a decade ago. Smith was disappointed but didn’t bow out, despite struggling to raise money and snare endorsements.

Then, a few weeks ago, Smith got an unexpected and unwelcome benefactor: a Republican-affiliated political action committee that started running ads touting Smith as the “true progressive,” while suggesting Cunningham does not support addressing climate change and LGBTQ rights.
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“Wisconsin court overturns ruling that ordered removal of up to 209,000 people from voter rolls”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=109782>
Posted on March 1, 2020 7:22 pm<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=109782> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

AP:<https://www.chicagotribune.com/midwest/ct-wisconsin-voter-purge-20200228-iniql4y3gjcgdopayhz7twoz6a-story.html>

A Wisconsin appeals court on Friday overturned a ruling that ordered the removal of up to 209,000 people from the state’s voter rolls, handing Democrats a victory in a case they said was intended to make it more difficult for their voters to cast ballots in November….

The appeals court said in its unanimous decision that the law in question does not refer to the Elections Commission or give any duties to it related to deactivating voters. The commission had argued that the power to do that rests with local election clerks and the appeals court agreed.

“In interpreting the Wisconsin Statutes, courts may not rewrite the plain language of the statutes the legislature has enacted,” the appeals court said. “Acceptance of the arguments of Plaintiffs would cause us to rewrite statutes enacted by the legislature, and that we cannot do.”
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“Trans voters could be turned away in 2020 U.S. election, report says”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=109780>
Posted on March 1, 2020 6:28 pm<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=109780> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Reuters:<https://www.amny.com/politics/trans-voters-could-be-turned-away-in-2020-u-s-election-report-says/>

Hundreds of thousands of transgender Americans may be unable to vote in this year’s election because their name or looks do not match their identification card, research showed on Thursday, a trend that experts say could affect Democratic turnout.

Some 378,000 eligible U.S. voters who are trans do not have identification such as a driver’s license that reflects their appearance or gender identity, said a report by the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law, a public policy research institute.
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Watch Archived Video of UCI Law Conference, “Can American Democracy Survive the 2020 Elections?,” Including My Interview with Ohio SOS LaRose and Michigan SOS Benson<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=109778>
Posted on March 1, 2020 6:23 pm<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=109778> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

You can find each of the panel videos at this link<https://livestream.com/accounts/867536/events/8911014>.
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“Some States Make It Harder for College Students to Vote”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=109776>
Posted on March 1, 2020 6:19 pm<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=109776> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

AP reports.<https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2020/03/01/us/ap-election-2020-college-crackdown.html>
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“The majority-black city blocked from electing black officials”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=109774>
Posted on March 1, 2020 5:46 pm<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=109774> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Sam Levine<https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/feb/28/alabama-pleasant-grove-fight-to-vote> for The Guardian.
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“Georgia election officials approve computer recounts of paper ballots”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=109772>
Posted on March 1, 2020 3:01 pm<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=109772> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Bad news <https://www.ajc.com/news/state--regional-govt--politics/georgia-election-officials-approve-computer-recounts-paper-ballots/UmZhsoi3Fbg4PutT1xSNmJ/> in the AJC:

The State Election Board voted unanimously Friday to conduct recounts of Georgia’s new paper ballots with scanning machines instead of people.

The board approved an elections rule that requires recounts<https://www.ajc.com/news/state--regional-govt--politics/hand-recounts-georgia-paper-ballots-barred-election-proposal/7uQrB3SjgW4ylcVOpb4hHM/> to rely on bar codes, despite opposition from protesters who lined the walls of the meeting room. The protesters held signs calling for paper ballots filled out by hand instead of Georgia’s new hybrid voting system, which combines touchscreens and printed-out paper ballots.

The board’s decision means that until statewide audits of election results begin in November, the readable text on ballots won’t be counted. Votes will be tabulated based on QR codes printed on paper ballots.

Election integrity advocacy groups had argued<https://www.ajc.com/news/state--regional-govt--politics/fearing-long-lines-georgia-election-officials-reject-voting-proposal/fQsW7lbSFLJYdmWLRK66uO/> that recounts by hand were necessary to ensure accuracy of vote counts. A hand count would check whether the printed text that voters see matches the bar codes.
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Posted in election administration<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>

Slate Plus Bonus Podcast: “Election Meltdown: The Debrief; Dahlia Lithwick and Rick Hasen on what they’ve learned and what’s changed.”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=109769>
Posted on March 1, 2020 2:58 pm<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=109769> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

For Slate Plus members <https://slate.com/podcasts/amicus/2020/02/election-meltdown-debrief> (free two-week trial).
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“The 2020 race could become the coronavirus election. Is America ready?”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=109767>
Posted on March 1, 2020 2:55 pm<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=109767> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

The LA Times reports.<https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2020-02-28/2020-presidential-race-coronavirus-election>
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Posted in election administration<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>

March 12 Event at Skirball: “Voter Suppression and the 2020 Election: A Threat to Our Democracy?”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=109764>
Posted on March 1, 2020 2:37 pm<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=109764> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

You can RSVP for this event here.<https://www.eventbrite.com/e/voter-suppression-and-the-2020-election-a-threat-to-our-democracy-tickets-94864515319>
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I Joined Julian Zelizer for Princeton’s “Politics & Polls” Podcast Talking “Election Meltdown”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=109762>
Posted on March 1, 2020 2:31 pm<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=109762> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

You can listen here<http://wws.princeton.edu/news-and-events/news/item/politics-polls-173-our-elections-we-trust-featuring-rick-hasen>.
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“Alabama blocked a man from voting because he owed $4”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=109760>
Posted on March 1, 2020 2:26 pm<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=109760> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

The Guardian reports.<https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/feb/27/alabama-voting-rights-alfonzo-tucker>
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“Can America Run a Successful Election?”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=109758>
Posted on March 1, 2020 2:20 pm<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=109758> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Great podcast conversation<https://chrisriback.com/rick-hasen-can-america-run-a-fair-election/> with Chris Riback:

Today we continue with our check on the state of American democracy. We began with Harvard professors Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt<https://chrisriback.com/steven-levitsky-daniel-ziblatt-revisiting-how-democracies-die/> to get an update on “How Democracies Die<https://amzn.to/2PzZoBN>” and the question: How much more can our institutions take?

Today we’ll look at the cornerstone of our democracy and a question that’s as shocking to ask as it sounds: Can America run a fair election?

I told you – crazy. But whether that’s Putin’s great accomplishment, the post Iowa Caucus fiasco reality, or simply the result of the disintegration of nearly all of society’s institutions over the last years, well, that’s where we’re at.

Look at the evidence:
·         The latest headlines that U.S. Intelligence briefed Congress that Russia is already attacking our elections again, trying to help Trump win in 2020…and trying to help Democratic front-runner Bernie Sanders, too.
·         Voter suppression in Kansas, Georgia, Wisconsin, North Carolina, Texas, and elsewhere
·         Unproven claims of voter fraud to hurt confidence in elections.
·         Regular threats – or so-called jokes – to not leave office… from Trump to recently-ousted KY Gov. Matt Bevin
·         Massive, targeted disinformation campaigns – even from within the U.S.
·         And of course, election irregularities in Broward Country, FL, election debacles like the recent Iowa caucus, and even NY Times reporting from the Nevada caucus of “errors and inconsistencies” similar to Iowa.

While concerns around the viability and fairness of U.S. elections have been raised in the past – anyone listening to this podcast seen a hanging chad? – it’s fair to say the distrust and concern have never been as great as they are today.

It all adds up to one of the major threats to American democracy and the question I asked at the top that few of us ever expected to seriously hear.

So where are we? How bad is the problem? And perhaps most importantly – how does American democracy survive if Americans don’t trust their elections?

Rick Hasen<https://www.law.uci.edu/faculty/full-time/hasen/> is the one to ask. Hasen is Chancellor’s Professor of Law and Political Science at the University of California, Irvine and author of the new book “Election Meltdown: Dirty Tricks, Distrust, and the Threat to American Democracy<https://amzn.to/2VHhPZp>.” Hasen writes the often-quoted Election Law Blog<https://electionlawblog.org/>, which – like his excellent Twitter feed<https://twitter.com/rickhasen> – is an absolute must read. Rick is co-author of leading casebooks in election law and remedies, as well as author of over 100 articles on election law issues, published in numerous journals including the Harvard Law Review, Stanford Law Review and Supreme Court Review.
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“A New Bipartisan Organization Is Recruiting Volunteers To Audit Broward County’s Elections In 2020”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=109756>
Posted on March 1, 2020 2:14 pm<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=109756> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

WLRN:<https://www.wlrn.org/post/new-bipartisan-organization-recruiting-volunteers-audit-broward-countys-elections-2020#stream/0>

A new nonpartisan group organizing in Broward County is looking to make sure the next round of elections goes a lot more smoothly than 2018 – with all the recounts<https://www.wlrn.org/post/how-we-got-here-all-eyes-broward-countys-recount#stream/0>.

It’s called Citizens Audit Broward<https://www.facebook.com/groups/citizensauditbroward/>. Volunteers all over the county will use a few different apps … And yes, they know what happened to the Iowa Caucus results<https://www.wlrn.org/post/what-we-know-about-app-delayed-iowas-caucus-results#stream/0>, and they say that won’t happen here.

“I welcome it. We should be watched carefully, based on reputation. We’ve earned it,” Broward County Supervisor of Elections Peter Antonacci told WLRN<https://www.wlrn.org/post/elections-officials-broward-and-palm-beach-say-theyre-ready-march-primary> about Citizens Audit Broward. “Whatever they have to offer, they can bring to the canvassing board and it will be positive. To the extent that we can accommodate their interests under the current legal structure we’re gonna do it.”
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Michigan: “Redistricting applicants so far largely white, male, over 45”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=109754>
Posted on March 1, 2020 2:10 pm<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=109754> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Detroit News reports.<https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2020/02/29/redistricting-applicants-so-far-largely-white-male-over-45/4903020002/>
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“Like being ‘an enslaved person’: Why former prisoners are suing Pennsylvania over ‘prison gerrymandering’”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=109752>
Posted on March 1, 2020 11:57 am<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=109752> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

The Philadelphia Inquirer reports<https://www.inquirer.com/news/prison-gerrymandering-lawsuit-naacp-pennsylvania-terrance-lewis-abdul-lateef-robert-holbrook-20200227.html>.
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