[EL] ELB News and Commentary 3/27/20

[Rick Hasen]

“Wisconsin Won’t Delay Its Primary, So the Governor Wants to Mail Everyone a Ballot”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=110285>
Posted on March 27, 2020 2:55 pm<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=110285> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

NYT reports.<https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/27/us/politics/wisconsin-primary-coronavirus.html>

The updated headline of this article reads:

‘Your Health or the Right to Vote’: A Battle in Wisconsin as Its Primary Nears
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Posted in Uncategorized<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=1>


“Safeguarding Elections in a Pandemic”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=110283>
Posted on March 27, 2020 2:52 pm<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=110283> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

I was on WHYY’s Radio Times. You can listen here<https://whyy.org/episodes/safeguarding-the-elections/>.
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Posted in election administration<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>


“Amid coronavirus crisis, give clerks support, autonomy to conduct the November election”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=110281>
Posted on March 27, 2020 1:48 pm<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=110281> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Tina Barton, Kammi Foote and Paddy McGuire oped<https://www.freep.com/story/opinion/contributors/2020/03/27/coronavirus-november-election/2923012001/> in the Detroit Free Press:

Today, more than ever before, local and state election officials across this country have the capacity to provide safe and transparent elections to all voters. We are calling on Congress and States to act now to provide the funding and local autonomy needed to protect the sanctity of this November’s election.

Most of the current conversation in the midst of this national crisis has centered around the need for a significant increase in voting by mail, and we agree. However, it is a mistake for the Federal government to impose top-down, long-term sweeping structural reforms to how Americans vote. Critical decisions about administering elections should reside primarily with state and local governments, as provided for in the U.S. Constitution. What we do need from Washington are the resources to staff up and increase our capacity to deal with unanticipated problems.  …

Tina Barton is clerk of the City of Rochester Hills, Michigan. Kammi Foote is clerk/recorder and registrar of voters at Inyo County, Calif. Paddy McGuire is auditor of Mason County in Washington.
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Posted in Uncategorized<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=1>


“States Explore More Vote-By-Mail Options to Cope With Coronavirus”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=110279>
Posted on March 27, 2020 1:44 pm<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=110279> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

WSJ reports.<https://www.wsj.com/articles/states-explore-more-vote-by-mail-options-to-cope-with-coronavirus-11585306800>
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Posted in Uncategorized<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=1>


“Richmond judge loosens petition signature rules for GOP U.S. Senate primary due to coronavirus”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=110277>
Posted on March 27, 2020 1:43 pm<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=110277> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Virginia Mercury reports<https://www.virginiamercury.com/blog-va/richmond-judge-loosens-petition-signature-rules-for-gop-u-s-senate-primary-due-to-coronavirus/>.
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Posted in ballot access<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=46>


“What It Will Take to Protect the 2020 Election; We know how much it will cost to safeguard voting from effects of the pandemic. Congress approved only one-fifth of that.”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=110275>
Posted on March 27, 2020 10:31 am<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=110275> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Important Wendy Weiser and Larry Norden oped<https://www.politico.com/news/agenda/2020/03/26/will-the-2020-elections-be-another-victim-of-the-coronavirus-151112> for Politico.
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Posted in Uncategorized<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=1>


“Two more lawsuits filed over Wisconsin’s spring election seeking to change how and when people vote during coronavirus”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=110273>
Posted on March 27, 2020 8:46 am<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=110273> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel:<https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2020/03/26/wisconsin-election-lawsuits-over-coronavirus-voting-add-chaos-voter-id-absentee-ballots-postpone/2919422001/>

Wisconsin’s chaotic spring election got even more unpredictable Thursday as two new lawsuits were filed attempting to alter voting rules because of the coronavirus pandemic that has forced people to stay at home.

The lawsuits — the third and fourth to be filed over the April 7 election — come as clerks scramble to figure out how to safely run an election when they are short on poll workers and hand sanitizer and health officials say people should stay at least six feet from each other.

One of the new lawsuits, led by voter mobilization group Souls to the Polls, seeks to put off the election for weeks or months. It’s in line with a lawsuit Green Bay’s clerk filed this week<https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/elections/2020/03/24/coronavirus-green-bay-sues-wisconsin-officials-over-election/2912185001/> to postpone the election.

The other suit filed Thursday seeks to allow people to cast absentee ballots without having to get a witness to sign their voting certificate.
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Posted in election administration<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>


“Election Officials Scrambling To Meet Pandemic Voting Challenges”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=110271>
Posted on March 27, 2020 8:40 am<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=110271> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Steven Rosenfeld reports.<https://www.nationalmemo.com/election-officials-scrambling-to-meet-pandemic-voting-challenges/?utm_source=postup&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=392&cn-reloaded=1>
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Posted in Uncategorized<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=1>


“The Best Way to Protect the Election; Americans must ensure that the country’s democratic process moves forward as scheduled. And there is one time-tested and straightforward way to do that: nationwide vote by mail”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=110269>
Posted on March 27, 2020 8:24 am<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=110269> by Rick Hasen<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Ron Krotoszynski for the Atlantic<https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/best-way-protect-election/608887/>.
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Posted in election administration<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>


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