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Rick Pildes and Ned Foley have recently posted about making districts more competitive in the next round of redistricting. Competition is plainly an appealing value. As Philip Edward Jones has shown, voters are better informed when races are more… ...
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  1.  Don’t Conflate Competitiveness and Partisan Fairness<https://p.feedblitz.com/t3.asp?/1116553/102231511/7869228/https://electionlawblog.org/?p=124023>
  2.  “Senate Republicans block effort by Democrats to advance voting and election bill”<https://p.feedblitz.com/t3.asp?/1116553/102231511/7869228/https://electionlawblog.org/?p=124021>
  3.  ELB Book Corner: Kurt Lash (Post 3 of 3): The Fight for Black Suffrage: Documenting the History of the Fifteenth Amendment<https://p.feedblitz.com/t3.asp?/1116553/102231511/7869228/https://electionlawblog.org/?p=123855>
  4.  “Bolsonaro Discredits Electronic Voting, Prompting Fears of a Power Grab”<https://p.feedblitz.com/t3.asp?/1116553/102231511/7869228/https://electionlawblog.org/?p=124017>
  5.  “Abundance of Jan. 6 Evidence Collides With Suspects’ Right to Speedy Trials”<https://p.feedblitz.com/t3.asp?/1116553/102231511/7869228/https://electionlawblog.org/?p=124011>
  6.  “Trump asked his AG about legal strategy to overturn election, Rosen tells senators”<https://p.feedblitz.com/t3.asp?/1116553/102231511/7869228/https://electionlawblog.org/?p=124013>
  7.  “Dominion Sues Newsmax, One America News Network, Others Over Election Claims”<https://p.feedblitz.com/t3.asp?/1116553/102231511/7869228/https://electionlawblog.org/?p=124000>
  8.  “Claims of voter suppression in newly enacted state laws don’t all hold up under closer review”<https://p.feedblitz.com/t3.asp?/1116553/102231511/7869228/https://electionlawblog.org/?p=124002>

Don’t Conflate Competitiveness and Partisan Fairness<https://p.feedblitz.com/r3.asp?l=180001300&f=1116553&c=7869228&u=102231511>
By Nicholas Stephanopoulos, August 11, 2021
Rick Pildes<https://p.feedblitz.com/t3.asp?/1116553/102231511/7869228_/~electionlawblog.org/?p=123918> and Ned Foley<https://p.feedblitz.com/t3.asp?/1116553/102231511/7869228_/~electionlawblog.org/?p=124004> have recently posted about making districts more competitive in the next round of redistricting. Competition is plainly an appealing value. As Philip Edward Jones has shown<https://p.feedblitz.com/t3.asp?/1116553/102231511/7869228_/~link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11109-012-9203-3>, voters are better informed when races are more… Continue reading <https://p.feedblitz.com/t3.asp?/1116553/102231511/7869228_/~electionlawblog.org/?p=124023>

“Senate Republicans block effort by Democrats to advance voting and election bill”<https://p.feedblitz.com/r3.asp?l=180001304&f=1116553&c=7869228&u=102231511>
By Rick Hasen, August 11, 2021
CNN<https://p.feedblitz.com/t3.asp?/1116553/102231511/7869228_/~www.cnn.com/2021/08/11/politics/voting-right-bill-blocked-republicans/index.html>: Senate Republicans blocked an attempt by Democrats to advance their signature voting and elections overhaul bill <https://p.feedblitz.com/t3.asp?/1116553/102231511/7869228_/~www.cnn.com/2021/06/22/politics/senate-democrats-voting-bill/index.html> in the early hours of Wednesday morning.This was an effort by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Democrats in the chamber to… Continue reading <https://p.feedblitz.com/t3.asp?/1116553/102231511/7869228_/~electionlawblog.org/?p=124021>

ELB Book Corner: Kurt Lash (Post 3 of 3): The Fight for Black Suffrage: Documenting the History of the Fifteenth Amendment<https://p.feedblitz.com/r3.asp?l=180001308&f=1116553&c=7869228&u=102231511>
By Rick Hasen, August 11, 2021
I’m delighted to welcome my friend and former colleague Kurt Lash<https://p.feedblitz.com/t3.asp?/1116553/102231511/7869228_/~law.richmond.edu/faculty/klash/> to the ELB Book Corner, for the third of three guest posts on his exceedingly important collection, The Reconstruction Amendments: Essential Documents<https://p.feedblitz.com/t3.asp?/1116553/102231511/7869228_/~press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/R/bo48885453.html>. Here’s Kurt: In my last two… Continue reading <https://p.feedblitz.com/t3.asp?/1116553/102231511/7869228_/~electionlawblog.org/?p=123855>

“Bolsonaro Discredits Electronic Voting, Prompting Fears of a Power Grab”<https://p.feedblitz.com/r3.asp?l=180001312&f=1116553&c=7869228&u=102231511>
By Derek Muller, August 11, 2021
New York Times<https://p.feedblitz.com/t3.asp?/1116553/102231511/7869228_/~www.nytimes.com/2021/08/10/world/americas/brazil-vote-bolsonaro.html>: Facing the prospect of a crushing defeat at the polls next year, President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil is rousing supporters for an existential battle — against voting machines.Beleaguered by the devastating toll of the coronavirus, a… Continue reading <https://p.feedblitz.com/t3.asp?/1116553/102231511/7869228_/~electionlawblog.org/?p=124017>

“Abundance of Jan. 6 Evidence Collides With Suspects’ Right to Speedy Trials”<https://p.feedblitz.com/r3.asp?l=180001316&f=1116553&c=7869228&u=102231511>
By Derek Muller, August 11, 2021
Alan Feuer at the New York Times<https://p.feedblitz.com/t3.asp?/1116553/102231511/7869228_/~www.nytimes.com/2021/08/10/us/politics/jan-6-investigation-evidence-speedy-trials.html>: As the case of Timothy Hale-Cusanelli, a suspect in the Jan. 6 riot, was poised in late July to drag into its seventh month without much progress, the presiding judge lost patience… Continue reading <https://p.feedblitz.com/t3.asp?/1116553/102231511/7869228_/~electionlawblog.org/?p=124011>

“Trump asked his AG about legal strategy to overturn election, Rosen tells senators”<https://p.feedblitz.com/r3.asp?l=180001318&f=1116553&c=7869228&u=102231511>
By Derek Muller, August 10, 2021
More details on Jeffrey Rosen’s testimony, as linked earlier<https://p.feedblitz.com/t3.asp?/1116553/102231511/7869228_/~electionlawblog.org/?p=123948>, this time at Politico<https://p.feedblitz.com/t3.asp?/1116553/102231511/7869228_/~www.politico.com/news/2021/08/10/trump-asked-ag-overturn-election-503341>: Donald Trump asked the country’s top legal official in late December about a conspiratorial draft complaint aimed at overturning the 2020 election results, according to… Continue reading <https://p.feedblitz.com/t3.asp?/1116553/102231511/7869228_/~electionlawblog.org/?p=124013>

“Dominion Sues Newsmax, One America News Network, Others Over Election Claims”<https://p.feedblitz.com/r3.asp?l=180001320&f=1116553&c=7869228&u=102231511>
By Derek Muller, August 10, 2021
Wall Street Journal<https://p.feedblitz.com/t3.asp?/1116553/102231511/7869228_/~www.wsj.com/articles/dominion-sues-newsmax-one-america-news-network-others-over-election-claims-11628599768> on the latest Dominion lawsuit: One of the largest voting-machine companies in the U.S. on Tuesday sued two conservative media networks and a businessman it said had defamed it by spreading accusations that it rigged the 2020… Continue reading <https://p.feedblitz.com/t3.asp?/1116553/102231511/7869228_/~electionlawblog.org/?p=124000>

“Claims of voter suppression in newly enacted state laws don’t all hold up under closer review”<https://p.feedblitz.com/r3.asp?l=180001324&f=1116553&c=7869228&u=102231511>
By Derek Muller, August 10, 2021
Last month here at ELB<https://p.feedblitz.com/t3.asp?/1116553/102231511/7869228_/~electionlawblog.org/?p=123392>, I expressed some skepticism about efforts to label some laws as “suppression,” voting restrictions, and the like. I continue that over at The Conversation, here<https://p.feedblitz.com/t3.asp?/1116553/102231511/7869228_/~theconversation.com/claims-of-voter-suppression-in-newly-enacted-state-laws-dont-all-hold-up-under-closer-review-165414>.
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