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NYT: The Florida Legislature last week created a law enforcement agency — informally called the election police — to tackle what Gov. Ron DeSantis and other Republicans have declared an urgent problem: the roughly 0.000677 percent of voters ...
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  1.  “Republicans Push Crackdown on Crime Wave That Doesn’t Exist: Voter Fraud”<https://p.feedblitz.com/t3.asp?/1116553/102231511/8260974/https://electionlawblog.org/?p=128241>
  2.  “The District Court Opinion in the Cawthorn Case”<https://p.feedblitz.com/t3.asp?/1116553/102231511/8260974/https://electionlawblog.org/?p=128239>
  3.  “An election without ‘I voted’ stickers? Election officials scrambling amid paper shortage”<https://p.feedblitz.com/t3.asp?/1116553/102231511/8260974/https://electionlawblog.org/?p=128237>
  4.  “Ohio Supreme Court rejects Republicans’ third set of state legislative maps”<https://p.feedblitz.com/t3.asp?/1116553/102231511/8260974/https://electionlawblog.org/?p=128235>
  5.  “Exercise in Tediousness:” “Federal panel to decide fate of Mich. congressional map after unequal population complaints”<https://p.feedblitz.com/t3.asp?/1116553/102231511/8260974/https://electionlawblog.org/?p=128233>
  6.  “Postponing Presidential Elections not Authorized by Federal Law”<https://p.feedblitz.com/t3.asp?/1116553/102231511/8260974/https://electionlawblog.org/?p=128231>
  7.  Is a majority of the Supreme Court willing to revisit U.S. Term Limits v. Thornton?<https://p.feedblitz.com/t3.asp?/1116553/102231511/8260974/https://electionlawblog.org/?p=128223>
  8.  “Yikes”: Texas Election Officials Rejected an Astounding 13 Percent of Submitted Mail In Ballots in Recent Primary<https://p.feedblitz.com/t3.asp?/1116553/102231511/8260974/https://electionlawblog.org/?p=128227>
  9.  “Democrats urge DOJ to address ‘insider threats’ from candidates who deny 2020 results”<https://p.feedblitz.com/t3.asp?/1116553/102231511/8260974/https://electionlawblog.org/?p=128225>
  10. Timing and procedural morass hit Cawthorn disqualification challenge<https://p.feedblitz.com/t3.asp?/1116553/102231511/8260974/https://electionlawblog.org/?p=128218>

“Republicans Push Crackdown on Crime Wave That Doesn’t Exist: Voter Fraud”<https://p.feedblitz.com/r3.asp?l=184682268&f=1116553&c=8260974&u=102231511>
By Rick Hasen, March 17, 2022
NYT<https://p.feedblitz.com/t3.asp?/1116553/102231511/8260974_/~www.nytimes.com/2022/03/17/us/politics/republican-voter-fraud.html>: The Florida Legislature last week created a law enforcement agency — informally called the election police — to tackle what Gov. Ron DeSantis and other Republicans have declared an urgent problem: the roughly 0.000677 percent of voters suspected… Continue reading <https://p.feedblitz.com/t3.asp?/1116553/102231511/8260974_/~electionlawblog.org/?p=128241>

“The District Court Opinion in the Cawthorn Case”<https://p.feedblitz.com/r3.asp?l=184682270&f=1116553&c=8260974&u=102231511>
By Rick Hasen, March 17, 2022
Gerald Magliocca<https://p.feedblitz.com/t3.asp?/1116553/102231511/8260974_/~prawfsblawg.blogs.com/prawfsblawg/2022/03/the-district-court-opinion-in-the-cawthorn-case.html>: We now have a written opinion<https://p.feedblitz.com/t3.asp?/1116553/102231511/8260974_/~freespeechforpeople.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/cawthorn-v-circosta-dct-opn.pdf> from the District Court. It’s a slapdash effort. I’ll confine my discussion to the Court’s Amnesty Act analysis, and leave others to discuss issues such as abstention.The fatal flaw in… Continue reading <https://p.feedblitz.com/t3.asp?/1116553/102231511/8260974_/~electionlawblog.org/?p=128239>

“An election without ‘I voted’ stickers? Election officials scrambling amid paper shortage”<https://p.feedblitz.com/r3.asp?l=184682272&f=1116553&c=8260974&u=102231511>
By Rick Hasen, March 17, 2022
USA Today reports.<https://p.feedblitz.com/t3.asp?/1116553/102231511/8260974_/~www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2022/03/06/2022-elections-face-paper-shortages-caused-supply-chain-inflation/9359536002/?gnt-cfr=1>

“Ohio Supreme Court rejects Republicans’ third set of state legislative maps”<https://p.feedblitz.com/r3.asp?l=184682274&f=1116553&c=8260974&u=102231511>
By Rick Hasen, March 17, 2022
Cleveland.com<https://p.feedblitz.com/t3.asp?/1116553/102231511/8260974_/~www.cleveland.com/news/2022/03/ohio-supreme-court-rejects-republicans-third-set-of-state-legislative-maps.html>: The Ohio Supreme Court, for a third time, has rejected Republicans’ state legislative maps, a move that state legislative leaders have said likely will result in a delay for at least part of the May primary.In <https://p.feedblitz.com/t3.asp?/1116553/102231511/8260974_/~supremecourt.ohio.gov/rod/docs/pdf/0/2022/2022-ohio-789.pdf> … Continue reading <https://p.feedblitz.com/t3.asp?/1116553/102231511/8260974_/~electionlawblog.org/?p=128235>

“Exercise in Tediousness:” “Federal panel to decide fate of Mich. congressional map after unequal population complaints”<https://p.feedblitz.com/r3.asp?l=184682276&f=1116553&c=8260974&u=102231511>
By Rick Hasen, March 17, 2022
Detroit News:<https://p.feedblitz.com/t3.asp?/1116553/102231511/8260974_/~www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2022/03/16/michigan-congressional-map-lawsuit-population-communities-of-interest-redistricting-commission/7067654001/> A federal three-judge panel will decide whether Michigan’s newly adopted congressional district map should be redrawn to secure more equal populations after more than an hour of arguments Wednesday that one judge described as an “exercise in tediousness.”An… Continue reading <https://p.feedblitz.com/t3.asp?/1116553/102231511/8260974_/~electionlawblog.org/?p=128233>

“Postponing Presidential Elections not Authorized by Federal Law”<https://p.feedblitz.com/r3.asp?l=184682278&f=1116553&c=8260974&u=102231511>
By Rick Hasen, March 17, 2022
Russell Levine has posted this draft<https://p.feedblitz.com/t3.asp?/1116553/102231511/8260974_/~papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4053188> on SSRN. Here is the abstract: The presidential election process is a hot mess. Even an uneventful election cycle is a complicated series of steps controlled by numerous legal provisions. Given this complexity, any… Continue reading <https://p.feedblitz.com/t3.asp?/1116553/102231511/8260974_/~electionlawblog.org/?p=128231>

Is a majority of the Supreme Court willing to revisit U.S. Term Limits v. Thornton?<https://p.feedblitz.com/r3.asp?l=184682280&f=1116553&c=8260974&u=102231511>
By Derek Muller, March 16, 2022
I blogged last month<https://p.feedblitz.com/t3.asp?/1116553/102231511/8260974_/~electionlawblog.org/?p=127682> about the Tennessee Senate committee’s decision to advance a bill adding a multi-year residency requirement to congressional candidates. The bill’s gone through some machinations since then in the two houses about what the residency requirement looks… Continue reading <https://p.feedblitz.com/t3.asp?/1116553/102231511/8260974_/~electionlawblog.org/?p=128223>

“Yikes”: Texas Election Officials Rejected an Astounding 13 Percent of Submitted Mail In Ballots in Recent Primary<https://p.feedblitz.com/r3.asp?l=184682282&f=1116553&c=8260974&u=102231511>
By Rick Hasen, March 16, 2022
AP<https://p.feedblitz.com/t3.asp?/1116553/102231511/8260974_/~apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-elections-texas-voting-only-on-ap-45ba51fe9dd951a0f82015bd6bd9ff41>:  Texas threw out mail votes at an abnormally high rate during the nation’s first primary of 2022, rejecting nearly 23,000 ballots outright under tougher voting rules that are part of a broad campaign by Republicans to reshape American… Continue reading <https://p.feedblitz.com/t3.asp?/1116553/102231511/8260974_/~electionlawblog.org/?p=128227>

“Democrats urge DOJ to address ‘insider threats’ from candidates who deny 2020 results”<https://p.feedblitz.com/r3.asp?l=184682284&f=1116553&c=8260974&u=102231511>
By Rick Hasen, March 16, 2022
The Hill:<https://p.feedblitz.com/t3.asp?/1116553/102231511/8260974_/~thehill.com/homenews/house/598469-democrats-urge-doj-to-address-insider-threats-from-candidates-who-deny-2020> More than a dozen House Democrats are urging the Department of Justice (DOJ) to address “insider threats to election systems,” which they say are posed by candidates who are running to fill local election positions motivated by former … Continue reading <https://p.feedblitz.com/t3.asp?/1116553/102231511/8260974_/~electionlawblog.org/?p=128225>

Timing and procedural morass hit Cawthorn disqualification challenge<https://p.feedblitz.com/r3.asp?l=184682286&f=1116553&c=8260974&u=102231511>
By Derek Muller, March 16, 2022
After a district court concluded March 4<https://p.feedblitz.com/t3.asp?/1116553/102231511/8260974_/~electionlawblog.org/?p=127966> that a disqualification challenge to Madison Cawthorn’s candidacy in North Carolina could not proceed, the case has been hit with timing issues and procedural complexity. (The district court issued a written order March <https://p.feedblitz.com/t3.asp?/1116553/102231511/8260974_/~www.courtlistener.com/docket/62641876/cawthorn-v-circosta/#entry-78> … Continue reading <https://p.feedblitz.com/t3.asp?/1116553/102231511/8260974_/~electionlawblog.org/?p=128218>
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