The University of Illinois has published this excellent symposium. Here’s the full listing of articles: ...

When John Merrill was secretary of state of Alabama, he felt like it was his job as the state’s top voting official to encourage voter registration. “One of the things I was known for as a … Continue ...

The Democratic and Republican parties will withdraw 20 lawsuits on behalf of their candidates for Pennsylvania’s U.S. Senate seat following incumbent Sen. Bob Casey’s concession Thursday to ...

NY Times: 2024 is the first general election under the state’s new voter ID law. Overall, the new voter ID law did not result in many votes being rejected. That said, the current law is significantly ...

An interesting article from CBS News on the intraparty negotiations in Ohio, where Governor Mike DeWine will be filling JD Vance’s seat until the required special election. DeWine’s goal apparently is ...

Charles Gardner Geyh (Indiana University Maurer School of Law) has posted this new article on judicial elections on SSRN: In this essay, I begin with a discussion of established legal theory, which ...

The Stagnation, Retrogression, and Potential Pro-Voter Transformation of U.S. Election Law, 134 Yale Law Journal (forthcoming 2025), draft available: https://papers ...

Bolts Magazine reviews the role of Native Voters in Alaska’s ballot reform efforts, noting, among other things, that “[a]reas with large Alaska Native populations provided the winning margin against ...

A New Brennan Center study on voter participation on tribal lands highlights the impact of systemic inequities on turnout. Key findings include: ...

The Stagnation, Retrogression, and Potential Pro-Voter Transformation of U.S. Election Law, 134 Yale Law Journal (forthcoming 2025), draft available: https://papers ...

President-elect Donald Trump plans to fire the entire team that worked with special counsel Jack Smith to pursue two federal prosecutions against the former president, including career attorneys ...

General Election, 2024, a unanimous three-judge decision (lightly revised): On Election Day, November 5, 2024, counsel for the [Trump] Campaign [and RNC] appeared at Philadelphia’s Election Court and ...