Election Law Blog6h
“The apocalypse that wasn’t: AI was everywhere in 2024’s elections, but deepfakes and misinformation were only part of the picture”
Bruce Schneier and Nathan Sanders expand the frame in The Conversation.
Election Law Blog5h
“A Chinese national, charged with fraud by the SEC, just sent Donald Trump $18 million”
Popular Information with a deep dive on the sketchy crypto thing that isn’t $6.2 million for a banana.    Get ready for the return of (and four-year procedural turmoil over) the emoluments cases. Law ...
Election Law Blog5h
“Meta loses appeal, must pay $24.6M for WA campaign finance violations”
The Seattle Times reports on Monday’s appellate decision regarding violations of Washington’s disclosure law.  The state’s Public Disclosure Commission is quoted as saying the judgment is believed to ...
Election Law Blog5h
“Audit of Georgia ballots proves that Dominion Voting Machine conspiracy theories are false”
USA Today out with a Monday report on Georgia’s audit of the 2024 elections, completed last week. The full ballot image audit report is here.
Election Law Blog5h
Today, of course, is Election Day
Your regular reminder that the 2024 elections aren’t over, and I’m not just talking about the counting and certifying.  Local runoffs in Georgia are today, and runoffs (and state constitutional ...
Election Law Blog5h
Dinesh D’Souza sort-of kind-of apologizes for 2000 Mules
Here’s the statement – which is undated but appears to be new – throwing True the Vote under the bus and also maintaining confidence in the “underlying premise” of the film … but in a nonspecific way ...
Election Law Blog5h
“Misinformation exploits outrage to spread online”
I’m really looking forward to reading this new paper in Science (Killian L. McLoughlin, William J. Brady, Aden Goolsbee, Ben Kaiser, Kate Klonick, and M. J. Crockett.) With a bonus thread by Crockett ...
Election Law Blog1d
“Lawmakers express doubt over Trump’s plan to replace FBI’s Christopher Wray”
WaPo on another rocky rule-of-law road ahead for a potential nominee. Wray, of course, was appointed by Trump in 2017 to a ten-year term. I’ve noted a few times now that Senators aren’t immune from an ...
Election Law Blog1d
“How Trump’s CIA Pick Funneled Congressional Campaign Funds To Himself And His Wife”
Past, Present, and Future in Oxford Handbook of American Election Law (Eugene Mazo, ed., forthcoming 2024), draft available: Nonprofit Law as a Tool to Kill What Remains of Campaign Finance Law: ...
Election Law Blog1d
“Analysis: How redistricting helped Nevada Democrats — but not enough to gain supermajority”
The Nevada Independent goes deep on redistricting in Nevada — one of only four states, I believe, with no constraints in state law on how the lines are drawn.
Election Law Blog1d
“Election denialism has staying power even after Trump’s win”
A States Newsroom report on the continuing attempt to blame election losses on nefarious mysterious misconduct rather than … more valid votes being cast for someone else.  For those claiming ...
Election Law Blog1d
“TikTok’s Romanian reckoning”
Regulators suspect foul play in how far-right firebrand Călin Georgescu used the Chinese-owned app to sway voters.” ...