The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that the costs of accuracy in the vote are causing political fallout. Governor Shapiro reiterates that PA law provides for an automatic recount where the margin is ...

The Michigan State University College of Law will be hosting a Democracy Works-in-Progress Conference on April 10-11, 2025.

Given the new vote tallies in two outstanding races, Politico estimates that the House will be down to a very narrow margin after cabinet appointments. “GOP Rep. JOHN DUARTE’s lead dwindled yesterday ...

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Thomas Goldstein (SCOTUS Blog) offers his views on the criminal cases against Trump. The people have spoken; it is time to drop the cases: “Democracy’s ultimate verdict on these prosecutions was ...

Results posted Monday showed 50.03% of voters opposed the measure repealing ranked choice voting, while 49.97% were in favor of the repeal. Just 192 votes separated the two camps, with more ballots ...

Andrew W. Appel (Princeton, Computer Science) and Philip B. Stark (UC Berkeley, Statistics) have a new paper cautioning about a new software designed to accelerate the count for overseas votes by ...

Justice Allison Riggs, the Democratic incumbent, appears to have won her judicial race by “625 votes out of 5.5 million.” There are still some outstanding votes to be counted, but her Republican ...

More than 14 years after the Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, which removed limits on independent political expenditures by corporations and unions, the ...

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

In the immediate wake of the election various, mostly young, black people were targeted with texts and emails directing them to report to the plantation. Now, the Washington Post reports that similar ...

Ohio State Legal Studies Research Paper No. 61 Anita S. Krishnakumar, Cracking the Whole Code Rule (February 19, 2020). St. John’s Legal Studies Research Paper No. 20-0002, New York University Law ...