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Cameron Kistler: “Hog Barns and Ballot Boxes: The Disenfranchisement Tort the 8th Circuit Missed in Minnesota Voters Alliance”

The following is a guest post by Cameron Kistler of Protect Democracy United: The Eighth Circuit has held that a state may criminalize lies used to gain access to a hog barn, because the First ...
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Chutzpah Department: DOJ, with Its Sole Argument for a Supreme Court Stay Mooted in Trump Mail-in Ballot Case, Still Asks SCOTUS to Keep a Stay in Place

Faux Campaign Finance Regulation and the Pathway to American Oligarchy (conference paper dated Apr. 24, 2025, draft available, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm ...
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“A ‘Who Decides?’ Week in Review”

Faux Campaign Finance Regulation and the Pathway to American Oligarchy (conference paper dated Apr. 24, 2025, draft available, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm ...
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“DOJ Down Big, But Not Out Yet, in Quest for State Voter Rolls”

Faux Campaign Finance Regulation and the Pathway to American Oligarchy (conference paper dated Apr. 24, 2025, draft available, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm ...
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“Judge who had sex in courthouse and attended political event agrees to exit Georgia election case”

Faux Campaign Finance Regulation and the Pathway to American Oligarchy (conference paper dated Apr. 24, 2025, draft available, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm ...
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“Texas counties receive subpoenas for voters’ records from Department of Homeland Security”

Faux Campaign Finance Regulation and the Pathway to American Oligarchy (conference paper dated Apr. 24, 2025, draft available, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm ...
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John Fortier on SCOTUS Watson Case: “Mail Voting Deadlines Come to the Supreme Court”

Faux Campaign Finance Regulation and the Pathway to American Oligarchy (conference paper dated Apr. 24, 2025, draft available, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm ...
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“Americans are increasingly worried about voting, new poll shows”

Rebecca linked earlier to an NPR story on a new NPR/PBS/Marist poll on voter attitudes toward elections in the United States. The NPR story focused on armed guards at polls, but there’s a lot of other ...
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“Florida House approves new eligibility rules for voting, despite debate that it is a ‘poll tax by paperwork'”

A proposal to tighten voter eligibility rules was approved by the Republican-controlled House on Wednesday over the objections of Democrats who contend seniors and students will be among those blocked ...