Understanding the Electoral Count Reform Act of 2022
The Electoral Count Reform Act provides much-needed clarity on the process of casting and counting electoral votes.
September 18, 2024
How to reform domestic deployment authorities
There's an urgent need to pass reforms to how and when the National Guard may be deployed domestically, its command structure for domestic deployment, and the Guard’s legal authority when it acts.
September 10, 2024
Noncitizen voting lies, explained
Viral lies about noncitizen voting are straight out of the election subversion playbook.
September 10, 2024
Domestic deployment of the military, explained
An overview of critical reforms concerning the domestic deployment of the U.S. National Guard.
September 10, 2024
Officials Voted Down a Controversial Georgia Election Rule, Saying It Violated the Law. Then a Similar Version Passed. (opens a new window)
Peter Simmons, a lawyer for Protect Democracy, a nonprofit that works to protect the integrity of American elections, said that by dropping “and certify” from the rule, its meaning has arguably been reversed. Instead of emphasizing that certification is a mandatory duty regardless of any fraud or errors, the rule tries to grant county election board members discretion not to certify by leaving out the language that they “compute and certify,” according to Simmons.
What would proportional representation look like in a state legislature?
Proportionally elected legislatures could yield more competitive, representative, accountable, and authoritarian-resistant state politics.
August 15, 2024
Arizona Certification Toolkit
Arizona state law says certification is a mandatory, ministerial duty – meaning that officials have no discretion to refuse to certify election results.
July 30, 2024
NetChoice explained: How SCOTUS wisely avoided two extreme approaches to regulating social media
NetChoice walks a careful line at the intersection between the First Amendment and the internet — and in so doing, sounds a hopeful note for this area of jurisprudence.
July 26, 2024
Election certification, explained
Election certification is the process through which the canvass – the process of counting and aggregating ballots, and ensuring that every ballot is accounted for – is concluded.
July 24, 2024
Presidential emergency powers, explained
In our constitutional system, a national emergency declaration allows the president to temporarily use certain authorities that Congress has previously approved.
July 17, 2024