Law professor Jerry H. Goldfeder, the acknowledged expert on New York election law, has published this article about New York’s continuing habit of disqualifying candidate petitions for trivial reasons. This has been a problem in New York state for almost … Continue reading
The Eleventh Circuit has posted the audio of the December 17 oral argument in the Georgia ballot access case. Listen to it here. It is 39 minutes. Scroll down to Cowen v Raffensperger. Judge Pryor suggested that possibly the Georgia … Continue reading
U.S. District Court Judge John Koeltl will hear Libertarian Party of New York v New York State Board of Elections, 1:20cv-5820, on Tuesday, December 21. This is the challenge to the 2020 ballot access changes in New York, which moved … Continue reading
During the period 1970 through 2020, Georgia has only had one person on the ballot for a regularly-scheduled U.S. House election who was not a Democratic or Republican nominee. He was Billy McKinney. He got on in 1982, not because … Continue reading
Some commenters to this website seem very interested in the accuracy of official election returns. Forty-two states have procedures for post-election audits. The National Association of Secretaries of State issued this report in September 2021, describing each state’s law on … Continue reading
