Introducing the 2020 Election Litigation Tracker

20 years ago this fall, a hotly contested presidential election led to 36 days of legal turmoil that culminated with the Supreme Court’s ruling in Bush v. Gore.

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Wanted: Young People To Work The Polls This November

Susan Weiss has been a poll worker in Bethesda, Md., for 16 years. But this year, with the coronavirus pandemic raging, Weiss, who's 74, decided it's just too risky to work the election in November.

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We don't have to have chaos when America votes this fall

Joshua A. Douglas is a professor at the University of Kentucky J. David Rosenberg College of Law who specializes in election law, voting rights, and constitutional law. He is the author of "Vote for US: How to Take Back Our Elections and Change the Future of Voting." Follow him @JoshuaADouglas.

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How a group of scholars hope to avert an election ‘doomsday’ in November

SALT LAKE CITY — Even before COVID-19 complicated voting this year, Richard Hasen worried about the American public losing confidence in the elections. Mostly, he feared a “doomsday” scenario of public protest against a government voters don’t accept.

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Say goodbye to 'Election Night' and hello to 'Election Week'

WASHINGTON — Now less than five months out from the general election, Americans need to brace themselves for the real possibility that the presidential contest won’t be decided on Election Night. And that’s even if one of the candidates ultimately pulls off a decisive victory.

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California confident it can run November election smoothly even with coronavirus

The coronavirus turned what already promised to be an unprecedented presidential election year into a new test for California and its voting system, Secretary of State Alex Padilla said Friday.

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Should Utah voters who switch parties to vote in a primary have to stay put?

SALT LAKE CITY — Efforts to encourage Democratic and unaffiliated voters to become Republicans so they can vote in the upcoming GOP gubernatorial primary have some state lawmakers scrambling to find ways to make party switches tougher in the future.

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Election results in Philly are going to take even longer than expected: Half the votes still haven’t been counted

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Reducing One Source of a Potential Election Meltdown

Even before the arrival of the coronavirus, I was frequently asked what I saw as the biggest sources of a potential systemic crisis for the fall election—in particular, those risks there might still be time to mitigate.

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electionline Weekly

By M. Mindy Moretti electionline.org Voters in 24 states will decide who they want to oversee their elections for the next four years. In addition, governor’s races in other states will dictate who overseas elections in those states.

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Vote-by-mail delivers an array of problems

While citizens in some states, like Oregon, are used to voting in all of their elections by mail, about half of the states do not have vote-by-mail as either an available or widely available option.

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New Hampshire Gov. Sununu to allow absentee voting in November because of coronavirus outbreak

Republican New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu announced Thursday that the state will allow voters to cast mail-in ballots in the November general election if coronavirus is still a factor this fall.

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Inside Wisconsin’s Election Mess: Thousands of Missing or Nullified Ballots

As Wisconsin scrambled to expand voting by mail for its election on Tuesday, many absentee voters said their ballots went undelivered. Three tubs of absentee ballots that never reached voters were discovered in a postal center outside Milwaukee.

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Ohio Democratic Party sues over delay of primary election

Columbus, Ohio – Politicians of all stripes expressed frustration Tuesday after Ohio’s primary was postponed until June by the state’s elected officials amid concerns attendance at polling places would contribute to coronavirus pandemic.

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States Must Protect Integrity of Mail Ballots in Response to Coronavirus

As states likely expand the use of mail ballots in response to the COVID-19 breakout, they need to also protect the integrity of mail ballots to prevent both the appearance of impropriety and actual fraud this November.

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Could Trump delay the November election? Not without risking forfeit to a Democrat

Voters are unnerved. Confusion is growing throughout the country as the coronavirus outbreak moves states to postpone primaries and change voting procedures in the midst of a presidential election year.

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Justice Sonia Sotomayor won't participate in Colorado faithless elector case

The Supreme Court announced Tuesday that Justice Sonia Sotomayor will no longer participate in one of two hot-button cases this term concerning so-called faithless presidential electors, or those who vote for someone other than the state's popular vote winner.

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Activists raise concerns about privacy of voting machines

ATLANTA (AP) — Election integrity activists are raising concerns about Georgia’s new voting machines, saying the large, bright, vertical touchscreens allow other people in the room to see a voter’s selections in violation of ballot secrecy provisions in state law.

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Massive changes to California voting spark fears of Iowa-style primary chaos

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - As he looks ahead to California’s March 3 Democratic primary, Neal Kelley is having sleepless nights.

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California Governor Signs Bill Letting Voters Change Party at the Polls on Primary Day

On February 13, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed SB 207, which takes effect immediately. It lets voters change their party on election day, or at any time during the two weeks before a primary or an election. They already had the ability to change if the change was made earlier than that.

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