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Select posts from the Election Law Blog in 2021

After I joined the Election Law Blog as a contributor this summer, I significantly cut back on blogging election law-related items here at Excess of Democracy. Below are select posts I contributed to ELB this year, principally longer posts with more substantive analysis.

When has a state enacted a “new hurdle” to voting? (July 14, 2021)

Court concludes California candidate tax disclosure law applies only to gubernatorial primaries, not recalls (July 21, 2021)

Weighing risks to the 2024 Electoral College (August 8, 2021)

Qualifications for candidates running in California’s gubernatorial recall (August 17, 2021)

Nationwide preclearance of existing voter identification laws in the John L. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (August 20, 2021)

Rebutting some of the claims in the Eastman memo about Congress’s role in counting electoral votes (September 21, 2021)

Latest statement on Eastman still relies on the unilateral power of the Vice President to ignore the Electoral Count Act (October 11, 2021)

Ballot access rules for disqualified presidential candidates (October 20, 2021)

Will Laurence Tribe draft his own Eastman memo for January 6, 2025? (November 1, 2021)

Can federal courts hear private litigants’ statewide partisan gerrymandering claims arising under the Freedom to Vote Act? (December 28, 2021)