Danielle Lang
@DaniLang_Votes
Senior voting rights director @CampaignLegal. Subscribe to my substack, The Only Polls That Count, for weekly insider dispatches on the voting wars.
I don't post here anymore really but felt OK to come back here to say: we're suing Musk for rampaging through our government because unelected megadonors are not supposed to decide government services.
BREAKING: Campaign Legal Center is suing Elon Musk and DOGE for unconstitutionally acting beyond their power to slash the federal budget, fire federal workers and threaten executive agencies. These actions are causing real harm to everyday Americans. We’re suing to stop it.
Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more open.substack.com/pub/theonlypol…
Here to remind folks that we may very well not have results tonight (definitely not official results) especially if it comes down to my home state PA (b/c we refused to change our laws to allow pre-processing of mail ballots). fox5ny.com/news/election-…
Another EP perspective: the most common ticket is voter registration. For states with same day registration, the answer is: go vote! For states w/o, we have the hard job of telling the voter they are out of luck if they forgot to register. It doesn't have to be this way!
As I watch the EP tickets, I'm reminded that some of you are voting as easy as 1-2-3 while some of you are rearranging your day to get to your precinct during working hours. How easy it is to vote shouldn't depend on your zip code.
Voting doesn't have to take so long; the mechanics don't have to vary so much from jurisdiction to jurisdiction; and the results don't have to come down in fits and starts depending upon variations across states' laws and local resources. Congress can fix this—if it *wants* to.
Election Day: Out of the Courts and Into the Polls open.substack.com/pub/theonlypol…
This is a disturbing shadow docket decision, up there with the 2021 shadow docket decision allowing Texas’s S.B. 8 vigilante abortion law to go into effect despite Roe.