Short Circuit 452 | Election Law Special!

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Vote early. But maybe don’t vote often? That’s the bottom line from Short Circuit’s biannual election special. With the 2026 General Election only days away, IJ’s Diana Simpson and your host bring you some of the latest cases from the federal courts of appeals on elections and political speech. There’s a polling place full of rulings on speech and paperwork burdens, what you can say about who can vote, the Founder’s fondness for anonymous pamphlets, the motor voter law, the Purcell principle, preliminary injunctions, prefilling voter applications, public records requests, and a real-life Twenty-Sixth Amendment case. Minnesota Voters Alliance v. Ellison AFP v. Meyer AFP v. Albence VoteAmerica v. Schwab Grant v. Belangia Red Wine & Blue v. LaRose PILF v. Wolfe PILF v. Simon