{"id":5395,"date":"2021-11-18T17:27:38","date_gmt":"2021-11-18T22:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/georgetown-law-journal\/glj-online\/glj-online-vol-110\/remedying-intimidating-voter-disinformation-through-%c2%a7-19853s-support-or-advocacy-clauses\/"},"modified":"2025-05-12T11:13:19","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T15:13:19","slug":"remedying-intimidating-voter-disinformation-through-19853s-support-or-advocacy-clauses","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/georgetown-law-journal\/submit\/glj-online\/glj-online-vol-110\/remedying-intimidating-voter-disinformation-through-19853s-support-or-advocacy-clauses\/","title":{"rendered":"Remedying Intimidating Voter Disinformation Through \u00a7 1985(3)\u2019s Support-or-Advocacy Clauses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>The 2020 election cycle witnessed the continued shift of voter intimidation from the polling place to cyberspace. As social media and online tools provide bad actors with an unprecedented ability to spread disinformation aimed at intimidating voters and keeping them from the polls, there has been a renewed focus on federal voter intimidation laws as a source of redress. While two of these laws\u2014section 131(b) of the Civil Rights Act of 1957 and section 11(b) of the Voting Rights Act\u2014are limited to injunctive relief and attorney\u2019s fees, 42 U.S.C. \u00a7 1985(3), a provision of the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871, goes further and provides for compensatory and punitive damages along with several procedural advantages for victims of conspiracies to prevent voters from giving their \u201csupport or advocacy\u201d to federal candidates. This Article provides a novel analysis of the application of the support-or-advocacy clauses to voter disinformation and argues that, despite certain obstacles, plaintiffs should embrace the clauses as a potentially powerful weapon against modern-day voter intimidation.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p>Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/georgetown-law-journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2021\/11\/Weingartner_Remedying-Voter-Disinformation.pdf\"><em><strong>Remedying Intimidating Voter Disinformation Through \u00a7 1985(3)\u2019s Support-or-Advocacy Clauses<\/strong><\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2020 election cycle witnessed the continued shift of voter intimidation from the polling place to cyberspace. As social media and online tools provide bad actors with an unprecedented ability [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5086,"featured_media":0,"parent":842,"menu_order":8,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"abstract.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":"","_tec_slr_enabled":"","_tec_slr_layout":""},"class_list":["post-5395","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"ticketed":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/georgetown-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/georgetown-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/georgetown-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/georgetown-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5086"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/georgetown-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5395"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/georgetown-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5416,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/georgetown-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5395\/revisions\/5416"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/georgetown-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/georgetown-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}