ADN:
An Anchorage Superior Court judge on Tuesday denied a request by the Alaska Democratic Party to have the name of a jailed non-resident removed from Alaska’s U.S. House ballot.
Alaska Democratic Party Executive Director Lindsay Kavanaugh said Tuesday evening… Continue reading
WaPo:
The federal government will dramatically increase security protections for the joint session of Congress where lawmakers count states’ electoral votes, an escalation of government-wide efforts to prevent a repeat of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol,… Continue reading
Jack Santucci:
As a student of how electoral-system change happens, I read the Boston Review’s recent essay collection, “We Need More Parties,” with great interest.
It weighs the merits of several responses to a widely held view that the party system… Continue reading
AP:
State and local election officials from across the country on Wednesday warned that problems with the nation’s mail delivery system threaten to disenfranchise voters in the upcoming presidential election, telling the head of the U.S. Postal Service that it… Continue reading
C-SPAN has the relevant video.
From ABC News summary:
Trump tried to explain his own remarks recently in which he appeared to accept he lost the 2020 election, including his comment last week that he “lost by a whisker.”… Continue reading
CBS News:
A CBS News investigation has found since the 2020 election, Texas has seen a high turnover rate of people who oversee the elections in the state’s 254 counties.
More than one-third of the election administrators and county… Continue reading
NYT:
The Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected a bid to strike a question on the November ballot that will ask voters whether to establish a right to abortion in the State Constitution.
The seven-member court handed down its one-page… Continue reading
AP:
A local Republican election official in Michigan has promised to certify the results of the November presidential election after being sued for stating that he wouldn’t sign off on the results if he disagreed with how the election was… Continue reading
Watch the video:
Q. Would you have certified the 2020 election? JD Vance: No. “I would have asked the states to submit alternative slates of electors and ask the country to have a debate”Disqualifying pic.twitter.com/U9LOnt4FeY— Republicans against Trump… Continue reading
Very much looking forward to moderating this event (recording will be made available after the event):
Sept. 17: Democracy and Risks to the 2024 Elections
Tuesday, September 17, 7:30pm PT at the UCLA Hammer Museum, (Recording to Follow)Co-presented with the… Continue reading