This is a good survey article by Brendan Nyhan about what we know (or wrongly think we know) about misinformation regarding factual matters, including on policy and politics: the sources of misinformation, the distribution of public beliefs about it, and… Continue reading

Good news:  Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) has introduced a bill to extend the federal safe harbor period for states to determine electors from December 8, 2020 to January 1, 2021 for this year’s presidential election. He explains his position in… Continue reading

The Washington Post has published this piece of mine. An excerpt: The main fight over “vote by mail” is over. President Trump ended it, even if he doesn’t realize that. In the past few weeks, the president has repeatedly and… Continue reading

West Academic Published has announced that the 2020 Supplement to The Law of Democracy: Legal Regulation of the Political Process is now available at this link. The Supplement contains a free-standing 15-page section on issues concerning the fall election, including… Continue reading

This title might be a bit misleading, since the text of the story refers to lack of resources or knowledge. Still, raises important issues: As the coronavirus pandemic has upended normal balloting, more than half of voters under the age… Continue reading

From the Washington Post: When Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan announced an all-of-the-above strategy to conduct “a normal” election in November, he cast it as a decision to maximize voter access during the coronavirus pandemic. A massive backlash ensued.… Continue reading

Sen. Coons op-ed in WP: It is now well understood that states across the country do not have adequate resources to conduct an election during the novel coronavirus pandemic, largely because Congress and the states have provided only a… Continue reading

Op-ed in the Anchorage Daily News from Jacob Begich, after his father, Sen. Mark Begich, wrote a WSJ op-ed opposing RCV.

From AP News, in the Bellefontaine Examiner: Fears that the coronavirus pandemic will worsen, Victor Gibson said he’s not planning to take advantage of Michigan’s expanded vote-by-mail system when he casts his ballot in November. The retired teacher from… Continue reading

From Bob Barnes at the WP: But the court’s customary summer lull? It never arrived. Instead, responding to emergency pleas for intervention, the justices allowed federal executions to resume for the first time in 17 years. They threw up … Continue reading

From CCN: US intelligence officials on Friday discounted the possibility of foreign countries mass producing fake ballots to interfere in the November elections, contradicting President Donald Trump’s continued insistence that mail-in voting poses a significant threat to election security.… Continue reading

In the NY Daily News: The elections will remain scheduled for Nov. 3. The question will be whether procedures to be used will be sufficient to permit every eligible voter wishing to participate to have an adequate opportunity to… Continue reading

This story from Yahoo News is titled “GOP intransigence in Michigan could lead to a chaotic presidential election.” The story identifies an issue that I have been hammering away at since way back in March. There are going to be… Continue reading

From David Wasserman at The Cook Political Report: The real danger is a perfect catastrophe of administrative overload, postal delays and voter error that could lead to millions of absentee ballots not counting. And this year, unlike the past, those… Continue reading