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

TN law permits absentee voting only for one of 12 specified reasons. A lower court held, as a matter of state constitutional law, that no-excuse absentee voting was required, given Covid-19. The case was argued yesterday before the TN Supreme… Continue reading

From NBC news: A dozen doctors delivered speeches in front of the U.S. Capitol on Monday to a small crowd, claiming without evidence that the coronavirus could be cured and that widely accepted efforts to slow its spread were… Continue reading

The Washington Post’s Michelle Lee and Jacob Bogage write: The U.S. Postal Service is experiencing days-long backlogs of mail across the country after a top Trump donor running the agency put in place new procedures described as cost-cutting efforts, alarming… Continue reading

For those of us who believe strong political parties, at both the national and state level, are important for a strong democratic system of politics and governance, this story from Politico identifies a noteworthy development: Once ignored, underfunded and often… Continue reading