Monthly Archives: May 2018
“How secure is our election system?”
MPR News:
How secure are our voting systems? Elections expert Doug Chapin talks about what we know has happened, how we know, and what’s next in the fight to secure American democracy.
First Ranked-Choice Poll in Maine
“Connecticut lawmakers vote to join popular vote pact”
AP:
Connecticut’s General Assembly has voted to join a group of states that want to pool their Electoral College votes for the presidential candidate who wins the popular vote.
The Senate on Saturday voted 21-14 to enter the National Popular… Continue reading
“New Technology Allows Election Officials to Verify Votes Like Never Before—Will It Be Widely Used in 2018?”
“CFI Launches 2018 Web Tool For Independent Spending in Primaries”
Release:
Independent expenditures (IEs) will be playing a significant role again in select House and Senate primaries leading up to the midterm election. And the Campaign Finance Institute will once again be tracking that spending through a primary tracking tool… Continue reading
“Donald Trump, John Edwards, and the Mistress Loophole; Maybe Rudy Giuliani knows what he’s doing after all.”
Stephen Weissman for the American Interest:
One can imagine how Lowell’s argument would be grasped by counsel defending Cohen and Trump. So would other statements about the Edwards case by former FEC Commissioners. Before the trial, Thomas and another Democratic… Continue reading
“Trump Undercuts Giuliani About Payments to Stormy Daniels”
President Trump undercut his attorney, Rudolph W. Giuliani, on Friday, and said the former New York mayor will eventually get the facts right regarding a payment to a pornographic actress who said she had an affair with Mr. Trump.
Everything… Continue reading
Florida: “Police use saliva to arrest Casselberry man on voter-fraud charges”
Orlando Sentinel:
State and local investigators said they used fingerprints and DNA from saliva found on five mail-in ballots to track down a Casselberry man and charge him with voter fraud.
Bret Warren, 36, was arrested Wednesday and booked into… Continue reading
“After Garland Defeat, New Group Hopes to Draw Democrats to Judicial Battlefield”
NYT on an important new effort:
Democrats learned the hard way in 2016 that the right is much more animated by judicial fights after Republicans’ refusal to consider the Supreme Court nomination of Merrick B. Garland helped rally conservative voters… Continue reading
Trump Holds Meeting on Election Security, Foreign Influence
“enhanced protections against malign foreign influence….” From the administration that brought you the “very distinguished voter fraud commission”: pic.twitter.com/k81FDnJenX
— Celeste Katz Marston (@CelesteKatzNYC) May 4, 2018
“How Giuliani’s remarks on Trump and Stormy Daniels change the legal landscape”
“Google sets new rules for U.S. election ads”
Axios:
The gritty details: Under Google’s new rules, people or groups who want to advertise in elections will have to go through a process that includes producing a “government-issued ID” as well as other information, like a Federal Election Commission… Continue reading