“Facebook has a midterm strategy. Trump won’t be part of it.”
Politico:
Facebook will not move up its timeline for reviewing its decision to suspend Donald Trump, regardless of whether he announces he’s running again for president, a top company executive told POLITICO.In sticking to its January timetable, Facebook has decided… Continue reading
“Robin Vos says Michael Gableman could lose his law license over 2020 election review, records violations”
Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel:
Assembly Speaker Robin Vos said Tuesday former Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman could lose his law license over his conduct during the taxpayer-funded review of the 2020 election — but he stopped just short of calling for it.“It’s… Continue reading
Must-Listen NPR Report: “The unspoken role of race in the Jan. 6 riot” (Featuring Important Analysis from Stanford Prof. Hakeem Jefferson)
Listen here. (Reporter Sandhya Dirks)
I’ve written in both Election Meltdown and Cheap Speech on the racial undertones of much of the talk of voter fraud and stolen elections. But this report helped emphasize some themes that deserve more… Continue reading
“Widespread Partisan Gerrymandering Mostly Cancels Nationally, but Reduces Electoral Competition”
This interesting new paper by Chris Kenny et al. compares the newly enacted House plans across the country to sets of randomly generated maps. The bottom line is that the House as a whole is just slightly more pro-Republican than… Continue reading
“Round robin” versus “instant runoff”
As Rick Pildes observed a few days ago, Alaska’s at-large House seat may show the significance of using different versions of ranked-choice voting. Now that we have some preliminary returns in both the special election and the first round of… Continue reading
“What surviving GOP impeachment backers have in common: Alternative primaries”
Aaron Blake for The Washington Post, contemplating Lisa Murkowski’s potential survival against her Trump-backed challenger because of Alaska’s new Top Four with RCV system, observes that the only two House Republicans who voted for Trump’s impeachment to survive did… Continue reading
True the Vote’s Gregg Phillips Continues the Election Fraud Grift
Daily Beast:
Earlier this year, election-fraud conspiracy theorist Gregg Phillips shot to fame on the right as one of the stars of 2,000 Mules, conservative pundit Dinesh D’Souza’s quasi-documentary attempt to prove the 2020 election was stolen. Since the movie’s… Continue reading
“Poll worker shortage looms ahead of Georgia election”
AJC:
Poll workers, the essential employees needed to run elections, are in short supply in Georgia as early voting is set to begin in just over two months.“Help wanted,” say election officials who are struggling to find thousands of… Continue reading
“Securing U.S. Elections: A Method for Prioritizing Cybersecurity Risk in Election Infrastructure”
New Rand report:
U.S. election systems are diverse in terms of governance and technology. This reflects the constitutional roles reserved for the states in administering and running elections but makes it challenging to develop a national picture of cybersecurity risk… Continue reading
“Independent State Legislatures and Presidential Elections: Addressing Misconceptions About Current Law and Prospects for Reform”
Genevieve Nadeau and Helen White for Just Security:
During the recent Senate Rules Committee hearing on Electoral Count Act reform, Senator Angus King (I-ME) asked a question that seems to be on many minds: What is the independent state… Continue reading
“Giuliani Is Told He Is a Target of Trump Election Investigation in Georgia”
NYT:
Lawyers for Rudolph W. Giuliani have been told that he is a target of a criminal investigation in Georgia into election interference by Donald J. Trump and his advisers, one of Mr. Giuliani’s lawyers said on Monday.Mr. Giuliani, who… Continue reading
“Trump-allied lawyers pursued voting machine data in multiple states, records reveal”
WaPo:
A team of computer experts directed by lawyers allied with President Donald Trump copied sensitive data from election systems in Georgia as part of a secretive, multistate effort to access voting equipment that was broader, more organized and more… Continue reading
“Doug Mastriano Plans to Use His Secretary of State Pick to Disrupt Pennsylvania Elections”
Bolts:
Doug Mastriano is a Donald Trump loyalist, and an ardent proponent of the former president’s baseless conspiracies about the 2020 election. He was outside the capitol on Jan. 6th, brought supporters to D.C. that day, and has been subpoenaed… Continue reading