“Scarred by 2020 smears, voting companies and election officials brace for November”
Marshall Cohen for CNN:
Weeks before the 2022 midterms, a stranger showed up at the Denver headquarters of Dominion Voting Systems. He didn’t have an appointment, so the front desk asked him to leave. But staffers noticed him lingering outside,… Continue reading
“Trump indicted again in election subversion case brought by Jack Smith”
Politico:
A federal grand jury in Washington, D.C., has reindicted Donald Trump on four felony charges related to his effort to subvert the 2020 presidential election.
The 36-page indictment, secured Tuesday by special counsel Jack Smith, is an… Continue reading
“Pennsylvania county broke law by refusing to tell voters if it rejected their ballot, judge says”
AP:
A Republican-controlled county in Pennsylvania violated state law when election workers refused to tell voters that their mail-in ballot had been rejected and wouldn’t be counted in last April’s primary election, a judge ruled.
As a result, voters in… Continue reading
“Republicans sue over partisan breakdown of election workers in Detroit”
Detroit News:
The Republican National Committee and the Michigan Republican Party have launched a lawsuit that contends officials in Detroit, a Democratic stronghold, are failing to appoint enough GOP election workers to comply with state law.
The Republican lawsuit asked… Continue reading
“The Election Interference Merry-Go-Round”
Jon Allsop in The New Yorker:
But claims and counterclaims of “election interference” are, it seems, ubiquitous these days. Recently, the right has accused the left of election interference for a wide array of behavior: directing federal agencies to promote… Continue reading
“Officials Voted Down a Controversial Georgia Election Rule, Saying It Violated the Law. Then a Similar Version Passed.”
ProPublica:
In May, four of them voted down a proposed rule that would have given county election boards a new way to delay or reject election results, which could throw the November vote count into chaos.
“You run counter… Continue reading
“An unseen problem with the Electoral College – it tells bad guys where to target their effort”
Barry Burden at The Conversation.
“Republican Party leaders seek to purge 225,000 NC voters ahead of 2024 elections, citing worries dismissed by state officials”
WRAL:
State and national Republican Party leaders are suing the State Board of Elections again, days after the board criticized GOP leaders for filing a lawsuit based on what the board called “categorically false” allegations about the potential for voter… Continue reading
“RFK may be unable to withdraw his name from ballots in some swing states”
“The Supreme Court is sowing confusion over how it will handle election disputes this fall”
John Fritze for CNN on SCOTUS and Purcell.
“Social platform X edits AI chatbot after election officials warn that it spreads misinformation”
AP:
The social media platform X has made a change to its AI chatbot after five secretaries of state warned it was spreading election misinformation.
Top election officials from Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico, Pennsylvania and Washington sent a letter… Continue reading
Zuckerberg on 2020 Election Administration Spending, Hunter Biden Laptop
WSJ:
Meta Platforms Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said it was improper for the Biden administration to have pressured Facebook to censor content in 2021 related to the coronavirus pandemic, vowing that the social-media giant would reject any such future efforts.… Continue reading
“Elon Musk’s Hard Turn to Politics, in 300,000 of His Own Words”
WSJ:
When Elon Musk endorsed former President Donald Trump’s campaign in July, X was his megaphone to reach his almost 200 million followers. The endorsement not only made Musk one of Trump’s most influential supporters, but also represented a… Continue reading