“Coordinating Audits and Recounts to Strengthen Election Verification”
New paper available at Verified Voting.
“Elon Musk’s Twitter layoffs leave whole teams gutted”
The Verge:
on Musk has now purged roughly half of Twitter’s 7,500 employee base, leaving whole teams totally or near completely gutted, including those tasked with defending against election misinformation ahead of the US midterms next week, The Verge has… Continue reading
“Republican Secretaries of State Walk a Minefield of Election Lies”
NYT:
Regardless of how the most outspoken election deniers perform on Tuesday, the furious political climate has already transformed an office whose occupants have often prided themselves on their remove from partisan trench warfare. At a time when Republican… Continue reading
“The Best Way to Protect Elections From Partisan Manipulation; Election administration is a job for professionals.”
Larry Schwartztol for The Atlantic.
“‘Citizen Integrity’ Teams’ Efforts Could Be Groundwork for Next False Claims About Election Results.”
Brennan Center:
In some states, election deniers motivated by false claims of widespread fraud in the 2020 election are engaging in their own, deeply flawed investigations to substantiate myths of widespread voter fraud. They have organized to engage in practices… Continue reading
“Exclusive emails: Inside Trump’s botched Georgia fight”
Axios:
Late on the night of Jan. 6, 2021, as the world reeled from the shocking images of a pro-Trump mob ransacking the U.S. Capitol, conservative activist and Trump legal adviser Cleta Mitchell focused her attention elsewhere — on… Continue reading
“How a pro-Trump youth group remade the Arizona GOP, testing democracy”
“Campaigns Pay Influencers to Carry Their Messages, Skirting Political Ad Rules”
NYT:
In between posts showing himself running ladder drills and lifting weights, Ky’Wuan Dukes, a 20-year-old wide receiver at Johnson C. Smith University, tells his 21,000 Instagram followers to vote. He has also discussed gun control and abortion rights, as… Continue reading
“Exclusive: DOJ mulling potential special counsel if Trump runs in 2024”
CNN:
As Donald Trump inches closer to launching another presidential run after the midterm election, Justice Department officials have discussed whether a Trump candidacy would create the need for a special counsel to oversee two sprawling federal investigations related… Continue reading
“Fueled by Billionaires, Political Spending Shatters Records Again”
NYT:
Fueled by an expanding class of billionaires, political spending on the 2022 midterm elections will shatter records at the state and federal levels, with much of it from largely unregulated super PACs financed with enormous checks written mainly by… Continue reading
“A controversial election theory at the Supreme Court is tied to a disputed document”
Hansi Lo Wang for NPR.
“Big Donors Working to Overturn the 2020 Election Are Backing Election Denial Candidates in 2022”
Brennan Center:
The Brennan Center has gathered what’s known about spending by the top national financers of election denying candidates. We found that just seven sources (counting married couples and key groups as single sources) have together given almost $71.5… Continue reading
New Database from Reveal Shows Marked Increase in New Election Crime Laws (and Proposed Bills)
Reveal:
In the last two years, at least 130 bills have been introduced across 42 states that would increase the involvement of law enforcement in the voting process, the analysis shows. Of those bills, 28 have passed in 20 states.Some… Continue reading
“Why do Georgia’s voting stickers now say, ‘I secured my vote’?”
Atlanta Magazine reports.