My New One at Slate: “Why the ‘Blue Shift’ Everyone Seems To Have Forgotten Might Be More Dangerous This Time”
I have written this piece for Slate. It begins:
Everyone seems to expect that Donald Trump will prematurely declare victory on election night, whether or not news organizations project him the winner. NBC’s Hallie Jackson even asked Kamala Harris about… Continue reading
Cornel West is Still Trying to Get on the PA Ballot, While Voting is Already Underway
Third Circuit motion for injunction pending appeal.
“Is America Ready to Bid the Electoral College Farewell? | The Daily Show”
Watch here about the National Popular Vote proposal.
“New Issue One investigation illuminates connections, secretive donors behind groups pushing false election-related narratives”
Release:
In recent months, a network known as the “Only Citizens Vote Coalition” — which counts more than 80 organizations as members — has been amplifying the biggest myth circulating this election, that large numbers of noncitizens are going to… Continue reading
“Justice Department Announces Four Cases Brought by Election Threats Task Force”
Release:
The Justice Department’s Election Threats Task Force (ETTF) announced developments this week in four cases involving interstate transmissions of threats to election personnel and other victims.
Teak Brockbank, 45, of Cortez, Colorado, pleaded guilty today to threatening a Colorado… Continue reading
Barton Gellman: “Your Vote is Safe”
Must read in TIME:
As the American experiment nears its semiquincentennial, is it capable of holding a secure election with a trusted process and a widely accepted result? If the outcome is not to Trump’s liking, can democracy defend itself… Continue reading
Must-Read WaPo: “American creating deepfakes targeting Harris works with Russian intel, documents show”
Catherine Belton for WaPo:
A former deputy Palm Beach County sheriff who fled to Moscow and became one of the Kremlin’s most prolific propagandists is working directly with Russian military intelligence to pump out deepfakes and circulate misinformation that targets… Continue reading
“After news of DOJ warning, Elon Musk’s super PAC didn’t announce ‘daily’ lottery winner on Wednesday”
CNN:
Elon Musk’s super PAC didn’t announce a winner for its “daily” $1 million giveaway to registered swing state voters on Wednesday, the same day news broke that the Justice Department warned Musk’s group that its sweepstakes might be illegal.
The pro-Trump… Continue reading
“Georgia election official says battleground state fended off cyberattack likely from a foreign country”
CNN:
Georgia’s secretary of state’s office this month fended off a cyberattack believed to have come from a foreign country against the website voters use to request absentee ballots, the office told CNN.
The state’s cyber defenses — aided by tech firm Cloudflare… Continue reading
“Trump’s Allies Revive Debunked Voting Machine Theories”
NYT:
It has been nearly four years since a parade of judges dismissed wild claims from Donald J. Trump and his associates about hacked election machines and a year and a half since a leading machine company obtained a $787.5… Continue reading
Divided Pennsylvania Supreme Court, In Case Involving Mail-In and Provisional Ballots, Tees Up Potential Independent State Legislature Theory for U.S. Supreme Court
Genser v. Butler County Board of Elections involves a very particular issue under Pennsylvania law, but it raises a potentially larger one that could make it to the Supreme Court.
To simplify just a bit: voters send in their mail-in… Continue reading
Law & Democracy Podcast
Latest episode, on Elon Musk’s financial giveaway and related issues, is now available. Also the Law and Democracy podcast is now available at Apple Podcasts as well as YouTube.
“Georgia’s Republican secretary of state finds just 20 noncitizens registered to vote out of 8.2 million”
CNN:
A review of the millions of registered voters in Georgia found just 20 noncitizens were registered to vote, Georgia’s Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger announced Wednesday.
Those 20 people were removed from the state’s voter rolls – which… Continue reading