From NBC news: A dozen doctors delivered speeches in front of the U.S. Capitol on Monday to a small crowd, claiming without evidence that the coronavirus could be cured and that widely accepted efforts to slow its spread were… Continue reading

The Washington Post’s Michelle Lee and Jacob Bogage write: The U.S. Postal Service is experiencing days-long backlogs of mail across the country after a top Trump donor running the agency put in place new procedures described as cost-cutting efforts, alarming… Continue reading

For those of us who believe strong political parties, at both the national and state level, are important for a strong democratic system of politics and governance, this story from Politico identifies a noteworthy development: Once ignored, underfunded and often… Continue reading

From about 1/2 hour ago, the same position I flagged earlier: Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump 33m Glad I was able to get the very dishonest LameStream Media to finally start talking about the RISKS to our Democracy from dangerous Universal… Continue reading

That appears to be the conclusion of this new paper by Ed Stiglitz and Aviv Caspi entitled “Observability and Reasoned Discourse: Evidence from the U.S. Senate”. Here’s the abstract: Many private and public institutions depend on reasoned discourse to… Continue reading

With all the attention focused on his “delay the election” tweet, I want to highlight another aspect of this morning’s tweets about voting. The President begins by praising absentee voting: “With Universal Mail-in Voting (not Absentee Voting, which is good)… Continue reading

If you think it’s only American media that’s been turned upside down by a tweet like this, I’m already doing interviews on the subject with German and Spanish television, and have turned down requests from still other countries.               I’m… Continue reading

From Axios: FBI Director Christopher Wray and other intelligence community officials warned about China’s increased capability to interfere in U.S. elections in separate classified hearings with the Senate Intelligence Committee this week, two sources familiar with the hearings tell… Continue reading

Troubling story from Politico about congressional oversight of potential foreign influence over the election: The group of congressional leaders responsible for reviewing the nation’s most closely held secrets is engaged in an unusual and bitter partisan fight over how much… Continue reading

In an interview on Fox News two nights ago, Vice President Pence endorsed absentee voting for this fall and drew a distinction between that and full vote by mail. Below is the relevant portion from a transcript of that interview.… Continue reading

From the Washington Post: At an often contentious emergency hearing Wednesday, Democratic lawmakers pressed the director of the Census Bureau on how he will follow last week’s presidential directive to change the way the decennial census is used for… Continue reading

From the WSJ, a troubling report, but negotiations are still ongoing: “We’ve already appropriated an awful lot of money for election assistance,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Monday. “What we’re not going to do is federalize the American… Continue reading

Washington Post, on a new report from Maplight: Daniel G. Newman, president and co-founder of MapLight, told me: “We are playing with fire as a nation by failing to address the gaps and ambiguities in our election rules that… Continue reading

Hopefully some of these funds will enable the Postal Service to ramp up for managing the flood of absentee ballots this fall.