“Covid-19, Election Protection, and the Youth Vote in 2020”
Upcoming events from the Civics Center and Lawyers’ Committee.
“The Georgia Primary and the State of Voting Rights”
Jeffrey Toobin in The New Yorker.
“‘It’s broken’: Fears grow about strength of US voting system”
AP:
The chaos that plagued Georgia’s primary this week is raising concerns about a potential broader failure of the nation’s patchwork election system that could undermine the November presidential contest, political leaders and elections experts say.With less than five months… Continue reading
“Georgia Havoc Raises New Doubts on Pricey Voting Machines”
NYT:
As Georgia elections officials prepared to roll out an over $100 million high-tech voting system last year, good-government groups, a federal judge and election-security experts warned of its perils. The new system, they argued, was too convoluted, too expensive,… Continue reading
The list of COVID-19 election cases
Updated as of December 23: the post below lists 335 cases in 45 states, DC, and Puerto Rico.
AND ANOTHER UPDATE: I’ve joined forces in this enterprise with the Stanford-MIT Healthy Elections Project, and a team led by Zahavah… Continue reading
“Is OAN the Leading Edge of Russian Misinformation?”
The Atlantic:
In what appears to be a signal of intensifying political warfare ahead of the November election, One America News Network, the Trump-supporting cable channel that has been promoting anti-Biden conspiracies for several months, says it has obtained… Continue reading
Federalist Society Panel on COVID-19 and the 2020 Elections
This Friday, June 12th, I’ll be participating on this panel on COVID-19 and the 2020 Elections at the National Federalist Society Convention. The Federalist Society does a good job of ensuring ideological diversity on these panels. The entire conference is… Continue reading
“U.S. voter registration plummets during coronavirus pandemic, challenging both parties”
USA Today:
The registration of new voters dropped dramatically in the U.S. amid the coronavirus pandemic, challenging efforts of both major political parties to enlist new supporters in battleground states ahead of the 2020 election.The number of new voters… Continue reading
“Voter registration in Florida plunged amid the coronavirus pandemic”
The Tampa Bay Times reports.
“If Trump Loses in November, He Will Thrust the U.S. Into a Legitimacy Crisis”
Nancy LeTourneau for the Washington Monthly.
“How to avoid hours-long waits to cast ballots on Election Day”
Ned Foley WaPo oped:
Meanwhile, if healthy voters are expected to cast ballots in person rather than by mail in November, it must be possible to actually vote when going to the polls. Having to wait four hours in… Continue reading
“Joe Biden warns that President Trump ‘is going to try to steal this election’”
WaPo:
Joe Biden on Wednesday night had a blunt warning about President Trump and the lengths he would go to limit access to ballots in November, sharply escalating his rhetoric about his Republican rival five months before voters head… Continue reading
“Backers of Michigan LGBT rights initiative granted extra time for ballot petition signatures”
MLive:
Backers of a Michigan LGBT rights initiative have been granted 69 extra days to gather the signatures required for their question to appear before voters.The additional time equates to the length of Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s stay-home orders intended… Continue reading
“Coronavirus chaos in Georgia, Wisconsin a ‘warning sign’ for Democrats”
Politico:
Even the act of voting has become a partisan issue with racial implications in 2020.Republicans are far more likely than Democrats to say they’re willing to vote in person during a pandemic, while Democrats outpace Republicans in wanting… Continue reading