“‘The Nightmare Scenario’: How Coronavirus Could Make the 2020 Vote a Disaster Trump can’t cancel the presidential election. Here’s what you should really be worrying about.”
Zack Stanton does a Q and A with me for Politico Magazine.
“Two-Thirds of Americans Expect Presidential Election Will Be Disrupted by COVID-19; Sizable majority favors option of voting by mail”
Pew Research Center:
With just over six months until Election Day, two-thirds of Americans (67%) – including 80% of Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents and half of Republicans and Republican leaners – say it is very or somewhat likely that… Continue reading
“Rep. Justin Amash to seek Libertarian Party nomination for president”
Weigel:
It’s unclear whether a bid by Amash would have a greater effect on Biden or on Trump. In 2019, a Detroit News poll found Biden leading Trump in Michigan, a state that has grown more uncertain for the president,… Continue reading
“How can California improve confidence in elections? Count the vote faster”
John Wildermuth of the SF Chronicle:
A ballot count that lasts for weeks, an unintended feature of California voting, can undermine confidence in the results, according to a new report about conducting elections during the coronavirus pandemic and other troubled… Continue reading
“Andrew Yang sues New York Board of Elections over canceled primary”
“How one of America’s most important voting rights groups plunged into chaos just before it was needed most”
Teddy Schleifer for ReCode:
A voting rights group called Vote.org seems like precisely the type of nonprofit that should thrive in 2020, with fans from Barack Obama to Taylor Swift and a URL that can’t be beat.Its efforts to expand… Continue reading
“Let’s put the vote-by-mail ‘fraud’ myth to rest”
Amber McReynolds and Charles Stewart oped in The Hill:
Vote fraud in the United States is exceedingly rare, with mailed ballots and otherwise. Over the past 20 years, about 250 million votes have been cast by a mail ballot nationally.… Continue reading
“2020 Election Sidebar: Can the Election Be Postponed?”
Jerry Goldfeder column.
“The legal team that overturned Pa. gerrymandering is suing to relax the state’s absentee ballot deadlines amid the coronavirus outbreak”
The Philadelphia Inquirer reports.
“America’s Elections Won’t Be the Same After 2020 The chaos of this year could radically—and permanently—change how Americans vote.”
Fair Elections During a Crisis: Bipartisan and Diverse Blue-Ribbon Group of Scholars and Thinkers Releases Report on Urgent Changes Needed for November U.S. Elections
Release from me:
Fair Elections During a Crisis: Bipartisan and Diverse Blue-Ribbon Group of Scholars and Thinkers Releases Report on Urgent Changes Needed for November U.S. Elections
Ad Hoc Committee for 2020 Election Fairness and Legitimacy Issues Recommendations in Law,… Continue reading
“New York Cancels Primary Election, Angering Sanders Supporters”
NPR:
New York Democrats will not be casting primary votes for a presidential candidate this year.State election officials effectively canceled the presidential primary by removing every Democrat except the presumptive nominee, former Vice President Joe Biden, from the primary ballot.According… Continue reading
Webinar on Wednesday: “Local Representation: RCV as a Voting Rights Remedy”
Details here.