“Rev. Joseph E. Lowery, Civil Rights Leader and King Aide, Dies at 98”
NYT:
The Rev. Joseph E. Lowery, a lieutenant to the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. who helped organize a pivotal moment in the civil rights movement — the bus boycott in Montgomery, Ala. — and who gave the benediction… Continue reading
“Facebook, Google and Twitter Struggle to Handle November’s Election; After spending billions to avoid a repeat of 2016, the tech giants are careening from crisis to crisis as their foes change tactics.”
NYT:
But as the events of just one day — Feb. 12 — at Facebook showed, although the companies are better equipped to deal with the types of interference they faced in 2016, they are struggling to handle the… Continue reading
“A World Without Partisan Gerrymanders? Virginia Democrats Show the Way; In a rare move, a group of lawmakers voted to give up their own redistricting power”
Jesse Wegman NYT opinion.
Arkansas: “Federal suit asks to extend state’s deadline on absentee ballots”
The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports.
“If a presidential nominee gets coronavirus, we’re in uncharted territory”
The virus is prompting questions about what would happen if a presumptive presidential nominee or a nominee becomes incapacitated in a variety of circumstances: before the primaries have ended, after that but before the conventions, or after the conventions. I… Continue reading
“Wisconsin Won’t Delay Its Primary, So the Governor Wants to Mail Everyone a Ballot”
NYT reports.
The updated headline of this article reads:
‘Your Health or the Right to Vote’: A Battle in Wisconsin as Its Primary Nears
“Safeguarding Elections in a Pandemic”
I was on WHYY’s Radio Times. You can listen here.
“Amid coronavirus crisis, give clerks support, autonomy to conduct the November election”
Tina Barton, Kammi Foote and Paddy McGuire oped in the Detroit Free Press:
Today, more than ever before, local and state election officials across this country have the capacity to provide safe and transparent elections to all voters. We are… Continue reading
“States Explore More Vote-By-Mail Options to Cope With Coronavirus”
“Richmond judge loosens petition signature rules for GOP U.S. Senate primary due to coronavirus”
“What It Will Take to Protect the 2020 Election; We know how much it will cost to safeguard voting from effects of the pandemic. Congress approved only one-fifth of that.”
Important Wendy Weiser and Larry Norden oped for Politico.
“Two more lawsuits filed over Wisconsin’s spring election seeking to change how and when people vote during coronavirus”
Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel:
Wisconsin’s chaotic spring election got even more unpredictable Thursday as two new lawsuits were filed attempting to alter voting rules because of the coronavirus pandemic that has forced people to stay at home.The lawsuits — the third and… Continue reading