Texas Gov. Greg Abbott discusses efforts to oppose defunding of police departments in his state.Source: Judge blocks Texas from eliminating straight-ticket voting due to COVID-19...
The small number of mishandled military ballots at a Pennsylvania elections board that sparked a federal inquiry and allegations from the Trump campaign that Democrats were "trying to steal the election" were actually "incorrectly" tossed by a temp, a county official said Friday.Source: Temp worker tossed Pennsylvania ballots Trump complained about, official says...
The issue would have affected candidates sorted alphabetically in the second column such as Lieberman, Loeffler, Tarver and Warnock.Source: Error found on Georgia touchscreens in US Senate race...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Ahead of the first debate-stage matchup between President Donald Trump and his Democratic challenger Joe Biden, each campaign is promising a stark contrast in policy, personality and preparation. Trump has decided to skip any formal preparation.Source: How Trump, Biden are preparing for first presidential debate...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The Nov. 3 contest between President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden has generated an unprecedented wave of election-related litigation, as both sides seek to shape the rules governing how votes are tallied in key states.Source: Coronavirus fuels historic legal battle over voting as 2020 US election looms...
A key theme of 2020 — aside from “We’re so fucked!” — seems to be that no matter how fucked things are, they can always get more fucked. It feels like we are all Wile E.Source: What Could Go Wrong With The Election? Well, Everything...
We limited our analysis to the states that make monthly counts of registered voters available on the website of the relevant chief elections official.Source: Voter Registration Has Plummeted in 2020...
Interested in how Pennsylvania is shaping the 2020 election? Sign up to receive our newsletter every Wednesday.Source: Philly elections chief warns of ‘electoral chaos’ from Pa. Supreme Court ruling on ‘naked ballots’...
PHILADELPHIA, Pa. — More than a dozen counties in Pennsylvania have seen election directors or deputy directors leave in the last year since a new law was passed to accommodate no-excuse mail-in voting across the state, three county officials familiar with the movement tell NBC News.Source: Mail-in ballot law in Pennsylvania has driven out nearly a quarter of state's top...
Transparency in political ads is vital to ensuring safe and fair elections, but transparency is difficult if advertisers are not required to disclose details about targeting and sources of funding.Source: New Tool to Analyze Political Advertising on Facebook Reveals Massive Discrepancies in Party Spending on Presidential Contest...
