SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — An appellate judge on Wednesday stayed a lower court’s order barring Gov. Gavin Newsom from issuing directives that might conflict with state law, freeing him to take additional executive actions during the coronavirus pandemic.Source: Appeals Court Knocks Down GOP Challenge To Newsom's Emergency Powers...
For months, Facebook has endured criticism for its policy that allows politicians to run political ads containing false information on its services. The policy has been criticized by activists and by presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden.Source: Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook will allow users to turn off political ads...
The 2020 election is going to be unlike any other. It was already going to be a heated campaign, and that was before the pandemic — and before the killing of George Floyd and so many others forced us yet again to confront the painful reality of systemic racism in America.Source: Mark Zuckerberg: Historic Facebook campaign will boost voter registration, turnout...
Social media posts falsely claim donations made on the Black Lives Matter website go “directly” to the Democratic party, because the group uses ActBlue Charities — an online fundraising platform. Donations go to the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation.Source: Donations to Black Lives Matter Group Don’t Go to DNC...
In yet another case on the Supreme Court’s pandemic docket, California’s Legislature wants the court to order a four-month delay of the deadline for the state Redistricting Commission to submit Congressional, state legislative, and Board of Equalization district maps for the 2022 election.Source: Legislature asks Supreme Court to delay redistricting...
LOS ANGELES – June 15, 2020. Redistricting advocates urged the California Supreme Court to step in and preserve the state’s independent redistricting process which creates new voting districts for the next decade.Source: As COVID-19 Delays Census, Fmr Gov Schwarzenegger, Common Cause and League of Women Voters CA Urge Extending Redistricting Deadlines...
Absentee ballots allow voters who are unable to go to the polls on Election Day to vote, and many voters have understandably chosen them during the COVID-19 pandemic.Source: Widespread voting by mail poses risks of disenfranchising voters, delaying election results...
Democrats set a new turnout record for primary voting in last week’s Georgia vote, soaring past 1 million voters to outpace Republicans during an election plagued by significant obstacles at polling sites.Source: Georgia Democrats set new primary turnout record, outpacing GOP voters...
Lansing — Some households have received unexpected mailings for deceased voters or since-moved occupants as part of a mass mailing of absentee ballot applications across Michigan — a development that experts and Democrats are defending against Republican criticism.Source: Michigan ballot application mailings to dead people raise Republican hackles...
New claims that Georgia’s election technology may have failed to count thousands of legitimate votes sent in by mail is adding fuel to Democrats’ outrage over a disastrous primary they say disenfranchised many African American voters.Source: The Cybersecurity 202: Reports of mail-in ballot problems, partisan rancor in Georgia primary spell trouble for November...
