The rhetoric coming from the White House lately has been very concerning. The President has indicated that he may refuse to accept defeat in the November election, and use every tool at his disposal to undo the results.Source: Guest opinion: Legislatures picking electors to the Electoral College: It could not only happen, it almost did...
Outside spending in federal races has already surpassed $1 billion with over a month to go before Election Day, putting the 2020 election on track to see far more outside spending than previous election cycles.Source: Outside spending in 2020 election surpasses $1 billion, on track to break records...
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...
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...
Americans overwhelmingly support various safety measures at polling places for the November 2020 election.Source: Bring the Masks and Sanitizer: The Surprising Bipartisan Consensus About Safety Measures for In-Person Voting During the Coronavirus Pandemic...
If you saw a new popup message when you opened Facebook recently, don’t worry: It’s not a hoax. In a bid to make up for, eh, letting the Russians run rampant on its platform before the last presidential election, Facebook has launched a poll worker recruitment drive this weekend.Source: No, You’re Not Seeing Things. Facebook Has Launched a Poll Worker...
This is not a column about a case that’s pending at the Supreme Court — yet. It’s about the nightmare scenarios surrounding the presidential election and its aftermath that could conceivably propel a case there.Source: Could It Be Bush v. Gore All Over Again?...
Amid vast uncertainty about the Republican Party’s future, several of its rising stars spoke at the convention this week with a dual purpose: falling in line behind President Trump while finding a lane for themselves.Source: At Republican convention, rising stars show unity around Trump but division over party’s future...
WASHINGTON — A majority of American adults say they are not confident that the November elections will be conducted in a fair and equal way, according to new data from the NBC|SurveyMonkey Weekly Tracking Poll.Source: Poll: Most Americans are not confident the 2020 election will be conducted fairly...
For example, people in Fairfax County were given envelopes addressed to the Fairfax City registrar’s office, the county said in a statement.Source: A half-million unsolicited absentee applications cause confusion in Virginia...
