When the novel coronavirus pandemic collided with this year’s primaries, states across the country raced to temporarily adjust voting procedures to make it safer for people to cast their ballots.Source: Voting rules changed quickly for the primaries. But the battle over how Americans will cast ballots in the fall is just heating up....
After voters in Pennsylvania, Georgia and Nevada went to the polls this month, some races hung in the balance for days as election officials waded through thousands of absentee ballots.Source: Barring a landslide, what’s probably not coming on Nov. 3? A result in the race for the White House....
The biggest super PAC focused on electing Joe Biden grew dramatically in recent weeks, as donors moved to help whittle the financial advantage that President Trump has held heading into their presidential contest.Source: Cash floods into pro-Biden super PAC...
Update for June 20. Yesterday a new survey of underpolled New Hampshire was added into the FHQ state polling dataset and today Minnesota got an update to the state of the presidential race as well.Source: The Electoral College Map (6/20/20)...
“One of the things the elections in Georgia last week showed is the difficulty of dramatically changing the way you conduct an election,” Blunt told reporters. “And that’s one of my concerns.Source: Congress must act now to help states with vote-by-mail in November, experts say...
SALT LAKE CITY — Even before COVID-19 complicated voting this year, Richard Hasen worried about the American public losing confidence in the elections. Mostly, he feared a “doomsday” scenario of public protest against a government voters don’t accept.Source: How a group of scholars hope to avert an election ‘doomsday’ in November...
Interested in how Pennsylvania is shaping the 2020 election? Sign up to receive our newsletter every Wednesday.Source: Election results in Philly are going to take even longer than expected: Half the votes still haven’t been counted...
The coronavirus turned what already promised to be an unprecedented presidential election year into a new test for California and its voting system, Secretary of State Alex Padilla said Friday.Source: California confident it can run November election smoothly even with coronavirus...
A Bay Area assemblyman will revise his bill requiring that mail ballots be sent to every California voter this fall after concerns arose that the current version could cause more problems than it would solve.Source: California lawmaker scrambles to fix bill to make it clear ballots won’t go to phantom voters...