The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has presented a severe threat to state election plans in 2020 for primaries and for the general election.Source: Voting in a Pandemic: What Americans Think About Safety, Election Integrity, and Preparedness...
Ever since the pandemic struck, state and local election officials across the country have made it clear: To avoid an election disaster in November, they need more money now.Source: After Pleas From Officials, Republicans Signal Openness To More Election Funding...
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....
Despite warnings from prominent liberals that Tuesday's election in Kentucky would be a disaster, the state largely had success with the adjustments it made to its voting procedures during the COVID-19 pandemic.Source: KY Primary Success Pushes Back Against Unfounded Accusations...
Too many states aren’t preparing for a potential vote-by-mail mess.Source: Beware the Fall Ballot Harvest...
“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...
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...
Election security experts at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law have released Preparing for Cyberattacks and Technical Problems During the Pandemic for election officials as they hold primaries and other elections and prepare for the November election.Source: New Report Advises Election Officials on Protecting Voters and the Vote Despite Covid-19 and Cyberattacks...
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...
Even before the arrival of the coronavirus, I was frequently asked what I saw as the biggest sources of a potential systemic crisis for the fall election—in particular, those risks there might still be time to mitigate.Source: Reducing One Source of a Potential Election Meltdown...
