"California's AB 969 legislation mandates state-approved machines for ballot counting, in response to Shasta County's right-wing supervisors' attempt to hand-count future elections. The bill, awaiting the governor's signature, bans hand-counting in elections with over 1,000 registered voters, or 5,000 for special elections, except in emergencies....
"Haley leads SC GOP ranked-choice presidential primary poll." Source: WCIV...
State election officers resist involvement in potential challenges to Trump's 2024 eligibility. They cite role boundaries and voter choice. The 14th Amendment's insurrection clause is the contention point. Some argue it disqualifies Trump. New Hampshire, Arizona, Michigan, Colorado secretaries face legal challenges regarding Trump's eligibility....
Biden extends 2018 national emergency order, citing foreign interference threat in US elections. Despite no evidence of foreign powers altering election outcomes, they historically exploit US's open political system. Digital proliferation heightens vulnerabilities, intensifies interference threat. Unauthorized election infrastructure access, covert propaganda distribution pose unusual,...
20 years ago this fall, a hotly contested presidential election led to 36 days of legal turmoil that culminated with the Supreme Court’s ruling in Bush v. Gore.Source: Introducing the 2020 Election Litigation Tracker...
Old Navy, Target, Warby Parker, and Compass Coffee are paying employees to vote and work at the polls.Source: There might be a shortage of election poll workers. Corporate America wants to help....
Susan Weiss has been a poll worker in Bethesda, Md., for 16 years. But this year, with the coronavirus pandemic raging, Weiss, who's 74, decided it's just too risky to work the election in November.Source: Wanted: Young People To Work The Polls This November...
Joshua A. Douglas is a professor at the University of Kentucky J. David Rosenberg College of Law who specializes in election law, voting rights, and constitutional law. He is the author of "Vote for US: How to Take Back Our Elections and Change the Future...
Election night is at the center of the opening chapter in The Making of the President 1960, the most influential campaign book ever written. In it, Theodore White conveys the dramatic sweep of a close election as TV reports follow the time zones from Connecticut (safe...
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...
