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 of Voting." Follow him @JoshuaADouglas.Source: We don't have to have chaos when America votes this...
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 for John F.Source: The Media Can’t Treat Election Night 2020 Like Years Past...
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...
WASHINGTON — Now less than five months out from the general election, Americans need to brace themselves for the real possibility that the presidential contest won’t be decided on Election Night. And that’s even if one of the candidates ultimately pulls off a decisive victory.Source: Say goodbye to 'Election Night' and hello to 'Election Week'...
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...
SALT LAKE CITY — Efforts to encourage Democratic and unaffiliated voters to become Republicans so they can vote in the upcoming GOP gubernatorial primary have some state lawmakers scrambling to find ways to make party switches tougher in the future.Source: Should Utah voters who switch parties to vote in a primary have to stay put?...
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...
