11 Sep

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, extraordinary national security, foreign policy threats. Source: Federal Technology News, Research & Events...

05:00 / Created / Election Law
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05 Jul

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...

05:27 / Election Law / vblog
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10 Jun

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...

18:27 / 2020 / Election Law / vblog
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10 Jun

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'...

00:27 / Election Law / vblog
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06 Jun

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?...

20:27 / Election Law / primaries / vblog
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