In 2004, hundreds of University of Pittsburgh students waited for hours to vote in the presidential election. The local Democratic Party, alarmed at the bottleneck, handed out pizza and water to encourage the students to stay.Source: How Hostile Poll-Watchers Could Hand Pennsylvania to Trump...
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is urging state and local election officials to seek assistance from the federal government to fend off cyberattacks that could be used to manipulate the results of the November presidential elections.Source: Wary of Election Hacks, U.S. Urges States to Get Security Help...
The revelation comes amid fears that the electoral system is vulnerable to digital meddling. | Getty Hackers have intensely probed state voter registration systems in more than 20 states, a DHS official told POLITICO on Friday.Source: More than 20 states have faced major election hacking attempts, DHS says...
Harrisonburg officials and the FBI are investigating allegations of voter registration fraud after officials say almost 20 voter applications were turned in under the names of dead people.Source: Investigation launched after dead people are registered to vote in Harrisonburg...
Gov. Jerry Brown, clearing the way for Sacramento and several other counties to hold all-mail elections in two years, signed legislation Thursday that allows for the consolidation of neighborhood polling places into new vote centers.Source: Voters in Sacramento, other counties to cast ballots in ‘centers’ instead of neighborhood in 2018...
Handing a victory to campaign finance reformers, Gov. Jerry Brown on Thursday signed legislation that will allow more California cities and counties to permit publicly financed election campaigns.Source: More California cities can have publicly financed election campaigns...
Four years after it began requiring TV stations to upload their records of political ad sales to a central government website, the Federal Communications Commission maintains a recordkeeping system that makes finding out who an ad’s sponsor is feel like a treasure hunt.Source: Gaping holes, confusion mar FCC’s data on political ad buys...
California has led the way in a parade of democratic reforms in the wake of U.S. Supreme Court decisions that set back voting rights and clean elections. But two campaign finance reform bills have languished on Gov. Jerry Brown’s desk.Source: Brown should sign campaign bills, strengthen democracy...
Last Friday, The New York Times Editorial Board published a piece lambasting the “feckless” Federal Election Commission for “fail[ing] to police this rise of ‘dark money.Source: The New York Times: Replace the FEC with A More Partisan Agency...
