WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The Nov. 3 contest between President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden has generated an unprecedented wave of election-related litigation, as both sides seek to shape the rules governing how votes are tallied in key states.Source: Coronavirus fuels historic legal battle over voting as 2020 US election looms...
A key theme of 2020 — aside from “We’re so fucked!” — seems to be that no matter how fucked things are, they can always get more fucked. It feels like we are all Wile E.Source: What Could Go Wrong With The Election? Well, Everything...
We limited our analysis to the states that make monthly counts of registered voters available on the website of the relevant chief elections official.Source: Voter Registration Has Plummeted in 2020...
Interested in how Pennsylvania is shaping the 2020 election? Sign up to receive our newsletter every Wednesday.Source: Philly elections chief warns of ‘electoral chaos’ from Pa. Supreme Court ruling on ‘naked ballots’...
PHILADELPHIA, Pa. — More than a dozen counties in Pennsylvania have seen election directors or deputy directors leave in the last year since a new law was passed to accommodate no-excuse mail-in voting across the state, three county officials familiar with the movement tell NBC News.Source: Mail-in ballot law in Pennsylvania has driven out nearly a quarter of state's top...
Transparency in political ads is vital to ensuring safe and fair elections, but transparency is difficult if advertisers are not required to disclose details about targeting and sources of funding.Source: New Tool to Analyze Political Advertising on Facebook Reveals Massive Discrepancies in Party Spending on Presidential Contest...
Americans overwhelmingly support various safety measures at polling places for the November 2020 election.Source: Bring the Masks and Sanitizer: The Surprising Bipartisan Consensus About Safety Measures for In-Person Voting During the Coronavirus Pandemic...
Election specialists and national security experts have been gaming out scenarios for this November, assessing how candidates, supporters and media will respond if voting results are delayed or disputed.Source: State Election Chiefs Should Be Umpires, Not Players...
WASHINGTON — When allies of former President Barack Obama set up a super PAC to support his 2012 re-election, the White House disowned the group, The New York Times published a scathing editorial and former Democratic Sen.Source: Democrats used to rail against 'dark money.' Now they're better at it than the GOP....
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...
